And it's not even about discipline; it's lying. If you're not going to do the work, just don't do the work. Don't turn it in. Pretty much every syllabus ever says that turning in work you did not do is grounds for failing the class or possibly expulsion.

I agree with that. But paying for a kids school is not enriching individuals. They don't get a financial benefit out of it, they just get education, which in the end is something that can only be applied individually. Meaning that while you could build a school for a whole village instead, in this case there is probably already a school there, it's just that the school system is set up such that you still need to pay for the school uniform, books, food, fees, etc, and some families can't even afford that.

And it'd not like local cooperation doesn't happen. I know one family who took in kids from their village from a disabled mother who could not care for them so that they could go to school. The family that we rented our rooms from was always full of people because they took in relatives from their village so they could get a chance at finding work in the city. I had kids where the families already did their best to cover the cost, but sometimes it wasn't enough. So I added a little bit to cover the rest. To enable them to participate on a school trip that they would otherwise have to sit out on. To buy lunch instead of going hungry until they got home because the money was just a bit short.

So what Luke is doing is just more of what the locals are doing already. Finding cases that fall through the cracks.

The thing with building cooperative societies is that it starts with education. You can't just waltz in as a foreigner into a village and say: OK, we are going to teach you how to cooperate. That doesn't work. You teach a few individuals by being an example of what it means to be cooperative and then let the locals spread the experience. But this takes the work of many people. Luke is doing what he can as an individual from where he is, and he has to trust that his efforts will add to the efforts of others, locals and non-locals alike to eventually make a difference. I actually moved here to do the same in a different way, but that's not something everyone can do, nor should they.

Helping people is much harder than simply giving money to someone in a way that makes you feel good about yourself

True, but again, paying for someones education is not doing that.

Then not being "vulgar" is only a privilege of the idle rich. When you do something for 8 hours a day, it can't not be a part of who you are.

You cannot sell ideas at all. That is how it should be. Patents cover methods, copyright covers things made. Ideas should always be free.

I do think it is possible to for ideas to be infinite/

>You can't feed infinite amount of sugar to a person.

No, but you can give them all that they want or need. Once that is fulfilled perhaps they might want or need something else.

Maybe someone should research the idea that there might be a heirachy of needs where once one is satisfied, It causes a higher level of desire.

Perhaps it might get quite sophisticated as you go up.

Now, it could be viable if your business has literally hundreds of problems thats require classification. I just haven't seen those.

I treat the fact that almost noone was doing that as evidence that decision models aren't that useful/groundbreaking. That, and the fact that every single demo I saw was either fake (e.g. playing games), contrived, or plain wrong (e.g. using Jev for compaction).

With agentic coding, one can argue that this problem doesn’t affect the software developer any more. But one can also argue that it’s just as much a problem for the AI as it is for the human programmer.

It’s not that the first culture isn’t enjoying solving problems, it’s that it’s enjoying solving a different type of problems than the second culture does.

https://proton.me/business/drive/cli

https://proton.me/blog/proton-drive-cli