Comments by "Technolus" (@technolus5742) on "Asian Boss" channel.

  1. Not surprised if they had some backlash, there are still crazy people who'll defend even the poorest examples of socialism/communism.
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  2. ​ @penyarol83  Well, it's not just south koreans, north americans also have stressed, unhappy lives. We'll see plenty of that until we get something like a universal basic income that acts as a safety net so that we don't have to worry about being homeless if we fail in some endeavour, so that we don't have to worry if people close to us fail, so that we can take chances, so that we can be with our loved ones if we value that more than having a bigger house or more entertainment. Besides, food should be getting cheaper cause we can now produce more per worker, housing should be cheaper too for as long as you don't need a house right in the city center, same with clothes, same with just about everything. So... Why are we being forced into consumerism and competition? We should be working less and still producing more than we did before. I don't think people have a plan for where we want to be in 1000 or a million years, we're just going through the motions and pretending that capitalism is an actual plan (rather than a archaic system that we're all afraid to even think of replacing, it's like the ideas of rational planning died just because one idea failed - how about setting up small scale experiments to see if we can find a better system? how about pre-testing in MMOG games, then conducting more rigorous tests in small populations and going from there? Surely there are more ideas than just neo-liberalism and communism, and surely there are more ideas than just our very non-representative democracies, how about introducing some sortition so that we can personally voice our real concerns?).
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  3. People talking about freedom often find themselves in a series of paradoxes, where their maximal freedom isn't compatible with other people's maximal freedom, where their freedom actually ends up making them slaves of an economic system and fear for their safety even in a world of abundance, and where they don't get to do something that many want: like to just sit down and relax cause spending some time with family is more important to them than pushing forward new features for a new iphone. In the end, we ought to balance everyone's interests and that's where freedom can have it's greatest exponent - and also where problems related to it are also minimized. (einherz was onto something there, an idea that is behind some of the best countries to live in... hopefully an idea that can still be improved upon.) The escaped north korean no longer has to fight for survival, he's got it made, as do most of us, now he's on another level of maslow's pyramid and he's yet to conquer it as most of us are yet to so too.
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  4. That doesn't exactly fit the pattern of any internet "heroes" (who would stand up for minorities, for victims of abuse, ...), it fits the pattern of internet "anti-heroes" (who stand for the opposite).
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  5. Yeah, my father is old now, I'd rather be with him more time than get a new iphone. But somehow my employer wants me to work full time and accepts nothing less.
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  6. If I want to see the milky way I go on the web 👍
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  7. That's the third comment I saw of someone starting to cry over the same exact thing (not even counting the subcomments, which are many more).
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