Thought terminating cliche.
Is your claim that human therapists have caused zero suicides? I hope not for your sake - that would be a really hard one to defend
So in your example a microwave company should be held liable if someone puts a child in a microwave?
Fascinating perspective - any technology that has caused >0 deaths is a dead end and has no chance of improvement.
Most Hackernews coded opinion I’ve ever seen
lol Why do you have to immediately redirect Are you sensitive to this topic or something?
Interesting that Bloomberg couldn’t swing his own election
Clearly it’s not everyone else. You can see multiple replies to my comment expressing the same frustration that I am.
Why don’t we pay people to dig ditches with spoons? It would produce jobs!
I wouldn’t count on your getting any kind of logical reply here. It’s generally all vibes with these people
Weird right? People’s brains seem to just turn off when this topic comes up. I’m used to it and even find it enjoyable at this point
Then it should be pretty easy to explain right? I’ve seen the same reply to my comment multiple times. Each time it has nothing to do with what I said. I made no claim regarding businesses surviving or not surviving.…
> Can I assume that you're referring to the executives? Of course not, why would I be? I don't mind if a company decides to pay their employees a lot. In fact, I'd prefer companies pay their employees a lot!
> management staff who produce nothing of value Interesting, first I'm hearing of this idea. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - do you have evidence to support this?
How does this statement relate to my comment?
> If a business cannot support civilization, then why should it continue to exist? Sorry, how does this relate to my comment?
It's pretty simple - it doesn't bother me if a company decides to pay a worker a lot of money. They could decide to pay their CEO a trillion dollars and it would have zero effect on me. However, the government mandating…
What does this have to do with my comment? Please don't bring up random unrelated stuff, you're welcome to add a top level comment for that.
Woah, what's with the vitriol lol, let's relax a little bit
What do minimum wage supporters expect to happen with people whose labor does not produce >= $minimum_wage worth of value?
> But remember, the economies of scale first make things more the same and reduce variety, then enable eliminating competitors from the market, thus enabling enshittification at scale Source?
Might be good to confirm that this is actually happening first :) Hysteria typically doesn’t lead to particularly good policy
So Bezos has produced a more efficient option and was rewarded for it? I already said I like Amazon, you don’t have to convince me
Sounds like the economy of scale option produced better results for consumers :)
> It might sound complicated if you live in a country where elections are won by who spends most money for airtime Which country are you referring to here? I’m not familiar with any that work like this. In the United…
Thought terminating cliche.
Is your claim that human therapists have caused zero suicides? I hope not for your sake - that would be a really hard one to defend
So in your example a microwave company should be held liable if someone puts a child in a microwave?
Fascinating perspective - any technology that has caused >0 deaths is a dead end and has no chance of improvement.
Most Hackernews coded opinion I’ve ever seen
lol Why do you have to immediately redirect Are you sensitive to this topic or something?
Interesting that Bloomberg couldn’t swing his own election
Clearly it’s not everyone else. You can see multiple replies to my comment expressing the same frustration that I am.
Why don’t we pay people to dig ditches with spoons? It would produce jobs!
I wouldn’t count on your getting any kind of logical reply here. It’s generally all vibes with these people
Weird right? People’s brains seem to just turn off when this topic comes up. I’m used to it and even find it enjoyable at this point
Then it should be pretty easy to explain right? I’ve seen the same reply to my comment multiple times. Each time it has nothing to do with what I said. I made no claim regarding businesses surviving or not surviving.…
> Can I assume that you're referring to the executives? Of course not, why would I be? I don't mind if a company decides to pay their employees a lot. In fact, I'd prefer companies pay their employees a lot!
> management staff who produce nothing of value Interesting, first I'm hearing of this idea. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - do you have evidence to support this?
How does this statement relate to my comment?
> If a business cannot support civilization, then why should it continue to exist? Sorry, how does this relate to my comment?
It's pretty simple - it doesn't bother me if a company decides to pay a worker a lot of money. They could decide to pay their CEO a trillion dollars and it would have zero effect on me. However, the government mandating…
What does this have to do with my comment? Please don't bring up random unrelated stuff, you're welcome to add a top level comment for that.
Woah, what's with the vitriol lol, let's relax a little bit
What do minimum wage supporters expect to happen with people whose labor does not produce >= $minimum_wage worth of value?
> But remember, the economies of scale first make things more the same and reduce variety, then enable eliminating competitors from the market, thus enabling enshittification at scale Source?
Might be good to confirm that this is actually happening first :) Hysteria typically doesn’t lead to particularly good policy
So Bezos has produced a more efficient option and was rewarded for it? I already said I like Amazon, you don’t have to convince me
Sounds like the economy of scale option produced better results for consumers :)
> It might sound complicated if you live in a country where elections are won by who spends most money for airtime Which country are you referring to here? I’m not familiar with any that work like this. In the United…