DreamlandLividity
@DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
I want a lot of things that I can’t have. They can want it, but the system doesn’t have to allow it or can discourage it.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know in what context this parable is used in the book, but this does not explain the need for growth in reality. It does not even show why you would need growth in the parable. No matter how many chickens or how much wheat the village produces, there still wouldn’t be more tokens.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
Well, partially maybe. In the past, investors were happy with dividends instead of growth. There are extra factors making growth be preferable over dividends.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
I think your are confusing company growth and prices growing, mixing them together.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
no. You can pay interest out of your profits. And many businesses don’t have significant loans.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
There are many answers to this.
First, this is not a general capitalism thing. It is more the specific flavor we have.
The original idea of capital investment is that when you need investment for your company (e.g. to buy better machines, expand production, etc.) you let people invest (by buying shares) and then give them a portion of the profits gained from that investment (in the form of dividends).
However, most companies have figured out that if they don’t pay dividends but re-invest the money, shareholders are still happy because their shares get more valuable as the company grows and they get to grow the company, which is good for CEO paychecks.
There are also things like economies of scale (if you produce million units of something per year, it is almost always cheaper per unit than if you produce ten per year). So if you don’t grow, your competitor that does grow could sell cheaper than you and put you out of business.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 4 weeks ago:
Trepang2 still has you killing guards like a monster, but adds a fear mechanic to the enemies. Makes you really realize you are a monster.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 4 weeks ago:
If this is really just 4th instance this year, then it would be significantly cheaper to just reimburse the ~120k then to do what you are suggesting.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 4 weeks ago:
And I don’t get the mindset of large company should do things for free. Valve is using the 30% to run stem workshop, make games playable on steam, creating the steam framework for games, and more. If they invest massive effort into some analysis stuff, either they increases prices or cut something else they are doing.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 4 weeks ago:
Well, I just disagree with you. They are a distribution company, not a security company. I don’t see this as their job and I am not willing to pay more for games to have some far from perfect behavior scanning.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 4 weeks ago:
There are so many ways to bypass what you describe, in addition to it not working for games with kernel anti-cheat etc.
The real issue is all desktop OSes deciding everything should be allowed to access everything. Why is a game able to access your crypto wallet by default, without any permission required? This has been solved on phones for years.
- Comment on Pretty good idea. Color codes easy to understand 5 weeks ago:
Sure, but it is a lot more conspicuous. If someone sees you picking a lock, they may report you. If they see you using a key, they will likely think nothing of it.
- Comment on Pretty good idea. Color codes easy to understand 5 weeks ago:
PSA: Don’t ever upload photos of your keys. A key is just a PIN, where the height of each tooth is a digit of the PIN. So if you share a photo of your key, you are sharing the PIN and anyone can create a copy of your key.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 1 month ago:
Sure. But there is only so much effort countering this baseless fear mongering deserves, and this study may already more than that.
The fear mongering doesn’t end. Violent movies cause violent behavior. Not hey don’t. Violent movies cause violent behavior. No they don’t, actually research show gamers are less aggressive. Now it’s sexualized games that cause issues. And every time, they don’t even really care about the research anyway.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 1 month ago:
I don’t know anything about other STEM fields or other countries, but where I live, most sw engineering courses don’t have above 5%.
But yeah, dismiss reality with the “dog whistles”! “All the dog whistles!” And then act surprised when no one outside your echo chamber takes you seriously.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 1 month ago:
If you have a way to make women study software engineering and other game dev related fields, please do share. I would love that.
But you can’t fix lack of women and generally diverse people skilled in game dev during hiring. We have seen the results of trying multiple times.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 1 month ago:
There you go. But I really wonder why ko-fi needs e-mail, had to go rummage around for the mail associated with this account. Almost stopped me from donating.
- Comment on 4011 1 month ago:
Cities tried, shops ended up closing, causing a lot of problems for the community. The corpos won’t make it easy to pull one over on them.
- Comment on Iron 2 months ago:
I get why you think that, but it does not say permanent.
If the birth control lasted 1-6 month to ensure active addicts would not have children, I would be kind of in favor of it. There is nothing good about a child being raised by addicts or taken by CPS and going through orphanages/foster care.
- Comment on How it feels using TOR as a Brit rn 🤘 2 months ago:
I used a VPN yesterday to see how it looks in the UK. Seems a lot of porn sites don’t give a shit about UK and don’t require any verification. So one again, just the law abiding sites are punished while kids are pushed towards the lawless ones.
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 2 months ago:
And here we see an example of a severely endangered kind of Lemming. One that can be fair to the side they disagree with.
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- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 2 months ago:
Well, yes. I just did not consider them to be the ones discriminating if it is against the law, but the government.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 2 months ago:
Putting the ridicoulous idea that governments are fair and transparent aside, payment processors need to be international. Otherwise, most countries will not be able to access services because their local payment processor is not supported.
However, the payment processors should be regulated with something similar to net neutrality where they can discriminate. And EU could launch a government run competitor to dilute their duopoly.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 months ago:
Still gets you places almost the same. Just have to have the foresight to leave space for it above ground.
- Comment on I dont want to enter a contract when consuming your product.. 3 months ago:
Be careful, if you do a “protest buy”, they may legally be able to not accept the return since you already knew about the contract. So you know, either don’t do it or at least don’t post on social media about it.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 3 months ago:
No joke, YandereDev has been making more progress than Thor on Hartbound.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 3 months ago:
I’m not gonna go out of my way to review bomb his game or send him messages or at him on twitter. But I am not gonna stop calling him a narcisistic idiot whenever the topic comes up. People should know. That is not harassment, that is countering misinformation, at least IMO. A meme like this is not harassment in my book either.
- Comment on I'll care when I work for a co-op that is equally owned by all the workers. 7 months ago:
No offense, but I seriously doubt you’ve done any of such analysis.
Well, go do the analysis for yourself then. But no, you would rather live on fairytale than look at your beliefs critically.
Part of the reason you know USSR sucked is because they had to do it publicly.
Yeah, why not show complete ignorance of history.
You wrote you’re supporting of the kind of socialism a lot of socialists would consider capitalism
No I didn’t.
So instead we should support a system where political motives are commodified and corporations sell the power to influence the political landscape…
You ever heard of the concept of lesser evil? That is what I consider capitalistic social democracy. If you find an even less evil system that does not just run on hopes and dreams, I will switch my support to that one.
- Comment on I'll care when I work for a co-op that is equally owned by all the workers. 7 months ago:
Once you come up with an economic model that both works economically and does not hand power to elected officials or some other such group,
I literally wrote that I would support some form of socialism. That is not sarcasm. I am not talking about one example, I am talking about economic and game theory principles.
If you analyse the common forms of socialism using those, it is obvious it will always devolve into authoritarianism. The incentives between leaders and the population are too misaligned.
- Comment on I'll care when I work for a co-op that is equally owned by all the workers. 7 months ago:
Comparing all capitalism to the US is the same as comparing all socialism to the Soviet Union.
There are plenty social democracies in Europe. I advocate for spreading those and making incremental improvements to them where appropriate.