Mummy, there’s a weird person on the internet

I’ve used several distros over the years, and out of all of them, the only distro where I’ve faced zero intractible problems has been CachyOS.

“Everyone else is doing it” is not a good excuse.

Imagine a system that incentivises greed and self-interest, and which runs on competition.

Now run that simulation through your mind a few decades.

If it doesn’t end up with vastly fewer companies competing over vastly larger portions of the market, your simulation wasn’t set up accurately.

Yeah, no shit. But you don’t need to hear the news from a screen when it’s happening to you and those you know.

Seems like it was though. You directly mentioned screens designed to instil fear.

I genuinely think you might be right.

No, that’s a dirtgull. A landgull would be a kangaroo.

Maybe it’s not.

It doesn’t say being poor makes you smarter, just that it strongly incentivises you to smarten up, or else your life will be much harder

Stating that the paragraph exists doesn’t really convince me… are there any specific sentences you can point at, and explain why they imply that rich = stupid and poor = smart? Seems to me they’re just saying that they have the privilege to choose to be stupid, not that being rich means they are stupid.

What you described is the division of labour, which has nothing to do with what OP is talking about. Of course woodcutters, generally speaking, don’t need to know quantum mechanics; of course engineers aren’t generally well versed in military history, etc. But “people generally only know their chosen subjects in detail” isn’t groundbreaking, nor is it what OP said.

No correlation was mentioned

That’s not a privilege, that’s a punishment, whether they recognise it or not

What do you mean by that?

Depends what you mean by “us”

So, this is where it all went wrong. For some reason, you thought that “ignorant and insensitive” were being directed at your reply to my comment, and not to the comment I was originally responding to. Perhaps you forgot that my original comment was a reply to someone else? Either that or you’ve been trolling the whole time.

Also, this marks the moment where you change the subject away from whether that comment was insensitive (probably because you forgot about that comment, or wanted to pretend you had), and towards discussing whether OP made any demands, which was never an issue on my mind. Damn fine trolling work, I must say, keeping me distracted for so long.

Thanks I guess?

“Wanting to be offended” is a myth perpetuated by people who want to be offensive. Nobody “wants” to be offended. Offence is a genuine emotional reaction, is automatic, and is unpleasant. Cut that bullshit out.

Imagine messing up halfway through a terrible rape scene