At this point it’s a clear problem of human bias. We love our instincts so much that when we have sufficient power, we’ll assure that people never challenge them, even when the offices we hold require reason contrary to those instincts.
The whole bit about bullshit jobs serves as an example, because our upper management desire to hold court and have courtiers and garden hermits buzzing about them like components of an orrery (I’m teaching my spellchecker words today).
In the media industry the process of crunching developers to make deadlines (even though it kills productivity and slows the rate of progress) is another example, and yet all the AAA game development companies do it… or are doing it so long as they exist. Our private equity firms are now doing to the big ones what was once done to Toys 'r Us, leaving a sinkhole of debt and bankruptcy where there was once a reputable company.
Our inability to see our community past our top fifty Facebook friends (or fellow villagers) prevents us from thinking in terms of cooperating with society, rather we deign ourselves part of the true Americans (or Belgians or Maoists or whatever), and so we fail to recognize personal greed as a mental disorder, rather a moral failing.
In a Star Trek society, someone who hoarded liquidatable assets would be regarded similar to someone who filled their house with junk (and hopefully not as they are abused on Bravo), we’d intervene, put them in a rehab center for a year, where they learn to exist in the comfort of minimalism. But in our own world, extremely wealthy people are regarded as a a higher strata of person, given power and authority to command PMCs, and eventually swarm-armies of killer robots managed by AI.
Currently, our tolerance of human billionaires is killing us, and it poses a global catastrophic risk not just of the human species but of 90%+ of all species on the planet.
That’s the problem, we won’t. There is too much now that needs to be done, and your neighbors don’t care. Try telling your neighbor not to use a dirty 2-stroke gas lawnmower, or weed killer on a residential law, they’ll hate you, won’t understand what you’re talking about, and think that you are stupid. Everything then becomes a state intervention with police, courts, laws, jails.
once you know what the show is about, the characters sometimes can’t justify their actions. I was spoiled mid way through s3 and then the fun died. I just watched it for closure but plot didn’t hit me that well.
Characters are weirdly written for my taste, plot is good but the sub plots are repetitive but visuals slap, tech banters were a little cringey but for the first time it felt realistic-ish… ykwim
Yeah you summed it up. It’s trying too hard. I think I’ll shelve it for now, I’ll look into your suggestion.
“The story follows dysfunctional characters from the fictional town of Winden in Germany, as they pursue the truth in the aftermath of a child’s disappearance.”
At this point it’s a clear problem of human bias. We love our instincts so much that when we have sufficient power, we’ll assure that people never challenge them, even when the offices we hold require reason contrary to those instincts.
The whole bit about bullshit jobs serves as an example, because our upper management desire to hold court and have courtiers and garden hermits buzzing about them like components of an orrery (I’m teaching my spellchecker words today).
In the media industry the process of crunching developers to make deadlines (even though it kills productivity and slows the rate of progress) is another example, and yet all the AAA game development companies do it… or are doing it so long as they exist. Our private equity firms are now doing to the big ones what was once done to Toys 'r Us, leaving a sinkhole of debt and bankruptcy where there was once a reputable company.
Our inability to see our community past our top fifty Facebook friends (or fellow villagers) prevents us from thinking in terms of cooperating with society, rather we deign ourselves part of the true Americans (or Belgians or Maoists or whatever), and so we fail to recognize personal greed as a mental disorder, rather a moral failing.
In a Star Trek society, someone who hoarded liquidatable assets would be regarded similar to someone who filled their house with junk (and hopefully not as they are abused on Bravo), we’d intervene, put them in a rehab center for a year, where they learn to exist in the comfort of minimalism. But in our own world, extremely wealthy people are regarded as a a higher strata of person, given power and authority to command PMCs, and eventually swarm-armies of killer robots managed by AI.
Currently, our tolerance of human billionaires is killing us, and it poses a global catastrophic risk not just of the human species but of 90%+ of all species on the planet.
That’s the problem, we won’t. There is too much now that needs to be done, and your neighbors don’t care. Try telling your neighbor not to use a dirty 2-stroke gas lawnmower, or weed killer on a residential law, they’ll hate you, won’t understand what you’re talking about, and think that you are stupid. Everything then becomes a state intervention with police, courts, laws, jails.
There’s your problem, right there.
Have a conversation. Ask questions. Live by example. When asked, demonstrate the advantages of doing differently.
you should don a hoodie and start something like fsociety, I am ready to lay my life bare for your cause
pffft I’m watching Mr Robot again as we speak.
finished it recently
I find the ending a little vanilla ngl
Did you enjoy it? I remember quite liking it when it came out, but now I’m finding it hard to rewatch.
It doesn’t have the near-infinite rewatchability of a Silicon Valley let’s say.
once you know what the show is about, the characters sometimes can’t justify their actions. I was spoiled mid way through s3 and then the fun died. I just watched it for closure but plot didn’t hit me that well.
Characters are weirdly written for my taste, plot is good but the sub plots are repetitive but visuals slap, tech banters were a little cringey but for the first time it felt realistic-ish… ykwim
I liked it, but it’s no dark
Yeah you summed it up. It’s trying too hard. I think I’ll shelve it for now, I’ll look into your suggestion.
“The story follows dysfunctional characters from the fictional town of Winden in Germany, as they pursue the truth in the aftermath of a child’s disappearance.”
So it’s like M?