JoBo @ JoBo @feddit.uk

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Not really.

The valuations under consideration demonstrate the extent of tech’s retreat from the heady days of the private funding boom that peaked in 2021. Reddit raised funds that year at a $10 billion valuation, and could potentially have been valued as much as $15 billion in an IPO, Bloomberg News reported in 2022.

I'd like to think we all had a little bit to do with it also.

Because they have to spend a fortune on rent and/or commuting to earn a living where all the jobs are.

Not forgetting that is is bosses who make the location decisions and they can afford to buy in those hugely expensive cities while the forced influx of workers pushes the price of housing up.

Companies should be taxed based on the in-work benefits required to make their location viable, regardless of their own wage structure.

Dangerously close to pulling a Shapiro there.

It's a publisher, not a book store FWIW.

All this pseudo-analysis comes across as failing to see what Trump is a symptom of and instead presumes Trump is the root of the ailment.

This sentence is out of place. In the rest of your post you're agreeing with the article.>

The word was coined as satire. Brain-dead liberals centrists took it seriously and, here we are.

I have been sadly disappointed by my 1958 book, The Rise of the Meritocracy. I coined a word which has gone into general circulation, especially in the United States, and most recently found a prominent place in the speeches of Mr Blair.

The book was a satire meant to be a warning (which needless to say has not been heeded) against what might happen to Britain between 1958 and the imagined final revolt against the meritocracy in 2033.

Down with meritocracy

Edited because too many people don't know what liberal means.

Eggs in America are all washed because production facilities are filthy and riddle with salmonella. Keep them refrigerated and pay attention to the use by date.

In Europe it is safe to use the do-they-float test. I don't know about anywhere else.

It's not a moral condemnation.

Marx thought revolution was an inevitability in advanced industrialised societies because the workforce was concentrated in factories which could not function without them, and where they were able to organise because they had the numbers to organise. He thought that the inevitable crises of capitalism would lead to a takeover by the proletariat because they were in a position to take over. The lumpenproletariat consists of those individuals who, like the peasantry, were too isolated and atomised to be part of this revolutionary force.

Turns out, crises of capitalism lead to fascism because they happen when labour is at its weakest (when capitalists have bled the population so dry they have to blow up bubbles in the stock market to parasitise each other instead). And so-called 'Marxist' revolutions have only happened in agrarian societies, with a bit of Lenin or Mao tacked on to bridge the gap.

Marx is useful but treating his words like a theology is a mistake.

The objection is to disposable vapes. That the anti-vaping lobby gets a boost from them is just another reason to hate them if you see vaping as the means to make smoked tobacco obsolete, as I do.

They're an environmental nightmare and they are marketed at kids, not just people who are trying to give up smoking. Don't get me wrong, if kids are going to experiment with nicotine (and some of them inevitably will) then it's much better they do it with vapes than cigarettes. But that is not a reason to market vapes to children, nor to have batteries discarded several hundred charge cycles before they're dead, nor to litter the planet with masses of single-use plastic.

It's framed perfectly. Did you just not bother to read all of it or something?

Mixing up Marx with Lenin does make it very difficult to take the poster seriously. As an attempt to caricature a particular kind of lefty, it's half way there. But it fails because it doesn't understand the source material.

Yes they are.

Wut?

Because it is not yet an authoritarian state. Liberal democracies rarely live up to the high-minded ideals that underpin their political system but if the government excludes itself from the rule of law, it is no longer a liberal democracy.

Kinda. Gravity is acting equally on all the chips but the smaller the chip the more gaps they are small enough to pass through, so the smallest chips end up at the bottom, collectively holding up the bigger chips.

It depends who you think the govt is working for. It is not you or me. It is Money. And Money loves immigrant labour as long as the immigrants don't have any rights. Because the reason it loves immigrant labour is that it is much easier to exploit. This article does a good job of illustrating that: The fishermen

On November 22, Joanne circulated a letter among the migrant crew. “I have been made aware the crew members are contacting an outside representative,” it read, possibly referencing a call Quezon made to Stella Maris seeking help for Susada. “I am also aware that crew members have been leaving their port without permission or making our office aware. Sadly the actions by these crew members are beginning to ruin the trust and faith we have placed in our Filipino crew.” It concluded by noting they would make reports to local police and UK immigration authorities “if necessary”.

I fucking hate massive corporations laundering their reputations like this. If they cared, they'd lobby for higher taxes on the rich to pay for free school meals and a bazillion other things that govt should provide but doesn't.

They didn't.

A total of 7,413 students in four public school districts in the metro Atlanta area will get their unpaid lunch debts paid, according to Arby's, which confirmed to "Good Morning America" Friday that it had finalized $203,534 in donations to City Schools of Decatur, Cobb County School District, Henry County School District and Fulton County School District. The foundation said the remaining nearly $800,000 will be earmarked for other schools across the country and is estimated to help over 47,000 students.

Quit moaning about your co-workers and get on with your job.

They count. And I know exactly what you mean about the blue.