It has to be worth, not just income. There’s too many loopholes around “I don’t have income I just have stock I use as collateral for a loan” or “I don’t have income but my LLC happens to pay for all of my daily expenses”.

But yes, all fines need to scale with the perpetrator. The more dollars you have, the less each dollar means.

A $100 ticket for parking on a crosswalk means nothing to a millionaire, but is potentially ruinous for someone living in poverty. It needs to hurt the same for everyone. The millionaire should have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars. They need to feel pain.

A lot of people are really shitty and operate at a very basic level of moral reasoning. It’s just “did I get punished?”.

billionaire could pay off someone’s $500,000 mortgage, their $30,000 car, pay off $50,000, give them $100,000 in cash and forget about it the next day

They could, but they won’t, and that’s part of the problem.

If billionaires walked around clearing people’s mortgages and paying for everyone’s dinner, they’d be less hated. They’d still be a problem, but they could buy popularity.

But they don’t. Because they’re assholes.

Maybe this will scare some of them into changing the behavior. Maybe it will get some of them killed.

You all remember that “you are Jeff bezos” game, I hope: https://direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-bezos

People use capitalism to mean anything involving commerce, I guess.

The fact that valve is privately owned and the profits go to the owner instead of the labor isn’t really the reason steam is dominant. A worker owned co-op could have succeeded by making the same product. Though if they were beholden to shareholders who demanded a profit, it probably would have resulted in a worse product. An argument against capitalism, with uninvolved owners taking profits, if anything.

They made a product people like. Boo-boo. Epic could have made a good product. They didn’t.

I got a mod to adjust the flow of time, which was nice.

I still lost interest pretty fast though. Shame, since it seems like a nice game.

I dislike all the long term on street parking here. Some of it I’d rather was just 15 minute parking for when you need to load or unload something. Most of the time I look at the cars and I’m like why are you here. There’s a subway stop and two bus lines here.

Oh. Well. Good. Fuck the ultra rich.

You have to pay taxes on unemployment money, at least in New York.

It’s funny when people get mad at poor people for just sitting home collecting handouts, but a rich person who lives on their inherited interest and safe investments is unremarkable

I’m surprised no one has, like, gotten a job as one of these ghoul’s drivers and then shot them in the head. I guess it’s not that easy, but that would be a neat movie.

At the risk of repeating myself, “dying of whiteness” was a pretty interesting and depressing look at this. Turns out a lot of people would rather suffer if it means those people have it worse.

Someone in the friend group does some sort of interactive theater thing. She was telling me about one where the protagonist is paid shit with poor insurance, but is told by the boss she’d have her sick husband’s medical needs taken care of if she goes to the union meetings as a spy for him.

I was like, I’d want to go to the meeting and tell them all what he said. Then we all roll up to his house before dawn and wake him up at gunpoint. We say, you’re going to pay us more or next time you don’t wake up.

She was like you’d all go to jail or worse.

I was like I know but I want this power fantasy.

She said, that’s not the point of this exercise.

Anyway, I think about this sometimes.

The opportunity cost remains large. That renewable energy could have been spent elsewhere, on something useful.

That’s an interesting point I hadn’t considered. Probably not the case with my coworkers who are on a physical keyboard, but maybe my parents

Reddit initially catered to a young, libertarian, white male internet crowd, clinging to a “free speech at all costs” ethos, until the hate speech and harassment became too extreme, and too alienating, to ignore.

Idiots.

In the end, Reddit became just another neoliberal venture, seemingly willing to cash in regardless of any concerns of social harm it might inadvertently cause.

Yep. Capitalism.

Reddit’s foundational problem is that it grew out of a narrow demographic with socially negative and often exclusionary values.

What a polite phrasing

Structural flaws, cultural toxicity and algorithmic design have turned what could have been an ideal forum

I don’t think a privately owned for profit platform could ever be ideal

For starters, does anyone even know about Dubai? Sure it’s a very beautiful-looking city in the Middle East, but the economy is very corrupt. Human trafficking, slavery and whatnot.

That’s what I think of when I hear Dubai. It’s not aspirational. It’s exploitation and ghouls who want to be the boot.

No, I meant one where the business is owned by all the workers, not one where the owner also does some work.

Among the multitude of medical problems women suffered to achieve these drastic measurements were deformed ribs, weakened abdominal muscles, deformed and dislocated internal organs, and respiratory ailments. The displacement and disfigurement of the reproductive organs greatly increased the risk of miscarriage and maternal death.[5]

This makes me feel better about finding the look, at least from the photos on the page, deeply unpleasant

This is saying if you have a module with public functions A and B, they shouldn’t call each other, right? But it’s not saying that module A shouldn’t call module B’s public functions. That’s what I thought it meant at first, but that seems crazy.

Capitalism remains a problem.

I don’t think worker owner businesses would be so rabidly eager to do this AI shit. It’s ghouls and anonymous shareholders. People who don’t even work on the stuff being made.

Middle managers like to set targets and goals because it counts towards their bonus, and it looks less like they’ve got their dick in their hand when the boss comes calling.

It’s the same problem all over. Capitalism. You have people who don’t do work keeping the benefits from the work.

Most people aren’t going to give themselves stupid or useless metrics. Software people aren’t going to impose “tokens used” or “lines of code” metrics on themselves. They know those are stupid.