We've got MMP here in New Zealand, which is a fantastic improvement over what we had. However the list vote does give politicians some weird power.

Comment moderation is voting too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614100

Is that a better way to think of Anthropic's pricing structure?

There are many highly paid essential jobs that society needs. Good luck finding a doctor. How long would transportation or infrastructure last without engineers?

Obviously wouldn't matter for deadwood or bullshit jobs: but we struggle to identify those. You might think Hollywood is unnecessary, but how much of your economy depends on foreign income from unnecessary shit?

No more startups - why bother if there's no reward.

Make Britain great again, by making the US suck!

> after society enabled

You've got causality reversed. Society depends on businesses and workers.

I can't understand how anyone looks at complex systems and thinks "let's just fuck $X". Is it just ignorance?

Maybe China is easier to work with - perhaps their rules are made clearer?

But yes, immigration doesn't solve the demographics issue, because immigrant citizens also get old and expect government support.

Immigrants do often have good sized families so that brings in a fresh generation of New Zealanders. Plenty of my married friends are from mixed cultures.

In some cultures their children give more time to care for their own parents or elderly family. New Zealand born children seem less likely to do so.

The local born often whine because whinging is a significant part of our colonial heritage from England.

What really matters is the prevalence...

That societal benefit is mostly worthless to investors.

Investors need to capture a good return (risk adjusted) to have any incentive to expose frauds or scams.

Nicely demonstrating the root cause of late stage capitalism - us. Perhaps we should blame the players.

I see so many comments trying to blame others or blame systems. Blaming billionaires, or consumers, or boomers, or zoomers.

Of course I'm part of the problem too. I do fix things in my direct environment but I figure trying to help fix more would be beyond my skills.

I only just learnt about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

Perhaps "artisinal" encompasses the idea?

Ira Glass is imperfect perfectionism.

versus

> crunching the numbers I could have retired years ago

How do you reconcile the apparent hypocrisy of your wealthiness?

The stereotype is a boomer taking their winnings and then complaining about the system.

I've got just enough money to start worrying that my savings will mostly be taken by my government. Perhaps it is time for me to join the old white man complainer's club (is HN that?).

The world isn't likely to change much over that time, so my guess is we'll collective find new victims to blame for everything rather than boomers. Old people are such great targets.

They need to stick within limits to avoid liability (and avoid arseholes blaming them on forums).

Someone would get a problem with their computer or TV, and then blame Raspberry Pi (or create a problem).

  The train driver saw a man on the track ahead holding a cell phone to one ear and cupping his hand to the other ear to block the noise.

Maybe easiest to use one of the plugins that allow you to change the CSS for a website.

The HTML used by HN is simple.

After you discover how to do it with tooling, you'll apply the same technique to other places too.

Did you have to be born to the right parents at the right time, or just avoid a car accident?

And the ability or desire to work hard has some very soft dependencies.