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- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 3 days ago:
Name an economic system that doesn’t eventually funnel money to the top. Not one person has answered that on lemmy, but it sounds like you can!
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 3 days ago:
Tell us about your economic system that doesn’t eventually funnel money to the top. To date, not a single person on lemmy has answered that question.
- Comment on Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger 3 days ago:
That’s kinda how I took it. Be funny if language evolved back into flowery Victorian speech.
- Comment on Medicare’s new AI experiment sparks alarm among doctors, lawmakers • Stateline 3 days ago:
Remember Republicans screaming about Death Panels when Obamacare was under debate? They sure are quiet now.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 4 days ago:
I feel like you’re missing the economic system vs. the government system. Those are two separate entities that must be controlled for.
Mu point here is that capitalism is a fucking mess, with no government controls. Of course it is! As with any economic system.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 4 days ago:
So, what’s your solution? I am listening.
- Comment on The richest people in the world are morally bankrupt 4 days ago:
And you would be morally bankrupt were you rich. I forget the psychological term, but the idea is well documented. When people attain wealth and power, they suddenly don’t feel the rules apply to them. And it happens to all of us. “I would be better!*” Nah, probably not so much.
Saw a great case of this with Hillary Clinton, though I forget the particulars. She’s stumping for some law or policy that she blatantly violated and a journalist (we used to have those) called her on the hypocrisy. “But… that doesn’t apply to me.”
Not like she stared out rich and powerful. Sure, she had some privilege, but not First Lady of the United Fucking States and Secretary of State kinda privilege.
The whole concept is kinda horrifying. When I hit the middle-aged white-guy with a decent income zone, I started not giving a fuck about breaking simple laws. Fuck they gonna do? I’m driving without a legal license ATM. When I was young and broke, jail. Now? Slap on the wrist, at worst.
Now think on that kinda thought process as one get’s truly rich and powerful. Morals, out the window. You still think you’re doing the right thing, but you’re badly misaligned with the lowly common people.
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- Comment on Israel | Ben-Gvir's fascist lynch-mob wears noose lapel pins 4 days ago:
Bullshit. I’m in the rural Deep South and have never heard a single word spoken against Jews, and very few words spoken against blacks or Hispanics.
Also, I’m a gun-toting, middle-aged white guy. The sort people like you would think is OK to spout off around. Hell, the only words I heard in support of Trump was some very low-key mumblefucking public speech, and not once during this term.
Most racist places I’ve ever lived or visited? Manhattan and Chicagoland.
- Comment on Israel | Ben-Gvir's fascist lynch-mob wears noose lapel pins 4 days ago:
Israel has forfeited their right to exist. This isn’t just some looney right wingers, the majority of the population is more than happy with persecuting this genocide, even at this late date.
- Comment on How I block all online ads 4 days ago:
I can’t use log in to YT and use Firefox/uBlock Origin to stop ads. Works fine in Edge. What is that about?!
- Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video]i.imgur.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to [deleted] | 49 comments
- Comment on YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers 6 days ago:
And… deleted.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 6 days ago:
That scam works well for AWS. My last company was a very small software dev (120 people) and spent $6M a year on AWS. Can you imagine the infra you could build with that much money!? And still have plenty left over to pay a small team to be responsible for it.
- Comment on Money. Why does THAT work? 1 week ago:
In America, and other countries, it used to be backed by gold.
- Comment on Money. Why does THAT work? 1 week ago:
Best ELI5 here!
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- Comment on Condoms and contraceptives to become more expensive in China as Beijing accelerates push to lift birth rate 1 week ago:
Women could change the world overnight if they’d ban together on denying sex. There were two warring tribes in Africa (last century, I forget) where the woman came together and said no poonanny until you boys are at peace. Instant peace.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 1 week ago:
I honestly think most of these bugfuck crazy views stem from we humans not having evolved to deal with the modern world. People feed us the simple answers we crave.
- Comment on YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers 1 week ago:
This is part of what Forrest Gump was about. Think Forrest and Bubba would have made it to boot in the first place?
