It’s one more data harvesting tool on their belt.

Sorry, I’m not going to give you private information.

I guess your experience is from the USA where democracy, labour laws, social systems and regulations are all pretty dysfunctional, and getting worse as half the voters keep supporting it going worse.

Consider a European social country where those are more functional, with reasonable work time, no mandatory overtime, public healthcare etc.

You are focusing on possible bad outcomes of being paid for something and ignoring the rest, such as motivation and earning money through where you are best at, so you can buy what you are not good at or not have time to produce yourself.

Working towards things that make money can also mean working towards things where there is a demand. It makes the economy more efficient when the offer tries to match the demand. That’s the point of having some freedom in a market instead of believing some political bureau can estimate it all from their ideological elite point of view. The trade off is that it requires proper regulation to prevent negative outcomes on people, which also not easy.

Too bad you’re not touching the mixed economy point because it’s a pretty good illustration about my point of the usefulness of some degree of free market and capitalism, since it comes from a country that calls itself socialist.

Competition can breed innovation but I think it needs enough regulation for fair competition to actually happen and to protect consumers against abuse. I think this regulation was progressively dismantled in the USA especially under the various right wing presidents, culminating with the current one.

The soft implication that people don’t want to develop technology to improve lives unless they’re getting paid is a really disturbing one.

It’s not the only motivation, but it’s a big help. Do you believe people would be able to work as much without other incentive than helping people?
As an example, I do volunteering, but there’s no way I would ever reach the same level of productivity as I do at my paid job.

It’s a bit hard to say anything against what yoir saying as well because you didn’t specify anything. What capitalist/free market policies, what countries?

China moved to a mixed economy system after the death of its ideologist.

The developing economy consists of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and mixed-ownership enterprises, as well as a large domestic private sector which contribute approximately 60% of the GDP, 80% of urban employment and 90% of new jobs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_China

Afaiu, social democracy accepts some amount of free market and capitalism for economical efficiency, and democratic socialism accepts it but for a transitional period?
That’s why I would say they are not the same as straight up Marxist revolution to seize the means of production. And I don’t think much people support that in this poll, but it does not seem to detail it to confirm.

Are you sure the growth of capitalism and the growth of technology are independent variables? Maybe they both contributed to each other and to people’s conditions as a byproduct when the growth was big enough. It also seems some socialist countries’ population have had some benefits from their country opening to a mixed economy with some free market and capitalism, instead of following strict socialist only policies.

Socialism, democratic socialism or social democracy? It’s quite different and the article does not seem to clarify if the poll ever mentioned that. I guess it is democratic socialism as promoted by the DSA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Socialists_of_America#Ideology_and_political_positions
If it explained the difference, I wonder what the polls would show of approval difference between the three.

What is your handle?

NHK World broadcasts in English. They have a lot of good content about Japanese culture.

It’s a Chioggia beet, mostly for cool decoration on a plate.

I don’t know why it reminds me of being bored and low energy as a kid and resorting to doing weird postures on the sofa to fill the emptiness.

One missing piece is that librarians are acting as curators of the data. Not anyone can come to the library, put books around, and game/pay the book finding process to make sure their books come first. Having human curators behind an internet search engine is not realistic.

It’s reusing the normal meaning of muse, which is a person that inspires an artist. So this artist used Facebook Muse to get her muses at the door so she can use them as inspiration for her painting.
It took me some time to get it, but I think it’s quite funny.

If you start feeling like bitting people, please consult a doctor.

The sense of shame you dropped as you expose his private life.

Idk if the question is serious, but for those who miss context, it is related to Facebook’s “AI” named Muse managing a market place sale, pretending to be the seller and giving the sellers address without his approval : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/28/metas-ai-agent-muse-home-address

Nov 09, 2010 WASHINGTON – NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50,000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the center of our galaxy. “What we see are two gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that extend 25,000 light-years north and south of the galactic center,” said Doug Finkbeiner, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who first recognized the feature. “We don’t fully understand their nature or origin.” https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasas-fermi-telescope-finds-giant-structure-in-our-galaxy/

before the internet there were still plenty of writers who “made it” despite being middle or lower class.

Are you sure this is statistically relevant? I would bet most of those writers had some kind of privilege, rich or/and educated parents.

Most of the internet will disappear as hard drives fail and websites become defunct.

If they are not destroyed, I think future archaeology could be able to recover it. We are also lucky to have some of the ancient texts we have, considering quality writing material was rare, recycled and lost in all kinds of fires, wars, and other disasters.

I liked the documentary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenfour

And as also said in the article, until massive public education developed during the 19th century, the vast majority of writings come from a tiny elite and its biases.
I guess the short internet era were everyone was writing about everything, before the bots took over, will have been a truly exceptionally wide coverage of people thoughts in writing form that may never happen again.