Zoe @ekg@librem.one

@hacks4pancakes @AmyZenunim Caveat that speculators do have an outsized influence on the market. This is mostly an allocation of resources problem, inherently difficult things don't have easy solutions.

@BlueWaver22 @w7voa the market is gonna market is the least hot take imaginable.

@hypolite I didn't mean to imply that it existed anything "right" about it, I merely used the term that company leadership use. Arguably I should have put it in quotes to demonstrate it's not a term of my own.

Words have different meaning in different context, I often struggle to pick up on implied under tone.

@futurebird fascist uses the cover of comedy to be racists fucks. it's not about being funny, it's about expressing vile views with minimal backlash.

I believe innuendo studio @ YouTube once called the tactic Schrödingers asshole.

@hypolite @futurebird oh, after the pandemic bump? That was a function of companies over hiring, they didn't know what would happen so they hired as many as they could and right sized later. The cost of such behaviour is brain drain, but apparently they decided it was worth losing the best and brights not to lose out to their competition.

@futurebird sure, but it's the media storm that's weird. The market does this kinda thing every quarter, it will back to normal in a couple of weeks. I also remember Bungie, they were literally lying about their prospect and pissed the crap out of Sony.

On the topic of growth it's made up, wealth is a legal fiction. By definition economic activity leads to more wealth, other wise it's not wealth. Wealth is the product of humans interacting.

@futurebird the only company that I know that are doing layoffs is Intel, but they are also canceling some of their more speculative investments. What's the point in keeping around people working on projects you have decided you can't afford?

@Patricia I don't wanna read Basel, but suffice to say you are at least half a decade behind.

@earthshine the problem isn't capitalism, it's the lack of something better. As someone that lives in one of the most developed countries in the world; the shortcomings of capitalism is easily made up for. My life is made much better by systems that aren't capitalistic.

@earthshine before capitalism mate. The idea of human rights was invented after capitalism was wide spread. The time when the right of kings ruled their was no room for a non-productive underclass.

@thebrand @AnarchoNinaWrites @justafrog I have been thinking for awhile if I should clarify further but we seem to be in agreement that I made a mistake. So, we can probably leave it.

I have a lot of thoughts about what happened here but I should probably let them settle before I elaborate to much.

@AnarchoNinaWrites @thebrand @justafrog I sometimes forget that my particular mix of neuro divergence, dyslexia, and upbringing leads to an often difficult to parse phraseology.

@AnarchoNinaWrites @thebrand @justafrog Yeah, messed up the punctuation on that one. And I do agree with the quote, the meaning is of course tide to the context it was said (Ukrainian war propaganda). Bigger mistake is probably paraphrasing a obscure quote in the first place. Sometimes legibility can be allowed take a hit for other needs, a better balance would probably have been valued in this case.

@AnarchoNinaWrites @thebrand @justafrog oh, it's a quote. It's away of saying that you can always find fault with the defender, if you want to.

@AnarchoNinaWrites fascist belive they can gain power by bullying, letting them get away with it is the best way to reinforce that idea in their head.