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Goddamn that's awesome. Had no idea after hundreds of GW2 hours.

The tech industry chases acquisition and investor money only now, not consumer demand or innovative achievement. It's all just people trying to get rich, mostly so they can escape the effects of late stage capitalism.

looks like me and the boys are going back to teamspeak

If a corp has shareholders to answer to, they will only churn out unfinished dogshit.

discord also uses opus

Idealogues getting mad that their ideology is becoming less popular is both predictable and uninteresting. It's mostly astroturfing. Left vs right is a divide and conquer tactic to get the workers to not rise up against the oligarchs by convincing them to blame other workers for their problems.

There is no war but the class war.

why is that?

They say stuff that isn't true because it gets them engagement from people who come to correct them. We figured out how to generate profit from misinformation.

corporations ruin everything they touch

lalal AI has made some great innovations in taking songs and separating them into vocals and instrumentals. that's a game changer for remix artists.

other than that niche utility and a handful of others, AI is largely bullshit.

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

Mega corporations that only hire contract workers with no morale or investment in the long term success of the company (because the majority of their efforts are purely to appear shareholders) are not equipped with the means to put out decent products.

Passion, dedication, investment in workers, and long term talent are what create remarkable pieces of software. Microsoft has none of this because these things are incompatible with the directives of infinite growth shareholder appeasement. Want extra time for QA? nope, that would reduce profits. Want to pay higher salaries to attract better talent? Nope, that would reduce profits. Want to adequately reward employees in ways they actually connect with like raises and bonuses? Nope, that would cut into the boss' annual bonus and he needs his new vacation home more than we need to afford rent.

There is an optimal level of profit chasing and company size within which excellent software can be produced, and Microsoft exceeded those thresholds years ago. There is also an optimal phase of capitalism that is conducive to quality innovation and development, and we're well past it.

It hasn't been a left wing vote for a long time, if ever.

I earn money by working

But do you earn enough? Does the working class earn enough? The general consensus for most people is no. The vast majority of wealth that the working class produces every year does not make it into the hands of the people who produced it, but rather the oligarchs who already possess most of the wealth already.

I can spend my money on what I want, and can start a business if I wanted to.

These are not exclusive to only capitalism. People were trading money for goods and starting businesses for thousands of years before capitalism was around.

The best businesses are rewarded with more money while poor businesses fail.

This is how it's supposed to work in a merit driven free market economy, but that's not how late stage capitalism plays out.

Many corporations are run by imbeciles and hemorrhage money, pursue short term profits at the expense of long term sustainability, treat their workers horribly, and rely on their monopolistic position in the market to survive rather than merit, competence, ethics, or quality. When they finally make an error that would normally bankrupt a company out of existence, they simply cry to the government for bailout money, and they get it every time because our politicians are bought and owned by billionaires and their lobbyists. This is the core principle of an oligarchy, which we are, and which capitalism always evolves into given enough time.

The rich get bailouts, the workers do not. This is a direct product of wealth inequality and regulatory capture that capitalism inherently generates.

The main argument against capitalism is that it leads to only a privileged few getting all the wealth, opportunities and freedom while the rest become wage slaves and debt slaves. It is the ultimate capitulation to artificial scarcity as if that's somehow the best we can do as a species.

All the homelessness, overpriced healthcare and education, unaffordable housing, etc exists because of capitalism and it's supporters look at this and say "good. fuck the poor." or "this is the best we can do."

I stopped being a libertarian because I was tired of the cynical capitulation.

Were the people who fought and killed the nazis in WWII monsters? No, they did it to protect humanity. Sociopath billionaires going away is also necessary to protect humanity.

They're sociopaths. They don't care about us.

The way you fight is by using Linux and contributing to the percentage of Linux users on the steam hardware survey. Developers pay attention to that. More Linux users means more support in the future.

Everyone wants to switch to Linux but nobody wants to make the sacrifice of being one of the early adopters to help turn the tide away from windows.

I'm personally gonna do a dual boot with windows as a backup.

https://github.com/nadeoki/win10enterpriseguide

Capitalism is a system that rewards sociopathic behavior, so sociopaths with no empathy or investment in anything other than themselves naturally rise to the top.

The oligarchs who control our nation are all mentally ill narcissistic sociopaths who don't care what happens to the country or to humanity or the earth after they're gone. Life to them is a story where they're the main character and everyone else is an expendable NPC.

This is why capitalism is considered unsustainable to anyone other than those who idolize the oligarchs and wish to become one themselves. This is why hierarchy and class is something we should be trying to eliminate from society, not lean into even further. When human ego and individualism is allowed to be the cornerstone of human society, it is a matter of when, not if, that society eventually crumbles to the long term effects of wealth inequality.