Kindness is Punk

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Cake day: May 21st, 2025

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  • The modern media is complicit in the situation we find ourselves in. It’s an issue of perverse incentives.

    If they need to finance their operation as most that aren’t publically funded do, then they need to attract as many eyeballs as possible for ads or parrot the words of wealthy benefactors.

    You can rationalize this as saying that you can tow the line where you need and then shout the truth when you are able but it doesn’t work out like that, the actual news peices will simply be drowned out.

    It becomes a numbers game, a very effective tool for human psychology, it can sway public narrative via issues like the illusory truth effect. We need publically funded independent media, which is why those who which to distort the truth hate the idea.


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    15 days ago

    Doesn’t China have an issue with 65 million of their homes sitting empty which belong to people with no intention to ever move in?

    It’s my understanding that owning a home in China is seen as social leverage so people buy homes that don’t even benefit their lives.

    This isn’t too be a pessimist, I do think China’s rising middle class is much better off than it has ever been. I just don’t idealize their housing.




  • You’re right, The problem is misaligned incentives created by a system that’s prioritizing for a select few rather than maximizing the production of the system and ensuring a certain minimum level of subsistence for people.

    I guess the answer is we need to change the incentives and I really only believe that can be done on a policy level.