This weird lie only started up in the 1980's. Before that, it was well known that corporations had to balance the interests of shareholders, employees, the community, etc.
Yours is not the first reply today to state this. Companies are nothing but legal entities to protect owners and shareholders and limit their liability. In Europe the governments are more socialistic and impose much more intrusive regulation on companies. Mandatory vacation minimums, specifying the structure of boards of directors; it goes on and on. In the US this is not done. The closest we've come is the period when labor unions were large, powerful and very influential. But the idea that a company's purpose is for the "greater good" and not to make money is simply untrue. Perhaps today's progressives *want* this but it was never like this.
Secondly, even if true, if doing X makes your employees quit, how can it be in the best interest of your shareholders?
I don't disagree you on this point. If a company has policies that make employees quit then the business will suffer. That's good and is called "creative destruction", meaning companies that can't get with it *should* go out of business - or make changes to stay in business.
I can offer one way to refuse to do immoral things: stop working for an immoral company.
Back in the 80's I worked for a large defense contractor right out of college along with many others. Defense was booming and that's where the high starting salaries were. After a while there was an exodus of engineers that had misgivings about making radars for strategic nuclear bombers. Many went either to the finance sector or medical equipment sector. There was plenty of work in these non-defense sectors, though they didn't pay as well.
My main criticism of FAANG employees is that I perceive a sense of entitlement about working for e.g. Google. If you're not happy, go elsewhere. Oh wait, that's right, you might have to take a pay cut or lose those lucrative stock options.
I'm sorry to be the one to burst your bubbles and safe spaces. Here are a few facts for young workers recently graduated from college:
1) Every single company wants a piece of the lucrative DoD pie. The money is simply too big to pass up. This includes FAANG and all the other tech companies.
2) Companies are not moral beings. The sole purpose of companies is to make a return on shareholder equity. Period.
3) The apparent liberal bias of Google and Facebook et al is only so much posturing to retain employees and fit in with the prevailing west coast US culture. They are simply amoral and apolitical money makers.
Like usual we're being fed a load of crap by the Federal Government.
Why is their basic instinct to lie first? Why does the truth always have to come out from whistle blowers?
It might seem obvious to most that written content on a website is protected free speech. Others make the argument that it's the same thing as yelling "fire!" in a movie theater and not protected free speech.
Politicians are such idiots, a bunch of Granny Smiths. All that data is out there available as torrents, etc. Everyone who wanted it now has it, anyone new who wants it can just download the info elsewhere.
I started my last job because I needed the job due to being laid off. They knew that and low-balled me so I had to take a 10% pay cut. (Yes, my own damn fault) I moved for a substantial pay bump.
It was the most hostile workplace I'd ever seen with open yelling in offices and hallways. Some might consider that normal but I hadn't seen such yelling in 35 years of working.
The place was going down the tubes. I was hired to backfill someone laid off a month before I started and there was a layoff every year I was there.
Thanks for the opportunity to vent about that awful place.
Yet another reason I never answer my cell phone. As OP pointed out, most calls are telemarketers and most of the voice mails they leave are in English. Starting about a month ago I've started getting voice mails in Chinese. What's up with that? I'd at least have expected Spanish before Chinese.
Absolutely. Here's another example:
My old Fitbit One is going to need a new battery soon but it's literally glued shut and can't be opened without breaking it. (Luckily my company bought it for me.) The new low-end replacement Fitbit has a replaceable battery so clearly somebody is listening. If the battery weren't replaceable I wouldn't even think about buying another Fitbit.
>So, in other words, the solution to the problems of a decentralized currency is to centralize control into one broker or another thus negating the actual benefits of the block chain and going back to brokering in trust.
Nope, not what I said at all. Coinbase and a couple of other large brokers were causing the high transaction fees and mempool increases. It's because they're the source of so many transactions due to their huge user bases.
"slow and high-fee transactions" are a thing of the pass now that the heavy hitters like Coinbase have begun consolidating transactions *greatly* reducing fees and mempool size.
We're not all young here at Slashdot; I'm another old fart thinking ahead myself.
When was the last time a company thought of *you* first and showed you some loyalty? *crickets*
If you're like most workers with decades under their belts you've been laid off at least once. Let's face it, you got no warning most likely and found yourself looking for a job the next day.
Give 'em their 2 weeks (which by the way isn't written anywhere) and offer to work part time. You get some time to ease into retirement, they get a transition period to find a replacement. Mutually beneficial.
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This weird lie only started up in the 1980's. Before that, it was well known that corporations had to balance the interests of shareholders, employees, the community, etc.
Yours is not the first reply today to state this. Companies are nothing but legal entities to protect owners and shareholders and limit their liability. In Europe the governments are more socialistic and impose much more intrusive regulation on companies. Mandatory vacation minimums, specifying the structure of boards of directors; it goes on and on. In the US this is not done. The closest we've come is the period when labor unions were large, powerful and very influential. But the idea that a company's purpose is for the "greater good" and not to make money is simply untrue. Perhaps today's progressives *want* this but it was never like this.
