Airplanes and New York. Now that’s a combination that screams “nothing bad could happen.”

In America, socialism is something you only get once you become a powerful enough capitalist enterprise. The state produces the means of production and then just hands it over to you while you collect profits. Another great example of this is the thousands of miles of dark fiber optic cable buried in the US that ISPs refuse to connect at the “last mile.” Why spend a bunch of money giving everybody fiber when they’re already paying you a kidney every month for shitty rural DSL?

But I’m not enjoying it because Yay Capitalism! It’s because when you’re running your own cute shop with virtual money it’s fun.

You can run a private business without engaging in capitalist exploitation. That’s something a lot of people would probably find enjoyable.

It got bought out by the company that owns KnowYourMeme, ebaumsworld, and the “I can has cheezeburger?” website in 2019. That’s pretty much all you need to know.

You’ve missed out on literally nothing.

Old internet to me is straight up pointlesswasteoftime.com, which eventually got absorbed by Cracked like a cheap suppository after David Wong (aka mediocre comedy writer Jason Pargin) sold out. That was in 2007. And now Cracked is functionally a content graveyard.

I always knew him as the guy that copied reddit and tvtropes forum posts and put them into youtube videos while providing no credit to the original people that came up with them.

And this is why I don’t contribute. Or at least I’ll ask a question about whether or not something would be a desired feature and if I don’t get a clear yes or no by someone who can actually approve a PR, I. ain’t. coding. shit.

This is true of any work of fiction. People in works of fiction - at least works of sci-fi or fantasy adventure - are typically more risk taking because that’s interesting to a reader/audience and the author knows this.

The sad thing is that a Cyberpunk dystopia is nominally interesting. Violent, terrible, and impoverished, yes, but also fastpaced and exciting. Our world is dull, programmatic, largely predictable, and extremely boring unless you have disposable income. We all have cellphones, yes, but that doesn’t make it cyberpunk.

The fact that the OP has a Danny Phantom profile picture adds a little something something to this.

How is this a meme? It just looks like a movie poster or album cover.

This is a genuinely awful set of takes.

Yeah but it’s typical to spew negativity without having any solution

Here’s a solution: wholesale reject capitalism as an economic system.

You really prefer amazon’s meat grinder policies?

Because that’s literally the only two options here: Valve’s way of doing things and Amazon’s. Really? Try again.

No Corp has ever been good we can still hope and try

I think you misspelled cope and cry.

Valve has been compared to Lord of the Flies because of its corporate structure by multiple people who worked for them. The company has an internal ranking system that determines compensation. It’s also one of the least diverse workplaces in its industry, being overwhelmingly white and male.

https://www.pcgamer.com/valves-unusual-corporate-structure-causes-its-problems-report-suggests/

https://www.pcgamer.com/ex-valve-employee-describes-ruthless-industry-politics/

So, while I’m glad that Gabe was nice to one of his direct reports, the reality is that the president of the company being nice to one specific person doesn’t make the company good or ethically ran.

Lemmy: Corporations are terrible. None of them have your back. They’re all just out to make money and the only reason they pay their employees is because slavery is illegal.

Also Lemmy: Step on me harder, Daddy Gaben!

Shit has some real Tesla-bro circa 2013 energy.

True then; true now. People who asskiss Valve (and Gaben by extension) are victims of years of effective marketing. Valve is as greedy and duplicitous as any other corporation. You’re just looking at it through rose colored glasses because it’s the primary mechanism by which you access your hobby.

This tweet is actually a fantastic learning tool in the context of formal argumentation. One of the best ways of refuting a clearly dubious argument is analyzing and rejecting its foundational premises. The foundational premise of this person’s conjecture about Twitter’s worth is that each Tweet is worth a dollar. Except, he has no evidence to come close to supporting that, and the immaterial nature of a tweet combined with the sheer insane volume of them likely suggests the opposite: the average tweet is almost certainly far closer to being completely worthless. Some might be worth a lot, such as a tweet made by a famous person, but that’s contextual to advertising costs and user volume.

Elon had gotten away with blatant market manipulation so much he made the ultimate mistake: buying into his own bullshit. I’m absolutely convinced he didn’t want to buy Twitter. He wanted to pump and dump. People think there’s about to be a buyout so the price goes up in anticipation. He then shorts the stock with the plan of very publicly backing out of the deal and walks away with a couple hundred million. But for the first time ever he goes just too damn far and winds up in a scenario where he can be legally compelled to purchase the company. Now he’s forced to eat shit and is saddled with what I can only imagine is the corporate equivalent of a pig in a poke.

Love how everybody forgot Gen X existed and skipped over them to hating millennials.

nearly every single member of the population at that point would have been directly harmed by capitalism.

As opposed to the boomers, who weren’t harmed by capitalism. Not like that’s the generation that was sent to Vietnam or anything…