So they can do it to anyone with melanin, but if you even hint about it happening back to them it’s timeout for you.

By the definition though, it isn’t a genocide because they are VOLUNTARILY joining this corrupt terrorist organization and committing hate crimes.

Genocide is if you kill people for being in a category they cannot control.

I think wiping them out is simply self defense at this point. They are going to keep kidnapping and killing until we stop them all.

That’s exactly my point though. It’s arbitrary and has nothing to do with “hard work” or “ability” as you claimed.

A+ TED Talk.

Exactly. In the past the elites and wealthy would build libraries and temples and infrastructure for all to have to leave a lasting legacy.

Now the legacy they leave is how big of a number can they get their high score up to. And behind them all the people they employee that are simultaneously on welfare because they aren’t paid a living wage and all the people working and dying for them to get a big high score. And those poor people have no choice but to because every job is the same and so your choice is, slave for the system or be homeless and starve.

Having money AND taking it from all the people under them. Sorta like a pyramid. It’s sort of a scheme where the top guys get most of the profit while doing the least actual work. I wish we had a term for that. An upside down funnel, of sorts.

Underregulated Capitalism like we have now is just a

What job are you doing that isn’t having most of the value you made taken from you?

I’m a highly skilled person, I’ve been in corporate America for 2 decades and have a long list of skills and abilities and work hard.

I’ve literally generated multiple millions of profit for companies I’ve been at. Did I ever see an extra penny? A bonus? A % raise? Anything beyond the normal bare-bones standard “cost of living raise” (which never ACTUALLY goes up as much as CoL does BTW) ? Nope. And that’s part of the issue we are talking about. I could be a STELLAR employee and generate the lion’s share of profit OR I could be a lazy unproductive idiot that costs the company money and you know what? Neither of those things changes pay for me. What does? How well liked I am, how much I brownnose, who I shake hands with, who I know, what shady deals I may do in secret, etc. But I have integrity and I refuse to lie, cheat, grift and schmooze my way up like most execs do.

It is EXTREMELY common to work your ass off, earn some CEO and shareholders millions and billions, then they can lay you off or you die and no one cares. They milked every last drop of productivity from you and will happily discard you at any time.

We have that problem NOW.

Billionaires don’t work at all, they just siphon money away from us all, our labor, our hard work, our time, they get 99% of all that profit, we get crumbs.

It’s a great deal, for them, the rest of us get just enough to not die or start rioting.

Try again.

At least it has New Zealand.

Same. 5 full years WFH and honestly work was enjoyable AND I got so much more actual work done.

But we gotta RTO now because uhhhh… Reasons!

I get nothing done anymore and I’m just frustrated all day and all my time is utterly wasted. No time to get work done, no time to get home chores done, constantly exhausted from the pace of running back and forth to meetings and driving all over the place wasting time and gasoline.

So glad I burned a gallon of gasoline into the air and wasted an hour to move my ass from a comfy chair at home on a teams call to a less comfy chair in a different building with a worse desk to join a teams call. Productivity!!!

Don’t you want to find out how we all slept with your mother last night?

My big company just did a full RTO mandate after 5 years full WFH since COVID started. It quickly swung from a good enjoyable job with plenty of work able to be done during all the bullshit meetings to an open office cubicle farm nightmare with harsh bright lights, tons of noise and distractions, and having to physically move from home to office and from desk to meeting room on different floors all the time eating up every last second of available time to do my ACTUAL job. And we are doing a bastardized version of Scrum and it’s miserable.

I got reprimanded one day because in our daily standup I simply said that I had not made any progress on my tasks since yesterday because I was in meetings all day. Apparently that wasn’t being a team player.

Yeah. I don’t know which was better. Having millions of closeted racist hateful people pretending to be nice or outwardly venom spewing racists.

At least now we can tell who the bad guys are because they broadcast it everywhere they go, and we can cut them out of our lives and try to stay away from their toxicity.

Fair. That is one good thing.

It absolutely is a cult of personality. The part that breaks my brain is that his personality is abysmal. Just gross, horrible, mean, rude, hateful, lying, cheating, hurtful. Not even objectively attractive or well spoken. Just babbling hateful drivel. I do not understand how it ever got this big except that he represents all the worst parts of humanity and he gave all the worst people the permission to be the worst version of themselves and that is more appealing than being smart or kind.

And when he does die the cult WILL implode. It already has fractured, but it will shatter into factions and infighting and it will be a big mess and lots of collateral damage. But maybe it will all be finally over. A decade of hearing his bullshit will finally end and maybe his cultists will start to snap out of the trance and be reasonable again.

Is there anything with a positive trend or hopeful outlook lately? My entire 42 years seems like everything is “oh, this used to be better, but it’s getting worse now”

No, not steal the source code. Steal Excel! We sneak in one night and grab it and bring the corporate world to a halt.

No, I mean STEAL it.

Downloading isn’t stealing. Reproducing isn’t stealing. Forking a repo isn’t stealing.

I mean. STEAL IT!

20 years with no change? Damn, I thought the Colorado River flowed faster than that. I’ve been lied to!

I downloaded every EA game ever made and I don’t even want to play any of them. I have the files imprisoned on my computer, forever. Bwahahaha!

That’s exactly my situation too.

Half my team is out of state and still remote.

So now half of us are in the office, walking around, away from our computers and “collaborating” like management wants, to the absolute exclusion of the other half of the team. And we miss messages, we don’t see reminders, we are just AWAY on Teams to them. And our job is literally done 100% on a computer so all that time NOT on a computer is just wasted. And then when we go to a meeting, we have to walk to a room just to join a teams call and yell at the ceiling so the remote people can hear us. It’s the worse of both worlds. Not remote, not all in office, but mixed.

I could understand it if 100% of employees could be in the office. Then we wouldn’t have to waste time joining a teams call in a meeting room. We could just meet and chat. Fine. But this… This is so bad.

OMG right!?

I didn’t even mention it in my main post, but half my team is out of state and exempt from RTO.

So half of us commute into an overcrowded office and walk to a meeting room just to join a damn teams call. I hate being in person without a headset and having to yell at a room microphone and look at a smaller screen than I have at home.

Everything about it is inferior than what we had at home. It is harder to hear, harder to see, harder to communicate, takes longer to commute, longer to have to walk to meetings vs click join.

All the RTO seems like execs playing “everyone else is doing it, don’t want to be left behind” or something.