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I think there's some distinction there. The founder selling out is one thing. But private equity, VC, etc all want a return on their investment and once you IPO, you become a fiduciary. Those companies produced a tool and sold it to a customer that by definition is required to be unethical.

But I agree that fighting implies an active component to it.

They call it hallucinations like it's a cute brain fart, and "Agentic" means they're using the output of one to be the input of another, which has access to things and can make decisions and actually fuck things up. It's a complete fucking shit show. But humans are expensive so replacing them makes line go up.

"this show is so important, it must continue, but instead of dying on that hill and getting fired, I'm gonna quit so I can be replaced by someone who won't rock the boat"

I think everyone in this thread needs to re-watch the scene where Littlefinger and Cercei discuss power.

Hey look, another person got blackmailed into fascism. Surely a coincidence

You may benefit from watching cgpgrey's keys to power video. The people who you need to gain power are not the same as those needed to maintain it. So a dictator will seize power and kill off all the people who helped him, because money going to those people is money not going to the people who can overthrow you, which is loot that can be promised to them by rivals trying to take your job.

You outlived your usefulness. They have no interest in the long term growth of the company - their job was to get a return on their investment and that means inflating the value at a point in time so that they can cash out.

I really like this chart because it highlights how, despite all the awful shit that happens every day, we are more alike than we are different. It's gonna take a lot to undo the propaganda, hatred, etc., but if we focus on Class instead of other ways of being divided and conquered, the change everyone wants can eventually happen.

Undertale Frog Fractions? Let's fucking go!

You don't have to renounce old citizenship to be naturalized in the US.

About the green circle: are you saying that the janitor for an electric company should get royalties from the profits a customer business earns through the electricity they consume? How far back do you trace it, and how can you measure total value of the labor?

If it's so basic, obvious, and universally agreed, then he would have been boycotted much sooner. And yeah there's only so much time I'm gonna put into research to reply to a random Lemmy thread. He's a piece of shit and I don't need to look for more evidence of that - it's not going to change my opinion or cause me to take new actions. Even if you're right, my greater point is about how blackmail and secrets drive power. Pedophilia, Nazism, same shit from that perspective.

I know he's not actually a founder, but he deserves credit because EV companies have been getting outplayed for decades and now we finally them. People are tools, they do what they're paid for. Very few truly innovate or move any kind of needle anywhere.

We'll probably never know how many lives have been saved from FSD due to drunk/tired drivers who have already made the decision to drive instead of picking up their car in the morning or renting a hotel room. And I'm not aware of other EVs that have charging integrated into their navigation. And single pedal driving is awesome.

Amazon has crazy innovation in automation and logistics that allow us to get all kinds of shit with same-day, overnight, or two-day shipping. Their rearchitecture to api-driven software was hugely impactful, and they pretty much invented the cloud.

Uber introduced transparent pricing and accountability for taxi drivers to actually provide a good experience for their customers

DoorDash means we can get more than just shitty pizza or Chinese food.

All of these things make life better. The problem is that when people go (or reveal their) crazy we don't strip their power or influence. The money and fame goes to their head and because they're rich they don't need to listen to advice because they begin to think they're an expert in everything, and their money means they can succeed in new things, such having the ability to recognize whether or not they're the baddies.

But hey since we're insulting each other, I'd like to point out that guillotines are pretty big so before you're actually gonna be able to build one, you're gonna need to touch grass. In other words, you need to recruit allies if you want to win. I wish the world were more simple, too. But it isn't.

Remember when we said that about Bush? This perspective leads to inaction which will allow us to continue down this path. They are actually bad. Have better standards.