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In concept perhaps, but idk if I would consider vaccines actually low tech, especially mRNA

People confuse the richest 1% of America and the richest 1% of the world. The former is multimillionnaires, the latter is like, software engineers in America. This article concerns the latter.

The US is, give or take, 4% of the global population. So, the top income quintile ($153,000/yr and above) brings you to around 1% of the global population, with room for well-off people in other countries.

In case your math skills are rusty, the global 1% is 80 million people. That’s the same size as Germany, the country. Yes it includes oil barons, multinational CEOs, and whatnot, but also like, professionals in expensive cost-of-living areas like Californian software engineers.

“These people are not much different than the working class” oh my god.

I’m going back to bed, that’s enough for today.

You guys could afford to go on vacation?

What the hell is your lifestyle? The returns on an investment of 2 million dollars is like high 5 figures low 6 figures every year.

What place in America has free dental care as OP describes??

In my city they built a new shiny east-west electric line that fails every week, and they took out the old north-south diesel line for upgrades (but not electrification), which was way more reliable.

Granted, I’m sure the reliability and power source are not correlated here, just my city transit commission (of late) is corrupt as fuck, so anything new sucks.

The north-south upgrades were supposed to be done two years ago… I yearn for the day…

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It may have possibly been Perfect Dark. I’m told my brothers had me playing it at 3.

I love Krita, it’s my go-to layered image editor unless I need to do something more fancy

Not fascism: sending every last Ukranian man into the meat grinder in the false hope that Ukraine can somehow win back all the territory it lost, which is an opinion literally no expert shares, but which is profitable for military industrial companies and advances US-specific strategic interests.

Fascism: Opposing sending more Ukranian men into said meat grinder.

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Why would blank keycaps matter for touch typing

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tired of ignorant liberals parroting the same nonsense they’ve been taught from the cradle. No investigation, no right to speak.

Right because worker cooperatives don’t exist. Go fucking read before you speak, liberal.

If the employees all take a week off, an organization grinds to a halt. If the bosses take a week off, it’s business as usual. The employees do all the labour, but because of their relation to the equipment (tools, software, machinery, what have you) they are forced to give away almost all of the value they created to the boss. The boss does nothing except own the equipment, and yet reaps almost all the rewards. The bosses of all organizations, collectively, put employees and prospective employees into a dilemma: give them most of the value you create, or starve. In many if not most industries, it is prohibitively expensive to expect somebody to buy the equipment to work for themselves, among other unrealistic expectations.

This fundamental relationship is a defining feature of capitalism. It cannot be done away with through the use of unions, and we can see this by looking at Sweden. Sweden still has homelessness, worker exploitation, value extraction, despite high union membership. The “success story” of capitalism is still exploitative, and again as we see in Sweden with the current dismantling of the social safety net, it is also temporary.

But I’m not here to flesh out all the details, for God’s sake read The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels or On Authority by Engels, they’re not that long. I believe in you.

You literally do not know what the hell you’re talking about

sudo rhymes with judo

I fucking hate English. Why does sanction mean both approve and disapprove? This title can be read in two completely opposite ways.