Doesn't matter what it is in principle.

It certainly is not feudalism.

Yeah, it's corporate-feudalism instead.

To expand, I believe the idea here is that what libertarianism is in principal matters less than what it collapses to in practice, similar to the difference in communism.

And there's a central tension that libertarianism, as far as I'm aware of, doesn't resolve in how to promote individual freedom across a highly economically unequal society.

Trusting those with all the capital to act in anything other than their own best interest doesn't seem a solid foundation.

In a true libertarian society, since it's small government, the government wouldn't help rich people stay rich. You could just declare yourself owner of Tesla, and nobody would stop you except the former owner of Tesla, if he can afford to stop you. Nobody believes in true libertarianism.

> You could just declare yourself owner of Tesla, and nobody would stop you except the former owner of Tesla, if he can afford to stop you.

Which they always could, given the vastly different economic starting positions.

If communism is whatever the USSR did, and feudalism is whatever medieval England did, I see no problem asserting that libertarianism is whatever the USA does.

Louder for the marxists in the back.

Not to mention their main competitor self-destructed twice in 1914 and 1939

You're overlooking the 19th century.

Germany did not self-destruct. It was destroyed by the Allied powers.

"Their main competitor" meaning western Europe. Not specifically Germany or the UK. So the point still stands.

Whatever growth US had in the 19 century, Europe self-destructing through WWI and WWII ensured US will be the lead in the 20th.

>Not every application of AI is "do the creativity for me."

However it can lead to AI "doing the creative for them" and them out of a job in the near future.

Sure, in the future everything will have a healthy piss-tint yellow shine. =3

If you dont know what you'll use a personal computer for, don't get one.

Either you're living the life in an analog way in some exotic beach or farm, in which case, great for you, or you're doomscrolling on your smartphone and making it hard for yourself using crap interfaces on a tiny screen and having no control of your digital life, in which case, suit yourself.

I can tell just from the title that this text is AI generated.

>I think the „my brain isn’t the same anymore“ sensation is pretty universal.

One would hope so, but there are countless people that believe this can't ever be the case, and it's just lack of personal motivation that's the problem.

Yes, this is a big issue. I really think these things are basically like cigarettes used to be when they were ubiquitous.

I'd have a hard time blaming someone in the 1930s for being addicted to cigarettes. Everyone constantly smoked everywhere and their harm was rumored, but not proven.

Try to quit smoking in that environment: the thing you're trying to get away from is inescapable and it's not even clear why you should quit. They might blame themselves for not being motivated enough.

We're in that exact environment for the things I describe above.

>> I think the „my brain isn’t the same anymore“ sensation is pretty universal.

Another pretty universal thing is that we compare to younger versions of ourselves. That might explain the gap.

If that was the case it would be a constant throughout history.

And often it's also just "compared to 5 or 10 years ago" not 20s vs 40s or 50s.

We know that the Mac has fine margins.

Windows dual boot meant millions of potential switchers, if not for anything else, as a list item to tell them "you could still dual boot".

Asahi-on-Mac would bring in irrelevant numbers for a company of Apple's size.

They could also dual boot windows for Arm. Just like before. Assuming Apple did the boot camp thing again

That would sure improve morale...

>I'm thinking less about shame, as corporations are dead to shame, and more about if you can prove the TV stored a record of your bank details it got from text to speech.

Then they'll get a joke fine, and continue as before. Maybe cut the price for a while, until they reintroduce it with another pretext a few years down the line.