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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 19
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      Interesting to see that since 1975, wages have essentially not budged, while inflation-adjusted housing prices have increased more than 50%. Housing + education + healthcare all cost far more, in real terms, than 40+ years ago; Instagram & Netflix isn't a substitute. https://twitter.com/ProfDBernstein/status/1218930058460614657 …pic.twitter.com/3Gme14F8WN

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    2. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 19
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      Overall I'm very sympathetic to the notion that there has been incredible progress since (say) 1975, and that the state of both the US and the world is in many ways much better. But things like the wage/housing gap are a genuine problem.

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 19
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      Replying to @michael_nielsen

      In the 60s-90s, necessities were cheap and luxuries were expensive; now it’s the other way around. One consequence is that it’s much harder to be a creative dropout, and (at a larger scale) to create subcultures/subsocieties.

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    4. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 19
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      It's selfish, but when I hear the question "Where are the new Florence/Viennas?" and I think "Well, every super-productive culture I know was founded on large, weird, artsy creative subcultures. And we're killing those."

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    5. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 19
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      (Sometimes frustrated by this in SF, with people's focus on impact and efficiency. They forget that Socrates was a guy who lounged about arguing with his friends over what lots of people no doubt thought were trivia.)

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 19
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      You’ve heard this a million times, but SF used to be, famously, the place were weird artsy people congregated to hang out and talk about weird stuff no one else cared about, and thereby repeatedly reinvented Western Civ.

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      Replying to @Meaningness @michael_nielsen

      That was still very true in the 80s when I was first there, and somewhat true in the 90s. Maybe even a little bit true now!

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        2. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 19
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          It's certainly still a little true, and more true here than maybe anywhere else I've ever lived; there are plenty of interesting weird scenes. But efficiency really seems to be a culture-killer.

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        3. Charlie Awbery‏ @_awbery_ Jan 19
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          Increasingly, efficiency seems to be confused with competence. The assumption is efficiency == competence. But efficiency is output oriented, competence more process concerned. Maybe scaled, tightly measured outcomes are replacing the more creative ones?

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