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- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 1 day ago:
In my experience, technical people with those skills quickly rise past their non-technical peers.
They aren't held back by the org that limits technical salaries and request that they take on leadership responsibilities?
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 1 day ago:
What does this mean?
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 1 day ago:
- Social pressure - There's a need to be "seen". Being a technical expert on ground doesn't make you " seen".
Ah yes, exposure 🤔 So maybe by making technical experts seen, it would normalise increasing their salary.
- Money - The higher you go, the more money you make.
I'm questioning why this is the case ;)
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 1 day ago:
Leadership is undoubtedly important and good leadership even more so, but why do you bring singularity ("one person can only do so much work")? Experts work in teams too. Is there some kind of connotation with expertise that leads you (or people) to believe that is something which cannot be brought into a team?
A good leader can enable a team of people to work together achieving more than the sum of their individual contributions.
That is true, but isn't the ability of the team members important too? For example, if you have a team of juniors, you can get to a goal, however the question is in what state. And if the leader is just a leader but doesn't have understanding of the sector, why should their leadership be valued more than that of the team members who do?
As for force multipliers, experts can be force multipliers too. An expert that helps out and resolves (or even prevents) tricky situations for fellow team members (or the entire team) can improve team cohesion and productivity. Experts also often have an educative role in the team to spread knowledge and understanding. That seems to be valued less, and I don't understand why.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 1 day ago:
Also traditional companies don’t typically have knowledge based employees. There’s a limit to what high expertise can bring. This is what has led to management as the promotion track.
That is true, but you can become an expert in multiple things. For example you become an expert brick layer and then you become an expert plumber, and so on. Or in a knowledge based company, you become an expert payroll accountant, then an expert tax accountant, then an expert revenue accountant, etc.
Management is also a skill. And it’s arguable a more useful skill since it’s more transferable than a narrow focus. At very high levels you have a lot of responsibility figuring out where your company is headed.
So people value knowing where to go more than being able to get there? Is this the gist of it? If so, why? I don't understand why one is more important than the other. You can have the best plan on the planet, but if you don't have the people to get you there quickly, safely, and in top shape, that plan is just that, a plan.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 1 day ago:
Maybe we're misunderstanding each other. I'm not talking about technical people going up the ladder. I'm asking why going up the ladder is valued more than becoming or being an expert on the ground.
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- Comment on EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption. 1 day ago:
@stopkillinggames should make a list of killable games so that people can be aware of which games they are buying may end up killed and useless.
- Comment on EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption. 1 day ago:
Gamers are less capable of self-control than heroin addicts. Trying to get them to stop buying games is a fools errand.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 day ago:
That entire premise falls apart when you let a person with a different skin color enter the room of children that have never seen that skin color before. There are even videos of it where children scream in horror.
And humans didn't just evolve from one central location. They evolved in parallel on an entire continent. They then also mixed with different subspecies.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 day ago:
Sure, give it a try
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 day ago:
If racism weren't by nature, then it would only happen in some societies or groups, but it happens in all of them.
Empathy doesn't preclude evil.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 2 days ago:
Kids don't understand the idea of "others" until a certain age. They don't understand that others are also individuals with their own lives, feelings, pain, etc. They will hurt each other and even kill each other (siblings drowning other siblings, pushing them down the stairs, etc.) if left unsupervised. They have to be guided for a long time before they aren't dangers to themselves and others.
And it doesn't stop there. Every class in a public school, everywhere has at least one bully and hanger-ons. And the longer you're on this planet, the less people you find out you can trust.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 2 days ago:
Humans are born evil.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 2 days ago:
It doesn't mean they can't improve.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 2 days ago:
It's not OK for you, it's OK for them because they are powerful.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
How? I thought they were a success story.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 4 days ago:
What the fuck @EUCommission ? You are listening to people who don't represent the majority of users. Fuck you.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 5 days ago:
"Doing something actually does nothing, just don't do anything"
If you want to religiously be cucked by all of big tech and their USAian buddies, go ahead. Just don't try and convince me to take the dick because you like it too. Keep that to yourself.
- Comment on What is a router ? 5 days ago:
Do you mean the one of the ladies that had to connects cables via pinholes to route your call through to another number?
- Comment on OnlyFans 'agents' control and threaten creators while taking half their earnings, BBC finds 5 days ago:
Isn't there an alternative to OnlyFans? I thought some ex-OnlyFans stars gathered together and made their own service.
- Comment on UK poised to water down 2030 EV sales targets after industry and union pressure 6 days ago:
UK wants to lose their car market to the Chinese and they want to lose it desperately too. Don't stop your enemy from making mistakes, I guess.
- Comment on Wealth of Britain’s 157 billionaires now equal to 22% of country’s GDP 1 week ago:
Tax those fuckers. Tax their wealth, FFS.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
Well, I'm not buying Steam games anymore, so I'm doing my part 🤷
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
All those stores just sell the game on steam, so we're back to steam being the cheapest. This is why the lawsuit exists.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
I looked at the examples you gave and in all of them, Steam has the lowest price
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
Again, stopping them from being a monopoly isn't the goal here.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
Could you share an example of a deal that is less than on Steam? I couldn't find one.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
No need to put monopoly in quotes. Owning 85% of the market is a monopoly. Do you want them to reach 100% for you to go "yep, now it's a monopoly, now we should do something"?
A monopoly doesn't need monopolistic behaviour to be a monopoly. The monopolistic behaviour Steam has is what's being targeted. If Steam were impeding competition in other ways, those would have to be dealt with too.
Just because you have a favourite friend, doesn't mean they can't do wrong.
- Comment on Nightmare Scenario 1 week ago:
One can only hope that they actually see the light, but my bet is it would be way too expensive (in terms of money and willingness to retrain) to switch to Linux and they'll just shrug and continue. Hopefully I'm wrong.