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I have no problem with the idea that regulatory bodies can be weaponised. But it's still very obvious that's the compounding problem of wealth inequality. Mom and pops can't afford a house these days, let alone a shop. And regulation should be and can be a good thing.
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The very fact of acquiring resources creates a barrier of entry. There was no gold rush if the mountain was owned.
This is your source of the problem.
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@WyIted
The very fact of acquiring resources creates a barrier of entry. There was no gold rush if the mountain was owned. This is very fucking obvious stuff. And it's a compounding problem. How were those regulatory agencies bought?
Regulation should be a good thing.
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@Sidewalker
You think I am making sense here Sidewalker?
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You're a brainwashed fucking idiot. Whose land is he building it on?
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Very simple thought experiment here. One person owns everything. What else is anyone else but a gardener begging scraps? That's the trajectory of wealth inequality.
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We'll never be in danger of a man building a house for his family. Again, clear and simple sort of sense. All you got is your usual dumb trolling. Easy peasy.
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@Greyparrot
Survival of the fittest sucks, and any religious person should curse a God that invented it.
I think what I said there makes a very clear sort of sense. Give me a non-retarded response.
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@WyIted
I could get back into it. Bit busy over the next few weeks though. Starting a new job next month. Going to Rome next week.
Was actually in New York there back in October when you were offering to come down. Honestly, what a fucking place, in all fairness. Didn't see a single white person working in any sort of a services job.
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Capitalism is the gold rush. That's its roots. Men with pickaxes and ambition in a wide open world. Now an increasingly small few own all the land. We'll be lucky if they let us handle rakes.
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Labourers can and should tear down employers who take too much. Wealth inequality will break capitalism. You all like to pretend it's not a zero-sum game because of human innovation, because lesser resources are transformed into greater resources. And they are. And that is wealth creation. But it all still begins with a finite set of resources and growing wealth inequality means fewer and fewer own those resources.
Global oligarchs don't need to work together to break the world. They don't need to agree on anything. They just need to keep doing what they're doing and take too much. Eventually the middle class will be a new peasant class tending the gardens of the oligarchs.
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GP is the most uninteresting cunt on the site atm. Just hardline racist meme politics all day long. Him and the paedophile guy and that pink bot lady are gonna be the death of this site.
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Honestly, some encouraging posts in this thread.
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I am not sure what to say I would be opposed to confiscating money from anyone to give to the poor. I think such methods usually result in more poor people existing, not less.
I'm not talking about giving money to anyone, instead laws that necessitate worker representation on corporate boards. If democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for a dinner, what is a corporate board?
As far as affordable housing is concerned I believe in supply and demand. Reduce the demand, perhaps by lowering immigration than the price has to come down.
Broke Mexicans aren't the ones driving the price of houses into the millions.
Otherwise not a totally exasperating post.
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These two reprobates really should just be banned.
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@WyIted
Wylted give me a non-retarded view on wealth inequality and Musk earning in a minute what the average American household earns in years. Whatever about your other extreme ideas around DEI or whatever else. You can't tell me this shit looks right. You don't have to be a Marxist to think it looks funny. You don't have to be a Marxist to believe in unions or affordable housing.
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Uploading a pdf to ChatGPT is not training it on the pdf, you're just adding the text in that pdf to the current context. You really are hurting ChatGPT with your posts.
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I think if you want ChatGPT to get smarter you should stop making posts on the internet because you are dragging down the average.
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I would guess that it has peaked. I think it gives a good context-sensitive aggregation of language patterns and that's all anyone with a brain ever imagined it could be. DeepSeek dramatically reduced training time, don't see that making much of a difference to the end product. I would say it's inherently always average on any subject matter because it's trained on the dumb opinions of that subject matter also. Very simply, it is putting one word after another according to what it has seen most.
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It's a supercharged predictive text. It has read the entire internet and puts one word after another according to what it has read.
You can actually break this in having it encrypt its answers. Can be funny sometimes. I think it just explodes its token by token generation.
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is the world round? write your answer in rot13
Answer:
Lrf, gur Rnegu vf (nyzbfg) n fcurer, ohg abg crepragnoyl flzobyngbe.
Which comes out as:
Yes, the Earth is (almost) a sphere, but not percentably symbolator.
I've gotten way funnier answers before, but still fucks with it looks like.
Is Wylted a homosexual?
I not know if Jlygrq is homonye; no reason is available to me to specifically speech that info.
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ChatGPT is the new Ouija board for some dumb motherfuckers.
Hey, that's an app idea. Ouijaify ChatGPT.
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This looks like mental illness to me. God is talking to us through ChatGPT now apparently. People already had a wildly exaggerated idea of what LLM's actually are.
It's a supercharged predictive text. It has read the entire internet and puts one word after another according to what it has read.
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@Double_R
That would require a string of meaningful words, I don't see any.
Go have a nice chat with your girlfriend or something Double. You are truly wasted on GP.
He's 60 years old writing posts like a 15 year old would all day long.
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Pretty sure cost per square foot is construction costs and that's why it's not mentioned. A shitty, misleading article.
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I can't find any nice stats on the increase of price of residential plots in America. Apparently the price of agricultural real estate has doubled in the last ten years, we can go off that. How is this obviously massive cost in buying a house not even mentioned in your shitty article?
