This exactly doesn't work because if you need money to survive (and who doesn't?), you have to publish where people can see it.
Your fallacy here is that you can create your own Twitter, your own Facebook, your own YouTube if you're not happy with their conditions. Which you can of course do, but you will not be able to achieve what you actually want. It's trivial to get published. If everything else fails, create your own homepage. Way harder is to be heard.
For your model to actually work, there would have to be a considerable competitor for the various social platforms.
But the bad ones will not do that for exactly that reason: Who in their sane mind hires someone like that? They will cling to you until you purge them.
If I want a 4 hour work day, I can have that at work as well, it's not like physical presence changes anything.
People who want to slack will slack. You'll notice it in the workload they manage to do, not whether they keep one of the chairs in your office from flying away.
One has to wonder, what if a malware researcher takes his work with him and they manage to infect their network with his "tools of the trade", so to speak, do I get to keep their network? I mean, it's not like I told you to infect yourself...
It was that I was on that flight and they knew I have a bomb with me. Since there have never been two bombs on one plane, ever, and I promised that I won't explode mine, the flight was safe.
Quite the opposite, blowing up the airport would have a lot more of an impact. Because it would show that the whole security theater is as meaningless as it actually is.
Then again, why bother, the whole security theater is already inconveniencing the people enough that they are more fed up with it than with the terrorists.
Every reorganization, every revamp, every change means that some people will not like it. And those that don't like it have two options: Grin and bear it, or hand in a resignation note.
Question for 100 points: Will good people, who are sought and have zero problem finding a new job, be in the first or in the latter group? And where will people who know that they have no chance of ever being hired again because they're lazy, dumb or both be?
And now ponder what group you'll retain with your constant, idiot changes!
For fuck's sake, when you take over a company, you needn't piss all over it to mark it as yours! It ain't a tree and you're not a dumb dog.
Don't get me wrong, I'm in no way trying to defend insanity. But I somehow have that hunch that it won't be limited to anti-semitic or homophobic messages. I hope I'm wrong, but I could well foresee that we'll soon see the same happening to anything that a loud and vocal group considers "bad speech".
Basically the message is, if you want to monetize your videos, make videos of cute cats. Or, wait, is that caninophobic?
Oh, the people exist here, too. We just didn't gave in to guilt tripping.
You see, we eventually got sick of the whole "we know what you did last world war" guilt tripping. It's kinda hard to pull that stunt again with us now.
Wow. Well, healthcare here is nearly certainly paid for by your insurance, and that's exactly the reason why you're stuffed into a room that might have a window (usually pointing at some other building) and fed grub that makes you WANT to get well soon to replace it with real food as soon as you can.
Then again, we have one mandatory health insurance, if you don't like it, sucks to be you.
Again, I can't complain about ours. Understaffed and underfunded as they sometimes are, they are also the epitome of "university". Think Harry Potter, just with less magic. But same old walls and creaking wooden stairs.
"Wellness resort" isn't quite what I'd think of when I think of our universities. We don't have dorms in the US sense (there also isn't really that much of a "campus", that idea is still quite new around here), but when I think of the student halls that exist throughout the university towns... let's say you're lucky if the windows keep the rain out.
No, they won't keep the wind out, what do you think this is, the Hilton? Get another sweater if you're cold, the heating gets fixed in Summer. Didn't say which Summer, though.
And you can't get rid of them 'cause their stupid parents pay for them, right? Fail a test 3 times here and you're out. For good. Most people get the hint long before that when the prof staples a Burger King application form to their result.
Yes, everyone can get in. But few get through. Most leave through the back door. And isn't that the ideal of the free market? That everyone can compete and the best get chosen?
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This exactly doesn't work because if you need money to survive (and who doesn't?), you have to publish where people can see it.
Your fallacy here is that you can create your own Twitter, your own Facebook, your own YouTube if you're not happy with their conditions. Which you can of course do, but you will not be able to achieve what you actually want. It's trivial to get published. If everything else fails, create your own homepage. Way harder is to be heard.
For your model to actually work, there would have to be a considerable competitor for the various social platforms.
Hmm...
I fully support our glorious President's bold plan to ... huh? What do you mean, then Mike Pence would ...
Holy shit, call it off! Call it off now!
Already happened on Iapetus.
You're begging for a lame Uranus joke and you know it.
