phillaholic
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- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Plans To Release Xbox First Party Games “Across All Platforms”, Including PlayStation 10 months ago:
They’re horrible at making games too. Their biggest games have been IP conceived and developed externally and once they took them over they’ve run them into the ground of mediocrity. In over twenty years I don’t think any developer or franchise has benefited from Microsoft owning them.
- Comment on CNN blocks Firefox with uBo 10 months ago:
CNN’s docuseries are actually incredible, but they air on Max anyway.
- Comment on What is wage theft exactly? 10 months ago:
Your definition is the stricter answer yes. Not getting paid overtime when you are legally suppose to, and penalizing people for taking PTO are too. The rest are a stretch that imo waters down the major ones.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
Supply is the singles biggest factor is all
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
Yes, but again, there isn’t enough supply for everything you are saying to be the problem. It’s Supply supply supply.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
I believe it only goes down from 70 to 55. A better shot for sure, but you’d still be overpaying and having to buy without an inspection etc.
I don’t see being more wealthy relative to the wealthiest as that beneficial in this scenario. They still have the ability to outbid if they want to.
Building more housing, particularly apartment building or condos that people can own is the simplest solution to the problem. Solving income equality is a massive task with no perfect solutions. Building more houses is straight forward.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
But it’s not going to increase supply, and somewhere around 70% of homes purchased last year were by individuals. Home prices will rise as individuals can bid higher than before.
The only solution is to build more housing.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
I’m not following your point at all here. I’d you give just me extra money, I can probably buy a house. I’d you give everyone more money then I’m back to bidding against everyone else and the cost of housing just rises. We don’t have enough housing in many areas of the country.
- Comment on Following Bobby Kotick’s exit, former ABK devs call out his toxic management and Overwatch 2 sabotage 10 months ago:
Well obviously it’s photoshopped. Are people that dumb? His skin is really red.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
Look at the overall investor share, it was on a downward trend after the crash, and is only up a little. It’s been mostly consistent for over a decade.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
You’re ignoring the hundred other people with 300k that will getting money and now bidding against me. It’s Supply and Demand.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
There are so many people here ignorant to the basic principals of supply and demand. It’s starting to scare me how willful the ignorance is.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
You’re taking it literally, they are taking it realistically. Literally yes everyone switching would do that; realistically that won’t happen, nowhere close. So it won’t work.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
Activists almost always have terrible PR. BLM at least have a coherent point. Occupy Wallstreet was the dog catching cars of protests.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
Here’s a source: housingwire.com/…/no-wall-street-investors-havent…
You’re being against people with under 10 homes, which I agree is still a problem, but you’re not bidding against large corporations.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
They say “you’re wrong” and mention something entirely unrelated.
You can mock me all you like. It isn’t going to allow you to buy a house.
Here’s a source btw housingwire.com/…/no-wall-street-investors-havent…
No idea what all of you seem to think is going on.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
You’re bidding against both, and increasing the amount of money people have also gives people who already own a home to buy another one and get in on the investment opportunity those corporation are. All you’ll get is inflation and probably a crash leaving you owing more than the homes worth when it all comes tumbling down. Throwing money isn’t the solution. Building more multi-family buildings and legislating multi-home ownership including corporations is.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
This is basic supply and demand. Please explain how I’m wrong and giving people more money would solve the problem.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
To scam stupid people out of money? I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, and I’m not sure you do either.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
Think about it. If everyone has more money that means so do the other people bidding against you. It’s like the college tuition problem. Everyone can get student loans, so colleges have no incentive to keep costs reasonable. Giving college students more money doesn’t fix the problem of college being too expensive.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
You’re kidding yourself if you think everyone having more money is going to do anything but increase bidding on housing right now though. I’m not blaming housing prices on people having money, I’m saying it’s not going to fix those underlying issues.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
Giving everyone more money will not fix the price of housing, It’ll do the opposite.
- Comment on As if the tip actually goes to the dashers. 10 months ago:
Yes that’s completely ridiculous. You’re helping their small business by shopping there in the first place.
- Comment on I have to pay extra to remove ads from Prime Video 10 months ago:
I remember getting them before the lights went down, and then the typical coca-cola and popcorn ones. Can’t recall any car ads but I don’t doubt it. I have a nice TV so I don’t go very often.
- Comment on As if the tip actually goes to the dashers. 10 months ago:
I was speaking for Americans. Companies like Door Dash are practically experiments in avoiding labor laws .
- Comment on As if the tip actually goes to the dashers. 10 months ago:
Is there a rating system for customers?
- Comment on As if the tip actually goes to the dashers. 10 months ago:
It’s worse. They aren’t employees. They are independent contractors who in many cases assume all liability and have to pay their own payroll taxes. Most aren’t reporting it to their insurance company, much less thinking about retirement and healthcare. It only really works as a temporary side gig.
- Comment on As if the tip actually goes to the dashers. 10 months ago:
Personally I tip 20% or more at most Restaurants. I draw the line at tipping before service as well. They aren’t even pretending anymore that it’s about service.
That said, I don’t use any Gig economy service; I don’t believe in their business models at all, and part of what you are saying is why. Workers shouldn’t be taking on the burden, companies should.
I do tip at some pre-service places that I’m a regular at, but I’ve run into some pretty ridiculous stores asking for tips where nothing warrants it. I try to be fair, but it is getting ridiculous.
- Comment on I have to pay extra to remove ads from Prime Video 10 months ago:
Trailers shouldn’t be lumped in with ads for Products imo. Trailers before movies have existed forever. Getting interrupted by an ad for Honda is annoying.