You were under the assumption that this bucket was finite. The bucket depends on what companies think they can get out of advertising.

While it's easy to write off the trillion dollar valuation of a company as just a fantasy, the reality is collectively the world sent Facebook $64billion in the last 3 months alone.

Back in the day when you chose advertisement you had to create an advert for TV, or select a newspaper with your target audience. Today you can literally click a button on your phone. It's not even all advertising, in many cases it's algorithmic content promoting.

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Oh they still work there, the problem is their products get killed just after release.

All late stage product development leads to enshitification. Getting rid of Sundar Pichai is cutting the head of a hydra. Enshittification didn't start with him, and it certainly won't end with him.

Of course there are people who "care". They are few and far between. But as you said there's a clear process for obtaining that information. We have that in every country. And critically FIOA responses focus on the project details. You want to know how that road was built, file an FIOA and find out. You'll get the complete design documentation, you'll get the signature of the certifying engineer.

You won't get a complete org diagram of project completely with direct phone numbers and names for all involved, as they are out of scope. And if you're actually interested in having them in scope then you're a dangerous lunatic who is not interested in the project, but rather interested in lynching people.

There are people accountable for executing government work. Those people's names are available in sign-offs. Having a list of every civil servant does nothing except fuel your rageboner for shooting individuals who may or may not have worked on something under an administration you didn't like.

Literally none of them do so without a plan from a government. None. Just because someone does the actual building doesn't mean there's not a government behind them, and since you seem to think governments shouldn't have employees maybe you are suggesting that infrastructure should be reduced to a giant bucket full of money where everyone can just go and grab without any planning or consideration.

Your view is stupid. Insanely stupid. Dangerously stupid.

Irrelevant. Every employee just follows orders. Your influence over the decisions of the government has nothing to do with civil servants so there's really no reason to know their personal details. Focus on what you can control and influence, the people at the top who you vote for.

No they don't. You don't get a full employee list being a shareholder of a company either. You have as much to know where you money goes as anyone receiving an abstract investor sheet.

Congrats, you have a stupid state. While listing the salary of positions is a good transparent thing, the number of positions may also be relevant. The names however are not. It's funny how Slashdotters are all in favour of privacy right until they want to know something about someone else.

Don't think I'm right? Please, post your full name, employer, salary and work contact phone number in this reply. If you do, I'll concede my point to you and accept your argument.

Ultimately it's still irrelevant. Knowing or lynching the people who were hired doesn't have any ultimate impact. Your focus should be on those you can control: Politicians. Civil servants don't work for you, they work for them.

I think the real loser thinking is to make snap kneejerk decisions based on a report from a news site soundbite that lacks context. Maybe he actually has this view, maybe he had a one of psychotic episode, maybe a disgruntled employee took an out of context quote and made it newsworthy.

In any case deciding anything on 8 words which are not part of even a complete sentence is a true loser strategy. The OP is perfectly right. We should now be cautious and focus on understanding what is going on.

So true, you could see elements of Gurny in Picard.

It's better to have loved and lost

Picard and Dathon at El-Adre.
Stewart, with sails unfurled
MrKaos, his eyes red.

That is one of the draws of macrophotography. You can quickly and easily create some amazing and abstract unreal looking images. It's one of the big draws of the art.

There's nothing against the rules for being highly photoshopped. But in his case he actually did show his work, including a making of video. Unfortunately his site was slashdotted and is now a landing page.

Maybe they just took 15 years to get their moderation system right if all you ever did was ahitpost.