Would be nice if the people downvoting this tried to make an argument instead

The standard of living/real GDP per capita or per hour of work is about as high as it's ever been.

South Korea would be an interesting point of comparison. High IQs, after-school tutoring, 70% of young people get degrees: result is a college wage premium of only 31% vs 54% average in the OECD

https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/education-at-a-glance-2...

They elected who? What does this refer to?

Because I remember to take mine maybe 25% of the time

Yeah they need to stay in the car. It’s a hard habit to break because we have lived our entire lives bringing the groceries in and unloading.

We actually just get paper bags and reuse them for our recycling items. The paper bag goes into the recycling bin with the rest of the paper.

I actually don’t care if recycling takes more energy. We should save plastics for where they can be best used, and that’s not a one-shot trip to the landfill

> It’s a hard habit to break because we have lived our entire lives bringing the groceries in and unloading.

So... how are you bringing in the groceries? Making 10 trips stacking things in your hands?

By one (seemingly pretty reasonable) measure Texas has the 4th-best state education system!

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/naep-test-scores-mississippi-m...

Oh! I wonder if my field (history) is particularly bad or my social network is just particularly disgruntled.

> punitive capital gains taxation

A strange turn of phrase. What is the crime in view that's supposed to be punished?

Being rich. "Anti-oligarchy initiatives" as he puts it. Sounds a tad socialist.

The openai blog post itself is here: https://openai.com/index/apple-is-getting-this-wrong/

A car saves you time walking/biking, a robot saves chore time. Depending on depreciation, it's feasible that you could go do minimum-wage level work on Doordash using the chore time you save from the robot and still come out ahead. E.g. 5 hours/week at $20/hour = $5200/yr

> A car saves you time walking/biking, a robot saves chore time

Mileage varies. My impression is that on net, many people borrow money for the vehicle and end up adjusting their lives to depend on it, so much so that in their head they think they're saving time, but if they'd put that money into their home budget and moved closer to where things are, they'd get more exercise, be more socially healthy, and also waste less time and money driving. In aggregate, this makes everything worse and perpetuates the cycle. I sure as hell wouldn't move somewhere I had to drive to and from if I didn't already have the car, and I sure as hell wouldn't buy a car to get to a job unless the nature of my work required it. Not again.