just_change_it @ just_change_it @lemmy.world

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In every facet of life the rich, wealthy and powerful choose to put their descendants before others. It's literally what modern society is built upon: the idea that your children will have it better than you did.

I've seen the same thing first hand with people in senior leadership roles at big companies.

Not a lot of upsides to whistleblow this stuff.

I wish your method would get the results you want. I know way too many people who sit through ads for energy to play mobile games. I know way too many people who will sit through freevee or still pay over a hundred bucks a month for cable tv, somehow. It'll never change.

Coming soon is all the streaming video companies with advertisements on paid subs. Netflix has removed the cheap tier from new subs and replaced it with an ad tier. Amazon is planning on removing no-ad content from amazon prime next year. Pretty much every streaming company except apple has an ad tier or is planning one soon.

Advertisement is pervasive and honestly a huge problem. It should be prohibited from a huge swath of services, especially healthcare, but also as an optional thing on basically every platform. I truly believe ads make everything worse.

Ubisoft has been anti-consumer for a long, long time.

Easy solution: homing rockets that seek out the strongest signal using that band. Whitelist the sources that are official and proper.

GPS is passive so the rockets won't go for the plane... it'll go for the transmission tower.

Use less destructive devices if you'd rather risk sending humans to do the job.

whatever guy, just be another person who thinks people with more skin color or a different cultural background deserve to be paid less than you.

Can we just ban ads for treatments already?

Tell me how much it costs for you to go on a vacation to singapore.

Are my dollars worth more when I go to where you are in SEA?

the value is ALWAYS the same. The costs where you are are NOT always the same. a dollar is a dollar. A dollar in NYC doesn't get you as far as a dollar in vietnam.

A 5 million dollar property in NYC might be little more than a glorified closet, but when I sell it I get 5 million dollars. A 5 million dollar property in New Zealand might be a mansion, and when I sell it i'll get my 5 million dollars back.

5 million dollars buys you 5 million dollars worth of things. Everyone knows it "goes further" in poorer areas but if you want to buy a share of Microsoft, it's going to be the same price no matter where you are in the world. If you want to buy a RTX 4090 it's going to be the same price (or HIGHER from import fees). A plane ticket basically costs the same no matter where you are from. A vacation to another country costs the same no matter where you earned your dollars.

I pay rent right now.

You truly do not know the difference between how the rest of the world has it. Have you ever lived in a "third world" country? Ever spend significant time there?

It's supposed to be a nonprofit benefiting humanity, not a pay day for owners or workers. The board isn't making money off of it.

Giving microsoft control is a bad idea. (duh?)

Giving a single person control is a bad idea, per sam altman.

Actually 93k USD is always 93k USD.

Do you think all the modern conveniences we live with are dirt cheap over there?

Flights cost the same. Dish washers cost the same. Smart Phones and Computers cost the same.

Import costs are WAY HIGHER so getting non-local goods is much more expensive and harder.

Building code standards are not the same so odds are you don't even have a fire detector in your house. You can say goodbye to stable electricity and you probably need to boil your water before you consume it...

Sure you can go outside and buy food for much cheaper - so long as it is locally produced. Those cheap street food vendors though... food safety isn't really a thing so I sure hope you don't get sick!

There are so many other factors... quality of life is nowhere near similar. That bangladesh passport aint worth shit. The US passport can get you into 148 countries without a Visa. Bangladesh? 20. The people with wealth do not want the poors in their area. They also want to believe that the poors have it better where they are so that somehow paying them a hundred bucks a month is acceptable for their labor so you can wear another graphic t-shirt or dress that costs $10-20 instead of paying the $80 an American made "living wage worker" identical shirt would cost.

Sadly few people really know how it is outside of their local area.

Just imagine all the inches people save by parking as close as possible to the door and driving for 5-10 minutes just to get that FIRST parking spot.

Empyrion is a way better game about space exploration and i'd never consider it for a GOTY award.

From a US perspective: It's more like more farm subsidies for big farm owning companies. More funding for pet projects that goes into the hands of business owners that own the criminals that have been in power for years.

In the US we could have so much more money as a society if we just had single payer healthcare. It's our biggest expense from a federal budget perspective and from an individual perspective.

Healthcare here is a 4 trillion dollar industry where almost all the profits go into the hands of a select few who own all the supply companies that suck the profits out of "nonprofit" hospitals, retirement homes and all manner of healthcare related businesses. The whole thing thrives on the opaqueness of it all.

Plus I haven't even mentioned pharma. The fact that we don't have collective bargaining agreements for drug prices is fucking insane. The billions earned from 300 million doses of the vaccine and suddenly the prices go from $20 a dose (which was still overpriced by a factor of 10) to $120+ a dose is fucking absurd.

I hate that the focus is on an issue that is overwhelmingly unpopular and not on the practical outcomes of the various elections. It's a no brainer that most states will repeal bans on abortion brought about by tricky policies and not wanted by the majority of citizens.

Virginia getting democratic majorities in their state house and senate is a big effect but votes on allowing abortion have zero effect on upcoming policy.

What other effective wins were there? Tell me about major changes that will un-gerry-fuck voting districts because of major seat changes. As it stands it seems like this has only happened in Virginia which is still hamstrung by a republican governor who will veto simple majority laws. The end result is that it is avoiding any real change to the status quo which although better than a continuing drive towards oppressive law is still only a pause to that end.

I work for a company that employs manufacturing labor and pays minimum wage ($15/hr). Even the local coffee shop pays more than minimum wage.

Manufacturing jobs left the US because that same $15/hr could be $2/hr or less in another country and the job SUCKS. The only way to manufacture effectively in the US is to have things be almost exclusively automated and then the money goes to the very few anyway.

In practice I don't think this ever truly happens. Not doing evil shit costs way more than paying out years after you're caught and making way more money.

Quiet quit. Look for a second job. When they fire / lay you off then apply for unemployment and hit their metrics.

This is just a strategy to try and get you to do exactly what you're doing - voluntarily leaving in a way that leaves no stain on their employment records.

Class action lawsuit becomes mechanism to earn big payday for lawyers with little benefit to claimants. More at 11.

$2000 GPUs.