Money is a placeholder for labor. If you distribute all their money, the same labor needs to get done.

It absolutely helps, but it can’t make everyone rich because by definition “rich” requires living off the work of others. (I’m using the word rich losely to mean comfortable.) What it can do is raise the bottom 10% out of poverty.

The US consumes at a level unsustainable by the Earth. Bezos’s billions doesn’t mean he consumes a billion cheeseburgers a day. His personal waste is huge but tiny when compared the the total of 350m Americans.

If there’s no voice channels, then why reinvent IRC?

I looked at the website and every link and have no idea what it does.

“Connect with your friends and community” was in a screenshot.

Speedsuit?

https://venturebrothers.fandom.com/wiki/The_Ambassador

I got an old Lenovo P330 Xeon with 64 G of ECC ram. I recently checked its power usage for another poster asking the same thing. I was shocked to see it only use 15Watts while streaming 4k hevc.

For server use, ECC is important because it’s going to be on 24/7 for years at a time.

Someone that fights through the layers of security guards until reaching the final boss of the CEO might change the CEO’s mind with some physical persuasion.

just watch them once every 10 years and it should renew the magnetic stuff on them.

VHS doesn’t work like that. It’s not digital. It doesn’t rewrite on a read. Magnetic hard drives and tapes don’t rewrite on a read either.

You need to copy them to renew and VHS is analog so every copy is worse.

I’d suggest a little of both. A 7600x is $150. A 5600ti 16gb is $429. 1tb SSD is fine.

This will cost the same as option 1. It will last years and then you’ll be able to upgrade the CPU, GPU and SSD.

There’s no Ultra 7 as good as the best AMD for gaming right now. So in 5 years you’ll definitely be able to pick up a better AMD for cheap but there won’t be an equivalent cheap Intel without replacing the Motherboard.

You looked at a map beforehand and saw what directions to go. The map book has an index in the back to find destinations.

You often wrote a note for yourself beforehand. Rt 40, take exit 17a, take 97 S exit, Rt onto Brookshire,

You didn’t need to know north.

I drove for decades before gps. No one taught me how to use a map. You bought one and it was obvious because it was the same as any text book with an index in the back.

You act like kids are stupid.

I’m probably older than both of you. I use gps constantly even when I know the route. It’s safer to focus on the road than think about the route.

People didn’t use to memorize numbers. They used little private address books that you wrote your numbers in. Moving that text to a computer screen changed nothing for the majority of people.

I don’t use Facebook but I didn’t use Myspace either.

I don’t use AI but I have nothing against it. I used it once to write some code in VBscript which is a language that would be a complete waste of time to learn. It saved dozens of hours.

A gps is a paper map on the computer with the feature that shows your location on the map.

There’s nothing to learn. The gps voice prompt takes the place of the passenger who’s job it was to voice prompt you.

There was a few months where I had to ban server after server every day because someone was really into semi-lolli anime. They were posting it in every anime forum. I asked them why they were non stop posting upskirt or provocative drawings of very young girls and they got angry that I dared ask.

Not really. The first local login to configure it requires a Plex account. And that account times out maybe monthly? It seems every few months when I remote to the Plex server it wants the plex account to login.

The problem with Plex is it isn’t fully hosted. Plex controls user passwords. You can’t use it without logging into their servers.

Regardless, you are failing to engage with my actual point, which is that unnecessary restrictions on the production of goods will drive manufacturers to produce only the most high-margin options,

Yet you gave the example of food being cheap which has regulations. It’s cheap because it is subsidized. Farmers aren’t the only industry with lobbiests.

how we built affordable housing in the past.

1. We killed the existing land owners so there was a surplus of land.

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Act_of_1949 (required cheap housing to be built to replace any cheap housing torn down.)

So, we should remove these barriers first and see what happens.

The only barrier is the people who vote. If a community votes against a developer, that’s their constitutional right. Which is why I said the supply is the problem. Giving more money to renters does not change the supply. If more housing was built, the price would go down and ubi wouldn’t be needed.

Unlike food and housing, a screwdriver isn’t required to live. That’s why food is subsidized and regulated. Whereas non essentials are allowed to compete in a free market.

You can go to the grocery store right now and buy a tomato for not very much money,

Food is subsidized and highly regulated by the government.

Capitalism fails to meet housing demand because it is constrained by regulations about things like single family zoning,

That’s not true because when given an opportunity to build housing, developers always choose to build higher margin premium housing. Capitalism incentivizes profit and there’s no profit in cheap housing.

I find it funny who ubi proponents say we need UBI because capitalism failed to have wages match cost of living and simultaneously say UBI will fix it with capitalism.

Housing is expensive because there isn’t enough. If capitalism could fix it, then housing would have at a minimum matched inflation and should have decreased in price because of technology improvements. So giving people more money absolutely cannot fix the housing crisis. UBI would be a handout for landlords.

When demand is the problem in a supply/demand economy, you can’t fix it with more demand (cash).

There’s a great fictional movie called Gangs of New York that covers the real life anti immigration riots that happened in New York City during the civil war.