This isn't true. Yes, it's only checked locally, but you can store the key-code used and if you connect to another player with the same keycode it can prevent you from playing together. This is something many companies did to their games. But many others didn't, and they were treasured for LAN parties.

It'd also be nice if companies were forced to pay for time spent commuting

Obfuscating costs and increasing the complexity makes no sense.

Variable rate tolling on roads to disincentivize unnecessary travel by individual car makes more sense.

Then the companies will just tell you to suck it up and pay the tax yourself, or they'll find someone else.

And that someone else will also have to pay the tolls.

Therefore both employer and employee will be incentivized to locate in places with higher density housing to reduce costs.

So then their next move would be to mandate that you live within a certain commute range. I don't think we want that.

Then to compete we’d have to move more often and pay more for less space to live even closer to the office.

why? you chose to take the job far from your house.

if companies are forced to pay for the time commuting people will choose to live 20 hours away

You're confusing the impact of the decision with the prevalence of belief in it. While that may objectively be the best way to combat climate change, it doesn't imply anything about how many people are making that decision for that reason.

The author completely missed the part where Lain became a god... Or how she erased herself from time and space because she could no longer relate to her friends and family. It reminds me more of Welcome to the NHK than Evangelion, honestly.

Generally, people want to do less work so they can spend more time focused on their own dreams and aspirations.

I see! So we should start a consulting firm to do less work for people.

Privileged people also tend to conceptualize theft as "theft from a corporation" as in, stealing clothes from Target or slim jims from a gas station.

The idea that their entire livelihood could be taken from them doesn't cross their mind

"Private tutors" can be anything from an after-school karate class to visiting a piano teacher's house for an hour of instruction. It doesn't have to be solely for elite people.

It also encourages slavery. Who sows your clothes? Who assembles your phone? Who picks the vegetables you eat? Really it's all the same person: The cheapest option.

> It also encourages slavery.

Indeed, if slavery turned out to be more efficient, it would.

But I think that the claim that slavery is more efficient does not hold, since opressing people binds a lot of ressources; also opressed people tend to do work as minimally as possible.

So it is much more efficient to give people the illusion of freedom instead of enslaving them.

And yet, in our system that prioritizes efficiency, we have more slavery than at any point in human history. Something doesn't add up.

Also it doesn't imply it'll use the least amount of resources, it implies it'll use the least amount of _money_, which means the cost will be exported to countries that can't afford to say no... Are we really surprised at the amount of slave labor in the world?

> The fact that you did buy tells the market that what you bought is of net-positive value for you.

This doesn't mean the market is efficient. It means the market misunderstands itself.