cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43990476
Your daily reminder that by supporting Big Tech, you are contributing to the insane wealth disparity.
Rather support smaller businesses, where your money helps create actual jobs and grow the working class.
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33 Comments
IllNess@infosec.pub · 116 pts · 161d
Google got rid of thousands of employees in the last 5 years and this asshole gets half a billion dollars...
joe@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 161d
It's almost like capitalism is a problem.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 161d
Yes, that's a part of why he's getting it.
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 161d
I propose there is a final step in Cory Doctorow's enshittification theory, which is one step past the company collecting rents from captured business and customer bases: the CEO leading the enshittification push collecting exorbitant rewards for facilitating the process.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 24 pts · 161d
That's been proposed before. The next step was where they've lock in shareholders and investors and milk them dry, apparently with ridiculously large pay packages.
aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org · 63 pts · 161d
BigJohnnyHines@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 161d
Normal people fantasize about winning the lottery and having a few million mostly so that they can stop participating in the rat race, quit their job, have more time for creativity, have more time for family, have more time to be human. The fact that these people blow past that, and continue to want to hoard wealth shows how sick they actually are. If they were hoarding literally anything else nobody would question it. They do not work harder than everyone else.
aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org · 11 pts · 161d
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 161d
Truth nuke, real
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
Truth Sparkler
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 161d
That would be a great idea. Imagine a group of countries who get together and decide to coordinate economic policies, like NATO but rather than military action, and it focuses on the internal distribution of resources. They could perhaps do a much better job precisely targeting individuals with sanctions, and would perhaps be a much better wielder of the “tariff” in any kind of weaponized fashion.
JackiesFridge@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 161d
So what exactly does he do that’s worth $300,000/hr? Or let’s say he works 10 hours a day, 7 days a week for the whole year (and you know he does not), $190,000/hr?
Eximius@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 161d
He comes from a long line of nobility and these tech lands were promised to him as a dowry
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 161d
Why does he need 60x life savings?
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 161d
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 161d
My problem is how do I get people to stop using google.
I can open a business, but if I’m not on the monopoly search app, nobody will know.
I don’t use google anymore, but everyone else does, and no, they won’t migrate off gmail and Apple and Google don’t let you change your search provider. Google doesn’t even let you remove Google Search from pixel launcher.
baronvonj@piefed.social · 7 pts · 161d
I replaced Pixel launcher with Lawnchair. Very similar UX but let's you do things like set the search bar to just open your default browser.
totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 161d
Firefox lets you change your search provider, and it works on both PCs and Android.
Ulrich@feddit.org · 4 pts · 161d
Does it let you change other people's search providers?
Ulrich@feddit.org · 4 pts · 161d
Yeah I opened a business as well but quickly realized it's nearly impossible without capitulating to the monoliths that are modern advertising platforms from Meta and Google.
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 161d
You can change your default search on anything made by Apple
Ulrich@feddit.org · 3 pts · 161d
You can change your default search provider on any platform. The problem is no one actually does it, and Google is always the default, because they invest billions of dollars in that arrangement.
patrick@lemmy.bestiver.se · 20 pts · 161d
Lol, hopefully any Googlers happy with their $500k pay package stop and consider if Sundar is really worth 1,000 of them.
(Yes I know this is technically a 3-year pay package so it's closer to ~450x a single $500k pay package)
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 161d
Fucking banchode.
oh_@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 160d
No one person deserves that pay package.
theyee0@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 159d
This didn’t register in my mind until I realized that 692 million dollars may be an order of magnitude or two greater than my income over my entire lifetime…
Ulrich@feddit.org · 12 pts · 161d
Wondering what's fueling the AI bubble? Spoiler: it's not company profits. It's this.
definitely_AI@feddit.online · 10 pts · 161d
Be sheer existence in a capitalist society, we a contributing to an insane wealth disparity, wars all over the world, the breakdown of democracy and law and order, and the total destruction of our biotope.
Hapankaali@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 161d
Have you noticed how ancient religious texts like the Bible often heavily focus on financial themes, especially debt and inequality? This was long before capitalism existed. The existence of markets (capitalist or not) tends to lead to inequality. In fact, modern capitalist societies were the first to have the ability (though not necessarily the will...) to adequately address this issue using progressive taxation, as opposed to the older methods like the Jubilee, bans on usury, and later feudalism (all of which have severe drawbacks).
definitely_AI@feddit.online · 1 pts · 160d
Yes, I have! Jesus and the money changers, Moses and the golden calf, easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, money is the root of all evil- I can go on forever.
My belief is that Man being cast out of paradise is a story of the break between nomadic and sedentary life, because we were able to live in purity and harmony with the world as it were, in plenty and only using what we needed, and wanted for nothing- and what is the first thing that happens after Man is cast out? Man lives in a hut and is toiling and plowing the soil, followed by a long list of kings, one more brutal than the next.
The accumulation of wealth is the root of evil.
Alloi@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 161d
wasnt he in the epstein files a bunch?
deathbird@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 161d
A creature of McKinsey.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 161d
The Mayor Pete of Silicon Valley
CptOblivius@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 161d
Makes s nse as Google is the shittiest it has ever been.
dan69@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 161d
Has he hit his FIRE number yet?
melfie@lemy.lol · 2 pts · 160d
vane@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 160d
It's not Google problem, it's problem of people that work for Google. They create the system that allows that.
AmidFuror@fedia.io · -10 pts · 161d