Other comments said they fed 2d aerial imagery into transformer and thats it.

I figured it would be more honestly

Half of humanity is a lot of people though.

A lot of people own nothing or are in net debt though and all of those would get included in the bottom 50%.

Plus there is a strong "property of how you measure wealth" effect going into this. Specifically here we are largely comparing stuff like basic items as wealth for the bottom 50% and for the top 0.01% we are measuring stocks/crypto owned * market price which is a synthetic measure and can sort of balloon arbitrarily.

It would be more interesting to see things like the inequality of true apples to apples things like vehicles, land owned, fuel used, electricity used, etc.

An interesting apples to apples one is to see how inequal views on social media are. Which have a massive concentration effect as well.

Then you could measure how much we are funneling resources and attention on different categories.

Of course individual parents have the power to do something. Take the phone when they go to school. Problem solved.

I agree but this sounds harder than it is. Not every parent is an expert in arguing against these actors that have very deep pockets.

You don’t need to argue to anyone you can do what you want and lay down whatever law you want.

I know HN users often fantasize about being the hardass parent who puts their foot down, but this obviously isn't something that scales to solve a population wide issue. Coordination between the government, tech companies, and parents is going to solve this a million times better than just telling individual parents to deal with it.

Ok that's been tried and didn't work. So clearly something new needs to be tried.

How does it not work? The phone is in your pocket and not your kids during the school day.

It hasn't worked because basically every kid today is on social media despite a decade of information about it's harms. Getting over a million kids off tiktok is going to take coordination between the government, tech companies, and parents. Not just berating parents for not winning the war against big tech.

Interesting mental gymnastics here - under no circumstances should kids have no phones, and of course we talk about full smart phones. Everybody should do their best to make it as child-friendly as possible (which goes against primary incentives of every involved corporation giving you that free software to use) because... it would be nice? It would be appropriate?

In ideal world those are all good expectations. In actual ugly world out there, seemingly getting uglier each day, its dangerously naive. We talk about children dammit, its first and foremost responsibility of parents to keep them safe from all serious harm. You want to have contact? Give them dumb Nokia and they can never use an excuse it ran out of battery, and if lost it will be cheap to replace.

Or whatever else, but don't give them full access to whole internet and then be surprised when they go straight to its ugliest and most addiction-forming parts. They face peer-pressure? Tough one, but having some mental resiliency already during teens is great for rest of life, and maybe the shallowest and most pathetic of peers aren't the best crowd to hang with anyway. And its not like any actual popularity is gained, just blending in a faceless crowd.

Wagons can do all of that too

They can, the main difference being they ride lower (like a sedan) and tend to have less headroom in the cargo area so might not be quite as good at transporting "stuff."

I had a Ford Focus wagon for quite some time, loved it. Cheap to buy, cheap to own, nothing exciting but very dependable and useful. With a small 4-cylinder engine it could not tow (at least not much) and rust eventually claimed it. Still ran like new with over 200K miles.

You can get this lack of brake pad use with an ice with a manual transmission as well if you engine brake.

the engine cannot brake to a complete stop, so break pads are always in use. At low RPMs, the engine is going to stall (manual) or switch to neutral (automatic).

Brake wear scales ~quadratically with vehicle speed. Applying them at 5mph vs 20mph is 16x less energy to burn off.

It can brake to nearly a complete stop though with the brakes basically holding the car in place at the end. I got pretty good at it.

That would be Fanny Price

Didn't you read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?

Funny you think they are the only tech firm willing to engage with the DOD.

i think there are internationally recognized lawful terminology that several institutions and countries recognize that permit the use of "act of war" and "terrorism". but at any given time a country _does_ act of war/terrorism, they likely would deny claims of terrorism if it was recognized as terrorism by said institutions.

It doesn’t really harm people. Housing crisis cities with rent controls are built out to the limits of their zoning. This suggests zoning is the limiting factor and not rent control.

Predictable cap on rent increases is rent control as it is termed in the US. It is really rent stabilization not rent control.