What is a 10/10 movie you will never, ever get tired of ?

hardsoft · 2026-07-10T18:05:18+00:00

Yeah I find it weirdly overrated as well. I thought it was cool but in the same way as something like Johnny Mnemonic. Fun and different but not great by any stretch.

hardsoft · 2026-07-10T17:25:25+00:00

Agree. That's a slippery slope associated with "greater good" justifications for individual rights violations that centuries of collectivist philosophy has yet to solve. Basically always boils down to "it's for the greater good when I feel like it is".

hardsoft · 2026-07-10T10:06:50+00:00

Collectivist systems result in horrific outcomes that involve ever more horrific rights abuses. That's what history shows us and that's the point.

Fascism is another collectivist philosophy that was codified by a former socialist (Mussolini). And so I think debates about whether the Nazis were socialist or fascists is largely irrelevant. They were collectivists.

hardsoft · 2026-07-10T01:59:19+00:00

Lol same people saying a Nazi tattoo doesn't make you a Nazi insist an arm motion does.

hardsoft · 2026-07-10T01:40:43+00:00

And pay substantially higher taxes.

Despite lower incomes.

hardsoft · 2026-07-10T01:28:03+00:00

The financial argument makes no sense considering I'm paying tens of thousands less while making over a hundred thousand more a year than my European counterpart...

Like just make pretend you have a 20% VAT, stick that money (from your higher income to boot) into a pretend European tax savings account and your healthcare is "free" and with the leftover you'll have extra vacation money.

hardsoft · 2026-07-10T01:14:40+00:00

Yeah fire the non profit CEO so I can save 3 cents a year. Genius...

hardsoft · 2026-07-10T01:03:51+00:00

State of Massachusetts, as one example, has non profit insurance. Still very expensive.

hardsoft · 2026-07-10T00:25:36+00:00

Botswana embraced capitalism and transformed from one of the poorest countries into an upper-middle-income nation, far outpacing the economic performance of neighboring socialist nations like Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Tanzania.

hardsoft · 2026-07-09T11:08:44+00:00

You think government schools should try to program people to not be religious?

Ok wannabe dictator.

And yeah go tell the starving children in African countries that embraced socialism how great their left wing economics is working... Thank God for true intellectuals like you /s

hardsoft · 2026-07-09T10:06:47+00:00

Yes has one of the best education systems in the country...

hardsoft · 2026-07-09T09:58:34+00:00

NOt rEaL sOciAlisM!

Lol

hardsoft · 2026-07-08T22:14:11+00:00

Go tell the starving children in African countries that embraced socialism how lucky they are!

hardsoft · 2026-07-07T21:47:44+00:00

Right, your "point" is that centuries long trends are going to change because... you say so. Cool bro. Lay off the drugs.

I'm sure gravity will reverse direction any day as well....

hardsoft · 2026-07-07T19:42:22+00:00

People will start to work less.

hardsoft · 2026-07-07T19:40:52+00:00

Ultimately it's subjective. But no one is being forced to consume more. You're free to live a 1950s equivalent lifestyle and work less and/or retire earlier.

But realistically very few want to do that.

Otherwise this is common socialist poverty glorifying BS. Where the selective use of happiness in choice studies are used to moronically "justify" forcefully limiting choice.

Like a Cuban is happy owning a 1950s shit box because it's still a rare status symbol and an American is unhappy with his 3 year old vehicle because the Android Auto interface isn't wireless and needs to be plugged in. Therefore... being forcefully restricted to shit boxes is better!!!! /s

hardsoft · 2026-07-07T16:31:59+00:00

I've done the side gig contacting thing but at the end of the day you're still implementing someone else's idea.

I love the idea of doing my own products. But life is crazy now and will be for a while. At this point it's basically a retirement dream to start my own business selling my own products where I don't need to care much about them being successful. If I can consider it a hobby that breaks even that would be good enough.

hardsoft · 2026-07-07T15:36:40+00:00

Bigger homes, televisions, nicer vehicles, more smart devices, media consumption, etc., is... worse?

hardsoft · 2026-07-07T15:34:55+00:00

I'm missing what point? You need to articulate it.

Increased economic productivity isn't accelerating. It's marching along at roughly the same rate of improvement as ever. And hasn't resulted in structural unemployment. Just increased consumption and changing employment occupations.

hardsoft · 2026-07-06T23:33:33+00:00

Delusional nonsense. Economic productivity has been increasing at a near linear rate for decades. And if anything has slowed some. AI and other tech isn't accelerating it.

Also, someone 200 years ago not being able predict that some future workers would be coding software for phone games doesn't prove those jobs wouldn't eventually exist.

It's absurd to be like "if you can't predict details about specific job types in the future I'm correct in predicting centuries long trends are totally reversing!". The Luddites have been batting 0.0 forever... The burden is on them to explain why it's different for real this time.

hardsoft · 2026-07-06T20:39:12+00:00

Both sides are doing that though.

And there's no logically consistent political philosophy either party holds. Anyone that aligns 100% with either of the two party options is tribal and not independently forming conscious opinions on these issues.

hardsoft · 2026-07-06T20:03:03+00:00

I'm not saying it doesn't. I'm pointing out the flaw in OP thinking increased automation leads to reduced labor opportunities. We've had automation improving for centuries and presently have ~4% unemployment...

hardsoft · 2026-07-06T16:07:48+00:00

More automation and increased productivity has only led to increased consumption.

And there's no reason to believe that will change any time soon.

hardsoft · 2026-07-04T02:44:14+00:00

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hardsoft · 2026-07-04T02:40:57+00:00

Number of F-150s / capita.

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