“Sure we destroyed the planet as we knew it, but for a brief moment in time, we increased value for shareholders!”
“Sure we destroyed the planet as we knew it, but for a brief moment in time, we increased value for shareholders!”
What usually happens is the area becomes too rich for the usual folk who have lived there since their birth. Now they can’t eat at a restaurant in their own home town.
just to teabag another nation.
Gestures broadly at the space race of the 1950s
Actually a little bit of humiliation goes a long way towards diligence when conducting expensive space experiments. Russia used to be the leaders in these fields. The world used to rely on Soviet vehicles for launch. They deserve to be held at a higher standard.
Its for yor benefit. And NHS actually saves lives.
Because Redhat has IBM hands shoved up through it’s ass upto it’s brains so it’s days are numbered.
Don’t underestimate IBM honchos to fuck up a good thing. Recently heard Redhat dropping dev support for a bunch of packages in fedora or something.
The moment someone fucks up… open source always brings alternatives. See: open office vs. Libreoffice… the bunch of firefox derivatives.
Ah the “I’m not crazy! You are!” Stage of deranged authoritarians
Oh I am thinking of them… how to murder shareholders in various unique ways… could be neat game idea too!
Someday even the air you breathe will be sold by a corporation… then your comment will appear silly.
Let’s say we continue down this path. Soon you can’t even live the way you want because some corp will control things like when you eat, when you sleep, what media you consume,… oh wait…
Then they were never in it for the tech… only for the easy payout.
I think I can distill many of the replies to this question in a few checks that may apply generally (exceptions abound, and i could just be wrong)
Are you intimately familiar (subject matter expert level) with the nasty outcomes of what you would be doing on a daily basis at this company? If yes its better it was YOU and not somebody else.
How much separation is there between what you do and the nasty outcomes? If you pull the trigger on a drone… I get thats unacceptable to some people.
Does not doing the activity make something else even more worse? (Frying pan vs. Fire dilemma)
Are you only doing this because there’s no other real choice? (Poverty)
What you mean that won’t STOP them? That actually STARTs them again!
Sure… All the countries that were doing well before some 3 alphabet orgs got involved died because of communism, not because of manufactured coups.
It can’t exist without the government keeping the angry mob from chopping off the Capitalists’ heads off.
I agree with you. These capitalists spit on climate activists calling them doomers and even worse terms. But the moment someone suggests that it’s ok when the line doesn’t have to go up always… it’s pitchfork time.
It’s hilarious to see: Most Capitalists (or atleast those who are not actively opposing fossil fuel industry) complain about Doomers for the climate, but the moment the line stops going up you guys become Doomers yourself.
I have seen how capitalists scream when the line stops going up. But I never see capitalists suggest changes to how the economy is setup to avoid this phenomenon. I don’t trust people who can’t be objective when their baby has made a booboo.
Not the OP you were talking to, but I have to object to what you say is ignorance, even though you might be saying it about OP specifically. You probably think everybody thinks of deflation like this.
Deflation is bad -> I believe this is true. But that’s not the point.
The current economy is setup this way to make anything other than rampant consumerism and aggressive capitalism a country-destroying phenomenon -> This is what irks people. The rich and powerful have setup a shitty rube-goldberg machine that makes their lives better at the expense of the commonfolk, environment, and everybody else’s sanity.
And then you don’t have a job any more because you’re working at a washing machine factory and nobody’s buying them and the economy is going under.
We don’t have alternative jobs in 2023! Everyone whose not a millionaire or richer needs to get their asses on the factory floor!
Young people may perhaps be even doing it deliberately as a protest.