They’re run by the same average people who work for them. You don’t need to be an idiot to fuck up running something as large and complicated as a trans-national corporation. You don’t need to be a genius to coast in a position that already prints money.
We’re simply not that different from one another. The genius/idiot dichotomy is far more about variances in education, culture, and propagandized bigotry than finding actual differences in intellect.
Now there are way too many people with degrees competing for the few remaining jobs
That’s honestly not the future I see going forward. The future I see is one where colleges begin to close en mass, foreign students stop coming to the US for high quality education, and educated professionals leave the country for lower cost of living and better amenities abroad.
Education, as an institution, becomes a series of high end social clubs on the high end and a bunch of debt-trap MLMs on the low end. Increasingly little is actually taught at any of these schools, and the only real purpose of the campuses is to organize upper-middle class failkids into the various regionalized ideological cults.
Meanwhile, the demand for real labor continues to decline with the falling birthrate and the enormous volume of legacy infrastructure that continues to need support. Efforts to extract labor by force, rather than by promise of higher quality of life, only result in deteriorating work quality. We become even more addicted to imports as our position as global financial hegemony melts away. And eventually, we go into the same kind of debt crisis that plagued Germany after WW1 and Russia after the collapse of the USSR.
All the immigrants have been rounded up and trafficked to El Salvador, so, who is left to act as the scapegoat for the ruling elite?
You’re never going to get “all the immigrants” because we’re a nation of immigrants.
The War on Immigration has better parallels with the War on Drugs. Lots of moving goalposts. Lots of propaganda as a stand in for policy. Lots of big splashy media pieces on how we’re “Losing” or “Winning” in dramatic fashion.
But the economic incentives don’t change. Consumer behaviors don’t really change. And mostly we create a giant Make Work system for thugs to harass people of color.
I get it the sciences are better paying ( or they use to be) but the humanities have a roll in creating well rounded and thoughtful people.
Plenty of people who graduate with a humanities degree make money. Sales and Marketing make tons of money. Lawyers make money. Linguists make money. PR and other Communications make money. Art and Design make money. Anyone who works for a sufficiently wealthy (and not particularly thrifty) client can make a ton of money in the humanities.
Unfortunately, the humanities majors who make the most money are often leveraging their skills for nefarious ends. Not unlike STEM in that regard.
something is worth whatever somebody is willing to pay for it
That’s a naive short-term approach to valuation.
Real value has to be measured in some kind of revenue generation, or - at least - cost mitigation. Otherwise what you’re describing isn’t value but expense.
the willing buyer is the key to the whole valuation equation
The willing buyer is the key to perceived value. But suckering someone doesn’t increase the utility of what you sold them.
Suspicious that these are places difficult to escape.
It’s just magical realism. Easier to believe in a magical utopia on Mars than to deliver on a municipal government that isn’t overrun by bears.
We can’t stand up to Trump, but we can stand up to this kid telling us to do our jobs.
Elder liberals telling younger voters/activists to STFU and get in line, then blaming them when turnout sags and conservative democrats lose purple seats, is the tragedy of the modern era.
I guess the C in DNC stands for Corporation.
Or simply Corruption.
Every registered voter can say Elon deserves to be in jail and guys like Merrick Garland will just kinda drag their heels, wave their hands, and insist there’s nothing to prosecute him on.
Meanwhile, we still have people in Guantanamo Bay from 20 years ago who have never stood trial.
Hollywood Executives can collectively only name at most seven actors at a given time. An entire nine-digit annual industry run by a bunch of coked-up goldfish.
It’s not Musk being influenced by Cyberpunk nearly so much that Cyberpunk’s development was influenced by Prospera, Seasteading, Balaji Srinivasen’s “The Network State” and other “Startup City” anarcho-capitalist advocacy efforts.
I don’t want to live in that city, though.
The root of the appeal of the Free Enterprise Zone model originally embraced by Singapore, Hong Kong, Manilla, Monaco, and other micro-states is that you can consolidate the financial industry into a walled garden and then strictly control the lives of the inhabitants with a hyper-military police state.
Then the outlands are just impoverished wastes. Real political freedom, but no access to capital. Or real economic freedom, but no civil rights.
It isn’t that you “don’t want to live in the city”, because you absolutely will want to live there when presented with the alternatives. You’re presented with a false choice of proximity to wealth versus social autonomy.
Don’t mind me, just thinking about how peaceful Americans were between 1949 and 1965
Haha. Yeah. Stupid Republican voters.
shuffles feet through the tattered remains of all the liberal broken promises
Only in the US
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight
Not actually true.
Yeah, Trump’s making America great by killing white collar industries
True(ish).
and offering factory jobs
Flatly false.
I started my own company because I was sick of it.
I’m genuinely curious to hear how you’ve found it easier to land clients than employers. In my experience, you really need a good in with a bigger firm if you’re going to have any hope of launching a business. Unless your old employer is jettisoning their contracts as quickly as they jettison their staff, that can be tricky.
Comic is more right than it lets on.
There is little genetic difference between a tabby and a wild cat, so scientists think the house cat is only domestic when it wants to be
Can humans make a similar claim?
If not for the battery with a disturbing history of exploding, it would be the vehicle’s worst feature.
Welcome to the Marketplace of Ideas!
That’s a great idea you’ve got there. Would be a shame if something happened to it.
“Zero Emissions” has never sounded so sinister.
Except credit changes the math on that significantly. You aren’t constrained by your income, but by your risk of default (and even then… glances 2008-ward) Then you can afford to buy more by paying a higher interest rate.
“Willingly” is doing a lot of lifting, given the degree to which fraud, extortion, and price gouging play a roll in the national economy.
Promotion (and deception and intimidation) drives sales. They create the illusion of scarcity and transform luxury into necessity.
They add perceived value among the unwitting and create implicit value through absence of harm.