So that's what HR departments do?

I'm a manager, and I have to do all those things, and we do have an HR department. In fact, HR makes me jump through MORE hoops to do those things (hiring, firing, evaluations, settling disputes) than I would have had to do without an HR department. I must have missed the memo!

It's especially perfect for a facebook like button.

I assume you're being serious, and if so, I'm sorry to hear that. You are much more acutely aware of the shortness of life than most.

At age 24, I suffered a brain hemorrhage due to AVM. I was literally seconds away from death, but was spared because the excess blood found its way to my spinal column, relieving the pressure on my brain. It completely changed my life. Ever since then, I have lived my life with intensity, understanding that today is a gift, and tomorrow many never come.

People have learned to write stuff into their resumes to trip up AI resume scanners, to give themselves a leg up on the competition.

Put another way, another name for "writing for AI" is "prompt injection."

It's the new SEO.

We all have a terminal illness. You are not going to be around in 100 years.

People who are buried in make-work at the office.
People who don't like to read manuals.
People who want quick answers.
People who want ideas.
People who struggle with proper tone or form.
People who are busy.

There are a host of other kinds of people who want AI. I'm in several of these categries.

The mistake is thinking that "the algorithm" was designed to select music we listeners would like to hear. Nope. The algorithm was designed to select music that *they* want us to hear. That means:
- Music that comes with pay-for-play
- Music that sells advertising
- Music that is cheaper for them to play
- Music that's just "good enough" to keep people from shutting off the stream

Really? These cards are charging more than 2.5%, so all this over reducing that fee to 2.4%? That would seem to reward Visa and Mastercard, which wouldn't have to pass along so much of the fee to pay for rewards, which can easily be 2%.

Now you're revising your own statements. What you said was:

These statements taken together, imply that anything less than a "living wage" (100K per year) is slavery.

Those two statements seem contradictory to me. And it's still absurd to insist that everyone who doesn't make six figures is starving. That is what you are insisting. Your definition of "living wage" based on the link you provided, was more than $100K per year for a family of four. Here, you're saying that the government should help people who make less than a "living wage" to prevent starvation. "Otherwise you have starving people." That's an absurd argument.

My point was that *you* are holding everyone to the same bar, claiming that the only fair thing is for everyone to have the same "living wage." Your system leaves no room for young workers starting at lower pay and having to get a roommate, that somehow it's a violation of human rights to have to have a roommate. You seem to think that a grocery store cashier should make the same amount of money as an engineer.

You don't have to be a manager if you don't want to. But then don't complain that you don't get a manager's salary.

Capitalism has a wonderful feature: It attracts people to the jobs that are needed more, by paying more for them. It motivates people not to take jobs that are less needed, by paying less for them. It's a built-in incentive system that encourages people to go where the need is greatest.

They actually *are* giving crawlers what they want for free. It's just now, after they start to realize what some crawlers do with the content, they're starting to want to get choosy about what kinds of crawlers can have the contents for free.

No, but if you put your stuff out at the curb, it is free for anyone to pick up, even if that someone is a business. These companies are putting their contents out there free for any crawler bot to take, no paywalls. They just don't like some of the bots that stop by to pick stuff up.

No, this is not theft. This is more like somebody putting some old furniture by the curb, and being upset when an upholstery company comes along and takes it. After all, they wanted to give away that furniture only to individuals, not businesses! But that's not how it works. If you put your furniture at the curb, you are telling the world it's free. You don't get to pick what kind of person picks it up.

These websites are making their entire content free to crawlers. There is no paywall, only humans see paywalls. Now they want to try to be picky about what kinds of crawlers can pick it up.

It's worse than that. Common Crawl and other bots identify themselves as bots, and generally respect robots.txt. These websites with so-called paywalls, intentionally do NOT block the bots with any kind of paywall, broken or otherwise. They want their full content indexed so they show up as search results, but the results are just teasers for humans to try to get them to subscribe. So these sites intentionally tell the crawlers there is no paywall, when there actually is.