Its not the ‘eat the rich’ that I was hoping for… Might be the one we deserve.

I’m looking at you, Amazon.

You mean that you want to copy Amazon? Since this is exactly what they have done, outsourced delivery drivers; driven to pissing in bottles, outsourced sellers; selling items at a loss to imaginary bots to get positive reviews (amazon making its cut all the same).

I shouldn’t respond… but let me guess:

The one thing that you are good at isn’t unblocking toilets, is it? No, I’ll bet you are really good at something rewarding like solving difficult math problems, or ‘consulting’ or some other rewarding job. I’m sure that you were top of your class at school, but in the real world, if you didn’t turn up, the world would keep turning just fine.

I am saying this from no moral high ground at all (I am well rewarded for what is termed a ‘bullshit job’), just pointing out that what you are saying kind of assumes that the proles want to live in your utopia, do you still expect to have a better living than the person who shovels your shit when you block the toilet? Thought so.

[edit: sorry for being such a curmudgeon - I must be having a bad day. If I’ve offended - check your idealism. Please start your ideal business - the world needs idealists… as well as people with shovels]

Its definitely the dream!

10 is a lot of cats to herd though. Do you already have your fantasy football team ready? Do you think that they share your (lack of) ambition?

At the same time 10 is a small number if a couple go on parental/sick leave at the same time. Are you ready to ‘hold the baby’ and get no extra credit? Who will do the admin/HR/sales/marketing/taking-the-bins-out/whatever you don’t like doing?

10 people is enough that it would be very hard to run in a truly egalitarian way - its your idea, so would you be the ‘primus inter pares’? ;-)

Honestly, It could be great - so please see me poking holes as a way to make your plan stronger.

Don’t pay this! You just reinforce their predatory practices. How renewals at much higher prices are allowed - no clue!

Something similar happened to a company I know - it expired and was immediately bought by domain squatters, when they found them they were told that it couldn’t be sold back because the squatter had paid $XXXX for and had big plans (I assume it was BS, just a premise to get paid - no site was ever put on the domain)

Solution: they bought the .org version and bought the .com back a year later.

edit:grammar

Here’s a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69AtkAHkKEc

Governments are location based, but also give huge amounts in foreign aid - especially rich countries. They are also better placed to give it fairly than individuals. Here’s a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69AtkAHkKEc

An individual giving money to good causes will always be limited by the fact that it is based on the whims/biases of that individual. So, it is possible to see that some billionaires like Bill Gates and (dare I say it…) J K Rowling give substantial amounts to charities - we can also see that they are donating to personal pet causes. Society already has a way for rich people to give to a structured system that (attempts to) give(s) out the money to a wide variety of causes - its called tax and the system is government! If these people who society has allowed to become so wealthy just paid taxes and supported a proper, fair government then they wouldn’t need charities… but then they wouldn’t get to name buildings after themselves.

The 2014 remake made sense to me… it was a remake by Omnicorp. They evil corporations won, then they remade Robocop as a ‘no blood’ 12a. It was a super-dark play on the fact that they couldn’t make the original anymore. [edit: added date & link to imdb]

yep: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

I thought hard about whether to put it on ask lemmy, but didn’t want to look stupid. The only advice I could find was this:

!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others’ questions on various topics.

thanks - I’m checking some of the live dates.

Thanks for these - really interesting stuff that I couldn’t have just happened upon!

I have been trying to remember this one.

Hmm… using google to find anti-establishment songs… ;)

I feel like I should. (edit:accent)

Its not a problem for me - I’m old :)

As it ever was?

edit: it does feel different now - but it has never been easy.

I’ll check in.

@frazorth you’ve got going down rabbit holes … I wonder what I else I can do to scare a tory

This is good. It doesn’t have to be punk - I don’t even know what people listen to now…