Secondly, even if true, if doing X makes your employees quit, how can it be in the best interest of your shareholders?
I don't disagree you on this point. If a company has policies that make employees quit then the business will suffer. That's good and is called "creative destruction", meaning companies that can't get with it *should* go out of business - or make changes to stay in business.
Not sure what country you're in Ryan, but here in the US the purpose of corporations is to protect owners/shareholders and limit their liability.
Oops looks like someone finally got around to googling "untermenschen" :D
I can offer one way to refuse to do immoral things: stop working for an immoral company.
Back in the 80's I worked for a large defense contractor right out of college along with many others. Defense was booming and that's where the high starting salaries were. After a while there was an exodus of engineers that had misgivings about making radars for strategic nuclear bombers. Many went either to the finance sector or medical equipment sector. There was plenty of work in these non-defense sectors, though they didn't pay as well.
My main criticism of FAANG employees is that I perceive a sense of entitlement about working for e.g. Google. If you're not happy, go elsewhere. Oh wait, that's right, you might have to take a pay cut or lose those lucrative stock options.
Last I checked the US wasn't gassing untermenschen.
I'm sorry to be the one to burst your bubbles and safe spaces. Here are a few facts for young workers recently graduated from college:
1) Every single company wants a piece of the lucrative DoD pie. The money is simply too big to pass up. This includes FAANG and all the other tech companies.
2) Companies are not moral beings. The sole purpose of companies is to make a return on shareholder equity. Period.
3) The apparent liberal bias of Google and Facebook et al is only so much posturing to retain employees and fit in with the prevailing west coast US culture. They are simply amoral and apolitical money makers.
God I hate that word.
"Look everyone! I made my first web page! I'm a coder now!"
Like usual we're being fed a load of crap by the Federal Government.
Why is their basic instinct to lie first? Why does the truth always have to come out from whistle blowers?
In all 40 of my previous jobs I routinely hung up on conference calls. :D
It might seem obvious to most that written content on a website is protected free speech. Others make the argument that it's the same thing as yelling "fire!" in a movie theater and not protected free speech.
Politicians are such idiots, a bunch of Granny Smiths. All that data is out there available as torrents, etc. Everyone who wanted it now has it, anyone new who wants it can just download the info elsewhere.
I started my last job because I needed the job due to being laid off. They knew that and low-balled me so I had to take a 10% pay cut. (Yes, my own damn fault) I moved for a substantial pay bump.
It was the most hostile workplace I'd ever seen with open yelling in offices and hallways. Some might consider that normal but I hadn't seen such yelling in 35 years of working.
The place was going down the tubes. I was hired to backfill someone laid off a month before I started and there was a layoff every year I was there.
Thanks for the opportunity to vent about that awful place.
Yet another reason I never answer my cell phone. As OP pointed out, most calls are telemarketers and most of the voice mails they leave are in English. Starting about a month ago I've started getting voice mails in Chinese. What's up with that? I'd at least have expected Spanish before Chinese.
Absolutely. Here's another example:
My old Fitbit One is going to need a new battery soon but it's literally glued shut and can't be opened without breaking it. (Luckily my company bought it for me.) The new low-end replacement Fitbit has a replaceable battery so clearly somebody is listening. If the battery weren't replaceable I wouldn't even think about buying another Fitbit.
...from my cold, dead fingers.
Also does Linus matter any more?
"...but you'll have to do some actual work."
--Dilbert
Well then fuck Facebook!
...until he blew himself up.
>So, in other words, the solution to the problems of a decentralized currency is to centralize control into one broker or another thus negating the actual benefits of the block chain and going back to brokering in trust.
Nope, not what I said at all. Coinbase and a couple of other large brokers were causing the high transaction fees and mempool increases. It's because they're the source of so many transactions due to their huge user bases.
"slow and high-fee transactions" are a thing of the pass now that the heavy hitters like Coinbase have begun consolidating transactions *greatly* reducing fees and mempool size.
Also, read up on a well formed critique of lightning network:
https://medium.com/@jonaldfyoo...
welcome our new AI overlords.
Good luck when you're stopped by the police/military in some shit-hole country. Encrypted files? No problem, just beat them until they decrypt.
We're not all young here at Slashdot; I'm another old fart thinking ahead myself.
When was the last time a company thought of *you* first and showed you some loyalty? *crickets*
If you're like most workers with decades under their belts you've been laid off at least once. Let's face it, you got no warning most likely and found yourself looking for a job the next day.
Give 'em their 2 weeks (which by the way isn't written anywhere) and offer to work part time. You get some time to ease into retirement, they get a transition period to find a replacement. Mutually beneficial.
LOL like what? Maybe getting some effing work done?