Copernican @ Copernican @lemmy.world

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Cost of living adjustments are real. The value of your work is based in part of market rate. And part of that market rate is based on location due to various costs of livings, taxes, laws etc. I think the thing is the pre pandemic salaries should have accounted for those factors, but when those factors change due to people moving etc. it is reasonable to expect the question to be asked about adjustment. You're not being punished for being frugal.

New yorker here. Sometimes the MTA sucked, but my 40m door to door gave me time to listen to a podcast in the subway and decompress from work before stepping in my front door. I also read the news a lot more. I don't do those things nearly as much now. Also beers in the office and happy hours where team workers forced me to stop working at a reasonable hour were helpful to make me turn off the workaholic side of me.

Curious. Are you fully remote or do you still have an office to go into? Is there any culture left in your office if you do go in?

Me too. I miss my chill office culture where everyone showed up, but the norm was roll in anytime before 1030 or 11am and leave early if you need to. And expected to work from home a day or maybe 2 a week if needed. As long as you showed up for the important meetings in person and attended had a known presence in the office while you were there, it was all good. And being in the office felt good because it was a good collaborative environment. Now I can opt in to go to the office, and have all the sedative isolation of home without the comforts.

Are people forgetting that the salaries were high in high cost of living areas to account for this cost. In the new normal, should employees expect pay cuts, or should employees that opt in to in office expect higher pay or stipends?

Also, curious about tax advantaged commuter benefits. Sure sticker cost is a months groceries, but if you are commuting and able to pay that pre tax for Metro or rail passes, it's only 66 percent of the sticker cost.

Also I think the pet and childcare costs are interesting. For child care, is that assuming like 1 or 2 extra hours of childcare per day?

By that logic if you are an adult over 22 years old , you are defacto a MAGA member.

It's not really young or old that are fucked. It's still the poor and rich, and guess which one is fucked. Over time the wealth gap is widening which sucks for younger people. But it's still a rich and poor problem, and I think we should have sympathy for those with financial insecurity regardless of age.

As a millennial I figure this POV being criticized is more like gen z not having real life experience after college. There's a lot to be critical about from previous generations, but when it becomes vindictive, retributive, etc. it is not call. This is the type of POV and shit that arms the Republicans of accusing libs of wanting death panels for grandma and grandpa. The lemmyverse unfortunately reads like university Marx reading group populated by edgelords.

It doesn't mean that this is not a social problem we need to face a solve today. Like if we could establish a UBI, would we just not give it to people over 65? I don't understand how folks here are so retributive to a whole generation, when probably 40 to 45 percent of that generation didn't vote for Reagan.

Lol. Not a boomer. Just wait until you have parents late in retirement and have declining health. If you care enough to care for them you'll realize the amount of stress and work it takes.

You were talking about the streaming platform specifically as an industry.

it's an industry that's earning literal billions every single year...they absolutely don't need to have ads, they could serve their paying users a good ad-free product, and still make money. They choose to deliberately annoy their paying customers because they're fucking greedy.

It's okay to be corrected.

You're acting as if there's not a plurality of opinion in that cohort. And it's also about Gen X who is about to hit that retirement cliff being discussed. It's also about class and questions of forced retirement because bodies no longer allow folks to work that allegedly claim they would if they could.

And if we are making morale arguments about human dignity and what society should do, that applies to these older generations as well despite their previous political contributions.

Fake news. Netflix is the only one making a profit. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/17/hollywood-streaming-profits-struggles.html

I don't know why lemmy users love spreading misinformation that all streaming platforms are taking in profit hand over fist.

The ageism in this thread is starting to get appalling. Apparently the working class only deserves sympathy and help if they are under 35 years old currently.

That doesn't help people currently approaching 65 that this article is focusing on.

Look at the reuters article cited: https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-companies-lose-190-billion-market-cap-after-alphabet-microsoft-report-2024-01-31/

Jan 30 (Reuters) - AI-related companies lost $190 billion in stock market value late on Tuesday after Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab, Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O), opens new tab delivered quarterly results that failed to impress investors who had sent their stocks soaring. The selloff following the tech giants' reports after the bell underscored investors' elevated expectations following an AI-fueled stock market rally in recent months that propelled their shares to record highs with the promise of incorporating the technology across the corporate landscape.

I don't know that I would say this has anything inherently to do with AI...

The reuters article for AMD specifically: https://www.reuters.com/technology/high-flying-chipmakers-hit-after-amds-forecast-falls-short-2024-01-31/

Jan 31 (Reuters) - High-flying semiconductor stocks slipped on Wednesday after Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD.O) disappointing current-quarter revenue forecast added to investor worries over sluggish demand for non-AI chips

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That overshadowed the company near doubling its AI processor projections to $3.5 billion for 2024.

TV economics are hard. I think where basic cable and network TV make it work is that the content was filmed in a way to have natural ad breaks to make it less disruptive to the viewing experience. That becomes terrible when you shoehorn ads into places they don't belong. On the other hand, watching that content without ad breaks that was filmed with ad breaks also plays out weird because you'll have that commercial cliffhaner music/scene that is quickly followed with resolution before you have time to wonder "what is going to happen?" So shit gets weird when you have a tier model where some people get ad breaks and others don't because your content isn't made to satisfy both use cases.

TV is expensive to make and these are businesses that make money. A simple reductive "if user pays any money they deserve no ads" problem. It's a challenge of things like "The business needs to make X dollars per user and if we have ads we need to charge Y bucks where Y = X - expected ad revenue." The other challenge is in order to have an ad business you need to convince advertisers you have ad viewers they want to reach. Well, advertisers like rich people with lots of money, and they probably don't have the cheaper ad supported tiers. So can a TV company really support a completely ad free tier? Or do they still need to serve some, but less ads, to make sure their advertisers know they can get their ads seen by the platforms richest users?

So what happens if a person allows their likeness to be 3d modeled and textured for something like a video game, and that 3d model is used to create explicit images. Is that not a problem (or maybe a different kind of problem) because it's not a deepfake and instead a use of a digital asset?

Interesting. So is Tesla fucking up so bad that they don't even have vendors that know how to hide the fucked up job they do? Or do they have vendor's that may also be to blame?

"Google and Apple should manage consent, but let me manage payments directly so I don't have to pay them."

I am kind of curious. If you are a waste management vendor, and you have a job in sales or client acquisitions... Should your job almost to be a watchdog and narc. Your job is compliance, and your client prospect pool includes those not doing it ...