You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Leftist millennials: "this is what America has always been and we can stop it"

It's because life in Skyrim is so short and brutal. Half the population mysteriously dies every playthrough.

This is what religion does to a mind.

In some parts of the country, six figures isn't even enough to support a wife and kids anymore.

Working class is working class, the key is solidarity. Unilateral sacrifices will just exhaust our most useful people. The first risk we take with our jobs needs to be organizing unions, or else we'll just build a new capitalist economy.

You're still alive. 🫶

Recall if you will, how much better Google search used to be, and what they present at the top now.

In the mod "The Lost City" they have racism against Redguards that feels really out of place.

Oooh I would love it if that was like a SponsorBlock category or something.

If we ever do get control, then maybe AI could help us keep it by eliminating both the representative principal-agent problem and voter fatigue.

You've got a lot of faith in the symmetry of the legal system!

Wouldn't Fortune claiming people don't want to work be like Santa Magazine saying people don't like Santa? You'd think Fortune would be like "hooray work, work makes you free".

Anecdotally I work at a factory myself and most people do not react with envy when I tell them.

I was being sarcastic

It's a nice quote but doesn't really make sense. The eye for the second eye is the first eye, there's only two eyes involved, not a nonsensical endless chain of eyes. This concept of justice predates the quote.

The truth was far more sinister.

Can one be both? Do what needs to be done, while pissing my pants and wishing that it didn't have to be me doing it?

https://fortune.com/2025/04/15/americans-want-factory-jobs-reshored-dont-want-work-them/

“There are some things that simply shouldn’t be bought on credit, whether it’s a 106 baht (S$4) bubble tea or a 50 baht plate of chicken rice,” Vitai told reporters at a recent press event in Bangkok. “We may have gone too far – when people start financing small purchases, it creates a habit of spending money they don’t have.”

— Governor Vitai Ratanakorn

Which "we" has gone too far? It sounds like he's blaming the public for how they respond to monetary policy.

The first rule of traditional personal finance is to keep a cash reserve. But "we" regressively punish that cash reserve, and justify it because we've deluded ourselves into thinking more GDP is good for the working class.

The bar for presidents is quite low.

• Most Americans want manufacturing to come back to America.
• Most Americans do not want to work at a factory.

These facts don't conflict. Americans want automation. The problem has always been who gets most of its benefit.