There are a lot more people who upvote zero effort memes though.

But you see, intuitively we think that the number of upvotes in that model is a “dollar payout” for this post. But actually it isn’t! In a meme community, a post with 1000 upvotes would bring its author 1000 * (1/1000) = 1 dollar, but in a hardcore geek community it would be something like 1000 * 1 = 1000 dollars.

It makes me think, what if the upvote counter was the same, i.e. you have only one upvote per month, and it gets split between all upvoted posts. And maybe it would be nice if you could accumulate your upvotes over several months...

If upvote count results in higher visibility, having visibility and payout governed by two different equations might make it harder to optimize, which seems good.

That's normal. Fibre slows down the absorption of everything.

And then you get the managerial types who demand your presence for morning meetings.

"Cancel culture" is better known as "actions have consequences".

But only actions taken by a specific group of people.

Software development isn't a production problem, it's a design problem.

Software manufacturing is the bit after you compile the code.

An actual debate on population control would be looking at reducing the number of children in the developed world even more, and discouraging suburban housing.

Ah yes, cancel those who want to cancel the intolerant.

It does help to think of tolerance as a peace treaty.

Don't you mean, “Cancel those who want to cancel the tolerant.”

The post to which you responded said, “Only cancel the cancellors.”

Ah yes, I misread the parent as desiring to cancel the people demanding cancellation of the intolerant.

Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies discussed this problem.

So the developed world could also enable cheap, clean energy production in the third world.

There are apartments, but construction in the desirable areas is limited.