I don't want to romantesize it though.

I don't think i have the choice of changing the world with a hn comment.

Communism didn't look great next to capitalism (east europe vs. west europe) but those people were also happy.

My idea is not communism though, its a 'if you do beneficial things for society, we have resources for it'. If you are teaching kids, we the planet have resources for you.

If you take care of kids, we the planet, have resources for you.

Lets call it Civic Duty Dividend or Care Standard or Public Service Money.

This wasn't even an option for a lot of people before this.

For example, even for non software engineering tasks, i'm at an advantage. "Ah you have to analyse these 50 excel files from someone else? I can write something for it"

I myself sometimes start creating a new small tool i wouldn't have tried before but now instead of using some open source project, i can vibe spec it and get something out.

The interesting thing is, that if i have the base of my specs, i might regenerate it later on again with a better code model.

And we still don't know what will happen when compute gets expanded and expanded. Next year a few more DCs will get online and this will continue for now.

Also tools like google firebase will get 1000x more useful with vibe coding. They provide basic auth and stuff like this. So you can actually focus on writing your code.

Everyone works less, everyone works better, we will then see how much humans we still need.

Your 'source' is btw. from 2023 and as far as i understand it, the main issue is, that due to covid, a lot more people got it but because it was already ignored or played down before, it still is and the people in need just don't get help.

Covid apparently triggered it in more people than before.

I also have the feeling that someone else posted this missconception a few weeks ago on hn. Or was that you too?

Do you really hate driving that much?

I don't think this would change the world as you imagine it. I don't mind driving long i will just make sure i get entertainment for the purpose. Like an audio book. My wife doesn't say 'Lets go soemwere you can drive me around and i can finally do that many things in parallel'.

And plenty of family drive today with RVs while the parents are in the front and the kids are in the back. No one is showering while the parents drive. Do you know how slow Cars now would need to drive to make this suddenly that much more comftable than what we have today?

You would need to rebuild the car and streets to get to this point.

Lets continue to hope

My only point i'm making is, that this system increases inequality between financial richer people vs poorer ones.

And thats because its an absolut fee and not a relative one.

As long as the pricing is absolut and not relative to the owners salary, it is increase inequality.

Poor could also mean the middle class is more affected than the rich class (whatever you call the class above middle).

Its the same principle with kindergarden and late fee; Without a late fee, people sometimes were late getting their kids, with late fees more people were late getting their kids. Now they were able to 'pay' for this.

You now can pay for having less traffic for you. Who can afford this? The rich/richer person.

This increases inequality.

The more money you have, more you benefit from this ruling. Now you can buy a service which was not possible before.

Should i said poorer people who still need a car to drive in NYC to make it more understandable to the hn crowed Oo?!

This mechanism allows people with more money to enjoy driving in the city or is this congestion prcing based on your salary? no its not its based on the time in the city independent of what you make.

A person with their high end car and miillions now can buy himself a nice little drive into the city while everyone else can't.

Nothing i would breath in a garage. Nothing i like to breath in while i'm driving.

I mean we probably don't talk about someone not knowing english at all, that wouldn't make sense but i'm german and i probably write german.

I would often enough tell some LLM to clean up my writing (not on hn, sry i'm to lazy for hn)

But i'm a software engineere by trade and I do not struggle with telling you that this thing has to move left for reason xy, i would struggle with random tools capable of doing that particular thing for me.

And it does not matter here how i did it if the result is the same result.

In Software Engineering this is just not always the case. Because often enough you would need to verify that what you get is the thing you expect (did the report actually take the right numbers) or Security. Security is the biggest risk to all ai coding out there. Security is already so hard because people don't see it, they ignore it because they don't know.

You have so many non functional requirements in software which just don't exist in art. If i need that image, thats it. Most complex thing here? Perhaps color calibration and color profiles. Resolution.

If we talk about 3D it gets again a little bit more complicated because now we talk the right 3d model, right way to rig, etc.

Also if someone says "i need a picture for x" and is happy about it, the risk is less customers. But if someone needs a new feature and tomorrow all your customer data are exposed or the companies product stops working because of a basic bug, the company might be gone a week later.