Growth in wages is meaningless if inflation consumes it.
My opinion is that inflation is generally a bad idea but the thing that really matters is inflation volatility. The market will adjust for whatever the inflation rate is (unless its extreme) but volatility just results in loss.
That's why I specifically said real wage growth. In 2022-2023 wages for the bottom ~35% of workers increased at their fastest rate after accounting for inflation. Inflation-adjusted wages for the middle ~40% were basically flat and decreased for the upper quartile. And since that last cohort is the one which dictates policy, they'll make sure it won't happen again.
I don't know, maybe it's because I read the book on the side in highschool when I was supposed to be doing something else but I really loved Linear Algebra. Once I understood what it was I used matrix operations for everything. Vector spaces are such a powerful abstraction.
The enforcement penalty of the constitution is the state's ability to rescind delegated powers from the federal government. No one seems to think it's bad enough to be worth having a real conversation about that.
Just using Guix requires a pretty substantial amount of administrative work. I'd imagine maintaining it is even more intense and that's why they're running into issues like this.
You have to be pretty slow to be outrun by Debian of all distros.
It's not the slowness of releases, it's the fact they don't release any stable version with just security fixes. They only make new cumulative releases. Debian's model is to fix a version for their release and do security patches on that, not to push out the latest version.
I would guess this is the same reason why one can't change git repo history without affecting people working with the repo. Merkle tree all over the store.
What do you mean by "Just using Guix requires a pretty substantial amount of administrative work."
Like, as a user downloading packages, or a person packaging an application?
As a user downloading a package, it's been super easy for me and it's been years of running Guix with little to no issue (yet the benefits of rolling release, rollbacks, installing multiple versions of a given software etc.).
As for using it to package an application, I found the challenges mainly in the documentation. This was years ago and a lot of work has gone into improving the docs.
FWIW, not the OP but doing a guix pull after getting it from APT took several hours to crash out every time I wanted to just try using guix for something, and the ISO to install it from upstream was multiple gigabytes which seemed wild. I put a couple days into it and never actually got to try it.
It's hard to have an opinion of a platform you haven't used but based on how bloated just starting it seemed to be I was unimpressed.
Regardless dealing with this would be a luxury. The rest of the economy has to function first and then we can talk about this. If you intentionally sabotage the country with these ideas it doesn't even matter if you're right, the public will tear down the institutions you use to do it.
I mean, look, there's one recent thing that looks to an outsider an awful lot like intentional sabotage of the US economy, and it's not energy-related...
Also features that people assume are part of the OS, like push notifications, but are really a service run by Apple that your phone is locked to using cryptography don't work with self-signed apps.
I used to say "oh yeah just run qemu-kvm" until my girlfriend moved in with me and I realized you do legitimately need some kind of infrastructure for managing your "internal cloud" if anyone involved isn't 100% on the same page and then that starts to be its own thing you really do have to manage.
Suddenly I learned why my employer was willing to spend so much on OpenStack and Active directory.
The domestic situation in the US is also a real issue. Israel gets unreasonably favorable political treatment compared to every single other country, it's a real issue from the isolationist right as well.
My opinion is that inflation is generally a bad idea but the thing that really matters is inflation volatility. The market will adjust for whatever the inflation rate is (unless its extreme) but volatility just results in loss.