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Curious how this will play it in ä global economy.

What if the global Jobmarkt was helping Britten to fill gaps?

Might this not lead to inflation?

How will it comped within a global market? How much is it losing when it can't comped against EU internal market?

I'm very sceptical and I think this might even less to a few death. And it could have been done much slower and less risky.


It will probably lead to inflation, however, a careful central bank should be able to keep it in check. In our modern economies having too little inflation is often a bigger problem than having too much. If there is too much inflation then there are lots of growth opportunities that are untapped. The problem that a lot of developing nations face is that they are unable to do the necessary investments on their own that let them grow over the long term so inflation just stays high forever.


The economy is only global until the next round of pandemic — don't you see?


Are we alive though?


I can be remarkably life-like at times.


Hard to say


What's a good IRC channel for cs/maths/physics?

After the freedone implosion I don't know where anything is any more.


#maths or #math at irc.libera.chat is pretty active.

For CS / Physics, perhaps try asking there too, I usually hang out in #emacs and #vim. #emacs is super active, so if you ask there, you will get good pointers


I'm undead. :)


So what is your suggestion?

Stop doing research in this area?

Which money gets burned? Yours? Or do you think that this money would have been allocated differently/better?


Ofcourse it's my tax dollars that's getting burnt through this useless endeavour. Academic funding must be for bold ideas that are more likely to fail but push the knowledge boundaries further. There is nothing being learnt by mindless number crunching that is done in such work. Infact this is worse than buying lottery tickets hoping to hit a jackpot.


I'm struggling with this thought because to me it feels that I want to become full self sustainable.

Which contradicts hiring someone to do my tasks.

My retirement plan (I wanna be independent by 50) is to have time to do all my chores proper and in my time.

Would you say you got used to that lifestyle? Do you earn so much that it doesn't matter from an expenses standpoint?

I'd I would hire someone that would be 5k and more per year which I can't save. 15 y * 5k 75k


This is a tricky issue to struggle with, and I've done a fair amount of thinking on this. I think that it's worthwhile to become knowledgeable and capable in everything that you hire someone for. There are exceptions which are impossible, like being a doctor, but by and large I think most work is learnable. I just don't think it's okay to say "oh I'm just not a math person, or a person who does physical labor, or a person who can fix a car". Certainly, learning a variety of fields takes time and isn't economically optimal, but that's not what's important.

In the example of cleaning your own home, everyone should be able to do that barring a disability. Learn how to do it, learn to do it well, then offload it to someone else and routinely ensure you know how to do it well. I think a similar approach is useful in business as well. I think middle managers and execs give themselves way too strong of a pass on understanding how to actually do the jobs in their own company. This is partially why so many managers have almost no idea how their internal systems actually work.

Anyway, diatribe over.


Just a thought: I would love to have/start with a device which would track and show me were the mosquito is. This would make it much saver and still very helpful.


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