I don't think resentment is going to be frequent. you think that possibly because you have not grown a career in places where 1-3 years severance packages are the normal thing. Big Corps (except for the US, apparently) have the values in their rules so you know in advance how the severances packages grow over time, and how long you need to stay for it to be sizeable. If you're interested in leaving, you just wait until your department gets hit by the lay-offs. Sometimes you're unlucky and it's another department. There's no resentment because which department gets laid off is just a fact of life you have no control over. You just have to wait until the next economical low tide.

It's a "knitted cell phone holder", plenty of them on Etsy. It's not a dumb idea by itself, only overpriced. As it is signed by a famous fashion designer, it's more ugly and less functional than normal ones, and sells for 10x the market price of such an item, but qualifies you into an exclusive club among your like-minded friends. It's like designer spectacles that are super awful bulky plastic and serve the purpose of letting everybody around see you afford branded products.

You might want a profile you can link to in the resume you send when applying for jobs, or as part of your e-mail signature for your existing business contacts, just to "look normal" to the people you're interacting with. You could think a job application might be discarded as fake if you really don't have an online profile, so you link it and it will be discovered by the AI agent parsing your resume.
Another scenario is if you want to make use of some free Azure credits that MS gives out to startups, an offer which requires that you have a LinkedIn account (for no good reason, of course, just Microsoft being Microsoft). In that case you can put it in private mode after creation. but you might just decide to keep it public for the other reason above.

Once maybe 1-2 y.ago someone here commented why their company sold on Amazon, despite all the hassle with fraud, and Amazon abusive practices (prohibiting you to refer to your real website anywhere, and prohibition to sell less expensive elsewhere -- according to rumours on slashdot). The answer is: sheer volume.

I guess it's the same here. Having an "app" increases your customer base to those who don't shop with a browser. Possibly it's a much larger number of people.

When selling user data gets them more money than selling Windows licences... they'll shit the bed.

You're moving goalposts. My original message starts with "Also for those who want an ICE," You said your current ICE is ageing and the Sandero (an ICE) is too small.

I think it's not connected to being VAT or Sales Tax. The difference is that the law in many or most countries requires the displayed price to be final. Each seller is responsible to update the sticker or the shelf label such that all local taxes are included. If the tax somehow changes by district, then you update the sticker in each district, or you choose one common price and eat the tax difference.

In my place a hamburger menu is advertised 10 €; if I request it to-go then necessary-goods VAT 6% applies, if I request it seated then luxury-services VAT 23% applies. Irrespective, I pay 10 € because that's what's written on the ad and they can't make the customer pay more than the price that is visible on the product. So they eat the tax.

Couple weeks ago I was shopping for socks, the I found a pack of 3 pairs for 12 € that had a label unit price 3 € (their mistake, should have been 4 €). I called the clerk, who called the manager, I requested to purchase 3 individual pairs of socks at their unit price rather than purchasing a pack of 3. The manager was very pissed off but had no other choice than letting me pay 9 € instead of 12 €. I don't care if they make a mistake or forgot some tax. Display price is final and that's what I will pay.

My father told me in his youth stocking shelves he once put the decimal dot the wrong place. Customers got away with Whiskey bottles for pennies.

I know Chinese cars are less expensive; what I argue is you can find European branded middle-class cars in the the 20-30 k€ range. The entire Dacia offer is below 30 k€ and that of course includes family cars; their Bigster is priced 25.900 €.

I don't have the sources but this corresponds to our discussions at least in the software markets. 1) When the EC asks Apple to allow alternative app stores, this is about B2B not consumers; the problem being addressed is the monopoly that Apple holds on the market for software distribution, i.e. between the professional developers that wish to publish software for Apple hardware, and Apple. 2) When the EC asks Microsoft to unbundle Teams, it's about corporate contracts.

The question is whether you heard reports of customs officer in Europe searching through your phone for data. Though the most likely do have the right, it does not seem a common occurrence. My search "TSA vs European airport safety" got me this:

Also for those who want an ICE, Dacia Sandero made by Renault in Romania (and Morocco), is sold 12.490 €. It is currently the best selling vehicle in Europe right now, with about 400.000 sold per year and about 4% of the total market share. The second most sold is the Renault Clio, which starts at 21.450 €.

To highlight that middle-class Europeans find cars in the 20-30 k€ range.

The Renault 5 BEV is entirely made in France including the batteries, and sold 24.990 €. The Dacia Spring, also produced by Renault in their Chinese factory, is sold 16.900 €. The Chinese makers do have a great opportunity, but I just wanted to make the point that EU-made BEV are not necessarily > 50 k€.

Projections show their population still growing for another 15 years (from 1.43 to 1.46 billion), and then need another 15 years to decline back to the same value. These changes are not large nor fast and we wouldn't call them a collapse at this point. https://chinaeconomicindicator...

One whale contains 1,900 litres of whale oil ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) ; one B747 aircraft uses 12 litres per km ( https://science.howstuffworks.... ). Assuming same calorific power, we obtain that 1 whale worth of whale oil powers a B747 for 158 km = 85.5 nmi

Reading the summary shows no perspective of a future punishment would affect him and his likeness. They don't think of the consequences of their actions. They just think of keep going without getting caught. See: