It seems machines will eventually out compete us in every way.

Doesn't that mean everyone will live on welfare since they can no longer trade their labor?

When merit is gone and the only way to get value is by owning machines, I imagine the political pressure would be enormous.

It's not possible to have a poll with 1 vote per account and also no required sat payment?

Me and many others didn't get the memo.

"You had the corndogs?"

C'mon, nobody would say that unless it was a skit.

Still very funny.

The point of the distinction is to clarify the problem, not to say it's easy to decouple top-down crony capitalism from a more bottom-up free market capitalism.

You can also ask the same question from the other direction:

How do you expect expanding/centralizing political power not to progress into crony capitalism?

There are ideas about what to do but it's a tough political problem.

There is too much disagreement, ambiguity, and complacency about legislation to hold crooked politicians and rent seeking firms accountable to the satisfaction of those that see a problem with it.

So the first step is to spread awareness of the distinction so there is enough political pressure to counter it.

I prefer F-droid apps. Amethyst is the only one I've seen on there. Haven't tried others. Seems nice to me so far.

Hola negr0. Mi espanol es muy mal. Nice to meet you!

Hello world

Wealthy insecure people with little substance do exist though.

They make the mistake of not prioritizing what is valuable to them personally and instead pursue what they think everyone else sees as valuable.

Then they seem to think that makes them important to other people, instead of just being a relatable good person.

I thought it was just me.