And it also wasnt you until you suffered a personal tragedy that.made you reevaluate your stance. Because that is what it sounds like.
Generally, people change their mind from in group pressure, or trauma. That’s really it. Facts from the out-group won’t do it. Looks like a bit of trauma shook the author up here.
I dunno it seems like the Republican arguments are stupid and the left wing ones are based on facts and evidence.
A bike lane is equity. It is freedom of movement. It is accessibility for someone who cannot drive. It is independence for a 12-year-old riding to school on their own — and an hour back in their mother’s day. It is law and order, using engineering to prevent tragedy instead of reacting to it after the fact. It is Make America Healthy Again — bringing Americans outside, safely. It is economic development.
This is all stuff the left says (minus the Maha branding). The right doesn’t listen. They’re too busy marinating in their feelings.
Though APD fired Eder on July 17, prosecutors officially refused to move forward with felony stalking charges in the case.
Prosecutors are part of the problem
You could perhaps still have enshittification in a worker owned organization. It seems more likely to happen when the decisions are being made by rich ghouls and absent shareholders, rather than the people who actually made the product.
A big problem is often lack of competition.
No one needs that much money. The people who could deserve it don’t get it. We’ve got teachers in poverty and this fucker has more money than he’d ever need. Fuck him. Fuck his enablers.
I’m pretty sure local models still induce pyschosis and hallucinate. Maybe the cat’s out of the bag, but they still suck.
My job told us all to use AI more, as its own metric. I had it walk through how capitalism is unjust. Not exactly a secret but probably the ghouls in management would probably be mad.
Surely he exists in the real world, with like an address and favorite outdoor dining spots. These people are too comfortable in their evil lives of wealth.
I can think of some people that, if they got stabbed, I’d be like “yeah that seems fair”
This is important to remember. Grand juries are simple majority. No defense is present. If they don’t get an indictment it’s because they didn’t want it.
Remember that every time a right wing darling (like a cop or maga drunk) gets away without an indictment.
Now, now. It’s illegal to call for violence against the state in the US, or enough people believe it is that it might as well be.
We’re a conservative country. That means hierarchy. The people above can do what they want.
We’re not far off from The Smith Act making a comeback. That “we’re going to arrest people who attended a meeting once” stuff is in living memory. The US has never lived up to its stated ideals.
They’re not trying to make a good product. They’re trying to get their short term gains.
Normal capitalist bullshit where a handful of people (who probably don’t even do any work) make decisions and keep almost all the profits.
The majority of the time you just click play in steam, heroic, or whatever. It’s no worse than windows.
I don’t do any tinkering on my desktop.
You seem to have imagined a link between
This has to end, nobody is worth that much. Even if they were, they shouldn’t have that much, because nobody needs that much.
And
Billionaires are a symptom of a society that is sick.
as if they were trying to say that the people in the articles are billionaires. That’s illusionary. There’s a full stop.
This
will never be reasonable that some people make hundreds of times what other make on a full time job.
Was the point. That some are only millionaires is irrelevant. Billionaire is a subtype of “too rich” used as an example.
No fundamental facts are in error.
Billionaires are a subcategory of people with too much money.
But also what’s your point here? Just pedentry? Defending CEO wealth at this 614:1 ratio? Defending billionaires right to exist?
The initial goal post was “This has to end, nobody is worth that much.”, referring to CEOs making 614 times more than workers. Their wealth being in billions or millions was not mentioned. The goal post was not moved.
The sequence as I understand it is
If anything, you pointing out that the CEOs aren’t billionaires is a distraction from the point.
You can live a comfortable life with $5 million in the bank. No one needs $17m a year.
There’s always a chunk of people who want to be the boot. And a chunk of people who are happy to eat boots if they can be the boot sometimes.