My health insurance costs 842€ a month. I pay half of it, the other half my employer. So I am quite impressed with the $20 from the estimation.

But why do two jobs? Won’t people do a better job concentrating on one thing and getting $2000 for that, instead of gaining experience in two different areas at the same time?

Just show up and show them the booking confirmation!

I could imagine this becoming in reality. Maybe in 2 or 3 world wars and 100 more genocides there might be a society emerging like this.

It is obvious that this society is superior. It is also obvious that it is impossible to achieve for any culture that is living today.

We are already optimising and automating a shit ton! And we could already rest more than 100 years ago. Instead we just consume more.

I have like four different pairs of trousers, a 75 inch flat screen tv, a laptop, a tablet, a phone, a smart watch, and I eat meat like three times a week ( which is even low compared to my kin ). Stuff breaks all the time and a buy new ones.

My 80 year old uncle told me they did usually not eat meat when he was a child. They had two eggs per week, which were used for baking. And they were not poor. A normal household.

If we would consume as much as 100 years ago, I bet we could send half the work force into life long vacation!

My other bet is that our wealth will rise the more we automate, but we will still be working the same amount to afford our future wealth.

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Did you ever have 2000€ in your bank account and 0.63€ in your wallet? And then it was summer and you were thirsty, so you bought something with your card instead of riding the tram to the next ATM to get a 50€ bill and ride the tram back to the kiosk, where they did not have the right exchange for the 50€ bill, which was then the reason to visit the stores around to exchange money, what they did but they looked at you very suspiciously, because that’s a common theme for a scam, and then you could finally buy your drink, but the whole ordeal cost you 45 minutes?

That’s just one example.

Thanks for the TL;DR.

What difference does the form of currency make when people still use some rewards program to have their shopping tracked, or with all the NFC chips on products, that track you through the whole store?

I believe the form of payment is the minor issue here.

I don’t know the issues. Didn’t read the article.

It was my second computer game that I bought. The first one was Warcraft 2. But that one did not have an endless mode.

And of course I copy the CD over to a new one every year. That way the magnetic field of earth is no issue for my game!

I am still not finished with Anno 1602 endless mode. It is getting kind of boring…

That was too long to read. I already hardly ever use cash. It is so inconvenient.

Let me fix that!

I define € means ∈ in the context of my comments.

I define € in the context of currency to be written as „€uro“

I learned something new here!

I thought an orgy would imply that for each fucking tuple (h1, h2) € F[H], there exists at least another pair where (hx, h3) € F[H], hx € {h1, h2}, so that there are not two disjoint strict subsets of O.

In textual words: When Tobi and Torben have sex, and Brunhilde and Gudrun have sex, I thought this is not an orgy. There must be a connection between those two pairs. I bet I am having an orgy with a lot of strangers by the definition of this paper.

That would mean I also have to change. 😵‍💫 But I am a big part of the problem!

Is there a „humanist nihilism“ movement? I mean a political and social narrative that the world would be better off without humans? Is there a party you can vote for, that aims to achieve this goal?

It started with a truck loaded with wrongly labelled veal. (Let’s write the light novel now! Reply to this comment with the next sentence!)

I like generic isekais. I think I am through with all the good ones…

I think I read all the good isekai already. Putting anything on my to-read list where people get to other worlds or are levelling.

Sorry for the disappointment 😅

Mangas on my todo list are

• The former top 1‘s sub-character training diary: A dedicated player is currently conquering another world

• My entire class was summoned to another world except for me

• problem children are coming from another world, aren’t they?

• Overgeared

Twitter turning into Truth Social?

Is that safe? My knowledge of Columbia is limited to what I learned watching Narcos on Netflix. But it did not look like a medically advanced country.

I used the power of search engines. Looks like I’m the big cities, health care is quite adequate. Have a nice trip!

Dental work is often also not covered in the standard insurance in Germany. You either have to get an extra insurance, or you pay out of pocket, or you live with the condition (all serious things are covered, cosmetics often are not). But even then the cost is usually on the hundreds, sometimes in the thousands. 40,000 is more than the average person earns here 🙃