Yep, and cloning technology is getting ever closer to making identical genetic copies of an actual person, so it won't be too long in the grand scheme of things before you can in fact kill a person and restart them from birth on identical hardware with only the training data being different.
Mnemnosyne
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Yeah, prosecutorial and police discretion on what to arrest and prosecute is actually the very source of much discrimination. Making it so all crimes must be prosecuted is actually a good thing I think, because it would eliminate that discrimination where some people slide while others are harshly punished.
Having so many laws that you cannot follow them all, but it's not a problem because they're not enforced is a problem! It means that the government can come after anyone at any time. Forcing all breaches of law to be prosecuted to the full extent without being able to set priorities would thus require the removal of many laws, which would be good.
But as OP points out, someone will get that kidney eventually anyway. So the difference is that a different someone else gets to continue existing.
Profit is older than capitalism; capitalism is a particularly egregious form of it, but it is profit itself - intentional inefficiency in the conversion of resources to usable product, for the purpose of benefiting those creating the inefficiency that I refer to.
In theory, something very close to capitalism could exist without profit - with everyone getting back only a fair and appropriate compensation for their part in the process. It's the 'put in a little and get back infinite returns ' part that makes capitalism specifically a problem.
"Without challenge there is nothing, and in nothing there is only gloom. In such a state, the difference between absolute power and absolute powerlessness is undetectable."
Profit.
In the ideal situation, resources are transformed into goods with zero waste and with fair compensation for every person involved in that process. Any expense outside of costs and pay for the people involved is either inevitable inefficiency due to our imperfect technology or the laws of physics, or it is some sort of scam, and thus profit itself is a scam.
Uhh, how does a 50k fine that doubles each day come out to 350k?
Day 1: 50,000. Day 2: 100,000. Day 3: 200,000. Day 4: 400,000...
We skipped right over 350...
Interesting thing is they could do this smartly. You buy a refrigerator, and Amazon could keep track of average replacement age of that product, then about the time it's due to be replaced, start sending you ads for another. That is when they would be useful.
Instead we get ads for the thing we just bought and I don't understand why this practice continues. It can't actually result in higher profits...right?
It seems like some people are finally starting to wise up to the fact that work begins not when you arrive at the workplace, but the moment you stop doing what you want to do and start doing what you have to do in order to perform the job. That means it starts before you walk out the door, as soon as you start 'getting ready for work'.
The simplest metric is this: would you be doing it if you were on vacation/weren't working? If yes, then it's not work. If no, then it's work.
I've felt after learning this sort of thing, that no matter what bad may have happened, the world owes the British Empire a great debt of gratitude for spreading the language globally.
Without a global empire spreading a single language to every corner of the world, pretty much all the modern tools of communication would still be much more limited because we'd be a bunch of little enclaves of various languages instead of having a commonly understood one to communicate with.
A lot of the music from Sailor Moon.
And one of the few good things from the DiC dub of the series was the music.
Call My Name and I'll Be There
Also some of the music from Ranma 1/2.
I've never been one to listen to that much music that's made for music; sometimes I'll catch something and like it, but mostly I run into music I like as part of other media I consume, so yeah, this kinda has made up the majority of the music I listen to. And since I used to watch a lot of anime (don't quite have enough time to keep up lately) a lot of my favorite songs are in Japanese and I don't understand any of it but I can sing along to several of them.
I swear it seems like some of these harebrained schemes must be being created by people who want solar to fail so that they can point at the failure when the dumb idea doesn't work.