This[1] says humans make up 34% of mammal biomass, 64% is livestock, and 4% wild animals. Another stat[2] says we kill more than 63 billion chickens each year. I like my steak and fried chicken, but damn if it's not horrific. (Imagine if an alien race farmed and killed 60 billion humans, each year...)
I wonder how many wild animals would be killed and eaten yearly in a world without humans. Are those deaths horrific too?
Would the earth itself be a horrific hellhole given it would be sustaining billions of deaths, each year?
I have never understood this argument against animal farming. I'm all for humane treatment of livestock, but we can't fool ourselves into believing that the corresponding biomass in a completely "wild" earth would be having a better time, or a better death, than our cows and chickens.
> Open source development has been running on remote work forever and it’s doing great.
One bias is that most open source projects are people solving their own problems. They have a deep understanding of the issues at hand and the developers working on a product are also the one using it. This is also why the open source community produces a lot of developers oriented tools. It is also why a lot of remote companies are working themselves in for the tech sector.
Compare that with a company that produces software for other industries. The developers working on a product are not the one ultimately using it. One of their main challenges is to ensure that the problems/goals faced by the users are ultimately properly understood by the product teams and developers. This is far more complex and requires far more communication the further away the dev is from being an expert in the target field.
There is a difference between software development and running a business. As in, "hustle to figure out this complicated operational problem or die running out of money in a month", vs "a grab bag of nice-to-have tickets for the next year or so". Besides the fact that many open-source projects like Linux also had a ton of corporate contribution from in-office workers.
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not all strategies work for all brains unfortunately.
but the essence is this:
- untangle yourself from the claws of others' expectations
- imagine vividly someone you would feel proud to merge with in the near future
- distill that image into your very own crooked and muddy golden path
- act now and take control of your life
- periodically look back at the image you hold and course correct where your heart guides you