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Sucks. Still my favorite streaming service because of all the high quality science fiction shows and no ad tier.

So far they haven’t cancelled any of the shows I’ve been super excited for either. It’s not like scamazon or netsux where they do a season and it’s awesome but oh, no! It isn’t #1 for a month on launch!… better cancel it.

It’s still just a billionaire owned company though and likely to do what everyone else does eventually. Can’t wait for the next thing to come along and nuke ads again.

I can only imagine how this would totally screw with cell signal and probably generic interference with wanted wireless tech.

114k lives that have to keep having services paid for while they cling to life in old age for the majority of those lives lost.

We should have universal healthcare but right now the insurance, healthcare provider and pharmaceutical industries make enormous amounts of money in the US in profits that cannot be made anywhere else in the world. They spend billions collectively on lobbying (bribes) to make sure the majority of politicians are against any legislation that impacts the enormous profits that go to billionaire owners and portions that get paid out to very well paid executives and employees in these industries.

The further you are from the top the less you earn, and the owners want it all. Insurance provides zero value, extreme predatory pricing for pharma provides zero value. Wealth siphoning from healthcare providing companies provides zero value. The combination of all three is why our healthcare is absolutely fucked in the US.

I’ve seen low level roles getting paid nearly 200k in these industries. Low level middle managers are easily above that number. If the low level folks are so well compensated you can only imagine what the profits look like at the top.

These salaries do not apply to hands on healthcare providers in low level healthcare roles - but each of those three industries have different nuances and insane payouts to different groups if you look into it deeply. Healthcare providing is like education and generally not very well paid without advanced education… pharma though? Bachelors or masters is 200k+ generally, even in shitty departments like finance or hr. Sales all hit that or get canned.

They want more growth and think the publicity from the change will drive more conversion.

It should just be the progressive party. I’m so done with the bullshit that changes nothing of the status quo that everyone is unhappy with.

This is the best time for it to be implemented. The next president will have the biggest opportunity to make huge sweeping disruptive changes. I just don’t think the democrats have the balls to force it like they will be able to with the sweep.

Garbage site that seems to spin everything as the end of the world for the GOP. according to DB the GOP have fallen apart a hundred times in the past week every week for the past year and are in total panic constantly. Doesn’t seem to be the case.

The masses are certainly losing faith in the gop platform aside from the diehards, but the core people, about 40% give or take, don’t seem to ever really budge.

The dells, hps and lenovos of the world can’t sell it, so it’s not in retail, so typical people won’t really have access to it. Same deal with all the phone manufacturers and then basically any electronic device with NAND.

It can still provide pressure to lower price but it inhibits the effects locally quite a bit. It’s like how super cheap cars can be imported to latin american countries but if you want anything remotely similar in the US the costs to get it here make it pointless and thus no cheap cars exist here brand new (more or less.)

Think it will have enough production volume before Ai implodes to make a difference?

CXMT and other Chinese producers already have been ramping up production, all signs still point to shortages for a year or until said theoretical Ai implosion where orders stop getting paid.

Yeah, there’s already a few Chinese memory makers who have been ramping up production as fast as they can. Feels like a drop in a river though.

It’ll still be embargoed.

The thing is as long as those 3 people and their buddies make a pile of cash, they don’t care if the other billions are unhappy.

The service is the holy grail of MBA. You own nothing and pay constantly. Subscriptions galore and there is zero portability so high vendor lock-in once you start customizing. The pricing agreement is entirely one sided so the execs can set bonus payout performance objectives in ways that let them take advantage of properly timed price increases.

It’s similar to AWS, Azure and the rest of the cloud platforms and i’ve never heard anybody say moving to those saved them money even after staff reductions.

Retailers get a cut. Digital lets them keep a bigger portion of the pie. Sony / MSFT are probably more likely to give them a bigger portion of the pie given that by releasing exclusively on consoles it will move more console sales (and thus other game sales on their platform) given how large this release is.

If consoles didn’t give them a sweetheart deal we would see a PC release day 1.

IMO The only tax should be a wealth tax. If someone wants to spend 100% of what they make and they make billions of dollars, power to them. If they want to live on credit only and never keep a dime, power to them.

