Common forms of “society doesn’t understand or value the people who actually get shit done”.

It would be cool if I could have a construct of my dead relatives consciousness in my personal computer.

The problem is psychopaths are driven to leadership and they’re not actually good at anything.

Basically their ego tells them that they’re pareto people when they’re really not and society can’t tell the difference. Mostly they just steal labor. And they’re too stupid and insecure to identify and empower the most efficient people.

I think the root of the problem is a pathological need for social control. Excessive wealth accumulation, sexism, racism.

The piece of information that makes me choose not to engage in this behavior is understanding the value of my own life and by extension the lives of others.

Psychology doesn’t consider a lot of this a mental illness because the behavior confers benefits to the person performing them. But if I assume abusing women online is irrational.

Then this is a child development problem.

2026 is all about cat grooming videos.

Homeless people cost tax payers between 30-50 thousand dollars a year. Housing the homeless is likely fiscally conservative.

This means the incentive structure in our society is wrong. People who lack the creativity to solve novel problems resort to psychopathy to to be productive in the economy. Military industrial complex, private prisons, judge judy.

I look at the problem first and then the second order effects. Otherwise you end up constrained by what other people think. People are irrational and the question is.

As a citizen what do I think property ownership in america should look like and where should the incentives be.

If you can get people to engage with that idea. Then they can think for themselves and there’s less room for people to put ideas in their head.

I think we need to look at housing as a technology to spread as opposed to an investment to horde. Then do the same thing with utilities.

Tons of reasons not to do it but it makes society less dependent on employment.

I think the real hole in the market is a simple device that could replace the remote control.