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by flandish 3y ago
Convincing employees that pay not increasing with inflation is “ok” is one of the worst things corps have done. If they can’t match inflation you’re getting a pay cut and they are getting you for less than they did last year.
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by flandish 3y ago
The problem with removing regulation for corps so they can work a “free” “market” is that they will exploit. It’s what they’ve always done. It’s what they will always trend toward. See also: kids in auto plans, meat facilities, etc. The i
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by flandish 3y ago
If you hire two people for the same non piecework role they should be paid the same regardless of a whole host of things. If you pay someone widget wise - that’s entirely different. Reminder: Capitalism will exploit any time it can.
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by flandish 3y ago
AI art is still 100% art. If any of us ever consider coding artistic and inventive, then AI art is also art. I code. I am also an oil painter. I suck at composition. If I ask an AI to layout a scene, is my meatspace painting less art? (
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by flandish 3y ago
All corps exploit. Its how capitalism treats its labor pool. Here’s a recent link to some examples. At SpaceX. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/17/former-spacex-employees-file... Far as shareholder manip - I mea
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by flandish 3y ago
I never mentioned subsides or heavily but : Gov money is still our money. So I, personally, believe it should be spent on good things that profit us. Financially and socially. Space. Not war. Health not cops. Etc. I worry some corps will
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by flandish 3y ago
Let’s be honest: I’m rooting for the technological progress. The company operates like all companies - exploitation and shareholder manipulation. The progress is a nice outcome. Even if it makes the asshole owner richer. Especially beca
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by flandish 3y ago
> society Sure. But when your “keep the lights on” job cuts you for AI, you are less likely to “produce other things” while you worry about food and heat.
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by flandish 3y ago
Just a small point of order: there is no such thing as “unskilled labor” - All labor is skilled labor. Even breaking rocks.
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by flandish 3y ago
Accounts have character slots and when you join a corp, you are often required to provide an api key to show all chars on this account. Chars have public history of corp membership or pvp fights etc. So if you roll a char in an acct with ot
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by flandish 3y ago
Played back in 2011. I miss the “Suddenly Ninjas” days - glad to hear stories like this are still happening. We used to roll new accounts, prep a small history, sometimes even a social media presence. Join a corporation. Role play as a ne
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by flandish 4y ago
If you want human readable db output, I might introduce you to what I’ve spent most of my career doing: etl. :)
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by flandish 4y ago
With markets rising, inflation, and pay not matching, what you get for that 250k is less and less each 5 year jump.
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by flandish 4y ago
Because no where is that kind of behavior acceptable; workplace included. Tesla’s role is to provide a safe workplace. Failure to do so deserves penalty. This is not hard to grok: worker safety is more important than the corp. Safety includ
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by flandish 4y ago
You’re applying human emotion to the actions of humans within a corporation and sure, that tracks. From a purely mathematical shareholder ROI standpoint, a “continuous expansion” facet of capitalism, and the purchase of labor from humans wh
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by flandish 4y ago
> only motivation You fail to understand what “companies” are under capitalism - they exist for profit, only. > beat the wrangler For .. fun? That’s not gonna make shareholders happy. They did it for profit. engineering decisions in c
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by flandish 4y ago
As an actual meatspace maker of oil paintings - AI excites me. Someone can make a print generated by AI - and it will be beautiful I am sure. So when someone wants a physical panting with impasto texture and painterly strokes… the “real” pa
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by flandish 4y ago
This is important. Our relationship with those who pay is for labor is indeed “sold” as “do something you love and …” and frankly that does help people over time. I love coding. Enough that I don’t want to age into being a director/m
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by flandish 4y ago
>decision Right. I get that. I think it’s a misguided decision. But I get it. Because I understand that profit is their only driving motivation (no pun intended). What I don’t grok is how many replies there are here quite literally
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by flandish 4y ago
There are a bunch of example replies about how AM is used as a direct life safety device and you and others seem to keep simping for a corp’s ability to profit. Literally choosing profit over people. AM is not replaced by FM, Cell, wifi,
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by flandish 4y ago
Reminds me of the short lived meme in the early 2000’s era, “freedom fries.”
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by flandish 4y ago
Look at the Irish language. Almost dead. I can see a desire to keep alive the Irish language, because a lot of English imperialism has pushed out the languages of where they have gone.
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by flandish 4y ago
> elections Yes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_China
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by flandish 4y ago
I agree. Been developing since the mid 90’s. Gone are the days of forgetting to compile a nic driver and having to redo something with an install… I love linux. Heck .. love all OSs. They’re amazing. Working in the current times on my MBP
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by flandish 4y ago
Any and all.
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by flandish 4y ago
Reminder: when a corporation says “useful” they mean “profitable.” I’m not on the crypto bandwagon, I just want folks to take anything a corp says with a grain of salt.
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by flandish 4y ago
It’s been an odd struggle, for the last 20 years or so, to get people to “believe” this is real, too. I once went so far as to purchase really expensive (for the time) noise cancelling headphones and write them off as a work expense. My bos
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by flandish 4y ago
I have a small heloc, about 50k. It’s all I have left on my house, mortgage wise. Currently trying to slap as much principal down on it as possible as it’s still in its “interest only” phase. Come 2024, it’ be interest and principal. Was
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by flandish 4y ago
I agree. My role is software engineering, but in industrial healthcare automation - so I come in when I need to make stuff move in meatspace. Mostly a few days a week. We don’t really have standard offices though - it’s either a cube or i
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by flandish 4y ago
But does the market not also focus on profit and continuous expansion/consolidation? Clearly based on things like drug prices, egg prices, etc… profit is a “driving” factor, not “will this product sell.”

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