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No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her
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Re: No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her
#62The headline and article text make this confusing, but I'm pretty sure that Stewart is saying that Apple did block him from having her on the podcast that they sponsored, not that Apple expressed any opinion at all about him having her on the Daily Show. This is part of Apple's general heavy-handedness which caused him to quit, not an attempt to block Khan in other outlets.
Not sure why the article is calling it a podcast, I think they’re referring to his TV show on Apple TV.
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Re: No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is "hoarding of talent"? These are human beings and they have a right to work where they want. Let's be clear, apple "hoards" talent by offering them competitive pay and benefits. If others want to compete they should offer something as compelling. It doesn't have to be money, I personally left for less money multiple times. It could be working on an interesting problem or with smart people.
This is basically a complaint that they hired too many developers and overpaid them--and now some of those developers who left or were laid off can't find as ridiculously well-paid jobs somewhere else. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of jobs out there; they probably just don't pay as well or are as prestigious.
There are rules about making the price of something too low to wipe out competitors too, I think in both antitrust and trade law:
https://www.trade.gov/us-antidumping-and-countervailing-duti...
You could probably say that's basically a complaint about giving consumers too good of a deal, but it is deeper than that.
Re: No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm failing to see how that makes this any better.
You don't see the difference between "knowing who pays for the content can help you understand the content's biases" and "large corporations exert editorial control over content that has no overt relationship to them"?
Theyre both common and they're both bad.
Re: No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her
#65I'm shocked, SHOCKED, that Apple is super aggressively swinging their hammer to protect their brand. During a technical talk at a nieche conference, a speaker had an apple logo on a slide, along other logos, to illustrate devices. An Apple employee stood up and shut down the whole presentation, demanding that the presenter, RIGHT NOW, edit the slides to remove the apple logo, or he would not "let" the presentation co…
I believe the proper zoomer term for this is "cap"
Re: No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure why the article is calling it a podcast, I think they’re referring to his TV show on Apple TV.
There was a podcast that went along with the Apple TV show. He wanted to interview her on the podcast, not on the TV show. But the AI and China segments they blocked were for the TV show.
Ah thx
Re: No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hiring in that period was also way more than the baseline hiring rate. Some companies doubled their headcount in the span of ~2 years.
And the revenue? Did it more than double? If so, they got their money's worth. It's a business and people have been numbed to companies being dishonest, but it's still a betrayal to hire so much, have them generate more money for your company, then drop them when convinient for the company.
>And the revenue? Did it more than double? If so, they got their money's worth.
Did that revenue double because of the contributions of the extra headcount, or because of the temporary artificial economic situation of that period that doesn't apply anymore?
From where I was standing, the revenue massively spiked during the pandemic way before the mass hirings even happened, let alone have those people become productive enough to have a positive impact on the bottom line. It was an open secret that a lot of newly hired people during that period were just keeping seats warm at home collecting nice compensations while playing videogames and doing next to no work (a lot of people were gloating about it on reddit and in my circles).
Given that knowledge, was it any surprise for anyone that this was not a sustainable increase and a correction would follow at some point in the future?
> but it's still a betrayal to hire so much, have them generate more money for your company, then drop them when convinient for the company.
Agree, but most tech companies aren't there to provide social services, but to make a profit, as much of it as possible. If people want ethical employers that will never let them go, maybe they should give up on 400k+ TC big-tech jobs, and become school teachers, nurses or social workers instead for much less money.
There are plenty of tech jobs out there that won't crash or won't let you go the moment the shit hits the fan, but they also won't pay anywhere big-tech TC.
It's like gambling, big money also comes with big risks. Similarly to 2008, the ones with the biggest compensations tended to also be the first ones to be let go in the process of reducing operational costs.
People aren't complaining about making bank, earning orders of magnitude above average pay during the good times, right? Then why do they expect sympathy when the charade that made them bank for a while comes crashing down?
Re: No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her
#68Such a nice interview though. It's cool that something like this is happening on a mainstream platform like Jon Stwarts Daily Show
Yeah. Lina Khan being appointed to the FTC is one of the most exciting things I've seen out of the federal government in my entire life. Anti-trust enforcement has been basically dead for longer than I've been alive, and her appointment sprung it back to life. Yes, there's been some stumbles there (the Activision merger suit was famously badly played), but you expect some missteps when resurrecting a dead agency with strong headwinds.
If you're a fan of reigning in the big tech companies, the admin that appointed someone like Khan deserves another four years.
Re: No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her
#69These comments make it sound like Jon Stewart himself wields no power. He commands an audience he can take to any platform he wants. It just looks like he took a liking to the pot of money Apple put in front of him.You can't really make the argument that Apple is the only game in town for Jon Stewart.
Free speech laws protect against government supression of speech, not corporations.
Re: No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Neoliberalism/anarcocapitalism has stoned these corporations Either you’re implying that neoliberalism is the same as anarchocapitalism, or you’re suggesting that Apple embodies both at once. In the grand argument over how much government we need “neoliberals” would answer “less”, but a long way from answering “none” like the ancaps. Try and find an AnCap who wants government police, a state military, etc and then…
> anarchocapitalism ...is an inherently unserious and self-contradictory idea. It's the Ununoctium of political ideologies: it is so unstable that if ever realized it will decay in a microsecond to something entirely different. Anyone who treats it as something that could be stable and realizable should be mocked or ignored. So, that said, I think the usage should in the GP should just be auto-corrected to "extreme c…
> corrected to "extreme capitalism" and left there
Incorrect uses of specific terms shouldn’t be changed to questionable uses of incredibly vague terms unless this is mere activist slogan homework instead of an actual discussion meant to persuade.