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I want a lot of things that I can’t have. They can want it, but the system doesn’t have to allow it or can discourage it.

I don’t know in what context this parable is used in the book, but this does not explain the need for growth in reality. It does not even show why you would need growth in the parable. No matter how many chickens or how much wheat the village produces, there still wouldn’t be more tokens.

Well, partially maybe. In the past, investors were happy with dividends instead of growth. There are extra factors making growth be preferable over dividends nowdays.

I think your are confusing company growth and prices growing, mixing them together.

no. You can pay interest out of your profits without growing. And many businesses don’t have significant loans.

There are many answers to this.

First, this is not a general capitalism thing. It is more the specific flavor we have. Second, it is not an absolute rule, there are companies that don’t focus on growth, but it is rare amongst massive companies.

The original idea of capital investment is that when you need investment for your company (e.g. to buy better machines, expand production, etc.) you let people invest (by buying shares) and then give them a portion of the profits gained from that investment (in the form of dividends).

However, most companies have figured out that if they don’t pay dividends but re-invest the money, shareholders are still happy because their shares get more valuable as the company grows and they get to grow the company, which is good for CEO paychecks and lot of other things.

There are things like economies of scale (if you produce million units of something per year, it is almost always cheaper per unit than if you produce ten per year). So if you don’t grow, your competitor that does grow could sell cheaper than you and put you out of business.

And a lot more.

Care to elaborate?

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Little known fact, the original of the book God claimed to write sold so little it disappeared from history. There is no copy left, we don’t even know what was in it. It just inspired fan fiction writes, that had insane success.

I just finished refining my Jellyfin setup. I use caddy as reverse proxy and use authelia as authentication in front of Jellyfin. This way only users logged in to authelia can access my Jellyfin. And there is an SSO plugin for jellyfin to avoid double login. The tricky part was getting apps to work.

Wait, which players do you want to throw which toys at?!? 🤣

Tailscale now supports buying Mullvad subscription through them and using it with their app. So it solves this issue, although the control you have over your Mullvad tunnel is less and it misses some advanced Mullvad features. Still probably good enough for most people.

I ended up going a different route by buying a VPS and hosting Caddy as reverse proxy. Then I only have my VPS and NAS on tailscale and other devices use the reverse proxy. This allows me to also share links to cloud files or other stuff I host with friends that are not on tailscale.

I always understood vibes to have a good connotation in free time/relaxing context and bad connotation in professional context.

“I am just vibing.” was always fine at home and not fine at work.

I wanted to say you are not but I can’t decide whether it is misogyny for thinking women can’t handle thrown dildos just as well as men do, or if it is homophobic to think it is different because dildos are not for men.

So I guess you are allowed to finds whatever you want funny.

And here we see an example of a severely endangered kind of Lemming. One that can be fair to the side they disagree with.

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Still gets you places almost the same. Just have to have the foresight to leave space for it above ground.

Be careful, if you do a “protest buy”, they may legally be able to not accept the return since you already knew about the contract. So you know, either don’t do it or at least don’t post on social media about it.

The easiest and most secure solution is probably tailscale. Just VPN into your local network instead of exposing Jellyfin to the internet.

An alternative I am using is Caddy reverse proxy with Authelia for authentication. So I have to log in to Authelia before I can access Jellyfin. Beware though, it took me like 2 days to properly configure Authelia. It is rather complicated.

I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t with default settings. Beware of enabling any setting that stores data next to the media like nfo metadata storage, as those could maybe cause conflicts.