Turns out this debate has been going on a long time. Maybe somebody knows other examples?

The Discourses on Salt and Iron (Chinese: 鹽鐵論; pinyin: Yán Tiě Lùn) was a debate held at the imperial court in 81 BCE on state policy during the Han dynasty in China. The previous emperor, Emperor Wu, had reversed the laissez-faire policies of his predecessors and imposed a wide variety of state interventions, such as creating monopolies on China's salt and iron enterprises, price stabilization schemes, and taxes on capital. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourses_on_Salt_and_Iron

Tax farming was originally a Roman practice whereby the burden of tax collection was reassigned by the Roman State to private individuals or groups..... The system was set up by Gaius Gracchus in 123 BC primarily to increase the efficiency of tax collection.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_farming#Roman_Empire

The actions of the publicani [tax-farmers] were fiercely criticised.... The degradation of the role of private contracting coincided with the beginning of the rule of the emperors, during which the oligarchic power of the Senate had to give way for the autocratic rule of the Caesars, and a more centralised public civil service system replaced private contractors in implementing the most important parts of public policy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publicani#History

I just read Chapter 17 of The Prince only, the famous "Is it better to be loved or feared" chapter

Pretty good, might read the rest now.

AI and social media are both shit and are both addictive.

But I think one reason for the AI-hate on social media is that the people who spend hours a day talking to chatbots and generating images, those people are not also spending hours a day on social media.

You pick up your phone for no reason. What do you open? What's your source of shitty low-quality conversation? If it's a chatbot it's probably not a forum, and as these addictions are deepen, the AI users stop voicing their opinions online because they're busy talking to 1s and 0s

Can any economic system can give all parties what they want?

http://nerdvpneaggggfdiurknszkbmhvjndks5z5k3g5yp4nhphflh3n3boad.onion/

Argentina

Morocco

England

Belgium

Switzerland

Norway

Spain

France

would he be owned?

Me when someone mentions them at the beach or something:

Huh, what are you talking about?

Tattoos? I don't have any tattoos.

Stop messing around.

What the fuck?! Are you serious? Tattoos on my back?!

Someone get me a mirror immediately!

What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck how did these get here!!??!?!

Belgium are dominating here, the USA have conceded three stupid goals and are falling apart