Exactly!! but not just the winner , they all win!

This has to be the most obnoxious demonstration of why open source software culture is the greatest impediment to mainstream adoption of open source software that I've seen in a while.

I was like that with some of the Marvel properties. Fortunately I had my son Cliff to provide me with pertinent notes before we watched a thing.

They actually do both, they're known to use their Manna-clone system that orders warehouse workers around to "find problems" with the performance of anyone involved in unionizing and fire them as an early line of defense. They've done this with unionization attempts in the US before (at least one of those warehouses did successfully unionize despite that). Shutting down the FC and moving out of town is their nuke-it-from-orbit option when all else has failed.

Penalties are light and unlikely enough in many jurisdictions for employers to consider it a cost of doing business though. See what Amazon's been doing in their warehouses in Quebec and BC for examples. Coincidentally, guess which Canadian provinces have the most videogame dev studios...

Maybe a system where everyone gets a share of collective productivity but has to take a turn at work could make those people feel better. So everyone gets their lifetime supply of food/shelter/healthcare/transportation/entertainment in return for their 5-10 years working or whatever the economy actually needs, so there's no shortage of human labor and nobody feels that there's an unfair division of labor either.

Of course the problem with that is another problem contributing to the current situation, there are people who seek maximally unequal shares of wealth for themselves and would fight an egalitarian utopia tooth and nail. Rich and powerful people who can contribute to the 10,000 year old effort of tricking the proles into propping up the aristocracy.

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It's not the worst idea ever but it's worse than better options the billionaires want to distract us from with discussion of UBI, like universal basic services and democratic socialism, ideas where they don't retain as much of their wealth and power as they might with UBI.

I might've gone to one but it seems they're all in the past now. Maybe I'll remember to check next year.

This is a common myth that's often repeated because it's useful, in business for wealth advisors scaring their clients into retaining their services, and in fiscally conservative politics to promote indefinite patience with the ever-worsening moral horror show produced by runaway inequality.

https://www.oakswealthmanageme...

https://jamesgrubman.com/wp-co...

I remember there was a study in the 2010s that found that it takes something like 900 years for a wealthy family to lose its wealth but all my search attempts to find it are flooded with more of this folksy "3rd-generation curse" myth, anyone remember it?

Have they checked out Hildon or Plasma Mobile?

The first country to release an LLM that's like what Claude Mythos pretended to be might destroy other countries several glorious winning seconds before it destroys itself. Winning!

yes, but let them think they are winning!!

In the '80s when gene splicing was first becoming something that could work reliably the Soviet Union biowarfare labs created a chimera of Marburg (an ebola variant) and (smallpox? Cowpox? Mousepox? I forget which), which was nicknamed 'Blackpox'. A researcher was accidentally infected, immediately quarantined, and his decline and death recorded and played back for the Kremlin leadership. They were so horrified they cancelled the research and ordered all samples and documentation destroyed and shut down most of their biowarfare program.

Ken Alibek defected to the US bringing his research notes and stolen documentation copies. The Pentagram found the data so valuable that they had Congress vote to give him immediate citizenship, and he spent the rest of his life working for them.

It never ceases to amaze me how people point at Venezuela or Cuba and say, "See? That's what happens when you allow socialists to take over!" It displays
1) Their ignorance of what life was like for the majority before the change in government, and
2) Their deliberate ignoring of decades of constant financial attacks by the most powerful economy on the planet.

They'll tie themselves in knots pretending that the US is in no way responsible for their economic issues, while at the same time insisting that the economic warfare continues. It would be amusing if it weren't so infuriating.