“I don’t want AI to replace artists and writers” is a humanist sentiment but “I don’t want robots to replace delivery drivers” just comes across as regressive to me.

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Atop a methane seep from the Cretaceous seafloor, looking out at other methane seeps, made of clams and tube worms 75 million years ago at the bottom of the Western Interior Seaway

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i can reframe it as a fixed asset if that asset is "seats at relevant universities" but this seems sort of cute. idk. i don't think being a fixed asset is necessary here; the enforced scarcity is

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Rent in economic terms is return on assets, tangible or otherwise, and assets and labor are not the same thing. Protecting return on labor is actually important to a functioning society in many cases

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Rent seeking is harmful to society in many circumstances but the domain of rent seeking includes hating your own falling wages in return for the same labor, and is that really rent at all? I think it is meaningfully different.

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