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Many of the people here are becoming sociopathic in their desire to control the world around them through technology and have completely lost empathy for the av

Many of the people here are becoming sociopathic in their desire to control the world around them through technology and have completely lost empathy for the average person who is a victim of these industries. The gig economy is clearly arbitraging labor in a manner most would consider somewhere between exploitative and unfair. And the broader economy puts pressures on them to exist in that. As inequality mostly driven by technology grows more and more people will be required to accept less and less fair employment so the gig economy is essentially betting on a worse tomorrow. I dont like that, i dont support it, and if the ceos of these companies are your neighbors like they are mine — you see how completely nihilistic they are about this. They know it, they don’t care. But they pretend a story that this is a better world for you, the naive tech worker.

peterangular 4y ago
> Many of the people here are becoming sociopathic Tons of people here are well monied professionals who struggle to put themselves into another person's shoes. They grew up privileged, got to go to school/college, and ended up on a good career path. They're people who will unironically say people should "pull themselves up by the bootstraps," and claim that we're in a meritocracy where hard work guarantees financial stability + success. They have no idea what it's like for a person struggling to get by, and they've been sold a lifetime of "poor person = bad," or "poor person = lazy" propaganda. There are lots of people here that struggle with basic empathy.
- newfriend 4y ago
  And lots of people use "empathy" as an excuse to forcibly extract money from productive people in order to give it away to leeches. Suckers who believe that every poor person is just a hard-working, well-intentioned person who wasn't given enough opportunities. There are, of course, many poor people who are not lazy. But there are likely more who are lazy, dull, and sucking up resources that could better be used to improve society.
  - peterangular 4y ago
    I understand where you're coming from. We likely have very different views on welfare and the compassion of society. > But there are likely more who are lazy, dull, and sucking up resources that could better be used to improve society. So should we should allocate resources away from the undesirables and let them and their children starve off? I think that sorta thinking is inhumane, and not becoming of a civil society.
    - tsunamifury 4y ago
      Humans are the rarest resource in the universe. They are never worthless just under utilized or motivated.
  - tsunamifury 4y ago
    You aren’t on the side of this line you think you are.

peterangular 4y ago

> Many of the people here are becoming sociopathic Tons of people here are well monied professionals who struggle to put themselves into another person's shoes. They grew up privileged, got to go to school/college, and ended up on a good career path. They're people who will unironically say people should "pull themselves up by the bootstraps," and claim that we're in a meritocracy where hard work guarantees financial stability + success. They have no idea what it's like for a person struggling to get by, and they've been sold a lifetime of "poor person = bad," or "poor person = lazy" propaganda. There are lots of people here that struggle with basic empathy.

newfriend 4y ago
And lots of people use "empathy" as an excuse to forcibly extract money from productive people in order to give it away to leeches. Suckers who believe that every poor person is just a hard-working, well-intentioned person who wasn't given enough opportunities. There are, of course, many poor people who are not lazy. But there are likely more who are lazy, dull, and sucking up resources that could better be used to improve society.
- peterangular 4y ago
  I understand where you're coming from. We likely have very different views on welfare and the compassion of society. > But there are likely more who are lazy, dull, and sucking up resources that could better be used to improve society. So should we should allocate resources away from the undesirables and let them and their children starve off? I think that sorta thinking is inhumane, and not becoming of a civil society.
  - tsunamifury 4y ago
    Humans are the rarest resource in the universe. They are never worthless just under utilized or motivated.
- tsunamifury 4y ago
  You aren’t on the side of this line you think you are.