If anything a lot of executives with strong connections are encouraged to break the law as long as they know they can bribe the government or abuse any legal loopholes. Anything for the bottom line; everything for the shareholders.

Yeah, probably why air fryers are popular with college students, and maybe why there are so many air fryers in stores in my college town.

I’m inclined to agree. It can be both: competent people who manipulate society to its core function for infinite profit, ex: making government bribery legal and stay out of public eye, and incompetent people who manipulate society to its core function for infinite profit, or aka “failing upward”. Are you familiar with…

When the corporations...are the authoritarian government! But don’t worry, they say we’re in a “democracy”, no not a plutocracy - where’d that term come from; it’s not supposed to be in the mandated history books!

It doesn’t stop at podcasts either, but social media accounts in general. It’s pretty obvious many of them buy bot accounts for fake follower counts. Similarly, companies using bot accounts to troll and control narratives.

Eh, I dunno about that, doc. “Laws for thee, but not for me.”

Because that’s how conflicting powers work. When a system of judgment doesn’t clamp down on hypocrisy(thus, requiring integrity as well as a value towards ethics), it’s always a matter of who gets caught and who doesn’t.

I have seen you around these parts for quite a long time, Dr Emilio. Hell, I remember your own troll impersonator. It was a good run. However, you should know that some fragments of the old sites remain in other places: Jezebel has its own url and site for example, and Aftermath is the old Kotaku more or less. What…

Because they know they’ll get more money by propping up an ‘anti-worker’ economy. It’s that simple.

Another psychopath who cannot fathom consequences because he’s able to obtain power/influence without having the need for morals/ethics.

Kinja is going down and a lot of regular commenters and writers have moved on, outside of them have disabling comments after firing the EIC. Kotaku had a good run. The Root’s change is VERY noticeable and you can see it how its srpeading: the blogs are resorting to an era of click bait articles for pennies on the…

You have to be a psychopath, narcissist, and/or a sociopath to be successful in this system of capitalism. Sam Altman fit that to the T and found quick success as a result through his self-centeredness, disdain towards everyone else not in his circle, and willing to hurt others for his own gain. I can’t remember if it…

Huh. The chickadee family is known for its social ability and you can befriend them easily so this development is surprising, but at the same time not. As a chickadee lover, I’m all for this!

Jezebel was reformed just without Kinja. However, its quality it still left to be desired atm. Aftermath is the staff-helmed old Kotaku and has the decent writers back, but it requires a payment sub to comment.

I can vouch for this. As someone who has been on Kotaku for more than a decade, I feel it’s time is nearing as corporate wages war against writers, arts, musicians and workers in general. Aftermath is worth subbing for if we want Kotaku to come back with good writers.

More like, “Fuck you. Got mine.”

The American populace, to the bewilderment to other western nations, have been conditioned for a long time by capitalists robbing them blind, that their actions are good, and that rugged individualism and being a slave to middle-management and large company executives is how you too will make it big.

Tbf, Dragon’s Dogma is HEAVY on the Berserk influence

Stop comparing this game to Dark Souls. This game is more similar to Monster Hunter than it and it still has its own identity despite such.

Wouldn’t that describe Russia’s populace?