Even someone neutral to sympathetic can’t help but look on in disgust at your PM and his supporters.

Edit: The point being that it tarnishes everything that Israel does, and makes fault-finding way too easy.

That is, if there’s a critical mass and population size.

What’s missing that make them more akin to orcas or wolves?

Beyond that…

Being able to have down time seems like a prerequisite to creating. civilization.

Also, having both the intelligence and desire to seem and recognize ways to improve—even if not strictly necessary—via tools to free up even more time also seems to be a requirement.

And having a system to reliably and in-scale transmit this knowledge is the final ingredient.

So some baseline stability, down-time, intelligence, reliable knowledge transmission, tool-use for the above, and active willingness to improve all of the above all seem like necessary ingredients.

Edit: 4.2% (2025) vs 4.3% (2026).

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/UNRATE

Naive and stupid, but it was downvoted and flagged away into oblivion with zero chance for a conversation.

HN has been speculating on how wealth would be extracted from 401k and IRAs at least since the November elections in 2024.

Far before any influencers even thought this would be a thing.

I thought forced cryptocurrency funds, but it turned out to be something else.

A couple of years later resubscribed. I also subscribe to the WSJ to make sure I receive a more balanced viewpoint.

Can’t speak for the rest, but we still subsidize airlines and the infrastructure to make it possible.

As we should.

All of the little industrialists and VCs here on HN wouldn’t have a prayer of striking it rich without the median income workers paying (hard-carrying) your little dreams.

Politicians listen to lobbyists, who are funded by those with the most resources and time, because they’re the ones actively communicating with the politicians.

The ones with the resources and time to hire these lobbyists are not the lower, middle, or even upper-middle incomes who normally don’t have time to do it themselves nor the money to hire.

If you don’t want politicians to listen to the graft, then consider the market-driven source of the problem.

Pinning it on the politicians sweeps the root cause under the rug.

Let’s stop pretending money doesn’t give a disproportionate amount of influence to a representative government, before things get perpetually violent.

There are privacy and general de-centralization reasons to prefer this outcome, even though most AI and cloud-first tech companies don't want this.

How long it will take us to get this point is a different matter.

The AI equivalent of the PC revolution isn’t quite here yet, but it’s the only way forward.

But who in their right minds trusts the people in Meta?