As a European, I think it's a blast and a half. What's not to like about it?
It's just like the old Soviet joke: Is it possible for Trump to run a country? It is possible, but you better live in a different country.
Actually, most queers I know find fag jokes funny as fuck.
Then again, the worst Anti-Semite jokes I ever heard were told by a Jew...
But the bad ones will not do that for exactly that reason: Who in their sane mind hires someone like that? They will cling to you until you purge them.
If I want a 4 hour work day, I can have that at work as well, it's not like physical presence changes anything.
People who want to slack will slack. You'll notice it in the workload they manage to do, not whether they keep one of the chairs in your office from flying away.
One has to wonder, what if a malware researcher takes his work with him and they manage to infect their network with his "tools of the trade", so to speak, do I get to keep their network? I mean, it's not like I told you to infect yourself...
Just when you thought after the latest seat-size-shrinking event that sitting next to the fat guy can't get more irritating...
And what would you suggest to "not entertain" it?
It was that I was on that flight and they knew I have a bomb with me. Since there have never been two bombs on one plane, ever, and I promised that I won't explode mine, the flight was safe.
Quite the opposite, blowing up the airport would have a lot more of an impact. Because it would show that the whole security theater is as meaningless as it actually is.
Then again, why bother, the whole security theater is already inconveniencing the people enough that they are more fed up with it than with the terrorists.
Every reorganization, every revamp, every change means that some people will not like it. And those that don't like it have two options: Grin and bear it, or hand in a resignation note.
Question for 100 points: Will good people, who are sought and have zero problem finding a new job, be in the first or in the latter group? And where will people who know that they have no chance of ever being hired again because they're lazy, dumb or both be?
And now ponder what group you'll retain with your constant, idiot changes!
For fuck's sake, when you take over a company, you needn't piss all over it to mark it as yours! It ain't a tree and you're not a dumb dog.
Instead of a government-mandated opinion, you have an industry-mandated opinion. I fail to see the difference.
You'd be surprised.
Butthurt-by-proxy, i.e. being offended because they think that someone else could be offended, is the favorite pastime of some idiots these days.
You think that's bad? Any time I watch a video of someone ripping apart some Islamist preacher's insanity, I get ads for Muslim dating services...
Don't get me wrong, I'm in no way trying to defend insanity. But I somehow have that hunch that it won't be limited to anti-semitic or homophobic messages. I hope I'm wrong, but I could well foresee that we'll soon see the same happening to anything that a loud and vocal group considers "bad speech".
Basically the message is, if you want to monetize your videos, make videos of cute cats. Or, wait, is that caninophobic?
The state, maybe. The people, less so.
Don't confuse anything Merkel says with the general opinion in the country. They have very little in common...
Oh, the people exist here, too. We just didn't gave in to guilt tripping.
You see, we eventually got sick of the whole "we know what you did last world war" guilt tripping. It's kinda hard to pull that stunt again with us now.
A Magic 8 ball?
So ... Europe is still Nutsy-Land? Because that's basically the reality over here.
Your money is meaningless here. Your brains count.
Wow. Well, healthcare here is nearly certainly paid for by your insurance, and that's exactly the reason why you're stuffed into a room that might have a window (usually pointing at some other building) and fed grub that makes you WANT to get well soon to replace it with real food as soon as you can.
Then again, we have one mandatory health insurance, if you don't like it, sucks to be you.
Again, I can't complain about ours. Understaffed and underfunded as they sometimes are, they are also the epitome of "university". Think Harry Potter, just with less magic. But same old walls and creaking wooden stairs.
"Wellness resort" isn't quite what I'd think of when I think of our universities. We don't have dorms in the US sense (there also isn't really that much of a "campus", that idea is still quite new around here), but when I think of the student halls that exist throughout the university towns... let's say you're lucky if the windows keep the rain out.
No, they won't keep the wind out, what do you think this is, the Hilton? Get another sweater if you're cold, the heating gets fixed in Summer. Didn't say which Summer, though.
And you can't get rid of them 'cause their stupid parents pay for them, right? Fail a test 3 times here and you're out. For good. Most people get the hint long before that when the prof staples a Burger King application form to their result.
Yes, everyone can get in. But few get through. Most leave through the back door. And isn't that the ideal of the free market? That everyone can compete and the best get chosen?