True, it was never going to work as intended, but Reagan didn’t know that.
Sure he did. Do you really think he didn’t have any advisors or scientists telling him what a stupid idea it was? The point was never for it to work, just to funnel money weapons contractors.
It’s pretty fucking hard not to shop at near monopolies when they have a near monopoly and buying from the manufacturer costs an extra 50% because of the extra shipping. Not many products, even brand name one, are high enough quality anymore to justify that. In fact, Carhartt is a prime example of that; for example, they stopped making their shirts out of cotton and make them out almost entirely out of trash-grade scratchy polyester now.
Someone should tell this guy about AWS.
Don’t worry, in a few decades that’s where we’ll all be, you included. Assuming we survive the corporate-induced famines, anyway.
Next lesson: Oops, there aren’t better employers.
The fact that “don’t work off the clock” and “don’t do work you aren’t getting paid for” are genuinely needed bits of advice rather than absurdly obvious common sense should radicalize all workers.
Most of the “solutions” sold by companies are for artificial problems created by companies.
I stopped reading when you said the goal of tech companies is to solve real world problems. The only goal of tech companies is to create products that will make them a profit. To believe anything else is delusional. That’s kind of why our society is crumbling and the planet is dying.
Some are afraid, others don’t know how, others feel like there’s no use in trying. A whole lot buy into the American exceptionalism propaganda that gets shoved down our throats from birth and think there’s nothing wrong with this country and that the people who are suffering deserve it, and that the people who want to make it better are literally trying to destroy it for Satan, or for the Jews, or for the reptilians.
I do support that, at least morally. In practice, a bunch of disorganized, untrained, and poorly equipped people who are already struggling to get by day to day are not going to win a fight against human history’s most powerful police and military force on its own home territory.
Because that’s not the government works. The populace doesn’t choose who the candidates are, introduce legislation, or (with relatively rare exceptions) vote on it directly.
The fucking body panels don’t even fit correctly.
Imagine thinking there’s wiggle room for a ton of major cosmetic problems on a product that costs a full year of an average worker’s income.
It’s fast as fuck.
Translates as: “I drive like an absolute cunt.”
Who wants to volunteer to die for their government?
And I explained why that “refutation” is horseshit. If you expect a nation full of people who can barely make ends meet to pay more for the same product and worse service, you need to compensate them for the cost difference. If you’re not willing to do that, shut the fuck up.