> When someone else rules over you, you aren't free.

That is the case in today's so called democracies. Just because you pick your ruler doesn't mean you have any say in the fate of society.

check the video for actual democracy: https://youtu.be/qH43YHaUGyQ

See the difference between saying democracy is necessary for freedom and saying that democracy obviates freedom. Parent comment only made claim to the former.

Nor did I make any claim about our current democracies being democracies (though "no say" is an exaggeration).

Reagonomics and Computers

totally untrue they dump the western nucular waste in front of the Somalian coast.

Creating employees is not the primary goal of education. The goal is to create thinking individuals. We can't allow the education system to only serve the interests of the business community. It's clear that they limit education to the least amount of people, because an educated citizenry is very difficult to rule. Ignorance is being weaponized in a class war and education for all would take away that weapon.

The more people are educated the more likely or numerous the emergence of people like Einstein or newton. The more people are educated the more democratic society will be and the free-er we all will be. If a large part of society does not understand what's going on around the world then they have to take everything for granted that they have been told by tptb.

10 people don't need 1 manager. The company'd be best served if all 11 people worked and managed themselves, like adults.

Well, I think if large groups of people (companies) are collaborating, some degree of hierarchy should be maintained. While, yes, even if all employees are reasonable adults, it would still benefit their shared objective if there is structure in what they are working on, and when.

The 10:1 ratio I mentioned was just to illustrate that the free college proposal implicitly assumes but explicitly ignores a "natural hierarchy". I also think workplaces should be more egalitarian than they are now.

Especially if all of those people have education. Keeping worker count high by omitting their education is very wrong.

We are already approaching automation levels where people who are just workers are needed less and less.

How do you make naked `git commit` default to emacs?

I believe the default is simply to open your default editor so just set $VISUAL (and $EDITOR, read the manual for your shell) in your environment. This has the added benefit (?) of using that editor for commands that open a visual editor such as crontab -e or even visudo (with some caveats of course).

If you want to use a different editor just for git you can set $GIT_EDITOR in your environment.

git config --global core.editor <EDITOR>

It also respects $EDITOR, though that would impact more than just git, of course.

In the German BLM protests it was:

1) Peaceful protest

2) Police declares protest is over, but people stay.

3) The police respond with violence

Any rich part of town is policed without any use of significant force.

Violence against unarmed and vulnerable people is just safer for the police.