Everyone I know is doing well and looking forward to the next 4 years. Just look at the stock market, which anyone can invest in. I started back when I was making $4 an hour, now doing very well.
Not everyone can invest in the stock market… at least not in a way that is helpful. Sure, I might be able to put $20/mo in if I’m working poor and over a few years it will double if I’m lucky.
$4/he starting wage makes you around my parents age (50+) so I’m guessing you easily earn six figures now since you hang out on HN. The crowd here does not represent poor people very well (which is fine!) but you can’t extrapolate your experience to everyone. Yea the stock market is great, but it says nothing about the single mom working two jobs to put food on the table with no energy left to tinker with ETFs.
If anything it's easier now than ever to invest in stocks. Online trades, no commissions, and fractional shares. When I started I had to pay a broker to do the trades. And still against those odds somehow it worked.
AI generation of inventions could be used as a massive DOS attack on the patent system, by producing millions or billions of inventions immediately placed into public view as prior art.
I don't know why this didn't occur to me earlier, but reading this thread overwhelmed me with possibility and I just had to drop my fusion reactor patent into notebook LM. The podcast was nice, but there was nothing inventive about it. The world is moving so fast right now, but it's not quite there... it will be soon, but not yet. There is still so much we humans still have to do.
There's no claim about it, it actually happened.
Always amazed at companies that extort their customers because it might be too expensive to move off those products.
I remember Computer Associates back in the 1980s and 1990s, that was their business model, buy out a company, fire all the engineers, and Jack up license fees. Rinse and repeat. I remember seeing them at unix expo at the javits center, they always gave out the best chachkis