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by flandish 4y ago
> nobody buys Exactly why the “bounce” along the bottom, in my opinion. The corps will charge as much and pay as little - and I think they’re all doing what they are designed to do. Profit over people. :/
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by flandish 4y ago
Yes! Such a great production! Got me into that show.
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by flandish 4y ago
For sure. Just remember though, without changes the work can “simply” retire and the story approached by those who go into it “in the know.” But … retired stories don’t sell and don’t get turned into remakes, ticket sales, etc… Rewritten s
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by flandish 4y ago
(making the (safe?) assumption there will NEVER be a social safety net or UBI..) I think things will “bounce” between: - AI providing shareholder ROI and “releasing” labor back into the labor pool. Making people either choose to be homeless
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by flandish 4y ago
Well yeah of COURSE it’s a good thing: AI replacing labor means less labor costs and that means more shareholder ROI. Won’t someone please think of the shareholders?? (/s… in case it’s not obvious..)
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by flandish 4y ago
It’s a sure bet to assume anything Kissinger did was treason, murderous, or a war crime. Pissing on his grave, when nature takes its (slow) course, will be a goal for plenty, I am sure. In short: fuck that guy.
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by flandish 4y ago
You neglect to consider for profit day care. Profit desires dictate price. Labor is paid as little as possible, by an owner…
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by flandish 4y ago
> pay for childcare > wages are high Pay for…. That’s your clue. Prices are expensive because the owning class is squeezing every dime they can get. You know… bog standard capitalism…
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by flandish 4y ago
For sure. Everyone can, indeed, decide their own priorities. Some choose work over children others have to choose work over children.
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by flandish 4y ago
If.. uhh… society wasn’t so capitalistically expensive as to require the entire household’s adults to work, a lot of these logistical concerns would work out. Resulting in smarter and healthier children. But: smart and healthy children dem
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by flandish 4y ago
Consider this: A tesla’s fsd code had gone through the sdlc they choose, involving project management. I distrust project management. Therefore: I only trust a tesla’s fsd mode as much as I trust a project manager’s driving.
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by flandish 4y ago
>Bing No AI can be trusted. FTFY.
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by flandish 4y ago
IMHO it’s because we have no real way to pivot with this stuff, and you said it well enough, I just want to add: In my mind, you’re either an OSS person who “goes viral” and maybe gets picked up or a large “thank you” contrib to your “buy m
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by flandish 4y ago
The content of the cars was not owned by the epa. Look at how close those corps are to the epa. Like the history of cigarette health. Or how axon claims tazers are safe by hiring docs to publish they are safe and inventing things like “ex
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by flandish 4y ago
A corporation always lies. Start there. See where the liability is, then see who they’ve donated to…
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by flandish 4y ago
Interesting. I always thought it was search engine optimization.
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by flandish 4y ago
I can understand the sentiment but let’s be honest here: you’re more ok subsidizing a corporation’s poor choices than you are a human’s basic needs. People are fine with walmart employees being on welfare and ridicule the human for poor c
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by flandish 4y ago
Society already has laws against murder, child endangerment, theft, abuse… Making the use and possession of “druuuugggsss” illegal only further feeds the prison pipeline and is not what a nation state should be doing anyway. What humans do
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by flandish 4y ago
The platform provides the service to the customer. Without it there is no uber. Without gig drivers, there is still an uber it’s just more expensive because the corporation can’t pawn off cost on the gig drivers. The workers do not own u
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by flandish 4y ago
Fair enough on the agree to disagree. Enjoyed the thread! Go enjoy your day, my friend.
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by flandish 4y ago
And we have arrived at where I am with my opinion: that unless we al talk, some business will get to use “don't talk or else” as a spooky tool to enable more of the “less fair for some.” I need to admit: I am a leftist, an iww member,
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by flandish 4y ago
I dont disagree. Except that I think at all levels employees discussing wage and benefit helps the employees and provides more look into what is being kept from them. Stronger employees will make stronger product. Even if that means stake&#
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by flandish 4y ago
Your fault here, and it’s not really anything more than marketing taking its toll: is that you apply the gamble and stress that exists to small business as if it also exists to places like walmart. Walmart has ZERO real human “neck stuck
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by flandish 4y ago
No, but I have thought about trying to make one. Hrm.
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by flandish 4y ago
That seems like a solvable thing with a 3rd party app/script. I reroll every time I am banned from a sub I like because that sub notices I play in other subs - that whole “thing” is horseshit to me. So I just reroll to get around that
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by flandish 4y ago
Uber drivers do not own the means of production - the profit still goes to uber and its shareholders.
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by flandish 4y ago
You’re applying small business romanticism to corporate behavior. A trope designed to ensure this idea that benefits corporations the most remains in place. Even for a mom and pop - yes. They work on the concept of exploitation if the worke
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by flandish 4y ago
Class is important and the more people become conscious of how important class is - the better aligned they can all be. Scaring them with a spooking about salary talk being taboo just further divides people and only benefits the corporation
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by flandish 4y ago
You’re describing the concept that owning a business is difficult. That’s not the problem of the employee to figure out. They’re exploited in exchange for wage at the lowest possible cost to the employer. Owning a business is hard. Being
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by flandish 4y ago
I’m not speaking about a five person bakery, I am speaking about corporations run by a class of owner far and beyond that of the “mom and pop.” Walmart/Starbucks know if emps talk they unionize…

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