The manager-gone-founder has sympathies and apologies for the destructive ideology of his capitalist master. Of course. The majority of managers have this same character -- it's their class nature. Be wary of trusting…
The means of production that you use are privately owned by your employer, that's all they provide. Maybe they also do some managerial/clerical labor to lubricate the interaction of the commodity with the market, but…
I wasn't being reductionist, that is not my world view; I recognize many different hierarchies. But wealth is an extremely important dimension and the one under examination here. Simple example: people with higher…
Wages are absolutely hierarchical. The people who have higher wages have higher rank/status/authority. You just pushed the blame off to the market, which needs the exact same moral justification.
Employers are necessarily oppressive and may fire employees over this sort of notification if the listed project or the AngelList profile in general is against business interests. If it wasn't clear already, this sort…
> I blame the stock market pressure towards growth. Every capitalist mechanism insists on growth. That's literally what capital is.
Reporting for roll call. Once you get cope with abandoning all of the metaprogramming-heavy APIs a la ActiveRecord that have been front and center in pop web dev, it's quite lovely. The only thing that seems to slow…
I loved GameMaker so much as a kid. I was sad to see it get taken over by money. :( Are there any modern free & open source alternatives? Correction: I remember the underlying scripting language being GML (GameMaker…
Let's Encrypt has a public API for managing certificates. One use case where this is handy is for creating/modifying certificates for each customer-controlled domain/subdomain of your multi-tenant web service.
You're right, I think I understand. OP is laying out the metrics dependent on social relations by which one may estimate a sort of "fair" wage. My rant was tangential to that bullet point but relevant to the second…
>If I create $1M of value for the company, you can compare my price with $1M. Incorrect. If your company were to pay you the same amount as they profit off of you, you wouldn't be sticking around for very long at that…
> ...homelessness, refugees, war, climate change, income inequality These are all directly caused by an economic system which optimizes for profits instead of people. I would also argue that the other problems you…
The dangerous ideological heterogeneity I was referring to: see Ferguson, EU vs. Greece, US vs. immigrants... Regardless: > Someone hard-working with a 130 IQ versus someone depressed or maladjusted with a 90 IQ…
I don't think I understand what you meant by "expectations," and I don't know if you meant this comment to be anything but an ideological thought, but this is what I know: Capitalism runs off of inequality of all sorts.…
Oh, shit! How come I always miss the obvious things? What am I doing wrong?
>Also, this is Finland a small, rich and homogenous country. There are an unknown amount of reasons that would determine the success of a program like basic income, so I'm wondering why the size and homogeneity of a…
Sorry, that was the point I was trying to make as well: https://thecurrentmoment.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/product... The increasing gap between wages and productivity symbolizes growing exploitation — the inequality…
So, to sum up... Our wages stopped rising in the 1970s, because: * Decreased demand for US workers — factories closing to move to other countries; technology replacing human labor; increased capitalist competition with…
>Pretty much everything described in this article applies to other activities or lack thereof. Except the most poetic part of the article that recounts the results of heavy car traffic and lack of foot transportation —…
Visualizations like these certainly have their place, and I actually appreciate that the OP didn't offer commentary in this case. This graph acts as a blank canvas onto which people project their conversational biases.…
Ah, I understand now. Thank you for expanding — I agree with your criticism.
Because of their embracing of the free market, it's often accepted that China is not a communist nation (despite being led by a communist party). Actually, this situation is pretty much just capitalism at work. It…
Sorry, I didn't mean to trample over your experience. I tend to focus on aggregate data which leads to ignoring nuances of the human condition. You're right about deployment size, but it's exciting to see those numbers…
Do you know why that has occurred?
Imagine being one of the five authors of this paper, browsing this comments section. It's natural to distance yourself from people when you're behind a keyboard, but for fuck's sake — these are your peers. If you're…
The manager-gone-founder has sympathies and apologies for the destructive ideology of his capitalist master. Of course. The majority of managers have this same character -- it's their class nature. Be wary of trusting…
The means of production that you use are privately owned by your employer, that's all they provide. Maybe they also do some managerial/clerical labor to lubricate the interaction of the commodity with the market, but…
I wasn't being reductionist, that is not my world view; I recognize many different hierarchies. But wealth is an extremely important dimension and the one under examination here. Simple example: people with higher…
Wages are absolutely hierarchical. The people who have higher wages have higher rank/status/authority. You just pushed the blame off to the market, which needs the exact same moral justification.
Employers are necessarily oppressive and may fire employees over this sort of notification if the listed project or the AngelList profile in general is against business interests. If it wasn't clear already, this sort…
> I blame the stock market pressure towards growth. Every capitalist mechanism insists on growth. That's literally what capital is.
Reporting for roll call. Once you get cope with abandoning all of the metaprogramming-heavy APIs a la ActiveRecord that have been front and center in pop web dev, it's quite lovely. The only thing that seems to slow…
I loved GameMaker so much as a kid. I was sad to see it get taken over by money. :( Are there any modern free & open source alternatives? Correction: I remember the underlying scripting language being GML (GameMaker…
Let's Encrypt has a public API for managing certificates. One use case where this is handy is for creating/modifying certificates for each customer-controlled domain/subdomain of your multi-tenant web service.
You're right, I think I understand. OP is laying out the metrics dependent on social relations by which one may estimate a sort of "fair" wage. My rant was tangential to that bullet point but relevant to the second…
>If I create $1M of value for the company, you can compare my price with $1M. Incorrect. If your company were to pay you the same amount as they profit off of you, you wouldn't be sticking around for very long at that…
> ...homelessness, refugees, war, climate change, income inequality These are all directly caused by an economic system which optimizes for profits instead of people. I would also argue that the other problems you…
The dangerous ideological heterogeneity I was referring to: see Ferguson, EU vs. Greece, US vs. immigrants... Regardless: > Someone hard-working with a 130 IQ versus someone depressed or maladjusted with a 90 IQ…
I don't think I understand what you meant by "expectations," and I don't know if you meant this comment to be anything but an ideological thought, but this is what I know: Capitalism runs off of inequality of all sorts.…
Oh, shit! How come I always miss the obvious things? What am I doing wrong?
>Also, this is Finland a small, rich and homogenous country. There are an unknown amount of reasons that would determine the success of a program like basic income, so I'm wondering why the size and homogeneity of a…
Sorry, that was the point I was trying to make as well: https://thecurrentmoment.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/product... The increasing gap between wages and productivity symbolizes growing exploitation — the inequality…
So, to sum up... Our wages stopped rising in the 1970s, because: * Decreased demand for US workers — factories closing to move to other countries; technology replacing human labor; increased capitalist competition with…
>Pretty much everything described in this article applies to other activities or lack thereof. Except the most poetic part of the article that recounts the results of heavy car traffic and lack of foot transportation —…
Visualizations like these certainly have their place, and I actually appreciate that the OP didn't offer commentary in this case. This graph acts as a blank canvas onto which people project their conversational biases.…
Ah, I understand now. Thank you for expanding — I agree with your criticism.
Because of their embracing of the free market, it's often accepted that China is not a communist nation (despite being led by a communist party). Actually, this situation is pretty much just capitalism at work. It…
Sorry, I didn't mean to trample over your experience. I tend to focus on aggregate data which leads to ignoring nuances of the human condition. You're right about deployment size, but it's exciting to see those numbers…
Do you know why that has occurred?
Imagine being one of the five authors of this paper, browsing this comments section. It's natural to distance yourself from people when you're behind a keyboard, but for fuck's sake — these are your peers. If you're…