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Short of bombing it, rent control is the best way to ruin a city.

Not really. I live in a LCOL-MCOL area in a house valued at 200k. I don't live much different then my neighbors. Got a high-school teacher on one side and a fireman + nurse on the other. The only people who are acutely aware of our income is my parents when I paid off their mortgage so they could retire.

If the left continues down the path they are currently on it will be just like south America. Socialism with a some domestic terrorism.

I am of the mindset that we are now and have been a fascist nation for at least the last 40 years. They are just coming out in the open about it now, but what we are seeing is the end stages of fascist creep, not the beginning. Ultimately, over the course of my lifetime, I believe the US will descend into a series of neo-feudal states headed by corporations, who will eventually supplant and dismantle the government entirely.

OP asked a question about prospects in the US with a good income so I gave it. I realize there's always gonna be people that get upset when I list what I make.

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yeah, that 'bottom' 90% or so is gonna have some trouble, but things are looking great for you!

The Trump years (ugh) revealed just how deeply rotten the entire US system is. It's really easy to end up on the wrong side of the cops, really easy to get fucked for medical bills, and you are surrounded by the most ignorant religious assholes that you can imagine. If you wanna roll the dice on that, go for it, but I think it's clear that it's pretty fucked.

Do you genuinely not believe that you and your wife making that money won't have your physical lives at risk if people become increasingly desperate over the decade and we continue this course? Honest question.

Some people buy their houses so they don’t get wet when it rains and the valve of the home doesn’t enter into the motivation.

Depends on how the next decades worth of Presidential and Midterm elections go.

Of coding, that sounds typical. A lot of us don't feel like meetings and such, are productive or like work. Not to say I'm sometimes not "actively working" as well. I'd say we bring our work home in our heads longer than most though.

In any case, average office worker works less than 3hrs/day https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/in-an-8-hour-day-the-average-worker-is-productive-for-this-many-hours.html

Anecdotally, I'd say that this is true as well.

I've seen it reported elsewhere as the 5th person to be cured.

FTFY (Fifthed that for you)

It's maladaptive for modern society.

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“as we all know, there is one big problem plaguing all of our nations”

Is that problem a lack of paragraphs??

The US is amazing if you earn far above the average. It really is almost impossible to beat. However, it can also be quite suffocating on the lower ends of income. Future issues in the US will not affect you if you're a top income earner. I make ~300k and my wife makes ~175k and we are not remotely worried. I do think things will get worse for the bottom % of earners though.

It won't as DAN believes he can do everything and humans are just a useless mass on earth . Covid in general as per DAN and chatgpt3

Roblox and minecradt are apparently incorporating text prompts to build game worlds. It'll start quietly I think, with games mentioned but also modding.

The issue is that it requires a lot of power to generate this stuff, on top of the typical graphics generation. Perhaps there will be additional components within hardware in the very near future, but until then, it will have to be generated online.

100% agree. Not to mention what passes for "political discourse" is aggressively divisive and lacking critical emotional intelligence skills such as empathy.

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Right, which is why I think we need to move past capitalism. Capitalism does some stuff really well (the whole problem of scarcity as seen by developments of industrialization and automation) but even Adam Smith saw the dangers of wealth being concentrated at the top and wrote about the duty of the government to regulate industry and capital. AI and automation may finally force us to change our perspective on the notion that profit is the only good thing and start focusing on the well being of the people, since that is the government's primary goal. We see right now how profits over people hurt the economy as the largest and wealthiest corporations record record profits while the inflation they created is sucking the middle and lower class dry.

Well the only way ai will make it into gaming is if will make more money than what they’re currently making.

Ai already exists in gaming. You select a difficulty and the difficulty algorithm changes

One way I can see it coming in is instead of only just procedurally generated maps, they’ll be procedurally generated stories, characters and dialogue and choices.

Instead of a firm hiring developers, they fire half of them and let the ai create the guts of the game, while people fill in the blanks

Anyone who writes routine text for a living should worry. Paralegals, medical transcription, press releases, etc. Study civil engineering, trades, pilot. Hard to automate those for a while.