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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
The public is catching on to how sucky it is: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/22/amazon-wo...
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
They’ve rug pulled on users who got wise. Now on B2B. Sundar is a sus CEO. Ballmer of the decade, knows how “Google works”, but was riding high on money printer going brr. He does not seem to have a clear vision forward with the cheap cash
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
So we could let them keep their stocks and not trade them for dollars; they own 100% of their company and the public is no longer obliged to acknowledge outsiders have ephemeral value beyond their direct contribution to society. Demanding w
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
Unless the entire production pipeline, from mining to machining parts and tools involved in making a plane, no. Planes literally in the air are not the only source of green house gas connected to flying planes.
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
I mean do you seriously believe office life is some immutable law of nature and without it humanity will stop being social? You have heard of neighbors, yes? Just had “block party” with my wfh neighbors. I learned a couple are architects, o
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
So “think of the greater good” hokum? You have the spoken traditions memorized, that’s for sure.
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
Good point. Why enrich them beyond other human beings? One of billions is a much more reasonable view of who they are.
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
What’s this have to do with being ruled by rent seekers? They don’t have an absolute plan, but Powell has been projecting his goals for months; stop the rise of wages. Deflate asset prices. That sure sounds like a plan. A vague one, but a p
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
Essentially the government is setting market values through mathematical indirection the general public cannot grasp. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33031466 Basically, fu Main Street, got mine. I wonder if they belie
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
Yeah in the US we’d never curtail industrial food profit to overhaul the state of store shelves being full of easily consumed crap packaged in plastic waste of enormous energy and material cost. The health side effects are not the only outc
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
I am a “personal cognitive freedom across contexts should be protected, full stop.” For example, that means opt-in social healthcare should be a thing that resources are provided for. A minority in charge saying “no” to the public “opting i
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
The opinion this is cheap talk might be a shitty one? Gas line works fine for years, suddenly during regional conflict it goes tits up? A dying country whose leadership seems intent on putting it out of its misery sending its potential fath
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
I know there have been gamers like this for years but in this case 2 of the 4 years were during a mandatory isolate at home public health crisis. It’s possible this was actually a positive escape to help cope. Personally I’m not attached to
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
I maintain that this Fed tightening is manufactured consent to be ruled by an aristocratic class in charge of government. Rent seekers in their twilight years convinced future agency must directly build upon their efforts by propping up the
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
Big corp foisting social agency change on people has biological effects. It rather highlights the lack of free agency and self determination our society is built on. Go ahead and be academic but you’re one of billions, aka too insignificant
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
I think the idea is disruption of online livelihoods comes along with unseen and ignored externalities. Loss of online exposure will push online sex workers to make up loss of income to less safe sex work environments.
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o... Agreed. They were more frank about it back in the day. If everyone has enough money the masses can create/buy assets to capitalize on
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
Cable news has government officials on spewing government talking points all night. That’s government propaganda. Suuure it’s not “official” but wtf does that matter when it embeds itself in our inner monologues? Corporations that own cable
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
The US relies on private propaganda to normalize attitudes to its goals. Given how chummy politicians and “journalists” and corporate owners are off camera it’s laughable to think there is a real separation of power. Our biology evolved for
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
Google works on interesting things? I guess to PhDs into ML. They scrapped cutting edge R&D and became a one-trick ad-pushing pony. When the companies trajectory has been away from interesting ideas into ad laden messes and Gmail UX ref
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
Fear and group think have not gone anywhere. Society is “group think”. Try paying rent in bottle caps, and telling your boss to go fuck themselves when they ask for something. Fear of unemployment and homelessness make that unlikely. City
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
Write it into the contract daily deliverables are not the goal which is software that aligns with the original agreed upon design/spec/goals. Also it’s illegal to not pay at least minimum wage for “piecemeal work”. I refuse to tak
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
If all you’re going to do is walk the happy path the marketing necessity makes sense; you’re a bit player in a crowded cottage industry. Your startup probably doesn’t need to exist as 9 others are doing similar enough data crunching. Real t
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
Most bosses are baby sitting. Maybe I’ve been incredibly unlucky but I have never had a boss in tech who produced anything but meeting invites. If there are teams that need fat trimmed it’s HR, PM, and management. THE tool necessary to chec
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
Even Powell has said they are realizing how little they know about how inflation “works”. Claiming I am uninformed because I don’t recite the spoken traditions that even the expert in charge admits to not fully understanding is just regurgi
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
Yes. Powell is on record saying he wants the public to save and not trade on the market. He wants bonds to go up. He wants salaries to stop going up. If everyone is flush in assets from having cash to spend it fucks up the game for establis
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
Greed seems to explain it easily enough. The macro-economy is solely for the wealthy and when they need a billion or more to see a return on a billion or more, shrinkflation and price increases go up; hard to make a billion back on long tim
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
The zeitgeist of our culture; of course you didn’t MEAN to be negative, here try again. No, no; I most certainly did mean to suggest you should stop showing me this persons channel. Not because I hate the person but because I don’t want a s
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
They privatized it by passing technical propaganda research to universities who modeled it into behavioral economics, marketing, advertising. Social media is built with such research in mind. Society will never stop trying to wrap a big fuz
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by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
When you can just point at a law degree as unfalsifiable proof a contract must be legit what is the layman to do? It could be argued the reason the law is successful (like many other “successful” social frameworks in history) is the ignoran

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