Did companies reach out to you for brand deals, or did you actively reach out to them asking for sponsorship?
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Facebook violated the order by the FTC, and for the order to have any teeth to it, there must be some sort of enforcement action behind it, just like for bail. Right now it seems like FB is just getting told off by saying the FTC will 'propose' FB not to benefit from certain data collection. Ok, so nothing has been actually enforced for the violation.
And what about for the past violations? Will FB be forced to delete all their data they collected during the time they were under the FTC's order? The proposal (if even passed), will only limit future collections, not violations that have already happened and profited from.
> Now, the FTC has proposed changes to the 2020 order that would prohibit Facebook owner Meta from launching new products on any of its platforms without procuring written FTC compliance confirmation and prevent the company from monetizing any of the youth data it collects across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus.
So if FB has not been complying with FTC's order, then what's the penalty they have to pay for their failure?
The only fight worth fighting is one where you stand shoulder to shoulder. The French are doing just that. And even though their government passed the pension age raise, they're still fighting. Because at the end of the day, who did they pass that for? Not for the working class. Look at how fast they got it out without regard to what their citizens were saying.
If you were to fight that in court, not only would you be fighting billionaire funded defense lawyers, but it'll take years and ... ? You see the discrepancy? They're fast to pass laws favorable to billionaires, but for the people? It takes years?
Don't waste money on courts. Real change comes from blood and solidarity. Workers in the past have died for our benefits today.
Who do you think will win that fight? The fundamental flaw of the court system is that it's biased towards those who have money due to how politics work.
Here's food for thought, why isn't Prince Andrew in any serious trouble regarding the Epstein rapes? I don't know a single citizen who can just put their hand up and say "nope", and walk away without repercussions, unless you know, they're extremely rich. And we see that in the news again and again in every category of crimes.
The system is broken, worldwide. The only true way to fight 'fire with fire' is solidarity. Look at France, fighting together and protesting against raising the pension retirement age. It's been a month and they're still fighting. And for the government to just push that forward without regard to its populace, who do you think that action is actually for? Not the people.
For South Korea though, the tone deafness is just astounding here. Like they're still at war, aren't they? They're just in a cease-fire right now. They're gonna need a steady supply of troops, and having low birthrates is gonna put them in a disadvantage when war breaks out. It's a real national security concern, yet stealing public money is more important to those in power. Just wow.
Kinda how like Zuckerberg recently pointed to bogus 'reports' on in-office workers being more productive than remote workers, and then used it as an excuse to RTO. Except it's funnier in that case since Meta is all about the metaverse and being remote, so it's kinda ironic.
Then when the company lays you off, your severance package is even less due to the same reasons as above.
The whole thing is going to have cascading effect, and since you can't predict when you'll be laid off given how cavalier they've been doing it so far, better not to sign it. Seems like the company is trying to cut costs before laying off again to save even more money.
And even if you are laid off because you didn't sign, at least you'll have the satisfaction that you didn't bend over backwards for their crap. Staying true to yourself is what you'll regret the least in the long run.
Sometimes the average joe can taste certain components of that secret sauce, because they're brilliant and hard-working, and was at the right time and place. But it's a very rare occurrence.
It's always when the rich get screwed, rules get bent. I'll be curious to see when a bank for retail customers get screwed, but I hope it never happens.
You're right in that language doesn't matter. Hell even the delivery of the message doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is the severance or layoff package. That's the real meat. There should be a mandatory law that publishes all layoff packages so that everyone can see if they're getting a fair deal or not.
The only way people like that will learn is by sending them to prison. Their actions were so egregious, so completely in disregard for our financial system, that it's impossible to not have done any of that without intent. I'm sure if they turned over all electronic and paper documentation, there's gonna be a written strategy somewhere directing all this.
From what I understand, the article begins by explaining that the author initially wrote "How to Do Nothing", and book critics said the suggestions within it were unrealistic due to how our society is organized: Only those with money privilege can spend time "present in mountain cabins, to “witness” while spending afternoons in a rose garden, to “prefer not to” during summers off from teaching at Stanford!"
That's a fair enough point from the critics though, most of us have to work and a lot of us don't get fair wages to comfortably screw-off and do whatever (ie service industry workers, etc).
So a new book is written called "Saving Time" to address those points from the critics, but can anyone help me understand it?
> Very often, problems of style and pacing are actually problems of thinking, and here is where one difficulty of “Saving Time” lies. Odell is working with ideas that demand careful, persuasive articulation: the interrelation of so many injustices, how to translate grief into language and language into action.
It goes to give an example of wikipedia being a blob of regurgitated general information with no originality. But Wikipedia is a great time saver, it lets us loosely explore topics we ourselves are not experts in (and will never be experts in due to the limits of our personal time), and conveys that information in a way any layman can understand. What child learned math by first looking at a textbook of equations and proofs and said that's cool? We all started with, "If you have 2 balls and I take away 1 ball, how many balls do you have left?".