If someone wants to rent out a home they own and make money on it and keep the money, they should be taxed on the money they kept AND the value of the home. Wealth hoarding should be extremely discouraged past the lifetime earnings of something like 10x minimum wage. Assuming you work 40 years at 7.25, that’s 6 million dollars. Today that more than affords for a 4 BR home and enough investments to have ~150k passive income from dividend stocks. The market will be especially lucrative for those who are under the asset cap as they can freely buy and sell without being taxed on gains on their way up.

Use it or lose it. There’s no reason for anyone to have tens or hundreds of millions of dollars… let alone billions or trillions or more. If you can’t find ways to spend your wealth in excess of 6 million dollars of assets, maybe you shouldn’t have it.

A 5% tax per year, forever on assets over 6m would still not ever put someone in the poor house. 6.1m doesn’t mean you lose 5% of 6.1m, it means you lose 5% of 0.1m, or 50k. Get taxed down to 6m or lower? No tax. Oh, and we can do all kinds of fun things here to pass wealth down generationally. Money given to kids should be totally protected up to that 6m figure, and it should have to go into a trust that can’t be touched by anyone but the child. A % of taxes paid from a parent should be deposited into all biological children’s trust evenly until they reach that 6m figure. Conversely, kids’ taxes can also go to parents until they reach that 6m number. No more fucking your kids out of their inheritance by living to 100 and no more fucking your parents out of caregiving or tossing them onto public assistance even though you are wildly wealthy.

Want to have more assets for everyone? raise minimum wage. Want more money so you can spend more money? Keep doing stuff that produces value, there’s certainly no shortage of billionaires who have made money from millions, and 5% a year is WAY lower than what people’s wealth accumulates once they get a high income from a source.

I’d also say abolish nonprofits entirely. Organizations can exist, but they need clearly defined ownership and that 5% tax still applies to wealth. a company can become enormous and quite valuable simply by fairly distributing the assets to their employees. Not paying employees a fair share? Well that’s gonna be clawed back… and those taxes should at least partially go to the workers under the tax ceiling.

We should probably also make it so legal agreements cannot be enforced unless they are public. NDAs should practically never be enforceable. Whistleblowing should be incredibly incentivized. No more back room deals. No more loop holes. This needs nuance and much consideration as obviously some exceptions should exist, like all of the above.

Transferring wealth out of the country is probably one example of an income tax that should exist, but clearly some thought and nuance needs to be applied to figure out how to make this work, but it would work.

We could fund all of the necessary social programs with this. We could eliminate homelessness, food insecurity and poverty with this.

All this being said, i’m not naive enough to think this would ever happen. Wealth and power is too concentrated already and democracy doesn’t seem capable of escaping the levers of wealth and power. We’ll keep on hoarding wealth in an extreme minority of people, per usual.

I get it, and that’s why they would just hire the next guy on the street who would gladly take the money for the same job because they have been mostly unemployed for XX months/years.

Hundreds of thousands of layoffs and more and more declining QOL, benefits and pay. Just how it is today unless you are in one of the trending AI jobs - which will dry up and pay a fraction of what they used to before too long.

Instead they will be offered the same role with a 20-50% pay cut due to market conditions, and it will be 100% in person instead of fully remote or hybrid as it was just five years ago.

It’ll be goty for consoles and people will buy it in droves. It’s not like there’s that much to play on consoles these days anyway that doesn’t exist on PC.

They know they need to nail it to sell billions of dollars, and you can bet they will. So much of what they do just feels dirty. Unethical business.

They’re literally the ones lobbying for IDs on the OS level. https://byteiota.com/metas-2b-lobbying-age-verification-laws-exposed/

They pay the cops, military and PMCs to protect them. Either directly, or indirectly.

The surveillance panopticon ensures all dissent is crushed. Crime will not be tolerated. The three letter agencies never close their eyes, and the tech companies get them all the data they could ever want.

Can’t wait until we get a bill signed that says employers may require signing over voting rights as a condition for employment. That way the billionaires can have all the votes and we can get rid of these pesky regulations and “entitlement” programs.

You either work for them, starve in the streets, or get deported to somewhere they choose.