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Yeah, I think enraged_camel put it pretty well there, This isn't the difference between a cucumber and a grape. It's the difference between a grape, for which
by vegadw 2y ago
Yeah, I think enraged_camel put it pretty well there,
This isn't the difference between a cucumber and a grape. It's the difference between a grape, for which you sell most of your time to earn, and the ones who own the means by which those grapes are produced, who have been given better circumstances to own those vinyards by their parents and their parents parents, and their parents parents parents, in which each generation has done atrocious acts to remain in possession of the vineyard and where each vineyard worker is squeezed into getting fewer and fewer grapes (or grapes which are simply worth less, due to an overall higher number of grapes) where the vineyard owners have influenced the policy makers that should be ensuring the power of the vinyard owners isn't so absolute and abusive such that they can keep moving the window to keep paying even less grapes.
Meanwhile, some people are told that, because the vinyard owner doesn't like their identity, they should get no grapes at all.
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But lets drop the absolutely ridiculous metaphors. It's not grapes. It's not animals. It's money, and power, and lives, and freedom. It's conflicting freedoms, as some wish to be free to impede the freedoms of others.
Let me quote someone else here,
For example
Did you know that Amazon workers frequently earn so little that they rely on government top-ups and overtime just to tread water above the poverty line
While their CEO Jeff Bezos has so much ducking money that if you count it by one number every second, everyday, without sleep, it would take you over thirty years just to count up to the amount of money he has?
Oh no, wait a second, I misread that
He actually has one hundred and eighty-five times that amount
He has more money than the human mind is capable of imagining
More than anyone could ever spend in multiple lifetimes
And that's just the money we know about
Because remember in 2015
It was headline news across the world
A global conspiracy by the financial elite to hide trillions of dollars in unreachable, illegal bank accounts in Panama
And what happened there?
Oh yeah
The journalist who broke the story was assassinated in broad daylight with a ducking car bomb
And the story just disappeared
This entire article misses the mark to the point of malice. I find it hard to engage in civil manner with something so belittling of the situation that we all are living though. This posted the day after peaceful protesters in Syria fighting corruption were blasted with sonic weapons. During a take over of the US government by the richest man in the world facing no accountability as he upends the lives of countless government workers just doing their job.
Yeah, I want my damn grapes. I want my fair share of grapes. I want my fair amount of influence in society to ensure I and my fellow people get enough grapes that they can live happy and healthy lives.
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EDIT: I should also point out the actual article OP has two startups that use AI. So, as far as understanding and respecting the value of other peoples work goes, I think that says a lot :)
- AnimalMuppet 2y agos/Syria/Serbia/, unless I missed something...
- vegadw 2y agoAh, yeah, sorry, my bad!