> In truth, every pleasure worth its name—music, sex, drugs, novel-reading—derives its particular rush from how it alters our sense of time, how it crumples it up or extends it into something long, lush, and strange.
> My sculptures are in a way analogous to time. The intrinsic nature of what they are made of is emerging: chemical changes in the paint on Gloucester and a characteristic of the poplar wood of which Valley Forge was constructed.
That's true, time is elastic when viewed subjectively. When we enjoy a hobby, time flies. But when doing a mundane task, time slows. Time can also be represented as an object too, time can feel long when looking and thinking about an 18th century painter painting the painting we now see in a museum.
But time is also limited for each of us, because the universal clock is ticking no matter how we're individually perceiving time: we're all gonna die one day. So even if time is elastic, time is still a static measure when measured against everyone in the world. So even if the author gives us mindhacks to help us save time by viewing time in a healthier way individually, it's still a static meter that's ticking. Time saved or time wasted, it's a unit of time that passed.
> Our struggle to behave responsibly and sanely with time—often labelled “distraction”—isn’t merely a matter of being manipulated. “We mustn’t let Silicon Valley off the hook, but we should be honest: much of the time, we give in to distraction willingly
But the book critics had a valid point: we don't control our time because we have to work. We spend most of our adult lives working, and if we stop, our livelihoods are threatened. With that context, how does one responsibly stay sane without distractions? We're literally locked into working and cannot stop, and the breaks we get is interspersed by a netflix show here and there. People in Japan, working insane hours for insane bosses, having no time for family resulting in nationwide low birthrates, how does time work for them within the author's framework? I still don't know what the author's framework even is at this paragraph in the article.
Relating distractions back to the article earlier stating that "problems of style and pacing are actually problems of thinking" (and Wikipedia), that's also how people get interested in subjects they later become experts in. Easy-to-Understand mediums like movies have inspired new generations of writers and actors, games like Minecraft can excite a child to become interested in game engines and ultimately gamedev or programming as a career. So many positive things can come from the cultural arts, the same arts that are designed to distract us.
The article ends with:
> The limits of Odell’s book, in turn, arise from a catechistic indexing of abstract forces, a harried sprint through familiar analyses that scarcely accommodates the waywardness of specific human experience. No moss grows under her feet, she can assure herself. But a book that spent less of its time reprising our era’s commonplaces would have made better use of ours.
But I'm not sure what the "catechistic indexing of abstract forces" are still, or how they relate to our modern living. And ultimately, how any of what was written answers the article's actual title: "Why We Never Have Enough Time"? I just ended up with so many confusing points at the end!
What advantages did SVB provide that other brand named bank didn't? Wouldn't it have been safer to put your startup's money in Bank of America, or JP Morgan, etc? I've never heard of SVB until the crash.
But at this point, since Stripe has completely screwed you, I'm not sure what anyone here can say other than to get a lawyer. Stripe has already inflicted very real monetary damages to you, and possibly reputational damage. I'm sure once you send a lawyer at them, you'll get a response quick. I would also contact your Attorney General in your state, and file an official complaint. AG may look into it eventually if complaints pile up against Stripe.
Otherwise too bad, the business created unfavorable conditions for their employees, so workers should have every right to leave and work for anyone else, including competitors. Either employees are that valuable or they're not, can't have your cake and eat it too, Mr. Big Boss.
The way these founders are carrying out their actions is pre-planned. Everything you listed that they did was to protect and set themselves up to be the sole owner and reap all the benefits. And considering you're from another country, there is a huge chance they'll just rip you off or break their employment agreements with you whenever they want (probably including sketchy math when it comes to options payout/dilution). And you will have no recourse unless you want to wait years and pay for the legal costs that come with it.
You can test the waters too. See if they'll make you a full time employee, and get a title bump of CTO or something. Or if you think that's too much, get like Senior Architect or something that will look good on your resume for your next job. And ask for a real huge salary bump. If they say they can't do it, or can do it next year (ie putting it off), you'll know they're not serious about keeping you, which means they're already planning on screwing you at some point. As you said, you don't really believe their verbal promises, so bring up a real conversation with real tangible benefits to you and watch carefully how their poker face reacts. It'll tell you a lot.
But to be honest, I would plan to cash out and use your work time to find a different gig in the meantime. Scale back your deliveries and prep for interviews. Your skill level is likely high enough to work at a big named corp with great pay and benefits (ie Google and the like). Larger corps are a lot less likely to rip you off unlike startup founders because they generally have presence in the the country they're operating in and have to follow local laws. Good luck!
What is Musk thinking, like these workers are literally propping the company up. To treat them like this is, just wow.
My last iphone was an SE phone, so these devices can last a good bit. If you think of it as an investment and treat it well, they can last past a few iphone generations, so it's a better deal than buying an old phone. I definitely don't regret moving from the SE to the mini, if that helps, and am very happy with my current phone.