I suspect the problem is also compounded in fantasy-related prompts. WoW and it’s consequences etc… etc…

Wow, I can’t believe that the transfiguration of jesus was so poorly translated by latin scholars.

Again this is a case of “it depends”. If you are not a market driver then yes it does. (‘mom & pop motor vehicles’ isn’t going to make a dent in the global car market. )

But some operational costs (I.e. Ground Rent, Marketing, Legal Fees, IP Costs etc…) do not scale with increased output.

even Ayn Rand didn’t particularly like Ayn Rand,

not to say she was rational of course.

I mean you might be, depending upon what % of the total market you operate and what the exact inputs of the new method are.

“Of course we have national minimum wages that we need to raise to a living wage. You’re talking about 20, 25 dollars, fine. But I have got to be focused on what California needs and what the affordability factor is when we calculate this wage.”

To me this sounds like she’s calling for a $50 state wage, not a federal one.

… and $50 would be 60% more than that?

I mean, SSRI’s are sometimes known to permantantly fix the brains serotonin levels after a limited period of application, so it might’ve still been the drugs (Or a combination of both).

Cool that you’re doing good, tho.

^why is always the furries with the high paying job…^

Ricardo’s rule of rent.

In absense of land equality, or marginal land to escape to, rent will tend to push wages closer and closer to subsistance.

I mean, cost of living is higher than america than other parts of the world and other parts of the world have state-funded security programs that take some of the anxiety away from living.

Here in (western) europe I’d wager at half of people (including me) are insulated from “poverty induced misery”. There are an awful lot of stupidly big and expensive cars on the road.

Am I glad that ~400 million (200 mill in north america, 100 mill in europe, 100 mill everywhere else) people now live in that state of relative freedom? absolutely, but it is depressing to think about what a minority of humanity it really is.

NO IT’S NOT, THESE ARE TWO DIFFERENT PHENOMINA.

Diminishing returns: My first dollar buys a loaf of bread necessary for my survival, my millionth buys me 0.01% of a sports car.

Hedonic treadmill: Neither my sports car nor loaves of bread seem as wonderous to me after they’ve become a part of my routine.

Sorry lads, you know how it is, no catchy name, no political representation.

In older vocabulary, “want” was actually the stronger form of “need”.

Perhaps we’re returning to tradition in more ways than one?

Stable diffusion uses gaussian noise to train. When you think about it, boobs aren’t that far off a classic bell curve…

Have you checked to see if any of these lines are actually in the golden ratio?

You don’t need so big a change, there were startups making steam cars for pollution reasons until the invention of the catalytic convertor. (The steady continuous flame of a boiler generating far fewer harmful emissions than the pulsing flame of a diesel or petrol engine)

Sure they’re less efficient, but that’s compensated for somewhat by the lack of a gearbox, as well as the fact that modern steam engines are to 1911 steam engines what modern diesels are to this thing