cloutchaser

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by cloutchaser 3y ago
They did. Then they stopped. https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/16/21569524/tesla-model-3-3... The model 3 is still the 7th most sold car in 2022. Is a car company not allowed to raise prices? Like what st
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by cloutchaser 3y ago
How is saying the US (who spend more than the rest of the world combined on defense) should destroy Russia - Russian propaganda?
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
People seem to ignore the EU is in just as bad a state as the UK, especially now that Russian energy is over Germany as we know it is basically over. Brexit might have had an impact but it’s one of 10 things badly wrong with europe as a who
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
In a city. How about anyone living in the countyside? Do those people not exist? Where my parents live, there is are 3 buses per day. None around school time. How does a child get to school? Or should these families just move to the city? D
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
Family of four, with a stroller? Do you go on multi-day trips, where you need clothes are gear for everyone? Do you have smaller children's car seats will take up 80% of the back seats?
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
You can only just fit 2 child seats into a smaller car. For anyone with 3 children, anything without 2 rows of back seats is basically an unusable car for the whole family. And the reason everyone is going on about "car size inflation&
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
Spoken like someone without a family. You have no idea how small cars are for even a short trip with a family of 4.
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
> Why hasn't worker pay arisen proportionally, since if they're working for multinationals they are similarly serving millions to billions? They have. In China and other assembly countries. And there’s your ultimate answer for
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
Another way to interpret this story is that the performers were whining and thought they had a bad deal, but when faced with consequences they realised it actually wasn’t a bad deal for them. Words and words. Actions are actions.
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
Actually there is a reason for the increase recently, globalisation and the internet. While a top exec in the 1960 might be serving a few million customers, maybe tens of millions, now it is in the billions (also population has increased).
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
Second hand information: Apple on average takes 2 years to fill an empty position. They almost never lay anyone off, just find another role for someone. It's where the evil corporation narrative falls down, apple makes sure they hire t
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
There are a group of people who will use any excuse to centralise control. You can call this a conspiracy, or the illuminati or the WEF or whatever. It doesn't matter what you call them. Right now there's more of these people in p
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
And we're at the tip of the iceberg. Even the mainstream media is now covering that the mRNA shots increase the risk of stroke substantially. What else are we going to find out? (and I'm vaccinated, but it's extremely eye ope
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
I wonder if we will feel the same about “minimal” design in the future. I really don’t see anything beautiful about a white box with black windows, yet architects seem obsessed with it. Probably because it’s called good design yet it’s almo
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
You are right (sometimes), but so is the prankster for challenging authority sometimes. A healthy society both has rule following and rule challenging. Sometimes there’s too much rule following, sometimes there’s too much chaos, and then th
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
How are sequoia funds doing these days? If your point would be correct it would suggest these types of old VCs have already gotten their money out in some insider trading phase. They didn’t. And they just lost $400m on just FTX. Their portf
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
Life is not Netflix.
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
A banking nation who even holds money for basically anyone, including nazis back in the 1940s. Nice example.
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
I mean sure, that's a nice dream. What society in the history of humanity has ever come close to this? What is your blueprint for achieving this practically, instead of saying nice sounding dreams?
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
What he is saying is that in any society the elite are isolated, this isn’t something unique to billionaires. You think Chavez in Venezuela or Xi in China is still a man of the people? Perhaps this is a good thing. You can’t make emotional
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
You could argue your point the other way round. When times were good these companies clearly overemployed staff. That is very unfair to investors. Cutting back at this time finally prioritizes investor goals, and it’s pretty minimal anyway.
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
Dividends are taxed at the same percent as income in the Uk. So he is paying a lot on that. Unless he isn’t resident in the Uk. Which I don’t know.
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
The headcount in tech recently grew way faster than the rest of the economy, and faster than the companies growth as well. As you get bigger headcount shouldn’t necessarily rise by more than the company is growing, which is what happened. I
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
You are partially right, of course the individuals bear responsibility. But you also have to acknowledge that at a macro level every economic crises since 1999 has been caused by central banks blowing bubbles. Including the recent VC bubble
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
It’s an anecdote but it’s also what I heard from my doctor dad working in the NHS. There was a time when the UK health system was actually run by doctors or people with medical knowledge. Now it’s MBAs and generalist managers. It doesn’t wo
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
They are reciting the guilt that they are copying off their parents. It’s horrible. Think about it this way. You worked damn hard so that your children have a better life. I know I do. So did my parents. Is it unfair that we give that advan
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
So you’re not even an expert but you think you know what too much wealth is. The intellectual arrogance of your comment is staggering. And unfortunately it’s a common opinion.
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
So one persons intuition works better at working out exactly what too much wealth or a healthy society means, than a feedback system of about 7bn independent entities kind of trading freely and making decisions, and for example awarding Jef
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
Yet from most discourse I see it seems a lot of people actually believe it’s better in Ethiopia. A few years ago Venezuela was held up as the poster child of how to defeat capitalism by the same people.
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
It's a bit confusing at a definitional level too. If 60% don't earn a living wage, how are they surviving? Surely your definition of "living wage" is more of a marketing gimick than anything, if 60% of people manage to &

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