So climate change collapse in the next 10 years, rather than the next 30. Great, thanks AI. I hope you all have fun reasoning your way around keeping the power plants and data centers running through Category 7 hurricanes and wildfires the size of Pennsylvania, without any humans to clean up the damage.

Counterpoint: Nigeria is in the same time zone as Germany.

And even that isn't important. Its part of the veneer. The outsourcing spree of the late 00's/early 10's created an intense distrust of outsourcing that persists today in the IT industry. That's why he avoids saying India, he wants to have his cake (cheap labor) and eat it too (not resalt old wounds). But when the chips are down, all those benefits of same time zone collaboration and EU partnership will go out the window if they think it's the only way to increase revenue.

Edit: I was slightly mistaken on the dynamic here, but I still think the guy is a ghoul exploiting people for their labor.

Sorry this comment is a doozy, I had a lot on my mind with it lol

While I agree with you, I did not come away from that article with the same conclusion. Nowhere in that article did the SOC mention supporting strong labor protections or progressive labor policy.

In fact, we know from experience that Republicans hate those things, because they're backed by wealthy industrialists. This is absolutely crucial: the things that would make factory work a worthwhile career, like good wages, lots of PTO time, safe workplaces, low pollution, retirement funds, etc are not only expensive to capitalists, they are also the things people need in order to leave a factory job.

Our hypothetical factory worker is happy, but he's getting older, slowing down, his hands hurt from all the work, its unavoidable. So he wants to move up the corporate ladder and into positions that require more soft skills. To that end, he pursues higher education, which requires money and time off. And once he gets his degree and reaches the top of this corporate ladder, he can now transfer his very desirable skills to new jobs, new industries, maybe even white collar work.

You see how this is at odds with Lutnick's vision of intergenerational factory workers? Like, this utopia I've just laid out is not what he's selling. He's selling the complete destruction of class mobility. He wants people who can't leave their jobs, who can't pursue better prospects, and who can't create a better life for their family. He wants your children to know "you will never amount to anything more than your father, or your grandfather."

And that's very appealing to the factory owner. He doesn't have to maintain a safe workplace, because the alternative is jobless and homeless. He doesn't have to pay a dignified wage, he doesn't have to schedule work around your vacation time, and he won't have to pay for the tools you need to escape. And, the cherry on top, he has the next two generations of workers lined up, learning from Pops!

I grew up watching my father go from field technician, to night school bachelor's student, to software engineer. I saw my uncle become a car mechanic, stay a car mechanic, and is now too old to keep working but doesn't have enough saved for retirement. My grandfather worked in a glass cutting factory. Believe me, I'm not shitting on factory work. I'm shitting on the people who want to create shitty factory work. And the article is very captivated by the guy who wants to create shitty factory work.

Good for you.

He is when it suits them, he isn't when it doesn't. $4 for eggs was too expensive under Biden, so Trump brought the price down to $11. We can't catch them with cognitive dissonance, they have none.

Tell me you skimmed the article without telling me

That was a joke? Nice try Nostradamus, I know you can see the future.

Ray Dalio's a quack. He's a broken clock that is only right once a day.

They'll willingly catch leprosy if Trump told them to.

hear ye hear ye, behold the funkiest of bunches

Yeah that about sums up how I view the rest of my life playing out.

Small world, I'm also on the balatro/other games modding discord boat, and it is a rough ocean out here. The perennial argument is that users don't know how to use an old school forum, nobody wants to moderate it, nobody wants to pay for the infrastructure.

All those fall flat to me. Nobody even bothers to use discord's "forums" or pinned messages for their bug reports/troubleshooting, no they just post straight to general, "this doesnt work can someone help" with no details whatsoever. Not like it would be any better or worse on a forum. It's also not like BBS forums don't have moderation tools, it's not some lost art from an ancient civilization. As for paying for it... the whole discord server is propped up by nitro users. Like come on. Money can be exchanged for goods and services.