Chat, remind me to make fun of this in 18 months
Polymarket@Polymarket
NEW: Microsoft AI chief predicts AI will automate most white-collar work within 18 months.
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JudgeJed
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JudgeJed
@TheRealJudgeJed
Catholic, Cajun, sworn enemy of materialism
Katılım Aralık 2019
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In a stable money society, the only thing a person needs to know is to spend less than he earns, and to save. Such a society is perfect for the middle class that just wants to build a home and continue the society.
And it’s better for interest rates to be moderately high, so he can earn bank interest - because the average person has no time or inclination to engage in stock and real estate speculation. Higher interest rates also mean house prices are lower - because they are a place to live and not a speculative investment.
The only people who win on low interest rates are sophisticated schemers who can borrow at zero and make wild investment bets. If they go bad they walk away or file for bankruptcy on the special purpose entity set up for the play. If they score - they take all the gains, and then go on TV and claim special knowledge to credulous CNBC hosts.
We are living in a casino capitalism society that works against middle class savers who just want to contribute to their community.
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This is mysterious if you look at man like an individual, the inheritor of all previous generations but the benefactor of none, a person born randomly behind a veil of ignorance to receive privilege as if he was waiting in a bread line.
But instead man is a link in a chain between past and future. To whom much is given, much is asked. Pay it forward not back. We are borrowing what we have, and we only take what we need to give more to those who come after us.
We might fail in this obligation, sometimes to no fault of our own. Power and wealth might be given to those who can’t properly wield it. Some redistribution might be necessary therefore to be just.
However, that redistribution must be undertaken for the ultimate stewardship of the people and their relationship with God.
Po the Person@PoThePerson
I think about this a lot. My ancestors toiled every day of their lives to raise children in poverty, and they each contributed in their own way to the infrastructure and culture that I now live in. Though I didn't contribute to it myself, my ancestors did contribute, and they did it FOR ME and my the rest of my line.
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The largest suburban Novus Ordo megaparish in Texas got rid of its projector screen and put in a high altar
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“There is no French culture” was weird when Macron said it, and “there is no common American culture” is also weird when a SCOTUS justice says it
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This is just objectively evil
ProPublica@propublica
The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate. It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. propublica.org/article/flex-l…
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Eagerly awaiting the call for Butlerian Jihad
Catholic Arena@CatholicArena
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical is set to be released on May 15th This is the same date that Pope Leo XIII's famous Rerum Novarum was released in 1891 [KNA News Agency]
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Yeah…
It looks just as bad as we thought
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
Matt Damon as Odysseus in Christopher Nolan's ‘THE ODYSSEY’. “No one can stand between me and home - not even the Gods.”
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When was the last time you did a corporal work of mercy anon?
Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex
Practical assistance offered to the disadvantaged allows them to experience God’s love, and opens a path for them to enter into a lasting relationship with God. At the same time, it enables us to come into contact with the flesh of Christ by seeking to see and serve Him in our brothers and sisters (cf. Mt 25:31-46). In this way, our works of charity become a mutual encounter with the Lord who is present among us.
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Ancient book frontispiece (1496) with five Latin proverbs you should remember:
1. Hominēs et arborēs a frūctibus cognōscuntur — “Men and trees are known by their fruits.”
2. Per Deum omnia facta sunt, et sine Ipsō nihil factum — “Through God, all things were made, and without Him, nothing was made.”
3. Rēs cognōscuntur per terminōs — “Things are known by their limits.”
4. Vīs amārī, amā — “If you want to be loved, love.”
5. Porrige porrigentī — “Give to the one who gives.”
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Perhaps I wouldn’t be so violently anti-AI if we weren’t fed statements like this every other day
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
Elon Musk has said: "AI/Robotics will mean everyone can have a penthouse if they want. The output of goods & services will be several orders of magnitude higher than today’s economy."
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