Rather than allowing parents to provide the best food for their children, we should mandate all children eat the same state issued rations. Otherwise the children of the elite will benefit from superior nutrition leaving the rest of the population in the dust. If parents truly want the best for their children, they should work to improve the quality of all food instead.

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In a fast growing company, all of the people seemed necessary at one point or another. When Indeed was growing, and there were significant numbers job-seekers looking for a place to work who were not using Indeed, then adding features, advertising, expansion of facilities, maintenance, etc. made a lot of sense.

Markets are limited in size though, there are only so many useful features that can be added, new leads to acquire, etc. so eventually, usually when growth slows, a large number of people are being employed without much to do. A classic example of this was twitter, which if you've heard some of the stories from ex-employees required 2-4 hours a week in remote work by their programmers. Mass firings might signal negative financial health in a company, so any executive who suggests it would need to be up against a wall. It's much easier to keep hiring at all costs if you're in charge.

At one point all those employees had something to do, and probably were very productive, but employees have a lot of incentive to "seem" like they have a lot to do, so it might take a while before management realizes 90% of their workforce is working less than half the time.

Not sure where you got the assumption that the Minoans and Etruscans were egalitarian societies? A quick look at the burials of the Etruscans or the gigantic temples and palaces of the Minoans makes it pretty clear that there were class structures with winners and losers.

Ahahaha, I’ve actually watched that video before and completely forgot! Still appreciate going out of your way to find it for me though.

Any specific videos you recommend?

Worrying about something as theoretical as the singularity is a waste of your mental effort. It’s a fun topic to ponder, and interesting to see what people say about it. The reality is nobody here has any knowledge about a technological singularity, whether it is likely or even possible. Worrying about it is akin to worrying about an alien invasion. Possible, but completely theoretical.

I’ve volunteered for these exact affordable housing projects in NYC, and the requirements aren’t there out of any sense of people making their own choices.

Drug addicts endanger the apartment block as a whole, and are exceedingly more likely to cause serious damage to the housing. You shouldn’t only consider those who are currently homeless, but those people who are legitimately working to improve their situation or those who face too low wages.

The idea of a requirement-free homeless shelter has been tried many times. It almost always fails spectacularly, with the housing being destroyed ruining the lives of those who “behave”. If you had ANY experience with this you would know that.

In NYC, there’s affordable housing available to the homeless for as little as $100 a month. There are requirements though, such as not having an active drug addiction and being willing to work a government job if you’re physically able. The NYC homeless population is mostly people who don’t fall into this category, either drug addicts or the severely mentally ill.

Building a ton of pre-fab housing in middle of nowhere land is not the solution to homelessness, as proper maintenance and care would need to be applied for the housing and neighborhood as a whole to continue existing. People who end up homeless are usually those least able to maintain their own homes and function in an affordable housing community.

There are lots of great idea regarding space that can fix our issues here on earth. Gigantic solar reflectors that decrease the amount of sunlight hitting the earth could solve climate change, solar panels produced in space that beam energy down to earth could solve the worlds energy needs.

I doubt humans could seriously negatively effect the interactions the moon has with the earth, even if we tried for decades. It’s mostly gravitational, which would take actually moving a large part of the moon to a different place to effect. We might create issues if we block out much if the light from the moon though.