Wasn't he already rich, though? Once you're over, like, $10mm, you don't really need to work anymore.
And then when he took the money, I think he just squandered it on bullshit.
If someone handed me 2 billion dollars I'd probably be building trains and houses, or maybe something for the climate crisis. Not jerking off alone in a house full of candy. He's a shithead failure of a human, if that's all he's done.
so what will be the point of failure
It feels like a lot of the maga hats will die cheering and waving trump flags. I don't know if that's historically precedented.
It's going to be hard to make any fixes when like 30-50% of the country wants hell on earth.
Job market is brutal, at least for tech. Every job gets 100s of applicants. There's a lot of AI slop. Offered salaries are down. For some reason, management wants people to go into the office (which is among other problems a pay cut compared to WFH).
I've been unemployed since the winter. Had a handful of phone screens. Haven't made it to a technical round yet.
My old job laid off all but one guy and a contractor.
Honestly, I kind of want to get out of tech but I don't know what I can do that doesn't require like a degree or is terrible.
Unemployment runs out soon. Not that the pittance the state gives is enough to live on. I asked what I should do when it runs out and they were like, awkward shrug.
Meanwhile there are billionaires living content lives of luxury.
How would you quantify ongoing projects where workers come and go and each of their specific contribution might not be easy to measure?
Probably some sort of collective ownership, profit sharing, with negotiation and consensus building. Other people more well read than me have spent a lot of time thinking about this. My starting position is that the standard capitalist model of "I pay you $10 to make a widget, and I sell it for $1000 and keep all the profits" is not okay.
Do they all also assume financial responsibility for any failures or lawsuits?
Do the owners assume financial responsibility now? I think that's what LLCs and other corporate structures are for- to shield individuals from liability and responsibility.
Taking things too seriously, don't most plants benefit from their fruit being eaten as part of their lifecycle?
but they should be run by the government and get their own parking infrastructure.
Well, yeah, but some soulless husks want to profit. Personally I think we should hold some "disruption" conferences on a remote island, and then "forget" to pick them all up afterwards.
Also it's not like the workers typically get the long tail of profits. Most labor is only paid a salary, and the "owners" get to keep profiting. Workers should be entitled to the profits of their labor.
Maybe. The natural reflex is to point out the horrors of capitalism, but people are more okay with that.
I found a setting that alleged to enable snoozing, but it doesn't seem to work. This is an older android phone though.
It would be helpful if my phone had a built in snooze function. Sometimes I get a text and I want to snooze it for an hour. Just dismiss the notification and remind me later.
mostly I avoid a lot of the big drains (social media, other than lemmy) and tell people I'll get back to them within 24 hours.
I tell people I have a 24 hour response window. Barring exceptional circumstances, I'll get back to a message within 24 hours. Often faster, but that's not guaranteed.
You could also have salaries 🤷
The problem to solve is a handful of people who aren't really doing much work get most of the profits. There may be other solutions.