TheDemonBuer
@TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 2 weeks ago:
“The people that think that’s toxic don’t understand the start-up game, and they’re just wrong,” he said. “The game is intense. And by the way, if you don’t do that, eventually, you’re out of a job.
For those who disagree, working at a startup is a choice, Hoffman insisted.
But the reward on the other side is second to none; the 100 or so first employees at LinkedIn don’t need to work anymore, he added. Microsoft purchased the professional networking platform for $26.2 billion in 2016.
That’s good for the 100 or so first employees at LinkedIn, but I’m certain that the VAST majority of employees who bust their ass trying to help get a start-up off the ground don’t have anywhere near that end result. I’m sure it isn’t worth it for 99% of employees of start-ups.
But if you want to take on the challenge, hoping that maybe you’ll be one of the lucky ones, go for it, but don’t fucking drag a spouse/significant other, or children into that nightmare. If you want to commit your entire life to a start-up, then fucking commit.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 2 weeks ago:
I agree, rebuilding a US manufacturing base will require competent planning and management, but those are bad words here in the US, when it comes to the economy. To many Americans, competent, central economic management, direction, and planning is tyrannical rule by elites. To those Americans, Trump is the antidote. You might point out that there is significant irony in that. I agree, it is ironic, but that irony is completely lost on many millions of Americans.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 2 weeks ago:
the US relies heavily on imports and doesn’t have a strong manufacturing base for most products
And that’s the problem Trump is seemingly trying to fix. I agree he’s not going about the right way. His approach is a kind of clumsy shock therapy, that will cause chaos in at least the short term and may or may not produce the desired result, eventually, but reshoring production and rebuilding a strong manufacturing base for the US is a goal shared by the Democrats, as well.
- Comment on The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck. 2 weeks ago:
I agree that Nintendo was ahead of the curve when it came to expanding portable gaming, but the only reason the switch sold so many units, and ultimately got so many games ported to it, was because of Nintendo first party titles. If you look at the best selling switch titles, the vast majority of them are Nintendo games. Without Nintendo first party titles, the switch would have been far outsold by better devices.
- Comment on The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck. 2 weeks ago:
It’s not convoluted at all. It’s extremely simple: if you want to play first party Nintendo titles (or other exclusives), you MUST buy a switch. If you don’t care about Nintendo exclusives, there’s absolutely no reason to own a switch. That has been true of every, single Nintendo console ever released… except for the Wii. People bought a Wii so they could play a motion control game with Grandma once or twice, and then just let the console sit and collect dust.
- Comment on Arkham aslume 4 weeks ago:
Just your typical Ammu-Nation.
- Comment on He's totally not a Nazi tho 5 weeks ago:
I suppose the military and police are public sector workers, but doesn’t that imply that he should be focusing on dismantling the defense department and like FBI, DHS, etc?
- Comment on The billionaires and politicians did it 1 month ago:
Corporate profits are higher than ever largely because corporations have been able to get greater productivity out of workers without increasing pay. If wages had kept up with productivity, profits wouldn’t be nearly as high.
- Comment on From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) 1 month ago:
I recently played through New Order, Old Blood, and New Colossus again. God, I love those games.
- Comment on Notch says he will work on a spiritual successor to Minecraft 3 months ago:
I haven’t played it, I’ve only seen clips on YouTube.
- Comment on Notch says he will work on a spiritual successor to Minecraft 3 months ago:
I thought there already was a spiritual successor to Minecraft: Vintage Story
- Comment on Beautiful stories like this just make you smile 3 months ago:
women are untrustworthy sluts!
Some are, especially many of the wives and girlfriends of American servicemen.
- Comment on Remember the iconic paintings of The Last Supper? This is what it would look like if it happened today 3 months ago:
Why is this being downvoted? This is a great example of a shitpost.
- Comment on okay.. 4 months ago:
There’s am awful lot of medium size companies staffed by regular every day people for every fat cat evil corporate overlord.
The only reason that medium sized company exists is because it hasn’t yet had the opportunity to grow into a behemoth, or it hasn’t yet been taken over by one. But that’s the goal of every firm, small, medium, or large: ever increasing profits, over all else, even over human well being. Some firms are just better at achieving that goal, often because they were first into an industry. These massive corporations didn’t start out massive, they grew from much smaller firms. The executives at giant corporations aren’t exceptionally evil, they’ve just demonstrated enough acumen for increasing profits to catch the eye of some giant corporations board chair (that and maybe they both went to the same business school and play golf together). And since ever increasing profits is the goal of every firm, every firm has to try and capture as many markets as possible, and that means the small and medium sized firms will be captured eventually, unless they are able to grow into a massive corporation themselves.
- Comment on UnitedHealthcare CEO's murder sparks online outrage at health insurance industry 4 months ago:
People’s reaction to a health insurance CEO being assassinated:
- Comment on Bloomberg: Sony Interactive Entertainment working on portable PS5 4 months ago:
The switch and the steam deck have really changed the game.
