so it takes a domain expert to remove unnecessary things, similar to how stone carvers create by removing material, not adding

its just a proxy

People want to overtax Elon, but he doesn't sell his stocks. Its all imaginary numbers propped up by the federal reserve.

People splurged all government given money on luxury items and unnecessary stuff, or just gambled it way on stock market or betting.

UBI does NOT work in the US and will never work. More sensible approach is what China does: low prices.

Just massively lower prices for basic cost of living items, so that even Uber driver could live normal life

is there something structural that prevents it from becoming Norway ??

You are simply selecting new elites to be from the redistributor class (vanguard party, Nomenklatura, secret police etc), instead of the entrepreneural class.

Works well if you are the one redistributing stuff from "rich to poor", but it ends up as creating a new elite class, every single time

A high schooler can become an expert very quickly with AI, that used to require years and years of education and experience.

but the real expertise still will be to translate real world problems to technical solutions and iterate on design.

You need someone to say: this shit is not going to prod, unless its value is obvious to everyone

this act is pushed by the NGO 501c3 called Common Sense Media, their donors include Bezos, zuckerberg, and other rich people.

The same NGO also created a platform called Bandio that provides age verification services. How convenient.

Legislate restrictionist policy today that manufactures demand for age verification service, and then rollout the solution for $$$.

How convenient, muh free market capitalism.

Common sense media also earns $15 mln revenue from licensing its content rating technology.

I want government bureacrats, empowered by the stupid median voter, to be as far away as possible from things that I (and any other parent) are perfectly capable of solving by ourselves.

I want more freedom

This would make it easier to read

Today is 2026 after all

the only outcome I got from their incidents is 1 year free "identity protection service" which I didnt use.

Should be a lesson for Instructure to have proper architecture and do not store PII they dont need in their processes.

Instead of paying ransom, and creating a ransomware criminal industry out of thin air, its better to force companies to recover and restore from backups and remove monetary incentive for crime.

and the executives who failed to carry regular backups obviously should face the music