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Scale Ruins Everything

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175 points drc500free | 5 comments | 14 Oct 24 17:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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CM30 ◴[14 Oct 24 20:17 UTC] No.41841466[source]▶
To be honest, you could say this about capitalism in general. Everything has to be huge no matter what industry it's in or what the product is, just because shareholders demand that impossible infinite growth.
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vladms ◴[14 Oct 24 21:34 UTC] No.41842277[source]▶
Human nature in most big culture seems to be trained to demand more (even if not always money). If there was any group of people that were "content with what they had", they were outpaced in development by the ones that "want more" so there will be minor (or inexistent) now.

I do wonder if there is any smart solution to this issue.

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1. begueradj ◴[15 Oct 24 10:38 UTC] No.41847127[source]▶
Good observation.

The answer is at the beginning of your statement: "human nature".

In plain English: there's no solution to that.

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2. hackable_sand ◴[15 Oct 24 12:18 UTC] No.41847781[source]▶
Bad observation.

Stop projecting, you two.

Just because you want to take take take from others doesn't mean everyone else is.

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3. alanbernstein ◴[15 Oct 24 13:34 UTC] No.41848438[source]▶
Your comment is quite confusing.

The observation is that the "take take take" behavior arises out of a sort of survival-of-the-fittest mechanism. Both preceding comments seem to lament this, rather than relate to it.

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4. hackable_sand ◴[16 Oct 24 04:00 UTC] No.41855470{3}[source]▶
Right.

The gp made something up, the second comment affirmed it

I'm calling bs

Because I am human and they are lying on my humanity

Y'all are welcome to disagree with me on it

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5. vladms ◴[16 Oct 24 17:31 UTC] No.41861585{4}[source]▶
It's not about you. It's about another "type" of human. One that wants more. Maybe you don't (good for you, probably you are happier!). But the problem is you will need to "fight" against the other "type". What do you (personally) do then to prevent the other "type" grabbing more? Whatever other people like you tried during history (hundreds of years ago) seems not to have worked (the grabbing types are still grabbing in all culture I have sufficient knowledge of to comment on).