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- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 2 hours ago:
Okay, let me rephrase it: Not enough people enjoy working the middle of an australian desert at 40°C in a lithium mine to cover the global supply of rare earths.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 4 hours ago:
Normal functioning societies don’t leave heaps of stinking trash around, they neatly pack it and the work of a janitor of garbage collector becomes actually enjoyable if you’re a proper type of personality.
Idk if you noticed, but people won’t behave that way if there is no repercussion for it.
He has his basic needs met by other means, and his “job” pays him enough to get a cup of coffee before the shift and a sandwich after. He just enjoys making the world cleaner, chatting with locals, taking care of stray cats, and having a routine.
Great but some people have more aspirations than your uncle. And I think they should have the chance to achieve that. And I don’t think having a clean neighborhood should depend on having that uncle that enjoys cleaning for free.
All of that is possible in a world that doesn’t revolves around squeesing every bit of labour from people
I mean, yes, absolutely possible without squeezing every bit of labor from people. However, it’s not possible in a world without money or capital. The wide-spread introduction of capitalism has DRASTICALLY reduced the amount of people living in extreme poverty. According to https://ourworldindata.org/end-progress-extreme-poverty , from 1990 - 2025, the amount of people living in extreme poverty dropped by 65%, from 2.3 billion to 800 million. If we extend the timeframe a bit further, according to https://ourworldindata.org/history-of-poverty-data-appendix , the number went from 53.9% in extreme poverty to only 5.5% - meaning an almost 90% reduction in extreme poverty. Unless I’m too stupid to do math now.
(ourworldindata.org is a non-profit funded by the university of oxford btw - so it’s fairly reliable)
Now, capitalism isn’t the sole reason why poverty dropped - it’s the combination with effective social policies. Capitalism creates wealth, taxes take a part of that wealth and spread it to the rest of society. That’s how it should work and that is also by far the best system we could ever have in place. The fact that america fails on that tax-part is not the fault of capitalism. It’s a failure of the government.
It’s insane that so many people tried to flee from communist terror regimes, and still try to flee to this day out of North Korea or Cuba, yet people on lemmy will just close their eyes and pretend that communism is the perfect system and every system that fails is just because of the “CIA”.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 5 hours ago:
Like, half of the jobs you listed would be automated out pretty quick in a world without money
If that was even remotely possible, companies would’ve done that already. Every company tries to cut staff as much as possible.
pretty sure we can find something better for batteries than lithium
Which requires research, which requires investment. Much of the research we currently have only exists exactly because of funding, and a lot of funding is done by companies, not by the government.
What’s left can be rotated out or done by lottery, and those doing the undesirable labor get to have more luxury items or whatever
I like the “whatever”. Let’s just introduce a shitty system that also potentially forces people to do work they don’t want to do and they get like a bar of soap or “whatever” as reward..
It’s not hard to imagine, people have been doing it for centuries.
I don’t know where these people lived that you talk about, but it certainly wasn’t on this planet. Such a system has never existed.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 8 hours ago:
If you removed money, imagine where we’d all be as a society
Probably dead or living in the stone age.
There’s so many jobs that people don’t enjoy but are necessary. Nobody enjoys working in the middle of an australian desert at 40°C in a lithium mine. Nobody enjoys collecting your stinking trash. Nobody enjoys sitting in a store for 8 hours a day, scanning groceries. Nobody enjoys working in a warehouse for 8 hours.
However, these jobs and many more are vital for todays society.
toxicity of money, wars and hate!
You make it sound like wealth and wars are an invention of capitalism and not something that has existed basically since the dawn of time, even as something you can observe in primates, albeit on a much smaller scale.
- Comment on Some things were better in the good old days 22 hours ago:
But there’s WAY more surviving devices from 1960 in 2020 than there will be from 2020 in 2080.
- Comment on Where is my filet knife? 1 day ago:
I don’t get it. Landlords don’t buy houses. They mostly buy apartment blocks. At least in central europe, where I’m located. It’s usually not lucrative enough to invest money into a house to rent it back out for like 1500€ - 2000€ a month when you can invest the same amount into an apartment block, have 10 apartments and make like 800€/apartment.
Also, in germany specifically, the problem isn’t landlords. It’s extremely restrictive and confusing building regulations that are extremely hard to fulfill. Well, and the prices for raw materials are currently through the roof aswell. No idea how it’s in other european countries tho.
- Comment on One new message! 1 day ago:
Bro could at least invite her for dinner before making such … interesting demands.
- Comment on Where is my filet knife? 1 day ago:
Okay, I’m curious, how exactly do you think landlords affect your ability to buy a house?
- Comment on Where is my filet knife? 1 day ago:
Classic lefty talk, landlords are bad yada yada yada I guess.
- Comment on Get Your Freak On 2 days ago:
Woman:
breathesSociety: It emphasizes empowerment and self-expression
- Comment on A handy reference guide for you 2 days ago:
Okay can I actually pet bumblebees or is this just a meme?
- Comment on Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world 2 days ago:
Every day, we stray futher from god
- Comment on What the Hell is this Bull shit ? 3 days ago:
American suddenly realizing that not the entire world is america.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
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- Comment on 5 days ago:
This is stupid. Valve telling developers “you can’t sell your game cheaper on other platforms than on steam” is taking the cake away alone.
