> It is clear, at least to me, that emitting large quantities of CO2 into the air, and heated waste water into a lake, for the sole purpose of enriching oneself

i agree, but that would make bitcoin mining merely the most recent addition to a very, very long list of immoral endeavours undertaken for the sole purpose of enriching oneself.

It would interesting to surrender the whole process to AI.

Let's have AI decide what the productivity requirement should be, given biological constraints of us meat sacks. Feed it all the data - churn, sick days, the Geneva convention, employment law, recruit & training costs, development goals....the whole fucking shebang.

I'll have a sportsman's bet with any of you, that the targets for performance set by AI, would be easier to meet than those devised by mere human cruelty.

a lightbulb moment for the author, in which he happens upon the idea that films made for mass appeal are somehow limited in artistic scope & ambition.

Well put.

It's not at all dissimilar to walking into a conference of learned and decorated economists, and being disappointed that only a handful know how to administer First Aid.

I would have thought Mrs White might recognise the limitations of her data, as a scholar would, given her Economics degree from Cambridge and her Masters in the same, gained at UCL.

Presumably, John Lewis has an application & interview process which would have been successfully navigated by the people is talking about.

Methinks her motives are not perhaps not pure.

omg barely 14 years awa, there's simply no time !

america has a chronic work fetish

There's a passable movie called "the bit player" currently on amazon and I guess elsewhere.

I'd never heard of him, and that's embarrassing, but he probably prefers it that way :-).

Heart warming story. MUch respect.