After about four months of using a 5K monitor (in the form of a 27″ iMac), I can attest that it is simply stunningly amazing and everything I hoped it would be.

Whenever you can afford it if you use a monitor more than an hour a day, I recommend acquiring a 5K display. It makes a world of difference.

I don’t particularly care for Mac OS on the desktop but it doesn’t bother me too much. There is no Windows driver for 5K on the iMac, so that is not an option yet.

There is a Dell 5K monitor but it costs as much as the entire iMac which is itself a quite capable computer. In addition for the Dell variant you will have to buy a rather expensive video card to drive the thing.

When 5K gets cheaper overall I’ll probably switch back to Windows. But until then it’s the iMac for me.

Getting 5K is probably the best thing I’ve done in the computing space in a long time.

By the way, my iMac is indeed called “5KofGlory.”

All the carping lately that I’ve seen about Tesla and Elon Musk receiving tax subsidies is both deeply hypocritical and highly suspect. It’s probably his auto-selling competitors, the oil and gas industry, and their PR flaks planting those stories.

The truth is they all receive huge subsidies and government benefits. Absolutely enormous, far more than $5 billion.

Just like I wrote below, in an arena where all your competitors are receiving huge subsidies and interest-free loans and you forgo them, what happens to you?

Right, you fail and go out of business.

Personally I’d rather be subsidizing Musk and Tesla and all his attempts to create something new rather than the carbon-spewing warmongering earth-destroying industries likely planting these stories in friendly news outlets.

(Incidentally, the internet was subsidized/created by the US government to the tune of tens of billions of dollars over the past four decades. Just saying.)

Reading things like this, one marvels at just how less…predatory society used to be.

I can see now this was a staff ripe for a management consultant to come in with a rusty cleaver, that we operated at near-Soviet levels of overstaffing, but honestly? Who cares. All those people collected their paychecks, cashed them and used the money to pay taxes, buy cars, raise families and otherwise keep the economy chugging along. If you think a belching factory smokestack is ugly, try one with nothing coming out at all.

The evisceration of the American economy is another example or variant of the tragedy of the commons. One factory or newspaper owner finds it beneficial to himself to fire 90% of the staff and outsource copywriting to another country.

Then others are forced to do the same to compete.

It ends with no one left with enough money to buy the products advertised, and with not enough money to pay for an education to be literate enough in the case of a newspaper or online equivalent to even comprehend the product.

Race to the bottom, and like the paradox of thrift it all makes sense along the way.