I asked if we should put people in jail for reproduction, as children do not give any consent to being born, will suffer in life and die in the end. Both debaters started patting their backs that reproduction is not unethical but something should be done with people who neglect their child.
> I don't give a single fuck about the salary of the 0.0001% of the population that is billionaire CEO, that's not the problem. The problem is that basic necessities have been turned into a profit-printing machine and you pay 2K a month for a 500 square feet apartment in London.
Interesting that you don’t see those things as part of the same problem but rather two separate unrelated issues.
Is Bezos, Gates or Musk at fault for high UK house prices ?
No, it's a failing of government policy. Straggling house building for decades, leads directly towards rampant land speculation. (70+% of a houses value is the land...)
And who (or perhaps what socio-economic class) might be responsible for our inability to change these perpetually bad government policies that always seem to preserve this state of rampant inequality?
Actually, at least in Helsinki part of the rising costs of housing in the centre has been attributed to so called vacation housing, where apartments have been bought by rich people from abroad or rural areas, yet occupied maybe a couple of days/weeks a year, or rented out as an airbnb flat. I'm not saying its a major factor, but still an indicator that theres more than enough money to spend for some people, for them to take out from the 'necessities' pool, just to achieve some form of luxury.
An interesting tool for sure. One thing that makes me not want to use it is the forcing of browsing commit by commit. Seeing the whole pull request makes much more sense foe my workflow
Intro classes to things you’re interested in. A once a week for four-six weeks course will get you enough exposure to become friends with at least one cool person in the class.
Volunteering in the community you live brings a wide array of people and there’s usually downtime for talking.
