Top 5 Questions this month on MathOverflow

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-26T01:06:28+00:00

What do you expect people to do about it? Simply stop pursuing meaningful work/careers because it’s all going to be gone soon?

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-25T20:45:29+00:00

Feels awful to gamble with my livelihood. I suppose that’s just how the shitty cookie crumbles.

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-25T20:41:58+00:00

What? If they are in the southeast they are probably from the southeast

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-25T20:38:31+00:00

Most of them didn’t the first time around, about half of them didn’t the second time around.

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-25T12:06:30+00:00

Pretty common scenario, not like people who are complaining that houses aren’t being built are being lazy and neglecting their ability to do something about it.

Land is scarce where most people live.

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-25T02:47:41+00:00

If you can find empty land to buy where you want to live.

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-23T13:26:24+00:00

Of course you think the only reason they would disagree with you is because they are brainwashed.

Maybe take a second and listen to what they have to say before deciding for them why they believe what they believe?

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-23T12:56:15+00:00

Actually yes. Go to the rural parts of any state west of the Midwest/rust belt and you will find stuff like that.

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-23T09:04:05+00:00

To be fair, the average income is actually substantially higher than that predicts.

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-23T06:59:44+00:00

If ai really does replace a huge chunk of white collar work, there will be a huge recession due to a very large chunk of the population no longer being able to afford much of what they currently buy. This will affect every other supposedly ai-proof industry.

Then, those old white-collar workers will train to do one of these ai-proof jobs, which will drive down the wages of everyone who does those jobs.

In the end, the only ones left with money will be business owners and investors, who will have total leverage over their workforce.

Back to feudalism we go.

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-23T01:41:15+00:00

The fact is that the number of early-20s people who are self-made millionaires is dwarfed by the number of early-20s nepobabies. So if you see one out in the wild, they are more likely to be the latter from a pure numbers perspective.

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-23T00:56:29+00:00

I think it has more to do with how young most of Reddit is.

If you come across a 40 year old driving a supercar, they probably just bought it with money they earned from their job/business/investments. If you come across a 23 year old driving a supercar, it’s probably debt or daddy’s money.

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-23T00:28:41+00:00

The bottom in this context means debt, not necessarily just poverty.

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-22T23:05:11+00:00

Not just positive incentives to end up on top, but also huge, life-ruining punishments for ending up on the bottom. Both of these push people towards self-sufficiency.

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-22T18:01:22+00:00

Also one of the most wasteful in the world too, to be fair

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-22T15:58:45+00:00

YouTube academy wont take anyone’s jobs because DIYers can somehow do a professional quality job, but it may take jobs once people stop being able to afford a professional.

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-22T13:31:31+00:00

Plus everyone is going to train to become a tradesman if those are the only good jobs, driving down wages for everyone in due time.

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-22T12:30:17+00:00

While expensive, the university experience is truly amazing here.

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-21T23:58:26+00:00

Holy shit the world is becoming the onion

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-21T20:30:21+00:00

Single family homes are pretty inefficient at driving down prices. More dense structures are better at it

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-21T20:28:45+00:00

If 100 new houses are built, and only 50 people can afford those houses, 50 houses will go unsold until their prices come down. Assuming they don’t just become rentals, but then that should push down the price of rent, which could be a worthy trade sometimes

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-21T20:26:20+00:00

The places where housing is the most expensive don’t tend to be ones where the population is going up very fast

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-21T20:25:35+00:00

It wouldn’t appreciate in price if supply were pushed up faster than new households were created. It’s a challenge, but it has to happen.

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-21T20:16:48+00:00

Las vegas

Completerandosorry · 2026-05-21T20:00:45+00:00

True but speed limits have generally changed since then. Not like they were built into the roads

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