- Comment on Scheduling is hard 1 week ago:
set their sights long-term, aiming to keep their employees happy in order to build a stable future
Funny, that’s how it worked at my last job. And then there’s Quik Trip, an untold story.
As to the working hard part, I think you’re missing the “move on” part. Gain experience, QUIT. Lemmy in general, if not you, has this victim take on employment. As an old supervisor used to say, “Fuck me? No, no, no, fuck YOU!”
“They’re getting rich on our labor!”
“What if I told you, you can withhold that labor?”
If one’s job is that shitty, they can easily move on for the same pay at another shitty job. The least we can do is punish bad behavior.
Anyway, capitalism was pretty OK when we had unions (back to the punishing bad behavior bit) and didn’t allow megacorps to monopolize every sector of the economy. Most here are probably too young to remember those days. :(
- Comment on Scheduling is hard 1 week ago:
At my last job HR announced that they had found studies showing increased productivity and employee satisfaction when people had one 3-day weekend a month. From there on we were given a choice of any Monday or Friday off, but we had to take one.
My friend: “Yeah, that’s fucked up not paying you.”
“It’s PTO.”
“That’s fucked forcing you to use your PTO.”
“It’s on top of our PTO. We get an extra 12-days a year now.”
I’m sure someone will find a cynical take on this story.
Lemmy: CaPitALisM!
Gosh! I left out a really important part! That business wasn’t part of a monopoly or cartel. Well, ironically, we did have a basic monopoly, no one else did what we did, but we weren’t a subsidiary of a megacorp, if you get my drift.
LOL, two years in a row our CEO told the board we would lose money on purpose to build our people and products. They applauded him. We fucked around and made a profit anyway. Got FAT Christmas bonuses!
If you think that’s a one-off company, you should hear how Quik Trip stores operate. Imagine people dedicating a career to working in a convenience store. That’s another story. (And an amazing one.)
Work hard, get experience, stack resume, move on until you land at a solid employer.
When my two friends and I moved to NW Florida, we knew no one, had no family. One guy started at an oil change place, way below his skill set and experience. Kept quitting and moving to better jobs. Within a decade he was the top service manager for the top car dealer in the area, clocking 6 digits, treated with utmost respect, seat at the table.
- Comment on Beware of flashbangs in the latest Windows 11 updates 1 week ago:
Everything Copilot in my Start menu is asking for an install. AGAIN, I have yet to see these things I’m supposed to be suffering.
- Comment on What's up with all these people going Nuts on planes? 1 week ago:
OP knew exactly where they were going with this one!
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- Comment on After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers 1 week ago:
Sales were likely dismal on the consumer end so Micron saying they’re focusing on AI is their excuse to keep investors from panicking. People aren’t buying and building PCs like they used to. This was happening with or without AI, though it would have probably happened a good bit later.
- Comment on Beware of flashbangs in the latest Windows 11 updates 1 week ago:
You are being smug and guess what? I don’t have to worry about whatever MS fucked up this week, because none of this shit happens on my Win11 install.
In my 2-years on lemmy, I haven’t seen a single Window issue that I’m told I’m suffering. Not one. Not once.
- Comment on The Enshittification of Plex Is Kicking Off, Starting with Free Roku Users 1 week ago:
Been off Plex for years since my last Raspberry Pi drive died. By the time I got back to building a new media server, Jellyfin seemed to be the thing. Had no idea people actually paid for Plex. All of this is news to me.
And Jellyfin is so stupid easy! I’d say I spent 1/10th the time configuring it as I did Plex, but I don’t really remember configuring it. Installed the server directly on Windows, not even a Hyper-V machine, pointed it at my 2 movie and TV folders, done. No idea what version it is or if I’ve ever bothered to update.
- Comment on We turn the HVAC "up" whether we want it colder or warmer. 1 week ago:
Hence the post! Everyone will still understand your intent and take the appropriate action.
- Comment on We turn the HVAC "up" whether we want it colder or warmer. 1 week ago:
If someone says, “Turn the AC up.” you know they want it colder and you actually turn in down.
