HobbitFoot @ HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club

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Yeah, but it explains reasons behind it. Fascism typically goes the third way, where the line between state and corporations gets blurry. Trump is willing to bend the rules for these corporations in exchange for more control over their content.

A lot of companies seem happy in accepting this Faustian bargain.

The standard of safety was far lower back then. You could legally drink alcohol and drive in all states in the 1970s and didn't face a national ban until 1998.

The recent vaccine hearing didn't go so well for RFK Jr.

Yeah, but then they are in the same boat as other citizens.

Eh. I think they hoped that Trump would be more like his first term; wildly incompetent so he couldn't implement much change except preventing certain government actions.

I don't think the business leaders were expecting actual fascism, even if they should have realized this after January 6.

Once you start to go down that rabbit hole, you'll start to see that Lemmy didn't really fix any of the problems that a lot of people had with Reddit. Lemmy is just a Reddit clone where anyone can be their own spez.

Citizenship is different than residency. A citizen has roles and responsibilities beyond that of a resident. I don't think it is that unreasonable to ask a naturalized citizen to be loyal to their new country.

Except the economics for it are trash. Google uses Android as a loss leader to make money on Google's services.

It sounds like you're dealing with a multinational company.

There may be value in having all employees operate in the company's ligua franca over a better language as it provides practice to employees to function in the common language.

It may be easier for you to function in Spanish now, but you may have to interface with employees in the future where they know English and not Spanish.

How do you help those who can't speak Spanish?

Discussing online.

You're probably going to see issues crop up in the long term, which is why previous attempts to shift would generally pull people back. I just see these countries more willing to eat the organizational pain from switching. I also wouldn't be surprised if the response to finding pain points this time is creating a budget for dev time.

I think part of the problem for the Hillary and Harris campaigns were that they were running for the status quo at a time when that wasn't working. Both Obama and Biden ran on change and, while it wasn't the amount of change people wanted, it was at least a recognition that things need to shift.

Probably.

1. One of the two major employers of programmers, tech companies, have significantly curtailed future development of their products as the cost/benefit ratio isn't worth it. That isn't projected to change in the near future.
2. Companies that have full WFH are no longer constrained by office location in hunting for talent. A Bay Area programmer now has to compete with someone in Tulsa or Mexico City, which have far lower costs of living.
3. AI slop will probably get good enough to do basic tasks. So, companies who only need a little programming talent may be able to get by on shitty AI code instead of hiring a second or third developer.

Yeah. The framers of the Constitution really didn't have any experience in how political parties outside of the loyalist/patriot movements of the legislatures they came from. Even outside the US, there wasn't that much experience in how democratic governments generally create political parties; even the UK was in the throws of a century old Whig oligarchy.

A lot of the checks and balances written into the Constitution relied on each politician having a major degree of independence from each other. That political parties formed and that the system only had two big tent parties broke a lot of Congressional power.

Europe had practical seafaring since antiquity. European naval technology during the discovery of the Americas was on par with other Eastern Hemisphere naval powers.

The naval technology empowered the discovery, but it isn't like Europe was special at the time.

Also, it still took a while to bypass the Silk Road. Even when Europe did, it still ran into an issue that China wouldn't trade for any European manufactured goods, just gold and silver.

A lot of working class people create favor networks as a way to collectively perform tasks while still benefitting from the division of labor. This activity is seen going back to prehistoric times.

Money has become a means of exchange to denote those exchanges, but division of labor has been a hallmark of humanity.

A lot of union jobs work at the casinos. You also have a higher than average performance sector.

I think that a lot of the arguments regarding why Europeans did better compared to near peers goes to variations in social differences between Europeans and other near peer civilizations.

It also includes the destruction of extended clan networks, independent universities, and higher wages for Europeans compared to others parts of the world.

Vikings were colonizers, though. England was somewhat colonized under the Danelaw and Dublin was founded as a Viking colonizer's stronghold. It just happened to be that Viking colonies in the New World were in Northern Canada, a place where large settlements still don't exist.

They would have liked that.