Cool, is there maybe a video demonstrating this?

If you follow the American school of economics (Henry C. Carey), tariffs are actually a good thing, mainly because: 1) other nations all have tariffs (against the US and other nations) making free trade a delightful delusional idea 2) tariffs protect lesser industrialized nations from refining/enhancing raw materials into more expensive goods and selling them back to them. The systematic offshoring of industrial potential to cheaper labor places basically un-industrialized the US. I think it's very short-sighted to say tariffs are bad. What was bad was the de-industrialization of the leading superpower. The cure, if we may call it that, might be bitter medicine. Bitter, but necessary.

is pure lambda calculus something i can install and use to host a web server?

No reason why not, in principle. Using Church-encoded numerals and so on might be a little inefficient. Probably not as bad as Python though.

capitalism has always moved in the direction of automation, yielding booming progress and prosperity for much of mankind. the technological comforts we have today far exceed those of a thousand years ago, no one can dispute. but at some point, if there are no more jobs due to "full automation" then the promise of capitalism bringing most people out of poverty will start to fall short. it's a real question, what do we do then? short of adapting, as we always have, i don't see any viable alternatives. OP recommending not playing at all is peak derangement divorced from reality imo

I don't see any alternatives until AI or technology can solve Cancer, or Heart disease or the major causes of death we have now.

My point being is that modern capitalist society has brought all the technology innovation we see today including the best medical technology/care we've ever had.

traveling more would inspire one to think positively of capitalism, rather than the reverse. to quote andrew carnegie roughly, the status quo has always been misery for everyone, and just recently have we begun to extricate ourselves from it. not to mention that it is sheer derangement of luxury to have plenty of funding for one's own family, and yet vocally dissuade others from taking the same steps, for some "end game theoretical" that certainly won't arrive in single digit generations

Just need to reach MAX_SAFE_INT and I too can be on the leaderboard... And I thought 78 was pretty good

Venture Capital subsidized gig economy apps until the dinosaurs of the previous economy (taxis, delivery services if any existed?) went extinct. So what now? Wait for regulation to catch up in an opaque at-will-employment industry with no unions?

Maybe read more than just the first paragraph :]

I did. Didn't raise my confidence in the story.

"Burner laptop", really? Then "I put in my two weeks yesterday". Why put in the effort for a burner laptop and then dox yourself in the next sentence?

Nah, I wouldn’t be surprised if the companies pocket the tips, but this story smells.

That immediately stuck out to me as well, but if the gist of the post were true, a plausible assumption is that "I put in my two weeks yesterday" is simply a lie to throw off identification.

Is unionizing in the Gig economy possible?

Works exactly once until people who are lottery-elected change the system to stay in power forever.