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Sorry, can't afford the scope creep on having Timmy over for dinner tomorrow night. Don't want to damage the metrics.

It was always that way, except it was never used by corporate entities to abuse you.

I love the assertion that a stock reflects some sort of real value. They don’t, the market is an irrational pile of crap, and that’s why index funds are the best. They take the cream of the crap.

Dispute resolution will still be just as difficult.

The question is when do you give the assignment? I'm starting to hear of a lot of candidates that get it before they even hit a phone screen.

Capitalist: I firmly believe in demand and supply economics. That is why I raise my prices all the time!

Also capitalists: I refuse to raise my wages in response to a low supply labour market for my labour demands. I will instead lobby the government to let me hire wage slaves that I can abuse from overseas labour markets where living costs are much lower.

Or you could fight for a strong socialist state and recognize that this whole article supports the labour theory of value. Especially when the other option aside becoming an oppressor is to build stronger walls around your slightly nicer gated community.

Billionaire business owner tells poors to see working almost the entirety of their lives for his, and others like him, benefit.

They should have rushed the stage.

This is what you should be distributing anyways. The first is the investor memo, and it should go out before the pitch. Then you take your deck and go in person for the pitch. Then people will have Q&A time, get to know the company at a more personal level, and not spend their time there reading.

She leaves, and some also wealthy person gets to pay way more for it. The also wealthy landlord gets to get way too much for it. I'm happier to watch the owners of capital hurt for it.

Decommodify housing. Full stop, no rents. Housing by need.

It's becoming standard because they're able to skirt employment law using a continuing relationship with an arbitrator as a lever. So yes, they're all trying to screw you. Or least, have the option to screw you at their leisure.

Legal protections should not be signed away. Collective action is the power labour wields.

Never trust anyone who attempts to get you to waive your right to collective action, or attempts to force you in to binding arbitration. This is especially true when it comes to employment.

There is never any benefit for you, and it means that they will, one day, try to screw you.

It's generally very difficult to get younger STEM people on board with this. They often believe themselves to be different or just straight up better than their predecessors. For them, it doesn't matter because they're clearing not going to be ousted, or are so short sighted that they believe it won't matter if/when it happens to them.

There is hardly anything significant about the current subsidies in place, especially with respect to the other subsidies that exist already. Tech is one of the biggest recipients of subsidies as it is.

It's absolutely about financial support as well as everything else. If everyone thought about it in a purely financial way, you'd be forced to have children.

Tax breaks are minimal. Everyone should have a right to an excellent publicly funded education system (and they generally do, not just the childless), and paid maternity leave is absolutely necessary.

And you're clearly unaware of how much of a gross oversimplification it being a "choice" is.

Yea, that's not always how it works. There are a lot of things that factor in to what happens with kids, including the age of a person when the kid happens. It's also not something you can go back on, or just ditch.

And people with kids deserve to comment that they don't have that time because if everyone used the 20 something single white male with no kids, no responsibilities, and minimal routine for anything but work, sleep, and a free 8 hours a day, human society would collapse in to a even bigger cesspool of poverty.

Having children is necessary, and important, for our society. It should be fully supported. Not the subject of derision by people with your attitude.

If you're bringing in 3x your cost, you're getting ripped off and need to start raking those numbers back in.

super relevant: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...

They had programmable thermostats that didn't tell everyone who had access what you're up to. They fit the use cases of almost everyone.

The 1% considers themselves to be rank and file, and everyone else needs to get bootstraps. Just like they did.

It's a pretty common conception within industries with high levels of pay disparity.

They do dismiss it. They are in an echo chamber.

I loved Windows Phone 8.1

Handset was cheap, performant, the OS was gorgeous and easy to use, typing was great.

It's weird though. The apps are totally what did it, but I've found that I really don't use many apps on phones. My phone is littered with the, but my usage statistics say that I'm a slack ass when it comes to them. Basically just language applications.

so does math, or public gyms. All without the funneling of even more public money in to already wealthy hands.

You want stadiums? Sure. Public gets the profits with the owner renting the space.

It's just another example of how CS (Read: Silicon Valley) culture is geared entirely towards the 20 - 30 year old male with no family or time commitments. Willing and able to spend hundreds of hours grinding leetcode and a portfolio of side projects.

Their culture problems that have become publicized of late are a knock on effect of this. It definitely establishes the fundamentals and makes you "better" than the rest (to a point), but at a terrible cost.

That's the scary part though. A lot of the examples out there are meant to see when something is out of the ordinary and then be interpreted by people.

I mean, not really? When is the last time you ever gave a shit about "premium" beer? That's literally on every beer out there.

Vancouver has some of the tastiest water out there. It's also quite soft compared to other natural sources. Same with Seattle, Portland, and those areas in the NW.

The issue here is that they're cutting away from what was actually the standard before in order to create something "premium". What used to be "economy" is now "premium economy" with a price hike, and now "economy" is something that was made deliberately worse.

Where are you getting runners stitched to the sole?