I am sure she got some nice bonuses and raises during the Pixar/Jobs years and nice Disney stock in the 17 years since the acquisition, even just for retention of key talent after acquisition. I’ve received both huge bonuses and equity during similar situations with much, much lower profile and less successful…

I don’t know about this particular, quite small layoff, but in general layoffs look at departments and business areas and by definition not at individual performance. That’s explicitly the difference between a layoff and a firing. People who were let go in a layoff also frequently can get rehired by other departments…

“Your hard work will never be rewarded or treasured.”
How do you know this is true in her case? She might have received massive bonuses and equity during her 25 years there. I’ve seen many, many cases where people get rewarded for their efforts with those tools. At least in every tech company, you’ll get equity that…

The still existing KKK might provide free PR with the Streisand Effect.

Yeah, the only really useful one here seem to be the hover platforms which I understand from the comments was patched out.

That was actually my favorite part of RDR2. I so badly want a mod that’s a combination of detective and revenge game where you investigate who in town is part of the KKK and then handle the situation. Maybe if you handle one KKK member in a particularly gruesome way, other’s reaction to it will result in more hints…

“the precise wording of my question there is very important: not ‘how,’ but ‘why.’”
Because NIMBYs don’t want anyone to build anything near them.

Conquistadors are among the set of villains that should be used more often. Nazis, aliens, demons are well established as regular villains. I’d like to see Conquistadors and the KKK added to that list. 

I think it might be worse, in that we don’t actually know that time very well. AFAIk there wasn’t a strong culture of writing stuff down, so most of the writing is from the white invaders. In addition the jungle reclaimed a lot of physical artifacts very quickly. That’s why we keep finding ruins of entire cities we…

“you may wish to read the book “The People’s Republic of Walmart,” which discusses this topic”
I am curious and will check it out. From prior discussions with economists I understand though that it’s chaotic in the mathematical sense. Walmart, while huge, probably benefits from only operating on a horizontal slice of…

“a government that is actually run by and for working people yes. nothing to be afraid of there unless you’re someone who wants to hoard wealth and make profits off the backs of people’s labor. clearly way better than what exists right now, which is literally rich people deciding whether people live or die based on…

“We all know that Amazon will sometimes price gouge on items.”
What does this mean? That they charge higher prices when they can?

“So no, Amazon doesn’t provide what I want. It provides an opportunity to get what I want, sometimes at a price I prefer. In truth Amazon provides fucking NOTHING.”
They are providing you a…

Who decides what gets made in your proposed system? The government?

“ubi and things like that are weak ideas under capitalism, in part because ultimately they are just concessions that can be taken away at any time by the rulers who own basically everything”
This is the case in any system. The people in power can take…

You don’t need to like the output. If nobody likes the output, it’s gonna go away. The beauty of the free market.

I am not sure what argument you are making. Yes, we did get a lot of content that people want. The production value on average is lower than what we saw on tv 15 years ago, but there is lots of great quality stuff out there. Anton Petrov’s channel or 3blue1brown or Peter Zeihan immediately come to mind for me. None of…

“the system of capitalism is one of constant growth and competition”

The Jeff Bezos quote explains how prices will go down. Someone will see the margins as their opportunity and lower prices. That’s the beauty of the market.

“The world would be a better place without him.”
Like the guy or don’t. However, his business are clearly providing something people want, otherwise they’d failed.

“Th…

You seem to not understand how the market works. Nobody WANTS to lower their prices. However, as Jeff Bezos says “Your margin is my opportunity”. This will also benefit Indy devs. Just think how much more you can get done as a single developer with this! AAA games will need to justify their $70 price compared over a…

A more visionary, a little further-out look at what we might get: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442

Still, another team that could work on something good and is being wasted on garbage.