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if fun is a problem then I don’t want it fixed

gambling is fun

the vast majority of lawyers, doctors, and farmer owners have a net worth above a million even

multi generational wealth is the only way to have any fun though

people with mental illnesses are better than those without

that would kill lotteries

the data cost (fuck rural ISPs, but not enough for me to get musklink) is higher to me than the energy cost

consider: the website doesn’t care how much energy the users use

what kind of dishwasher takes less than 2 kilos of force to open?

nvim

curious what you are planning on using it for

turn on fan to exhaust fumes

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I never said risk creates value, I mentioned that removal of risk creates value. profit is the only way I’m aware of that let’s me amass a horde of anything of value as such any system that doesn’t allow profit is a failure.

risk is economically relevant, a 10% chance of $100 dollars or a 100% chance of $10 do not have the same use-value to everyone. Why not instead just force companies to pay asymptoticly more taxes for profit?

preventing people from being able to take large (few tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars) risks in hopes of refinulous profit (trillions in profits from not needing as many workers)

that theory seems fundamentally flawed as it would only work in the long term and makes no accommodations for the short term with technological innovation we live in now

it provides short term capital to purchase tools to make more goods, such as a loan to get a tractor so you can harvest/plant hundreds of times more crops as you would by hand. the interest is (in theory) covering the risk of default. also entertainment is the justification for child actors and artists existing.

Theoretically loans are just a form of gambling on individuals repaying the principle (or on making more off whatever you needed the loan for than the cost + interest) and the interest is just an obtuse way of giving the house an edge. Therefore similar to gambling I believe it provides entertainment value, which is rarely calculated accurately.