Yah, it's not smart.
This idea only comes from people who have never seen what this is like or how it works.
I've done this kind of work, as a direct care staff helping the disabled.
People with disabilities aren't doing normal productive jobs that anyone else would do. They are being paid $1.5/hour to stuff gift bags for kids birthday parties, and the like. And they have direct care staff earning $15 to $20/hour, working right next to them to help out and keep things safe.
These laws sound good. (Accept the carve out for prisoners, not sure what's up with that) But they won't do anything for the disabled, beyond forcing them out of somewhat normal life routine. These jobs aren't productive work. They're a mental health treatment, simulating a job.
Not being sure was part of my point. We can't be sure. But all their incentives are aligned in the right way. That's the best we can hope for. And better than any alternative right now.
You can't have? Or you can't be sure?
Because you certainly can have. Just because you pay, doesn't mean they will log your searches. In fact Kagi claim they don't. And since their only income comes from paying users. If anyone ever found out they're lying about that, they'd quickly loose a big chink of subscribers and income. As well as get sued for fraud. So it's rather unlikely they do.
Unlike every other search provider, Kagi is the only one with a business model that ensures it's users are the customer, not the product. When actually using it every day, that's quite obvious in the results. Even when you search for a company directly, it's Wikipedia entry is usually the first result. The the company site is the second.
Yes that's correct.
All has posts from all the communities the members on that instance subscribe to.
Those are very big questions. This Wikipedia Page is a good place to start.
The simple answer is, everything humanity does happens in cycles.
But you can think of it as roller-coaster passing through an infinite series of loops. We keep going forward in the long run. But but the repeating loops take us up and down, even upside down and backwards along the way. In every case, coming down each loop gives us the momentum to reach the next one.
Cowboys and Aliens doesn't have any superheros.
And you're wrong. It's perfect.
It works in cycles.
The last Guilded Age (think Roaring 20s) ended with the great depression. Which then triggered the creation of all the great economic policies the boomers enjoyed as children, which they've been dismantling since the 70s.
Once things get bad enough, (very nearly there now) the cycle will repeat.
The worse system is the blowing up. When things get bad enough, people will revolt to build a better system. The Jan 6th protesters imagined that's what they were doing. But they were deluded or dumb or both. We're not there yet. I hope we can avoid it.