WhatAmLemmy

I'm pretty sure people were doing this in the 90's or even earlier. Obviously the range was shit but they were only for local commuting.

The very first cars were electric.

It's almost like corporations are incentivized to be greedy and parasitic, instead of investing in their customers and workforce? I call it vulture capitalism.

I'll bite, too. The reason the status quo allows systemic wage stagnation for existing employees is very simple. Historically, the vast majority of employees do not hop around!

Most people are not high performers and will settle for job security (or the illusion of) and sunk cost fallacy vs the opportunity of making 10-20% more money. Most people don't build extensive networks, hate interviewing, and hate the pressure and uncertainty of having to establish themselves in a new company. Plus, once you have a mortgage or kids, you don't have the time or energy to job hunt and interview, let alone the savings to cover lost income if the job transition fails.

Obviously this is a gamble for businesses, and can often turn out foolish for high-skilled and in demand roles — we've all seen many products stagnate and be destroyed by competition — but the status quo also means that corporations are literally structured — managerially, and financially — towards acquisition, so all of the data they capture to make decisions, and all of the decision makers, neglect the fact that their business is held together by the 10-30% of under appreciated, highly experienced staff.

It's essentially the exact same reason companies offer the best deals to new customers, instead of rewarding loyalty. Most of the time the gamble pays off, and it's ultimately more profitable to screw both your employees and customers!

Lol. Yeah keep telling yourself you live in a real democracy. I'm sure the part where the richest corporations and oligarchs are never held accountable, and get most legislation they want, is purely a coincidence.

Why would they risk creating a power vacuum in a nuclear power where a successor could end up being an even more extremist hardliner? This isn't rocket science. Sabre-rattling is basic diplomacy.

Do you have any idea how many tens of thousands of comments I've read from people claiming Trump would be in jail "any day now" over the last ... 8 years? I was downvoted practically every time I pointed out the plutocracy rarely sees justice. This isn't my first rodeo with the naive hive mind. I'd like to say I had the last laugh, but I'm not laughing.

"Human greed" is a lie sold to you by capitalists to convince you that nothing can be better. Read *Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution*

Sure, champ! I'll just ignore thousands of years of human history and the entire world around me because of some book some guy wrote. Mammals, rearing of offspring, social groups, cooperation — it's all a recent exception to the other 99% of our evolutionary history.

You became much more reasonable in the second paragraph, but this is dumb If humans were perfectly greedy and selfish. You need to cut all the extremist revolutionary crap and focus on logical changes that are remotely plausible to the average joe. The average person doesn't want a revolution, and they aren't gonna magically forget a lifetime of anti-socialist propaganda because you comment crazy shit at them. Focus on changes that can be made within capitalism first (e.g. worker coops, mandatory profit/ownership share, wealth caps, UBI) ... Man tankies really are just as mentally ill as the far right. How is the left ever supposed to succeed when we have to combat your mental illness aswell?

So source available. Not open source. Got it!

It's Glenn Powell's spirit animal

I thought mine was gonna be the only one that's a toddler misogynist, but nope just Apple "Intelligence" lol.

Women are not allowed in this world anymore because of their own personal preferences or the way their body and body is designed and made and made and they have no choice to make decisions for their bodies or bodies and their body and bodies are just a different world to the same way that they have their body is the world.

There are literally tens of thousands of people in academia who could build a transparent, open-source, non-profit publishing system of their own.

Why don't they?

She has the kind of hyper-narcissism that only feudalism, monarchy, or vulture capitalist "democracy" could produce.

The only difference between her and some karen bogan born in bumsfuckville is a billion dollar inheritance, and the bogans existence is objectively better for society.