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Re:Gig workers are organising in tech-savvy ways on Thursday May 07, 2020 @06:24PM (#23109074)
It’s even worse then; they truly own less than they claim and are just de facto in charge because economists (who I’m sure have nothing to gain by it) let us know this is all exactly how it works

If you see everyone as atomic agents of work, is Bezos worth so much because of cherry picked models favored by law, or is he himself distributing goods in a universally mathematically efficient way by some unknown force, invisible hands and “free markets (in a nation of laws?)”?

If he’s literally doing it, wow! Ok. But if it’s mathematical efficiency it’s mathematical efficiency. Bezos didn’t measure it. He took object distribution and abstracted it. Wow! Business innovation!

Nevermind guys like Krugman openly admit Hari Seldon like powers of bending social agency are exactly his goal

That’s great if the people in charge are truly benevolent

Old enough to wreck the planet and die before it’s a problem doesn’t really suggest to me they’re going to be motivated to voluntarily acquiesce to measurable anxiety this creates for folks that aren’t quite so old

Again more disingenuous western BS

That carbon emissions have detrimental effects on human health and the environment was pretty obvious in London and elsewhere back in the day

But since it’s not in your neighborhood, those laws of physics that matter for computers are lying to us when we annotate the inputs differently?

Ok. Yup. Shark jump achieved.

Re:Gig workers are organising in tech-savvy ways on Thursday May 07, 2020 @05:59PM (#23108856)
You mean have them pay taxes

It doesn’t need to be wrapped in technical jargon, y’all

Aristotle wrote about this shit 2,000 years ago

This isn’t new territory to society

Look at tax rates between WW2 & Reagan and the growth in the wealth of the middle class during the same period

Ffs just accept it: you’ve been lied to so long you’ve come to believe the lie about taxes

Political unrest at every point along the path of building human society is centered around gross material inequality

Stop bloviating at your screen as mom & dad did when Dan Rather would say something stupid and get to work solving these problems

All I see is people creating a market for more of the same prioritizing rich grandpas demands

Rather than follow Andreessen, the next generation should have what he had as a kid: higher taxes funneling shit tons of resources into local communities to evolve as the people need, not as finance market speculators dictate

Pitter patter

Re:Google ends plans for smart city in Toronto on Thursday May 07, 2020 @05:49PM (#23108761)
Jobs, restaurants, etc, arbitrary goals of a society. Not legal obligations at all

Freedom from having my agency bent towards pampering the rich while my poorer family can’t pay rent and goto a doctor is the freedom I’m after

Freedom is a word. The definition is flexible. Your bouncing around the world easy peasy and not having to learn to cook is not an obligation everyone has to enable through grand scale effort

Especially when the vast majority doing the work can’t afford it themselves

So much freedom for them! being your bellhop every day

Omg a paper map and a first world problems of VHS! Better silo the masses cash to produce iPhones for this burdened creature (don’t forget to charge margins that enable you to buy new a Ferrari every day for life, make them design and build it and pay you for the privilege)

This is some disingenuous bullshit. The western world, ladies and gentlemen. Yesterday’s creature comforts are today’s burdens of invention. Omg!

Re:Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives? on Thursday May 07, 2020 @01:29PM (#23105620)
The only positive Zoom is interested in is the rate of growth in their bank account.