Do you have an economic or social system in mind where it would be solved or better?

Democratic Socialism

I am not saying it was a fair fight, but there absolutely was, however the endpoint was reached, a culture of disinterest about it that was not preordained.

https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/ieee.html

^ I agree with everything Christopher Alexander says about the computer/software industry here in 1996, that talk hasn’t aged a nanosecond

Well that and the associated failure of tech culture in Silicon Valley and elsewhere to understand the important of organizing in the workplace not only to improve the quality of working conditions so you can truly show up and feel supported to do good work you are proud of… but also to ensure that the industry at a basic level remains functional and ethical.

If you look at the primary motivating reasons of a lot of industries striking in the US, it often has to do with a universal anger and grief that basic aspects of their work are being undermined by carelessness, nursing is a good example of that.

Tech workers had a moment of incredible cultural and material power there, and they failed to translate that into a set of truly professional standards and become something like engineering, plumbing or land surveying, something with a license, a set of high standards that are grounded in a philosophy of doing good honest work… like how doctors have.

This invited in the subsequent dehumanization of tech workers in the last 20 years and the rise of AI further rationalizing more dehumanization and devaluing of tech work.

DINO

and I mean it is a job that gets blood on your hands, homie.

If they don’t want that baggage, they can deploy their golden parachute and go head another company/organization.

Stop carrying water for these people.

You can’t just pretend having some arbitrary connection to Kevin Bacon is the same as being all the way at the top of the power structure of one of the most powerful entities on earth that is actively seeking profit from an ongoing Genocide.

Hi, supersquirrel here, are you tired of people scamming you out of money with emails tantalizingly asking you to help start a realllllly profitable business in a foreign country?

Well, I have a solution for you! Pay me lots of money and I will tell you EXACTLY what you want to hear about those scammers/business opportunities!

Whoever has that job also very likely has blood on their hands from being involved in facilitating (or remaining silent about) the Palestinian Genocide with Microslop products like Azure and other computing services, so FUCK them, pile the misery on to them until they crumble into dust as a person for all I care.

Microslop is a tiny scrappy start-up company, give them some slack and patience, they can’t just throw virtually unlimited money at the problem to solve it…

Additionally police are often the murderers themselves.

We all saw what happened to George Floyd.

I don’t like Harris but Biden was far less competent and suited to the moment.

Obama’s biggest mistake was playing it safe with a DEI hire for an ideologically bankrupt, incompetent old white guy for his VP.

Harris doesn’t have charisma with normal people (though she is apparently great at getting fundraising from the rich and powerful…) but at least she showed some kind of awareness of how to play politics unlike Biden who stumbled through his presidency and failed campaign for re-election like a dementia patient sleepwalking out onto a busy highway.

What I love most about Hasan Piker is how incomprehensibly liberals, empty centrists and conservatives absolutely panic when they see his name when in actuality Hasan Piker has very moderate and rationale beliefs.

No, Hasan isn’t a moderate according to the definition of a moderate being completely unreflective of how their beliefs and ideals connect to reality, but Hasan is actually very much a moderate in terms of wanting systematic change in the most boring, broadly beneficial and policy focused way possible. In ideology Hasan Piker is a younger Bernie Sanders with a “scary” name. There is nothing “radical” about Hasan Piker’s personality or politics when viewed from a rationale perspective, the beliefs of centrists are far more radical given the incredible unexamined hypocrisies at the heart of them.

People talk about Hasan Piker like he is some angry, dangerous man who casually suggests extremist forms of violence and judgement upon others as serious policy suggestions, which is another way to say that people talk about Hasan Piker like he behaves like a conservative.

This could not be further from the truth, Hasan Piker is a humanist, he is not someone like Tucker Carlson who harbors and nurtures ideologies of hate and violence like antisemitism and islamophobia.

If you want proof of this, watch some videos of Hasan Piker talking about Tucker Carlson, they both frequently criticize Israel, if Hasan didn’t care about the ethics Tucker Carlson would be a natural and very powerful ally to reach across the isle too, but Hasan correctly identifies Tucker Carlson as an enemy of muslims, jews and collective peace even though he appears to be on “Hasan’s side” on one of the topics Hasan is most passionate about.

If everyone is so concerned about smartphones and social media ruining our attention span than where is the moral panic around advertisements slicing up everything into smaller and smaller chunks seperated by unrelated maximally superficial content?

hmmmm