Yeah, I've worked places where I could tell exactly how many more man hours we were short, and I knew the managers were doing it deliberately for a bonus. It's not for the workers, it's not for the customers, it's for shareholders.
Deflation of a currency discourages people from spending it, because you can make more money by just holding on to it. It makes loans more expensive to provide because someone can borrow money and it will increase in value without them doing anything, so you have to have higher interest rates to counterbalance this. This harms economies. What you want is stable prices, erring on the side of inflation if you must.
I suppose for a single person deflation doesn't feel like much, but money is collective so the party doesn't last.
Exactly. If I give you sufficient notice, 2 weeks is probably a good minimum, and no one else is taking off at that time, that's a you problem if you can't cover it. If your team is not structured such that you can honor PTO with sufficient notice, you are not offering PTO. You are lying about benefits.
I do happen to agree that one should not buy a Kindle. There are alternatives, and good ones.
But also a Kindle, a locked down computer that is illegal to make work properly, shouldn't exist.
The problem is that in so many of these specialized computers, every major device available is rights violating, or under powered. It is damn hard too "choose" your way out of an economy as an individual.
Call center work sucks, but dealing with people who are upset is in the job description.
If the organization is fucking up, of course you should give them grief in whatever manner available to you. Temper your anger at the lowliest of pawns, sure, but not so much that you don't leave an impression.
In the past it didn't matter, because you had the whole file structure for the application when you purchased it. You either downloaded it in whole as an install file or archive, or you had it on the physical media that you purchased it on. Maybe there was a license you had to input or some other rudimentary DRM system, but you had that too. No remote access from the company, no forced additional downloads or internet connectivity, no phone home. So they could say whatever they wanted, but you actually had the product.
Now with media files that only play with proprietary tools that phone home, or applications that phone home, your computers are backdoored. And if you have a system that's backdoored, it's not really yours, it's just something you can access for now. That's what your Kindle is: a backdoored computer with an e-ink screen and proprietary software that can open proprietary files that other software isn't supposed to be able to open. Which is why no one should buy one.
What were the 4 horsmen of suppression of online speach? Child Safety, Trrsm, Hate, and Porn? These are the pretexts for everything else. Maybe copyright is supposed to be in there too. Five horsemen then.
Imagine how well digital games would sell if they showed up in your cart like:
1 x Revokable License for God of War $69
See Terms and Conditions*
[Confirm Payment]
Terms: we will do whatever the fuck we want. Conditions: whenever we want.
There's a reason they say "Buy" instead of "Pay".
It's been going on for generations, but it's no less dishonest for all that.
Software sellers write complex EULAs for which the only valid answer is "Agree" because the store won't take an open box back and the software won't install unless we pretend to agree, so even us legitimate software enjoyers are pirates in our hearts. Meanwhile normies don't even think about it that much. Fuck this whole system, but double fuck an online service that says "purchase" but will steal it back later. Fuck that.
'Uthmeier, himself a Catholic, wrote to the bishops in an open letter that, based on his own understanding of Catholicism, he saw “no legitimate religious reason to refuse granting religious exemptions.”'
My Brother In Christ, if you want to second guess the clergy, I think thou protest too much. And there's already a word for that.
Yeah, I've worked places where I could tell exactly how many more man hours we were short, and I knew the managers were doing it deliberately for a bonus. It's not for the workers, it's not for the customers, it's for shareholders.