animalgonzales

> A similar trend was observed with Myspace and Facebook

It's happening right now with Facebook/Instagram and Tik Tok.

this. the speculation around watches right now is completely unhinged. my Rolex Date 34mm sold for $3k in excellent condition three years ago. the same watch now sells for nearly $6k.

lol the partiful.com background image file is 4mb.

what a load of shit. you know what's wasteful? corporate tax breaks in the trillions of dollars that have no direct effect on working people or their families. fuck this org and their misdirection

there's a special place in hell for billionaires laying people off with one week severance before Christmas.

please do an AMA, your career advice would be super helpful

Cursed dark future capitalism. Looks like a great way to launder drug money

American definitions of "class" are just a way to obscure the lines between the owners and the workers. Most middle class people are petite bourgeoisie or labor aristocracy proletariat

"Having served with the French Navy in the Algerian War, the ardently anti-communist Denard took part in the Katanga secession effort in the 1960s..."

who woulda guessed

> I believe there are two kinds of colleges, the Rich Kids Daycare (RKD) and the Trade & Professional Formation (TPF).

jesus christ can we stop trying to redefine bourgeoisie and proletariat? what is with americans and hating karl marx and darwin

cursed late stage capitalism. let's reduce everything in our lives down to ROI. this article feels like a symptom and not an answer for the problem of a required college education and it's astronomically stupid costs for working families.

Other articles soon to come:

* Are friends worth it? * Is family worth it? * Is doing anything besides making money worth it?

the "10x programmer" is just rugged American individualism repackaged to make a very profitable and skilled workforce feel insecure.

most successful tech projects are developed by teams with a diverse set of creative talents beyond coding including community building, design, documentation, education.

>BTW, I always think left-wing academics should just go out, open businesses, pay workers twice their market wage. And boom, a big win-win! You win your ideology fight and workers get better pay.

wtf are you talking about left-wing, there's no dialectical materialism or class struggle.

wtf they want people who know coffeescript https://bubble.io/job?jid=4377554002

> Obviously everybody (Branson/Bezos) is entitled to spend their cash in whatever way they want.

straight up, no. they're using your tax dollars because they aren't taxed

> And there’s lots of evidence to suggest that workers buy into the belief

it would be cool if people writing these pieces had a background in dialectical materialism. maybe people don't buy into the belief but are coerced into working more hours to *checks notes* not die?

lol https://twitter.com/ImReadinHere/status/1375942199066648582?...

it's like there's really only two classes, the owner class and the working class I think a bearded dude wrote a book about it a long time ago, idk

lol wat, lived in nyc for years. you either rent a car, get a cab, or hire people. owning a car that sits and takes up space during the 90% of your life you aren't driving is inefficient and stupid

he's diagnosing the issue wrong but he's not wrong to feel like the game is rigged. very few people own stocks and the "people" that do own a disproportionately larger amount that everyone else.

1. learning. I notice that people who have the fancy degrees or come from big tech are more interested in status/ladder climbing rather than the "work of the work". new things are dangerous to the status quo. 2. reading comprehension. they don't read the docs, their tests read like 'it works' if there's any. 3. tedious or technical work isn't "cool". the reality is, learning the obscure hard parts of the existing system and making recommendations to upgrade out or up is job security. they would rather start a weekly tech talk.

as a lib arts major, this speaks to me. I think the biggest thing that's helped me in my career is simply being exposed to things besides computing fundamentals.

not just IBM, but the link to the microsoft layoffs is kind of mind blowing: http://techrights.org/2020/08/02/microsoft-layoffs-secrecy/

>“Microsoft rarely, if ever, allows anyone working there to reach 55 and have their pension become vested.”

>“Microsoft was twice as likely to lay you off if you were over 40.”

>“Cortana is an analytics and telemetry app that data mines people while pretending to be a digital assistant,”

I think it was this Freakonomics episode: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/in-praise-of-incrementalism...

Midtown/East Sac is honestly the only place I would live if I were to go back. I have a major problem with the culture outside of the city itself:

1. People are very closed-minded. They're against education, labor, the government, LA, other countries, etc. Anti-vaxxers/homeschoolers are for real in the surrounding metro. I knew very few people who went to elite colleges and institutions from my high school. I just recently spoke with someone who threw a birthday party for their kid, no masks, no social distancing.

2. Homelessness. My barber's neighbor, a hair salon, recently went on Fox News to talk about property damage because the city won't do something.

3. Desperate poverty. You described the nice areas, Granite Bay and Folsom are hella rich. Go to Del Paso or where I grew up playing baseball on Watt Ave. Drugs, domestic abuse, shootings. Prostitution is basically an open secret.

4. Tech is nowhere to be found. I learned to code at the Hacker Lab, a local tech meetup non-profit, and got the hell out as soon as I could. There are literally no employers.

Yes, you can find a "cheap" place but for what you're getting the cost is way too high. I'm glad I left and I'll do my best to never go back.

how do taxes work?

>Sounds exactly like the problem so many folks here are having with Emacs.

sadly vim too :(

lol yeah everything is just peachy with American capitalism