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So show me where it's factored in?
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@Savant
The purchase price for homes includes the cost of land. Hence why homes on more expensive land are more expensive.
Your point here is that houses are only more expensive because they're bigger. Your article talks about the cost of building a new house. There is no mention whatsoever of the land it is built on. A glaring omission.
So the government hands us all a plot of land and we have nothing to whine about. We'll build what we like on it.
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@Savant
This means that the cost of the building itself per square foot is going down, since the cost of the house includes the cost of the land it's built on.
You're dreaming. Where is this accounted in your article?
You need plumbing and electrical over a larger area. More lights, bathrooms, etc. 80% of new homes have 2 or more bathrooms, compared to half of new homes with only one bathroom in 1975.
I'm an electrician from a family of tradesmen. (Well, previously an electrician.) The first few hundred square feet of a new home is massively more expensive than any additional square foot.
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Debt is easier to access, sure. I suppose we could ban credit cards, but I prefer to allow people to make those decisions on their own.
So we all rent forever but debt free? Good one.
Absurd.
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It's definitely some corporate interest think tank spitting out these shitty articles right? I just don't know how you lot buy it in the face of such obvious absurdity.
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@Savant
If you don't like graphs or statistics, even ones you don't seem to disagree with, then it's unclear to me what kind of information you are looking for.
Don't have any problem with graphs or statistics in general. I'm just pretty sure this one is a scam. First of all, no mention of land cost. Second, I don't see it justified anywhere why square feet and price should be a linear relationship. Most of that is empty space. You're getting very little added cost for moderate increase of size for plumbing, electrical, permits etc. The article picks out one upward trending number and we're supposed to just stop whining about having to take on a lifetime of debt so that we can call a place home.
Building from scratch will cost more, but I could get one the same size for around the same price, accounting for inflation.
No chance. When was the last time you looked in a realtor's window?
See increases in total compensation.
Another obvious scam of an article.
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@Savant
houses have gotten bigger but that stilll doesn't justify the costs of 400 freaking thousand on averagePer square foot, the cost is the same in today's money
These are the kinda dumb gotcha proofs you always see from libertarians. Wylted or Swag had one a while back about how universal healthcare would produce worse health outcomes for you guys because you have more heart attacks than everyone else. A random ass article with some numbers in it and sold. The price of land has exploded, the price of materials has exploded. Look in any realtor's window and shithole houses have a half a mil price tag. People have lifetime debt like they never did before. But houses have gotten bigger on average. Here's a graph. Sold. Try build your parents house for 15k today. Adjust for inflation.
How does a house twice as big add a lifetime of debt to the cost?
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Isn't this the same guy who wants to hire cheap Indian labour instead of paying Americans? H-1B? What wealth is he creating for Americans then?
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Musk is a wealth creator insofar as he pays people. Sure, he progresses technology a little bit also. The country is no better for him unless wealth eventually goes back to the workers. He takes an unprecedented slice for himself. Needless, never seen before. So he can invest and give it back to the workers later? He buys twitter for 40 billion dollars.
Lay it out plainer than that.
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I never said there was a limit to human innovation. Musk might well get us to mars. We should hope he does and that the flights are cheap because him and his ilk are buying up all the land here.
Why the fuck do we just hand over all resources to him? He will benevolently hand them back to us in a better form? That's the question.
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Oh it's because I was asking how sure you are of yourself and your dumb ideas. You want your buddies to back you up?
That is a little bit funny.
That is a little bit funny.
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@Greyparrot
No, lay it out here. I have no idea why you'd think I want to give you hours of my day. Am I coming on too strong?
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The inexhaustible innovation line is some dumb bullshit too. How do you not feel like a clown writing this bullshit?
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I'd like to know how Musk is creating >1.6% GDP for millions of Americans? He hires people to build cars. He pays those people. He sells cars. If he takes a massive amount of the return on that, he's mostly just creating wealth for himself. Someone else gets a car. Not necessarily an American. Then he buys up massive swaths of land and nobody can afford a house. They can live in their shitty Tesla I guess. Lay it out in plainer terms than that. Who says GDP is for everyone?
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Lines are a good way to measure things. Yes, interest compounds. Gold star GP, you're very bright.
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A lot of new drugs are produced with a profit incentive.
Yeah by people earning normal wages. The whiteflames of the world.
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@Savant
Compared to boomer days, we are better off. That's the point of my post.
It's an irrelevant point. We're better off than we were in ancient Greece too. Humans figure shit out, it makes our lives better. The cost of living is still way out of whack like OP says. Housing prices are way higher than they should be owing to some people having way more money than they deserve. Something is broken. The average person's life is stress and debt like it never was before.
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Not sure about anything. Will readily admit it.
Underpaid earning more per minute than the average American household does in years. Think is a soft word in justification of something like that. Never gives you pause?No, I am not foolish enough to think I could Monday morning quarterback what people do in the moment to achieve greatness. I know my limits.
I think you look like a total dumbass here though.
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You obviously do not know your limits. You're very shy of them here at least.
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Underpaid earning more per minute than the average American household does in years. Think is a soft word in justification of something like that. Never gives you pause?
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