The correlation is weak and there's no causation. If anyone reading this is depressed, please talk to someone! Feeling better won't mean you're dumber.

What does the fox say?

The good news: if we heard tomorrow that astronomers had discovered an exoplanet with life, it would now sound plausible.

This is like defending early flying machines with flapping wings.

ITT: "Everyone downvoting this hilarious meme must be really mad!"

Assuming you don't just starve as a toddler.

If they actually matched up with the routes other people might take, I would do it. I'm always walking around downtown anyways, but I'm a relatively large poor-looking man so I never get hassled.

Difficulty adjustment minimizes profits (rewards - costs), not block rewards. The profit is the problem.

With all due respect, I have read quite a bit and was trying to inform you. We seem to agree on how landlords are parasitic, but not on how being a staker is essentially the same thing.

Yes, it takes some know-how, and they have to set it up, but at the end of the day, that cost is significantly less than the income the rent seeker receives. There is no mechanism to reduce their profits, especially not approaching zero.

In your hypothetical, you're paying the cost of bringing the painted house into production with your labor, not getting paid just for owning something.

A closer comparison would be landlords who claim "being a landlord is a job" because they pay themselves to paint the house (or other property management).

This is called the "Cantillon Effect".

All cops are extramarital offspring because they're sons of bitches and you can't marry a dog.

I'm happy to see this happen. For the last couple months, I've been telling internet people that rational insurers will do this instead of spreading the cost to all drivers. Economics still works!

Everybody who was vandalizing should now redouble their efforts, because the cost is internalized to Tesla owners.

Try to land on a Tesla

Counterpoint: Lex Luthor is awesome. He takes advantage of social structures that Superman can't punch. He fights Superman using everyone else as his shield. A true mustache-twirling villain.

Every time someone calls himself an "alpha", I think of Brave New World, in which the speaker would not be an alpha at all.

nor is any extreme ideology. Social direct democracy

Whoah hold it right there, that's democratic extremism! You're taking away all the representatives of bribery and extortion. Best to leave a few weak points, for balance.

communist leaders

Found the problem

Not our recent predecessors, they had communal social structures.

Economic rent is when the owner of a factor of production is paid more than the costs of bringing it into production. It doesn't imply literally zero skill/effort/risk.

I'm suggesting that it's better to set those profits on fire than it is to give them away below cost, just for owning something.