I mean, it's a really competitively efficient system. We outpaced the rest of the world on a lot of things for a while there. We even have the 1% self-exploiting with highly specialized skills, 3X as likely to work more than 50hrs a week. All gas, no brakes.
jaden
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Yup. Imagine a portable hype beast that loves all the same stuff you do.
It's such a natural human function. In our super advanced society, it really ought to take as much sacrifice as daily bathroom breaks do.
Yeah I'm agreeing with you
It's like being mean to customer service people of a bad company. it does effect the bottom line, because of high turnover as a result of a toxic workplace, but it mostly hurts the lowest paid people. Unfortunately, it's one of few available levers when MAD is a factor.
Oh but it's so much more fun on a canoe trip, on rivers. Everyone trying to tip each other's boats (except the food boat). Sit-on kayaks tip the easiest but recover quick
I'm really interested in those books, thanks for citing them.
But peak period? You're missing the whole information age. In AI alone, we lead the world.
And competition from the USSR is competition, too. You're right that top-down planning is ideal for a lot of things, so the definition of 'competitively' I most intended was more like 'stronger than other countries.'