Housing issues and the second order effects from it is the most important issue in most developed economiss in my view.
The focus on just building as the solution is so limited. Redistribution of economic and cultural activity away from concentrated locations and a rethink of the credit environment around housing has to be a focal part of housing conversation. You can either have affordable housing or housing as an investment vehicle (store of wealth) but you can't have both.
The most wasteful thing about corporate working life now is the way its incentives push everyone into leadership roles as "progress", when they're many people who do not want it or, worse, are clearly not suitable for it. Less so a problem in tech but still there.
The thing about a lot of this is the implicit admittance that true power always lies with national government. It feels like many governments have forgotten that but (i suspect partly as a result of Covid, partly Trump's antics) some are slowly starting to remember that.
For all tech's influence, when push comes to shove they all line up to brown nose whoever is in power when they wield the power of the nation state
You'd think that by now we would stop attaching ideas around morality to corporate organisation. open ai isn't good or bad, anthropic isn't either. they function as a means to generate profit and get as much market share as legally allowed. Anthropic are going about this by pretending to be the good guys in the room but its all marketing and nothing else.
We've gone down this part so often and yet people still take it as face value. Mind boggling
Sam knows he can lean into the sports team dynamic to get people rooting for him. He certainly learned a thing or two from his time on HN, that's for sure.
Scratch the surface a little bit and it’s always comes down to housing/living costs.
More than enough work out there actually pays well in isolation to live a decent full life, it’s just relatively local housing costs it probably sucks.
And not just for young people. We’re fully in an environment where how good and flexible your life is is highly dependent on when you bought a home, or if you own a home.
I think it was the ft blog, alphaville, which did a series on everything in the economy now being fyre festival. That was years ago when fyre festival debacle first happened, but it really feels like we're at the zenith of that same idea at the moment.
yes, its continue to grow at as problem. Doesn't detract from the site as a whole, but there is more very very low value noise infiltrating in a way there hasnt been in the past - even in the relatively short time I've been here.
Yeah I think part of the limitations of these conversations is the constraints on how we look at time. The arbitrary boomers/gen x/millennial categorisation. When what seems to make more sense is big cultural societal changes. Which would fit into thinking of the history arc as 1920s > mid-1960s/1970s > 2000s
But this implicitly assumes everyone experiences the 2020s in the same way which is not true. Yes it's a shitshow for many people but for an a not insignificant proportion the 2020s are pretty great.
The focus on just building as the solution is so limited. Redistribution of economic and cultural activity away from concentrated locations and a rethink of the credit environment around housing has to be a focal part of housing conversation. You can either have affordable housing or housing as an investment vehicle (store of wealth) but you can't have both.
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