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  • Before people started measuring time, a day was a day. People worked when they felt like it and stopped before it got dark.

    When we started quantifying time, it didn't take long before time suddenly became a commodity. All of a sudden bosses would pay by the "hour", and no longer by what they got in return.

    Then, they started regarding the hours that they paid for as "theirs", demanding workers to keep breaks short or peeing in bottles.

    /Rant

  • If artists would actually get paid fairly by Spotify that would be a good model.

    Until about 100 years ago music artists would get paid for playing live only. Then music reproduction became possible, and lo and behold, companies started making a profit off of popular musicians by reproducing their music and taking a share, just because they could afford the technology.

    Then, reproduction came into the hands of regular people, and you could reproduce music at home, bypassing the companies that profit off of the musicians. So copyright laws were drafted to protect mostly the companies making a profit off of musicians.

    Now we're going back to the situation of 100 years ago: musicians need to play live to get paid. But reproduction does still make them famous without them having to travel. So that's a plus.

    And you can argue Spotify has to.pay for infrastructure and app development, but that technology is in the hands of individuals as well nowadays. So what do they actually offer, on top of the work of creative people making music? Not much. Yet they become more expensive every year. And the only people getting richer are their shareholders.

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  • I wonder if he realizes how he will be remembered by the world after his death, and how different that is that if he would have died, say ten years ago, or right before that moment when he wanted to rescue those kids stuck in that cave and went off on anyone that criticized him. For me, that's the moment it all went to shit for him.

  • Great, another 26 year old that stumbled into wealth and thinks that makes him an authority.

    Like those 20 something "executive coaches" fresh out of school I always seem to stumble upon on LinkedIn. They think they are incredible, but in reality they are only incredible in the literal sense.

  • Comparing Hungary to China and Russia is like comparing a mosquito to a rabid dog. Yes, Hungary is annoying within the EU, has undemocratic tendencies and Orban should be dealt with, but Russia and China are full on authoritarian regimes. You know this, so you are either a troll or a shill.

  • The new version of Lost in Space just has people in danger constantly and then making the dumbest decision in that situation possible.

    Same with 'suits', I really liked it in the beginning, until it was just too painful to watch. Each storyline was set up in a way that there was one path for the protagonists to take that would lead to certain disaster, and lo.and behold, at the end of every episode that path is exactly the path they took.

    This happens until you start wondering if you're just looking at the dumbest lawyers or astronauts in existence.