Dragomus
@Dragomus@lemmy.world
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 1 day ago:
What really needs to stop is the obscene bonus culture. It is quite disgusting to keep reading a company needs to lay off 500 people only to then give some CEO a bonus of 15million. Or banks running a deep 9 digit number loss in a year but still the higher ups get a bonus for some reason or a vague years old contractual promise. The top should feel loss first before it “trickles down”, and honest pay for honest work should include the top as well.
And while I am at it, senseless management jobs should be allowed to be contested, no more “manager toiletpaper” who only shows up once a week to make an order, yet makes 5x the wages of people under him.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 1 day ago:
Hahaha
This whole presidency is raised for maximizing CEO income and no taxes for everyone at the top.
It will be interesting if Trump actually manages to pull it off, because he’ll make the US swap places with China:
No one trusts the country anymore, but if it has low enough wages and proper production capability it will produce everything cheaply just to export it all overseas where the luxury goods will be sold. Of course all profits will be made overseas, not in the US because hardly anyone can afford the luxury items no more.Meanwhile the production states will get deep smog clouds and intense small coal particle pollution in return. And the need for face masks will be back…
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 1 day ago:
It requires people who eventually jump off the roof of the building…
- Comment on The one good thing about all this 1 day ago:
It’s also quite ironic that originally China’s low wages were seen as the core problem/reason how they could offer products so cheaply.
But the way Trump is destroying things the need for low US wages will come up again…Alas, of course everything across the board will get more expensive with his tariffs, from vegetables, to electronics, energy and housing, so the common worker will be screwed and locked in his situation, preferably unable to go on strike.
- Comment on Trump unveils 10% tariff on all imports, plus reciprocal tariffs on dozens of nations 1 week ago:
This is what you get when bad education runs rampant in one’s country … Trump, like a lot of Americans, thinks there is only America and some small islands of countries that have no voice of their own but are fully beholden to rules laid down by the USA.
He wants to enforce his own non-dei rules upon France, thinks they will bow to him like vassals.
He demands other countries buy his inferior products, thinks because they don’t want them they are ripping him/the US off by only selling and not buying. Nowhere does he consider why his products are not wanted…
He has a vague idea of tariffs, thinks he can plainly tax other countries and they bow, say thank you and give him his tax-tariff money… No consideration on how the tariffs actually work, where the seller considers business concluded once he is paid and the goods are delivered, so the importing US party actually has to hand over the money coming from his profits to the government.
Because he always scams and grifts his targets Trump never learned what a proper deal is where each side walks away satisfied equally.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The line of trafficking is crossed where the person is wholly dependant on the other, ie. they hold/control your passport/means of identification and finances plus are your only means of a roof over your head in an unknown area.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 1 week ago:
If it fails spectaculairly who will take the blame? Will there be any repercussions at all?
Or will Musk and Trump shrug their shoulders? Halfheartedly blame Biden for badly programming the original database then go play some golf/videogaminges?
- Comment on The chair 2 weeks ago:
Close, a story like it is/was a classic on reddit, person started receiving/finding anonymous notes that over a few months spiraled downward…
Wish I had saved it or wrote down the title, was a fun read.
- Comment on The chair 2 weeks ago:
Interesting, it reads fine as small print on the Jerboa client.
- Comment on The chair 3 weeks ago:
A few weeks later she finds a note in her kitchen… “you are not alone”.
The next week a note on the fridge reads “They are watching you”.
Two days later an angrily scribbled note is found on the stairs “do not sell them your chairs!”
More notes randomly appear, sometimes in familiar handwriting other times in a wild angry scribble … “they are here at night” … “they are fondling your chairs in the darkness” … “I told you not to make a deal” … “you and your chairs will suffer”.
A week later Lorette Grace is admitted into hospital with severe CO poisoning.
- Comment on Non-US alternatives to digital services 2 months ago:
Not just that, but frankly for a company like Proton it’s prudent to “cry along with the wolves, lest you get killed” …
As long as Proton’s products still stand on their own in the light of the Trump regime I don’t think it is useful at all to torch the company because of remarks of its ceo now that Trump is in office…
Ofcourse one can frown and be miffed but there are far worse companies out there that everyone uses, and people shrug off direct comments of anyone on the board of directors.
- Comment on Wuhan lab samples hold no close relatives to virus behind COVID 3 months ago:
… anymore …