- Comment on Working-Class Men Are Not Okay 6 months ago:
We live in a society that generally looks down on working class people. Not all working class people, equally, though, as not everyone who sells their labor is culturally or socially in the same class. A professional athlete making tens of millions of dollars a year can’t really be counted in the same social class as a factory worker making $50K a year. That being said, very, very few people get rich by earning a wage. Generally speaking, if you want to get rich you have to have access to capital.
And getting rich is the goal. One’s position in the social hierarchy is closely tied to their wealth and income. For this reason, there’s a strong incentive to NOT do work that doesn’t pay a lot. Unfortunately for all of us, much of that work is absolutely essential for the functioning of any modern society. So, there’s a disconnect. The incentives are skewed, away from some of the most essential work and toward some of the least essential work. I think the long term effects of this could be disastrous, as we see more and more shortages of workers in essential fields.
But fear not, the capitalists have anticipated this and they have a solution: immigrants. Just bring people in from other countries to do the essential yet low wage, low status work. I don’t really think that’s a solution at all, and is more or less just delaying the inevitable.
- Comment on Just a reminder... 6 months ago:
I don’t think the decisions that led to our current monetary system were made arbitrarily, not at all.
- Comment on Just a reminder... 6 months ago:
The cost of living will just keep going up because inflation is necessary in our current, debt based monetary system. The Fed tries to keep this under control by not allowing the rate of inflation to go much beyond about 2% a year. The recent inflation issue we’ve been having wasn’t about inflation suddenly happening where it hadn’t been happening before, it was about the rate of inflation increasing beyond the Fed’s 2% target. When they talk about inflation getting back under control, they’re talking about the rate of inflation getting back to near 2%. But make no mistake: prices are still going up - they have to, that’s how the system works - and they will keep going up every year, seemingly indefinitely. For this reason, a cost of living raise equal to at least the rate of inflation is absolutely essential, otherwise workers are getting a pay cut.
But this is further complicated by the fact that the core inflation numbers are very broad. Housing costs are exploding. Core inflation would be much lower if not for rising housing costs. But the way housing costs increases are measured is by averaging housing costs across all markets, meaning the cost of housing in low demand areas is averaged with the cost of housing in high demand areas. This means that if you live in a high demand area, the core inflation rate doesn’t necessarily capture the true cost of living in your area, and that the cost of living in your area is going up much faster than the national average. Therefore, many workers need an annual cost of living increase that is much greater than the national inflation rate.
As far as I know, there is no national law requiring companies to give cost of living raises every year. Many companies do, but many don’t. A mandatory, annual cost of living raise is something that unions can negotiate, once again showing the value of unions.
- Comment on Profits are the surplus labor value stolen from the working class and the community they live in. 6 months ago:
They need our labor to make their profits. Fuck their profits.
- Comment on EU consumer groups slam 'manipulative' video game spending tactics. 7 months ago:
Of course parents not taking appropriate precautions doesn’t absolve the companies of responsibility. Unethical behavior is unethical behavior, even if there are things consumers can do to protect themselves from it. After all, the precautions wouldn’t be necessary if the companies didn’t engage in this behavior in the first place, so these precautions aren’t really solutions only mitigations.
- Comment on Minecraft *Movie Edition* 7 months ago:
The irony is, something like this probably would have been a lot less expensive to make, while also appealing more to fans. It’s funny how so many people in the movie business are not very good at, you know, the movie business.
- Comment on Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987) - Undercover Frisbee Assassination Scene 7 months ago:
Classic schlock.
- Comment on The State of the Unions, Labor Day 2024 7 months ago:
Every corporation should have a worker advocate, a consumer advocate, and a community advocate on their board of directors. It is ridiculous that only the investors get to make the decisions, currently. Investors only care about one thing: maximum return on their investment. They don’t care how the company is run, they don’t care how many employees get laid off, they don’t care if the company is benefiting the community, they just want the value of their shares in the company to go up, and/or to receive the highest possible dividends at the end of the year. They want passive income, they want the value of their asset to go up so they will be wealthier. That’s it. It’s unacceptable that only the investors are given a vote, and that others, who are also deeply affected by how the company operates, don’t.
- Comment on Watching ml and world argue in every thread be like. 7 months ago:
Sorry, you’re all getting techno-feudalism.
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong launches to almost 1.5 million concurrent players 7 months ago:
The level of paranoia is kind of crazy.
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds 7 months ago:
One of the many games just sitting in my steam library, waiting to be played.
- Comment on Geoff Keighley: No Silksong in Gamescom. Team Cherry are still cooking. 8 months ago:
We just got a leaked image from inside Team Cherry:
- Comment on Dallas Black Dance Theatre fired its entire company of dancers, after they unionized 8 months ago:
That should be illegal.
- Comment on The Labor Movement Is Giddy About Tim Walz Becoming Harris’ VP Pick 8 months ago:
It’s funny how quickly opinions have (seemingly) changed regarding unions. For decades, both parties were pretty hostile to labor unions. Now, everyone wants to show how pro union they are. It’s been quite the dramatic 180°.
