Linus keeps being based, in the very Finnish based tradition of basedhood. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs

One of the worst non-obvious consequences that these policies have is that all these fake jobs that the public sector pretends to create, beside being unsustainable financially, detract from the pool of qualified labor of the private sector. It happens everywhere, but especially in places terminally sick of socialism like Western Europe. Many people prefer the cushy, entitlement-rich, not so badly paid, and almost permanently guaranteed jobs that the government gives to a possibly but uncertainly more financially ambitious job in the private sector. This in turn, causes an increased worsening of the real economy, which feeds back into a preference for the perceived safety of the public sector, and so on, in a loop of death. Finally, this may be more specific to Europe, but the vacuum left in the labor pool is inevitably felt, and the pressure from the surviving economic actors to try to patch it up becomes desperate. Anyone who has observed the last few decades of our history can say with a total degree of certainty that the current open border policies of unlimited, unchecked immigration were put in place by the center-of-right parties for economic reasons. The left joined the movement for its own reasons, but it was the right who started it. The problem with that view by the right-of-center supposedly pro-business parties is ironically the same that plagues the overtly socialist parties: the belief that they can simply plan the economy and that they can import whatever "human resources" they *can* and turn them into the ones they *need*. What has systematically happened is exactly the opposite: wherever mass importation of unskilled labor from third world countries has happened, it is the economy that has "adapted" to it, not the other way around. The role of the entrepreneur is to use what's there, because that's the efficient way to go about it. Of course there will always be a niche case for the "upgrading" of what's available, but that can never be the norm. So, import third world country labor, if you want to become a third world country yourself. View quoted note →

I've never understood statements like this one. Does that mean that when BTC dominance **inevitably** goes down during the next "altcoin season", BTC will be "sent to the dustbin" of "crypto" history? This is retarded and exactly equivalent to the mindset of people in crypto scams when they criticize BTC for whatever circumstantial stuff they come across "in the charts". BTC is a decades-long term phenomenon. It doesn't give a fuck about your stupid charts, in one sense or another. View quoted note →

Exactly this. These are the consequences of statism. You take autonomous citizens and turn them into permanently dependent minors who can't operate in freedom anymore. The only real solution is to take the medicine and brave through it. And the more you procrastinate, the worse it's going to taste. View quoted note →