Mirshe

First off, nowhere in your rant does it ever state that it's about middle-class people or whatever. Is it true that a lot of people have a lot of things they could do without? Yes. Will we have to make changes in order to combat climate change? Yes. But this scans a lot more like "nobody should own things or create or engage with media because minimalism is more environmentally friendly" - which is partially true, but is also a common right-wing canard ("you shouldn't own anything if you're REALLY serious about saving the planet", etc).

Pretty much this. You're effectively halfways to stumping for sumptuary laws because "poor people don't deserve to enjoy anything in life until they're not poor.*

Much easier to say when you're not the one invested with massive power, and often massive wealth too. There's a reason the saying goes that power corrupts.

Prosecutors and state governments love executing people because they keep claiming it "deters crime". It also looks fantastic on your resume to a certain stripe of voters when you can yell "I helped get rid of XX amount of DANGEROUS CRIMINALS".

You also want to kill anyone who you've already decided to kill, because otherwise they tend to have a habit of being exonerated. It's awful embarrassing to have to say "yes we framed a dozen murders on this guy who didn't do anything but steal a bike" or whatever.

For doctorates, sometimes. For Master's students, the answer is usually no.

Actually, they do this so helmspeople pay attention to the sign and the speed limit. Saying "5" makes people think they can squeeze up to 7-8, etc. That little extra speed might mean something in a busy boating or shipping lane.

Depends on the debt, too. The feds changed things a few years ago so federal student loan debt can't be discharged in death.

This depends on whether actual programmers are involved in the hiring process. If it's just HR, nobody involved in that is going to know what an open source project is, why they should care, or whether it matches what's on the job listing.

Designs should've never progressed past the F-104. Change my mind.

Yeah, a situation like this can easily wind up where even if you're asking for consent on every little thing, and making them know they can say no, there's no real way to KNOW certainly whether or not they're actually consenting eagerly, or just think that saying no isn't allowed or whatever. They might even justify it in their heads that "I signed this contract" or "I've got nowhere to go" or whatever.

This is the real issue. Their values systems are broken because you can literally do ANYTHING with that much money. Wanna become a world class athlete? So long as you're choosy with your definitions of both world class and athlete, you can hire people to teach you, hire chefs and nutritionists and doctors to plan every single thing that goes into you to make you good at your Thing.

Money is truly a superpower, but that superpower is reality warping. After you've created your fourth harem and played poker with Einstein, metaphorically speaking, what else could you want to do? It's part of why all these guys believe in some sort of apocalypse, space travel, AI God, or metaphysics - with money alone, they can basically shape their entire world to their whim, so you want something that you're still nominally able to ride out, but that will radically alter your reality so there's SOMETHING new you can experience.

Like I said in another thread, this is going to be a black hole where you toss unwanted trans kids, to either rot and die, or get trafficked, or both.