hayvan
@hayvan@piefed.world
- Comment on Tax billionaires, insure millions: The CA wealth tradeoff 6 days ago:
It’s natural that billionaires don’t want to make it. What’s baffling is so many poor people are against the tradeoff too
- Comment on 🤔🤔🤔 1 week ago:
Sorry, she has a Mr Mime.
- Comment on The one episode you'd share to get someone into Star Trek 1 week ago:
How about The Trouble With Tribbles. Has intrigue, diplomatic tension, and adorable problematic creatures.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
The perfect solution would be an orbital station with a space elevator. An 36’000 km elevator is kinda difficult to build and maintain safely though.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Probably not, but worth a try.
- Comment on the tech billionaires have lost the plot 5 weeks ago:
Practically, the only use of them right now is to inflate stock prices. No business benefits from this much compute other than hardware suppliers and construction companies.
- Comment on Happy Kirkday! 5 weeks ago:
One of my favourite conspiracies is that academic spaces are overwhelmingly left-leaning.
- Comment on Reject modernity, embrace tradition 5 weeks ago:
My father was one of those, which lead to a very happy accident. I tried to convert him to vaping because my mom had been complaining for years about how he stank. I got him a big vape, he’s too stingy to let it go to waste, but also hated vaping so much that he outright quit cold turkey, after smoking for 45 years and several failed quitting attempts, this was his trigger.
- Comment on Crazy town 1 month ago:
Ah the punctuation song. comma lady, comma comma lady.
- Comment on White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin 1 month ago:
Is entire US of A a shitpost now?
- Comment on Cruel and unusual 1 month ago:
Yeah at that point just shoot me.
- Comment on Brace yourself... for beans! 1 month ago:
Thanks.
- Comment on Brace yourself... for beans! 1 month ago:
What’s up with beans?
- Comment on Have you know? 1 month ago:
You are putting an effort to learn things and using the tools at hand properly. Most people don’t do that.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 1 month ago:
So I’m a helldiver with an expected lifespan of 30 seconds. Ay least being shot in a big bullet sounds fun.
- Comment on 1 too many joints 1 month ago:
It’s herbal. The type you smoke.
- Comment on not again! 🤦♀️ 2 months ago:
There was sex?
- Comment on The System does not work. 2 months ago:
The system works exactly as intended. This is Free Market in its full glory!
- Comment on How com the ad industry make so much money? 2 months ago:
Man I can really go for a refreshing can of Coca Cola right now.
- Comment on The Evolution of Streaming 2 months ago:
Shiver me timbers!
- Comment on How to move a sofa 2 months ago:
it’s not inherently built into the system
This is the only point I disagree with you. Your situation is extremely rare and exists because of the cool founders, and despite the economic system. There is nothing stopping them from exploiting new hires as the company grows. In fact, “free market” encourages cost cutting and aggressive competition.
- Comment on How to move a sofa 2 months ago:
I have no problem with selling my labour for money as long as I’m fairly compensated for it.
If you are working for a salary, you are never fairly compensated. If you received the value you actually produced, your boss can’t make a profit. Profit is only possible by a exploitation.
The intensity of said exploitation is a spectrum, there is a huge difference between having some savings and disposable income versus barely surviving. I also make a decently comfortable living as a software engineer but I’m still a crippling accident away from losing it all and depending on disability benefits.
- Comment on How to move a sofa 2 months ago:
Whenever you can afford to pay to have a problem of yours solved, it’s often the most convenient way of solving it.
Anyone who makes their living by working, either for salary or hourly rate, is working class. Let’s just be on the same page about that.
A working class person basically survives by converting their time and energy to cash. So paying cash is also paying with your labour, indirectly and often inefficiently. It’s always a matter of “is it worth it”? Hiring movers for moving your entire home may be worth it, just one piece of furniture often isn’t.
A wealth-class person gets their income from what they own. Its “passive” from their point of view, the money just appears as profit or capital gains or whatever. It’s still a limited resource, but often way more available. Any kind of favours you do or ask for at this point is purely for fun/social purposes since hiring someone to move that sofa, or even just buying and having a new one delivered is way more convenient and time-efficient, since your money is not literally your time.
- Comment on How to move a sofa 2 months ago:
Not just American. It’s poor people’s economy everywhere. American working class has more in common with working class in every other nation than American wealth class. The real division in the world is class division, everything else is distraction.
- Comment on Not at all 2 months ago:
Now you can sell that gold and get the golden showers you want.
- Comment on I don't think I need to bother translating... 2 months ago:
Supposed to be heart shaped I guess but looks like booba to me.
- Comment on Shoutout To My Boy 2 months ago:
It’d be mad if our favourite union man wasn’t the top comment.
- Comment on RAM crisis averted 2 months ago:
*nybble
- Comment on Anon notices a problem 2 months ago:
Also not with space but Titanic: build a massive model and sink it, so I can justify a budget to buy a submersible.
- Comment on Anon notices a problem 2 months ago:
I guess whale hunting is an easier message to sell to the masses.