kubielid's comments

Thanks for taking the time to write a more nuanced take; especially in the face of my snark.

I addressed this elsewhere in this thread, but my comment was addressing the people who do suffer from these issues.

You are lucky you have the privilege you do. You are unencumbered by these basic needs, and so will have to look harder at finding solutions to your problem with loneliness. Maybe therapy? You, again, have the rare combination of both the time and money to be able to try that.

But you are likely in a <1% of the population category, and hey, sometimes things written on the internet are meant for people other than ourselves.

Like the other 99% of everyone.

I do hope you find your tribe again.

> It's not money, its proximity.

If that’s the case then how do you solve the proximity problem when you have $0 and 0 free time?

Honestly this thread is chock full of: “I’m rich and still lonely!” people who are so far off the mark on rationalizing my suggestion that I feel a need to amend my gp:

“pay people more, work them less, and learn how to have empathy for other people”

> decrease in productivity

Citation needed.

Aside from despising the “productivity” defense, the 4 day work weeks has shown to increase “productivity“.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-four-day-workwe...

I read it as a joke, fellow MIDI enthusiast.

Sounds like a really cool project. Any links to the exhibit?

Unsure if this comment was a refutation of my own or just a fun cherry on top anecdote, but in case I was unclear I was trying to say that “I completely agree with the shorthand of calling midi ‘paint’, AND here’s a cool use case that I think is fundamental to the technology but rarely held up as a benefit of said technology, namely archiving and assisted transcription of musical composition.”

> Midi being an “artist” tool places it more as a medium like paint.

I’ve used MIDI “as paint”.

Written music using code to MIDI(1), and wrote “cross instrument” music, ie using my keyboard as drum machine.

But these days MIDI is chiefly an archival method for me.

Every time I touch my keyboard is recorded, is much smaller than a comparable audio recording, by design “forced fidelity” in the recording, the music is “searchable”, and I am able to pipe the MIDI format through transcription software (which would be near impossible from an audio recording today).

(1) http://overtone.github.io/

Absolutely love the book “Learn Physics with Functional Programming”.

Uses Haskell, and teaches it so knowing Haskell is an unnecessary prerequisite, though familiarity with programming in general would be very beneficial, and focuses on 2D and 3D visualisation.

I joked at an estate sale once that everyone has 3 bookshelves: the books they read, the books they want to read, and the books they want other people to think they read.

> Why pay more though?

Why indeed? Your bosses must love you defending your own mistreatment. You should put this quote on your CV.

> you can always work less.

Do you honestly think you can tell that to a person struggling financially while working 3 jobs?

> most of the well off people I know are a lot more lonely.

In a society of such aggressive wealth disparity as ours, a result of underpaying and overworking the majority of the population, a lot of wealthy people self isolate, and become lonely, because they had to harm others to get that wealth or are afraid the poors will try to take it from them.

Do those wealthy people somehow deserve my sympathy, or the focus of the efforts of this scientific inquiry, more than the people working multiple jobs yet are unable to ever retire?

Okay, if we take your comment as the “full truth” then you have successfully identified the cause of your loneliness so the solution for you, specifically you, would be to give your money away.

Then “interacting” would be a requirement again.

Perhaps for you. Do you believe this as an American statistic, or global one?

What evidence ca you provide?

I feel like all of the articles I read about comparing work across time say people worked less before industrialization; although I think it’s a silly thing to compare and more of a thought experiment.

Either way what relief does your position provide, even if correct, to the many underpaid and overworked people living in your city?

How does your opinion fit into the current uptick in people having to work multiple jobs, and people saying they will be unable to ever retire.

How so?

Also, orthogonal lines share a common point of intersection.

> You must be on to something lol.

Only the orange site would get angry at someone suggesting they should be paid more and have more free time to pursue their interests.

Where’d you come up with 30 years? Just a feeling?

Perhaps you’re feeling the transition in increased disparity between minimum wage and cost of living that occurred ~30 years ago?

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/21/politics/minimum-wage-inflati...

I’m sorry but this is simply wrong.

You think financial pressure has zero bearing on your mental health?

What bearing does your mental health have on your capacity to form and nurture relationships?

If you read the article then you’d know the org has been given 5M euro and so far has come up with:

> strategies such as joining clubs or pursuing hobbies

You’ll need spare cash and spare time for those solutions.

I can tell you how without science.

Pay people more, work them less.