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yeah. This is the “I hate social media” equivalent of the daily mail’s pop science coverage. Most of it’s wrong, and the parts that aren’t are totally uninformative.

what are you watching, what’s the point, how is it screwing with your life

main problem is that so many firms are doing buybacks and I don’t see evidence that most of them are doing this. Might be wrong, but this indicates it can be misused vs is mostly m…

headline should include that “some”

what corporations in America are zombies? Buybacks are happening in sectors like tech as opposed to ones like utilities, which are more zombieish

what’s the dump part

I will eventually read leftist theory, but I won’t be caught dead watching political YouTube

and we could transition to a nuclear wasteland too, slow doesn’t mean the end can’t be bad. Amazon has people trained to manage Amazon and they currently do so. why would their int…

what’s magical about workers? why wouldn’t they just be corrupt themselves

the soviets had expert top down control, not worker control. we currently have decentralized (by a bunch of experts who own stuff and pay each other and publish papers and legislat…

yes representative democracy deals with this problem in a way that workers councils doesn’t. swarms of lobbyists (not evil) and aides are not industrial workers

okay my issue wasn’t that worker controlled firms would be legally incapable of joint ventures for profit. My issue was - who makes the decision? Do the workers understand finance …

just google the phrase “five billion dollar joint venture”. They don’t come from rich peoples’ pocketbooks, but they do from other areas and are important. And don’t come from gove…

boys absolutely bully each other reputationally. “Trolling”, insults, etc

I agree likes are bad, but 4chan doesn’t have likes. insta girls can still farm attention without it dude

scale began when the first RNA doubled itself, when the first cell doubled, when the first animal doubled, when the first rat learned from another, etc

giving workers board seats doesn’t reduce their order following, it makes the orders better. > Another, if we are imagining a different society, is to make sure our educational sys…

Someone needs to fund the judges and regulators and the NSF! I mostly just disagree with “employee run corporations”

okay but the adage of “VC profit is mostly the huge winners”, so your marginal benefit goes down only at the highest valuation companies, and does that really harm much? There’s a …

I mean you can just think about “would I rather have CEO musk / bezos or CEO drunk BPD girl”. It’s not actually based on percentages

> is whether it is socially sustainable not to re-distribute that “Bread and circuses” is derogatory, but the unsustainable parts of technological industrial society aren’t “rich p…

yeah and computers are “just” interactions between electromagnetism and matter. This slides a lot > History has not been kind to nations whose governments break those rules and sta…

you don’t want pharmaceutical plant workers and accountants voting on whether the company should invest in mRNA tech in 2013?