First of all, that’s not entirely true - valve is demanding price parity, meaning long-term undercutting steam is not allowed (something absolutely normal in almost any larger e-commerce scenario btw), but they have no problem if you have sales or value-added offers on other platforms. Now, you can think about price parity what you think, I’m not the biggest fan of it either, but it’s a very common practice, not exclusive to steam and has nothing to do with anti-trust.
You somehow keep ignoring the fact that valve makes more money than any other corporation per employee. They are clearly over-charging and you cannot argue against this
I ignored it because it’s a retarded metric. Yeah, guess what, if you automate a lot, you’re going to need less employees. I have no clue how that has any relevance in if a product is worth it or not. I’m pretty sure the v-servers I’m renting from hetzner involve nobody, it’s all automated, from purchase to setup - should I get it for free now? Would it be fine to have a 30% cut if valve employed like 1000 more people or what is the logic here?
Stop defending megacorporations.
I’m not defending megacorporations, I just don’t agree with your at all. Fundamentally, you are saying “making money bad” which is just a naive and highly uneducated argument to have.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
30% cut was fine when infrastructure was just not there yet, but 64GB HDD no longer costs 100€ and internet is not metered in megabytes.
Steam isn’t just storing stuff and letting people download it. They’re an entire distribution network. There’s not just the tech (which is already expensive in itself), but also the entire legal stuff. Invoicing, legal compliance, fraud prevention, chargeback processing, the customer support (which actually got fairly helpful in the last 2 years) etc.
If you genuinely think Valve and Gabe’s fleet of Yachts is not monopolistic squeezing/pricing
It’s not. Valve has not adjusted their pricing once, at least not upwards. They have reduced the pricing for extremely high-grossing games, but other than that, the price has stuck at 30%. How is that squeezing? Wouldn’t that make them INCREASE the percentage point instead of leaving it where it is?
Also, it’s funny that you talk about “monopolistic”, because epic has probably engaged in more monopolistic behavior with the EGS than steam ever has. And if we compare the features of the EGS (which didn’t even have a shopping cart for the first year of it’s existence) with the feature set of steam, I can absolutely see that a 30% cut is fine.
Now, could they lower it? Probably. But 30% is still worth it for any indie dev and significantly less than any other entity with the size and reach of steam would take for all their services.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
They introduced a feature, the community didn’t like it, and they canceled it a few days later because of that feedback. What exactly is the problem? Making a mistake and rectifying it within days is not a bad thing at all.
Users are just more tolerant towards Valve than any other platform because of the cheap games they can buy during a sale
If that was the case, people would be extremely tolerant towards the epic game store which regularly throws out games for free, but they aren’t.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
“doing nothing”
Global distribution of exabytes of data, handling the entire e-commerce side and offering great toolings with steamworks while requiring onyl 100 dollars upfront is now considered “nothing”. Yeah, we should definitely go back to a time when steam wasn’t a thing and indie devs were required to have a publisher to even get their games into stores, and those publishers often took 80% of the entire profits. I’m sure indies had a much better time back then when they didn’t have to pay steam!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
One of the most accurate descriptions of this entire beef.
Steam does nothing and just keeps winning.
- Comment on "That's terror." 1 week ago:
- Comment on MySQL has quesadillas? 1 week ago:
With indexes, so can MySQL or MariaDB. That’s why I said “unoptimized”. Postgres is certainly superior when it comes to more complex or analytical queries, but that’s because MySQL/MariaDB simply weren’t MADE for these kind of situations. And even postgres will struggle with an unoptimized, data-intensive workload. I’ve seen those in the wild.
It’s like shipping a formula 1 car into the desert and wondering why you’re last in the desert rally.
- Comment on MySQL has quesadillas? 1 week ago:
People like to shit on MySQL, I get it, but this is just stupid. No relational database on this planet could handle such an unoptimized situation in adequate time.
- Comment on You know what, fair enough. 1 week ago:
I’d still go. Bros before hoes.
- Comment on Might as well bring it full circle 1 week ago:
Because modern journalism is ad supported, and advertisers don’t want their ads next to anything related to sex.
- Comment on Me after 3 shots of vodka 2 weeks ago:
I’ma be honest, I suspect that these users are trying to gain a “reputation” and at some point try to promote some onlyfans creators.
- Comment on Me after 3 shots of vodka 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I guarantee this is a waste of time 2 weeks ago:
This reminds me of these stupid fucking shorts that explain basic fucking physics with a fucking picture of fucking einstein somewhere on it.
- Comment on It's what it looks like 2 weeks ago:
Nice AI generated meme.
- Comment on Subnautica 2's early access release date was "self-servingly" leaked by Krafton, "further damaging the game", claim lawyers for reinstated Unknown Worlds CEO 2 weeks ago:
“ChatGPT how can I rescue the company I fucked to the ground because I took legal advice from ChatGPT?”
- Comment on Pretty sure this is one of the harbingers of the apocalypse... 2 weeks ago:
Which probably surprises noone, considering his entire career was about being the manly, conservative texan.
