> Labor is a resource, like water, and yet we do not drain the oceans with the same fervour as we employ people, trying to find a job for every drop.

This analogy doesn't make any sense! It is fake-poetic nonsense.

> When we have implicit assumptions such as these, it drives our decision-making

The implicit assumption that Labor is like an ocean?

> That if we want more stuff, and better lives, everyone should be working harder?

Every product we see around us, every service provided, is provided by paid or unpaid work. I would rather question that "more stuff equals better lives", but work equals stuff.

> Here is a very simple statement which may sound a bit mean: it is entirely feasible that giving a job to a “stupid” person, regardless of how much we try and train them, might cost the economy more than we benefit, in aggregate. Disagree all you want on the definition of “stupid”, but you cannot deny that such a bar exists,

There is virtually endless work to do. Even a a very stupid (not malicious) person can pick up trash from the street, dog walk doggies, dog sit Alzheimer patients, clean windows, etc. There are sheltered workshops to extract/provide (viewpoints differ) work out of literally intellectually disabled people, even if minimum wage has to be lowered to a single dollar per hour.

It is a valid perspective from the worker to find "stupid" work not prestigious/fulfilling/boring, but it will create economic value.

RSS (and Atom) were too nerdy and the mainstream did and does not care for it. Google did not „destroy“ it

The game was already hurt this world cup with the flow destroying „hydration breaks“ to sell more ads.

Google respects if one doesnt want to get indexed by the crawler:

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...

Aside from that the link explains that the BBB traded tax income for „accelerated depreciation of assets“ aka economic growth.

Asode from that, even if one disagrees with the first statement or the Trumpism economics, there are 195 countries in the world and quite a few will be willing to tax foreign (enemy) tech companies. See the new hostility of EU against american tech.

What is then the incentive to install (or repair/maintenance) solar panels?

Without immunizations that would’nt have happened though?

I know it felt clever writing it, surely many found it clever cynicism, but in no way does it reflect real life kidney donations.

I hate this cynicism in everything. People didnt work there 10 years ago to be millionaires in a far away IPO, they worked there because they are Team Space.

> The AI workflow was as interesting to me as the retrocomputing work itself

> A coding AI can only hold so much in its context window … The solution was to make the project’s documentation the durable memory that the AI itself lacks. SwiftII was built as 18 numbered phases, 0 through 17, each a self-contained goal with a written record of what it was for and what shipped. The key milestones: […]

> Around the phases sit roughly 20 numbered design documents, each capturing one non-obvious decision. What was chosen, what the alternatives were and how it was done. … As the codebase and documents became bigger, each session had to load more context just to get oriented, so token budget became a real workflow constraint.

Counterintuitively people want negative traits be rooted in biology. That the soul is a victim of the faulty flesh, instead of lacking willpower or being responsible for ones actions.