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The system will collapse on itself.

Either the super concentration of wealth triggers governments to enact heavy taxation on fortunes or the system simply gets reset by the large majority that will simply ignore what is considered valuable today in detriment of something else.

Regardless, how things go today is not a sustainable route

Finally. Took long enough.

Off the top of my head, I can answer the phone in half a dozen different ways in my language. And that is without going into rude or strange words for older people.

I want my diversity of options.

American is not a language. English, on the other hand...

Which one? The USofA as no official language. And apparently English is not even the most spoken language in it, by some recent surveys.

Should we make Italian the official language for telephones? It was an italian that invented the technology that gave rise to it. No? Doesn't really make much sense, does it? Or perhaps chinese should be the only writen language. After all, they did invent paper and popularized it as a writing medium.

The american armed forces got to create the concept and kickstart it but the moment the technology is out, it belongs to no one and every one. Let's all be collectively happy for that.

That does not sound bad.

I really want to see if the requirements for new games will go down or continue rising.

The machines are better at repeating a task with no down time but even then quality will degrade. That is why quality verification exists.

Hand made cars - or anything, by extension - are so expensive because of the human attention going into it. A specialized worker, technician, engineer, etc, makes sure their job is the best because they are specialists at what they do.

As fun or sad the next may sound, I am currently - and very covertdly - being acessed for neurodivergency because I walked into a psychologist office saying I feel tired and can not relate with my coworkers.

So... That is that.

Taxes are the price of civilization.

Being cynical, if you do not want to take part of a modern society, remove yourself from it and live completely on your own. You will achieve complete authonomy and have full power over your resources. But you, individually, will be fully responsible for yourself and your needs.

There was a couple of failed experiments of fully libertarian towns and all failed miserably. I'll update this reply if I can find some articles on it.

Now, for your concern with the infamous ballroom: there should be a proper addressing of the situation, with publicly accessible and auditable proposals for the alteration, renewal or expansion of a public building and people should be able to voice their concerns about such matters. Which is not the case at hand.

The waste and innapropriate use of public funds emerges from a system - and it exists everywhere! - that allows polititians to act unconcerned of immediate consequences of their actions. If people in public offices had the threat of ousting for failling to comply with their functions, in a hasty fashion, little abuse would happen. Instead, we get "representative" democracy with its election cycles.

The system itself is wrong, not taxation. Taxation accrues funds to develop services that hold a civilization functional that otherwise would be completely off limits for an individual to access.

I dislike the of minorities being in any way segregated, even if for positive reasons. There should not be that need.

By default, people deserve and need to be respected and accepted as they are, regardless of skin tone, language, creed, nationality.

We are humans.

Our diversity was what made us strong and resilient enough to take the challenges nature put in our collective way as a species. We thrived in adversity because we are diverse and that diversity made us adaptable.

People are just that: people. Shoe horning a person into something just to look right and proper is idiotic. If someone has the talent, knowledge and know-how to fill a role, they should fill it.

It's trying to force an outcome instead of addressing the underlying issues.