I was living with about 10k CAD/y for a few years when I was single and I was mostly fine.

Granted, this was in the 2010s. And of course I wasn’t in Manhattan, as you can guess by the currency.

Now, I’m making about 70k CAD with a family (sole provider) and I’m just staying afloat.

I reread the post replacing “pelican” with “politician”. I haven’t laughed this much in weeks. Thank you.

Emphasis on “heritage”.

They took over the Roman Empire. They had a pretty good claim.

This is a common question in economics.

It’s called technological unemploymemt and it’s a type of structural unemployment.

Economists generally believe that this is temporary. Workers will take new jobs that are now available or learn new skills to do so.

An example is how most of the population were farmers, before the agricultural revolution ans the industrial revolution. Efficiency improvements to agriculture happened, and now there’s like only about 1% of the population in agriculture. Yet, most people are not unemployed.

There was also a time in England when a large part of the population were coal miners. Same story.

Each economic and technological improvement expands the economy, which creates new jobs.

There’s been an argument by some, Ray Kurzweil if I remember correctly, but others as well, that we will eventually reach a point where humans are obsolete. There was a time when we used horses as the main mode of land transportation. Now, this is very marginal, and we use horses for a few other things, but really there’s not that much use for them. Not as much as before. The same might happen to humans. Machines might become better than humans, for everything.

Another problem that might be happening is that the rate of technological change might be too fast for society to adapt, leaving us with an ever larger structural unemployment.

One of the solution that has been suggested is providing a basic income to everyone, so that losing your job isn’t as much of a big problem, and would leave you time to find another job or learn a new skill to do so.

I often fantasize that one day I’d start my company and require that all resumes be submitted without a name on it.

If you get a new customer, you may get one for several years without adding any new effort.

Wow, that’s wild.

Are you saying you’ve seen stalls that did not have walls or doors?

Interesting.

Here in Québec, most towns and villages either have a native name, or saint’s name.

Once, as a teenager, I switched channels on the TV, and there was a movie. A caption appeared on screen: “Rhode Island”.

“Nice!” I thought. “I always like movies set in cultures that are very foreign to mine.”

As the movie went on, I was increasingly confused, as those Greeks, or Turks, seemed very similar to US Americans, and the setting appeared to be the USA. (It was dubbed in French, so I couldn’t tell from the language)

I soon figured that it must be a location in the USA named after an Old World location.

There’s Bandcamp, also, for discovery.

Many things. The biggest issue, I’d say, is the unability to create tables in Calc. This severely limits productivity.

And I use both OneNote and Xournal++, and the latter isn’t really a replacement to the former, save for a few features.