This is completely illegal in the United States, and may also be in other countries.
If you live in the US and a collector comes after you for your parents' debt, tell them to bite rocks (or if you can afford to, rake them over the coals in court).
Oh hey, it's literally requiring the government agencies to do the exact same thing we have been doing in the corporate space these past several years.
Bluesky follows a model they're more familiar and therefore more comfortable with, even if its the same model that got them where they are in the first place. Bluesky's federation protocol doesnt matter so much as the fact that Bluesky is a singular silo that all Bluesky users can see all content and other users in does. Bluesky self-hosted sites will be a 'nice addition' that most users won't have to care or think about.
I love lemmy and fediverse stuff, but even I am stressed out at the idea of having to make sure I have some kind of replication across different instances, having to keep track of who federates (or doesn't) with who, and always wondering if my home instance is "the right one."
Must be your region, all of the McDonalds here in my state and the two I travel to next to me seem to be able to get it right, actually talk to me, the screens almost always work (almost), and the orders are almost always right (almost). I've never had raw fries, those are usually the best part of the meal. I don't usually eat it unless I am roadtripping, but that's been happening a lot recently.
None of this is to invalidate your experience, mind you. What region are you in, so we know where not to get McDonalds at?
You got it backwards though. The root cause is not the change in work ethic. The change in work ethic is the symptom. People have to get nitpicky about breaks and such and show no loyalty entirely because companies stopped being loyal to their employees. This can be demarcated with the death of the pension.
They act like they know best, and rarely listen to user feedback.
They act like Apple, and that is very bad.
Not only that, but they also act like they are the default and only desktop on Linux, and rarely if ever cooperate with other desktop groups to make things work smoothly.
They are dragged kicking and screaming into following standards, and were the biggest source of NACKs (effectively a "veto") on the Wayland protocol and a huge reason why Wayland still isn't complete after over a decade of design.
The gnome desktop is pretty, but it is not functional. You can make it functional by installing gobs of extensions, but those extensions don't follow a cohesive workflow concept, and often break with updates. It's like trying to mod Skyrim or Minecraft.
To contrast that, KDE:
Explicitly listens to its users and has scheduled times for specifically taking in user feedback (within the scope of broad goals)
Actively works to be interoperable with other environments
Follows standards and pushes them forward
Has all the functionality out of the box, and can be made pretty with extensions/assets (the inverse of Gnome).
Functionality mostly doesnt break on updates unless it's major (like switching to Wayland as the primary development target).
This is completely illegal in the United States, and may also be in other countries.
If you live in the US and a collector comes after you for your parents' debt, tell them to bite rocks (or if you can afford to, rake them over the coals in court).