I once worked at a company that sold industry-specific core-business software to deep-pocketed corps who couldn’t / wouldn’t / shouldn’t roll their own.
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One of the alternative "investments" being made is public corruption in broad daylight.
Using campaign finance & Citizens United, #KochNetwork #RockbridgeNetwork , #AtlasNetwork converted constitutional democracy into kleptocracy.
Elon Musk bought a president for a quarter billion bucks. A bargain. He now gets to enrich himself on the taxpayers dime now.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/elon-musk-trump-donations-2024-election-rcna183231The Supreme Court has legalized bribery of elected officials, and relabeled it as "a gratuity".
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@inthehands David Graber's "BS jobs" should be a high school textbook. Late Stage Capitalism is a religion, and his 2013 artivle was 95 theses nailed to its door.
Especially when you ponder the "real" jobs done entirely in support of BS: top floor of management consultants bringing in money, supported by IT, HR, accounts receivable, payroll, janitors, cafeteria staff, and their managers... And all the jobs with 2 hours of real work a week and 38 looking busy.
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Fossil fuel dollars fund fascist movements & corrupt crony capitalism.
Donald Trump Jr. Will Reportedly Join An Anti-ESG Venture Capital Firm Instead Of The White House—Here’s What We Know
President-elect Donald Trump’s oldest son is reportedly set to join 1789 Capital—a venture capital firm that invests in conservative-leaning companies.
Forbes (www.forbes.com)
Silicon valley's secret influence on 2024 election revealed | The Express Tribune
JD Vance’s Rockbridge directs funds to right-wing journalism, voter, polls and church activism, influencing key states
The Express Tribune (tribune.com.pk)
Understanding Atlas: how a right-wing network is building global influence
By Sam Williams Founded in 1981, Atlas is a global network of right-wing ‘think tanks’ that organise and build power so they can shape the systems and structures we live in, to advance their own interests. According to its website, Atlas links 550 think tanks in more than 100 countries, including ten in New Zealand and Australia. Its political alignment is spelt out in its vision “of a free, prosperous, and peaceful world where the principles of individual liberty, property rights, limited government, and free markets are secured by the rule of law”.
PSA (www.psa.org.nz)
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@landley
I only half agree: from the little I know of the book, he’s on to something, but his specific assessment of which jobs are BS and how to tell seems deeply flawed and facile to me.A more accurate assessment is that BS is marbled through most of our jobs in varying proportions, and you can’t really label specific positions — much less specific types of jobs — as being BS across the board.
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@Npars01 @inthehands It’s all going to come tumbling down and they’re blind to see it from their lofty towers.
Both the people and the planet just can’t take it anymore. -
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@inthehands Thanks for this thread. I live in the product world, and half the time, we're in the cross-hairs of angry developers and the people who want unrealistic growth and $$$. Most of the product managers I meet are beyond burnt out.
Like any new shiny thing: LLMs, blockchain, "IBM Watson", we're asked to do something with it to show we're "doing innovation". But why? For what purpose and customer/user benefit?
Just do it, they'd say.
So now there's AWFUL "AI" embedded in every UX.
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@MayInToronto
So many work environments would be so vastly improved if people in different roles simply believed in the reality of each other‘s problems, instead of grabbing whatever power they can to force their worldview onto other people‘s jobs. -
@inthehands I'm a big (vocal) proponent of giving small teams the autonomy to make these decisions and the guidance/support to excel at it.
90% of the time, the problem lives in leadership, shininess value for investors, and/or a misalignment between the product's viability vs the company's set targets.
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@MayInToronto
Yeah, trust an autonomy go a very long way. And well good leadership can’t magically solve everything, it sure can help create the conditions for success and well-being. -
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@inthehands @Npars01
‘Rich people have too much money so they are distorting markets by speculating’ is *not* a word? -
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@inthehands I want to give an example of this.
Friend of mine is IT guy for a non-software firm that uses a major db vendor and uses another third-party database set of tables, etc. And they have addons from another company.
Neither of these products use boolean column types. So the first set uses "Y" or "N" as a bool, and the second was written in Iceland, so decided to use "J" and "N" instead.
This kind of thing is just trivially awful, but chews up just great wads of time.
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This is always the case when the customer, i.e. the buyer, is not also the user. As in almost all enterprise software, like this library software you mentioned.
The one good thing about smartphones, is that the buyer was mostly also the user, so that bad products fell through the gap of mediocrity.
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