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Hey NYPD, his last name is Ligma!

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Hell yeah!! Welcome, fellow penguin. 🐧

Do you think merely agreeing to something makes the arrangement acceptable? A mugger sticks a gun to my head and says, "give me your wallet or I'll kill you." I give him my wallet. Was that actually a real, consensual choice? Of course not, agreement is a necessary condition for a fair contract, but not a sufficient one.

If you're doing the work, you're entitled to the fruits of your labor. Slavery is the exact inverse of that, where you are entitled to none of the fruits of your labor.

Capitalism tries to split the difference, where depending on a complex set of contractual agreements of dubious legitimacy, you are entitled to some arbitrary amount of fruit for your labor.

There are degrees of severity of course, some relationships are far more exploitative than others.

There isn't a magical number where a business becomes unethically profitable. The issue with Capitalism isn't one of degree. It's not like a bath that's too hot, where the only issue is the temperature needs to be lowered.

If your business operates in a way that is undemocratic, it's unethical. Doesn't matter if all the employees agreed to it, doesn't matter if they all signed contracts permitting it, doesn't matter that the legal system allows the business to operate like that.

Now of course, as I said, there are degrees. A mom & pop flower shop that employs local high school kids as part time workers, pays them well, and treats them nicely, that's not a huge issue. Unethical still, but not terrible. It's like cheating on a middle school pop quiz, still wrong, but extremely minor.

You also brought up the issue of practicality. This requires a lot of depth to respond to, so would you prefer to pivot to that, or stay on the more theoretical questions about Capitalism and exploitation?

You cannot have that much wealth and operate in an ethical way, it's not possible. Just like you cannot have non-consensual sex with somebody in an ethical way, there is no scenario where that is possible.

Just because a system allows you to do something doesn't make it morally acceptable to do it. Right now, it's trivial to scam people out of tens of thousands of dollars using meme crypto-currency. But just because you can do it doesn't mean it's morally acceptable.

That's the classic, "don't hate the player, hate the game." incorrect, you can hate both the player, and the game, it's not mutually exclusive.

Capitalism is a fundamentally evil system. It allows and creates incentives for people to make effectively unlimited amounts of money by exploiting others. Billionaires are the ultimate example of what happens when Capitalism is allowed to run rampant for centuries. No one person should be able to amass that amount of wealth and power, it's wrong, and it indicates deep societal problems.

An ethical way to operate a company would be some kind of employee-owned structure, where everybody who works for the company has equal say in how it operates. They get to decide if they want a CEO, who it is, and what they get paid. They get to decide collectively what the company does with the profits. They might decide to equally distribute it to all employees. They might decide to reinvest some percentage in better workflows, better equipment, or nicer facilities. The point is it would actually be democratic.

Also, I know this guy wasn't a Billionaire. There are other ways to be a bad person than being a billionaire.

Bitwarden

It's a FOSS password manager that you can self host, or use their cloud infrastructure. Their free plan is more than enough for basic users, and their paid personal plan is less than $1 a month and is packed with features.

Runs in your browser, Android, iOS, Chrome and Firefox extensions, and has native desktop apps for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Super easy to set up and use, no BS, works damn near perfectly. I've been using it for years and I love it, it's the only password manager I recommend to folks now days.

So you'd rather live in a world where indirect murder and death are normalized. You are fine with people dying as long as it's "clean" and orderly. As long as it's always discussed calmly in the abstract, and in terms of statistics, percentages, economics, and policy.

You want to act like you are morally superior to everybody because you're "rational" and would never stoop to dank meme about a super rich CEO of a multi-billion dollar insurance corpo.

Well let me put it in terms you might appreciate: This CEO's death shouldn't be mourned because the world is a slightly better place now that he is dead. He made millions of dollars and lived a more lavish lifestyle than 99.99% of people will ever experience. And he did that with money he made by causing the deaths and suffering of thousands of innocent, vulnerable people via the policies and practices of the company he was in charge of for years.

See? Cold, abstract, and calm. Is that "rational" enough for you?

It's the ease if use. In Windows, you select an option called kiosk mode, select a user account or create one to use, then tell Windows what webpage/site URL to use for the locked down browser interface. Then you click go and that's it.

You have a locked down, reasonably secure single-use kiosk for your Company HR portal, in-house web app, or training portal, literally takes less than 5 minutes, and is so simple, I could walk a non-techie through the whole process easily over the phone.

Things like cage are already more technical and tough to setup than that, by a large margin.

It's great if you need something more powerful, or you want a bunch of kiosks that you can roll out on a low power SBC. But for one-off basic kiosks that use a little mini-tower, Windows kiosk mode is pretty great.

Not something I use personally, but a super easy, #JustWorks kiosk mode.

It's the only thing I think Windows does better than Linux.

Don't get me wrong, you can turn Linux into a great kiosk device, but it takes a lot of technical labor.

In the IT space, I often need to set up a basic kiosk device for HR portals, safety training stations, etc. In Windows, this takes 5 minutes tops.

If I had the programming chops, it would be my #1 project to work on. Even if it only worked with a specific DE or distro, I would be alright with that, as long as it was as easy and quick to set up as Windows Kiosk mode.

Love my Steam Deck so much! Just got done pounding out a 9 hour CIV 5 co-op campaign the other day.

The Deck didn't miss a beat, hosted the game without issue, external monitor running off the dock with my travel keyboard and mouse, flawless fun!

Emulators do what Nintendon't.

It's better to buy them food or give them homeless care packs. There are good lists online of things you can give to homeless folks that will help them a lot, socks are a main staple.

I give all three depending on the scenario. I almost never have cash on me, so I don't hand out money very often just because of that.

It's important to show them compassion and care. Homeless people are often treated like trash by most people. Saying a kind word to them and giving them a small gift might be the only instance of kindness they experience for days, possibly weeks.

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