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by samiv 9mo ago
This is an anomaly and left over from the time when middle class was growing after the 2nd world war. We (Western countries) are dismantling all the back stops and the process will reverse and move all the wealth to the few rich people in t
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by samiv 9mo ago
Communism has never been tried at a large scale. Soviet Union didn't have it. China doesn't have it. Just because someone has "communism" on paper doesn't mean the society actually functions according to the communi
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by samiv 9mo ago
In a healthy economy flow of money is like the flow of blood in the arteries. It is what stimulates the economic activity. You can't earn a dollar without someone spending that dollar. Spending = earning = economic activity. People are
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by samiv 9mo ago
I don't disagree with you and in fact I hope there were quicker ramifications. Any company that forgets their customers and assumes such arrogant self serving stance should get a proverbial slap in face rather sooner than later. Unfort
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by samiv 9mo ago
Short term greed. Maximize immediate profits at the the cost of future profits.
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by samiv 9mo ago
Corporate users are the only users they even pretend they care about and they know they have pretty good lock in with Windows and office. Also obviously this is someone else's problem some other quarter.. so.. like who cares?
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by samiv 9mo ago
In summary because: - They're beholden to Wall Street and stock price is the only relevant metric. - They've been laying off staff even up to senior/principal engineering levels. - Shifting towards vibe coding instea
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by samiv 9mo ago
Microsoft is an end stage software company that has exhausted natural growth in its desktop segment. When that happens to a company that is beholden to Wall Street the only ways are to start shitting on their "customers" and their
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by samiv 9mo ago
Part of "freedom", yes?
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by samiv 9mo ago
I've only been in a peer to peer type of working relationships with people I'd consider coworkers so I wouldn't think it'd be very fruitful to start agitating people in such a position.
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by samiv 9mo ago
Exactly this. You just put them on the spot and they lose face and you're embarrassing them. Besides this interaction has already made it know they they don't know the answer so what's the benefit of forcing them to announce
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by samiv 9mo ago
I used to work with colleagues from China in contracting and I had the same experience with them. If they don't know something they have hard time saying that they don't know something or don't understand something. Ficticiou
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Putin's Famous Munich Speech (2007) [video](youtube.com)
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by samiv 9mo ago
I think the people on this continent have a lot more in common than they might first realize. We certainly have our own cultures and language but beyond that I think we all share a certain European heritage, core culture and values. There&#
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by samiv 9mo ago
See you on the battlefield.
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Finnish reservist here in Germany. Ready to go. Prost!
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by samiv 9mo ago
This is the outcome when your corporations bow down to wall Street. Tax payers money is just used to prop up their private profits and without exposing them to the actual competition. Short term profit seeking. Who foots the bill, the US ta
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by samiv 9mo ago
This is exactly so. Not only is the USA hurting itself by distancing itself from it's former allys in policy and trade but it's forcing the rest of the world including EU to look more towards east for trade partners and temporaril
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by samiv 9mo ago
One thing after overlooked about the tariffs is that since the financial market is completely parasitic into the US when a tarif on the imported competitive product makes it more productive the local producer can also increase their prices
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by samiv 9mo ago
The "or else" is actually on rather shaky grounds considering the national debt. For the sake of argument if certain countries decided to stop buying US treasury bonds the federal state would be insolvent about 5s later. Certainly
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by samiv 9mo ago
US is a crumbling democracy with crumbling infrastructure and society. I just hope while it goes down it doesn't take the rest of the planet with it.
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by samiv 9mo ago
Re software and landfill.. true to some extent but there are still ramifications as you pointed out electricity demand and hardware infrastructure to support it. Also in the 80's when the computer games market crashed they literally du
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by samiv 9mo ago
Well yeah more people can afford shitty things that end up in the landfill two weeks later. To me this is the essence of "consumerism". Rather than think in terms of making things cheaper for people to afford we should think how t
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by samiv 9mo ago
I'd say that those high quality things that still exist do so despite of the higher volume of junk and they mostly exist because of other reasons/unique circumstances. (Individual pride, craftsmanship, people doing things as a hob
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by samiv 9mo ago
With China's huge resources both natural and human it's only expected that China will again reclaim its position as the leading country in science, technology, production and generally everything. If you assume that .5% of populat
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by samiv 9mo ago
When it became cheaper to publish text did the quality go up? When it became cheaper to make games did the quality go up? When it became cheaper to mass produce X (sneakers, tshirts, anything really) did the quality go up? It's a world
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by samiv 9mo ago
Health is unfortunately a very poor business. Sickness and obesity is much better business. Fitness, medical and fast food industry combined are trillions of dollars.
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by samiv 9mo ago
It's more like just pondering out loud how automating ourselves out of a job in an economic system that requires us to have a job is going to pan out for the large majority of people in the coming years.
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by samiv 9mo ago
Do the people rushing off to outsource their work to chatbots have a plan to explain to their bosses why they still need to have a job? What's the play after you have automated yourselves out of a job? Retrain as a skilled worker? Expe
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by samiv 9mo ago
Yep. It's sad that the best experience happens by being least worst and by detoriarating slower than the competition.

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