I know right? Who cares about basketball?

If Musk has taught me anything in the last several months, it's that the job of CEO is the easiest jib in the world. He's CEO of like 5 different companies, and now he has a made-up but high level, government job. Must be fuckin nice-

That’s too much credit. I’d say just an old man given more attention than he deserves.

So eloquently put & efficiently communicated, I only wish I could be that articulated with words.

This. Everything Infosys touches is garbage.

Instead of taking traditional vacation throughout the year, I started taking as many Wednesdays as I can for this exact reason. I picked Wednesday specifically because no one else is off to need my attention and I can actually focus on my own chores or my mental health.

Two days is not enough for me to get caught up.

this should be the way

I'll read this next weekend 🙃

Narayama Murthy was a mistake.

You sully the good name of shit.

Start billing your job for providing support services to their employees

Some people would want others' lives to be embedded into one hierarchy, and that only.

So that everything of importance was being decide by people on top of those hierarchies.

Ex-USSR countries show full well why this shouldn't be allowed. It, of course, was done there accompanied by a different ideology, but.

Absolutely nailed it.

Sounds sexy

And sitting on the couch with their dicks in their hands is "hard work" for them, but it's just jerking off for the rest of us. These assholes consider themselves working when they sleep, because them being rested is "good for the business".

Hierarchies are bad for honest people. Honest people take work and meritocracy seriously and try to follow them.

But hierarchies are never about meritocracy. Hierarchies are always built by people who have connived their way up. Those who have worked honestly don't build hierarchies, at worst they are pressed to do that by outside pressure.

In any case, the market economy I'm in favor of doesn't include big businesses. As in "at all". Big cooperatives at the maximum.

For the obvious reason that the bigger a business is, the less it's about market and the more it's about power and hierarchy. Big businesses are the way human nature with jungle law and such fights markets and rules. By making the space untouched by market mechanisms and rules into something continuous inside one subject - the company.

It's the same as siloed services in the Internet. A thousand and one web forums are free, despite open despotism of webmasters in each and every one of those. A three or two big social platforms are not, despite their owners trying their best for their policies to appear impartial and professional and depersonalized.

And I guess that's where I can agree that the "market economy status quo" has been broken by such evolution showing itself both IRL and in the Web. You can't make something like 1999 Web and expect it to not turn into 2024 Web. And you also can't make a functional market economy old-style and expect it to not degrade into what we have.

I like solutions touching upon the root of the problem, so - in my opinion personal responsibility (one can even say sovereignty, pun intended) is key. You don't lose responsibility for your decision just because you've paid someone else or have been paid by someone else. You are both responsible, since it's a common endeavor. The responsibility is not divided, it's copied. Also personal responsibility excludes companies as subjects of the law. Only a person can have responsibility, property, make decisions.

That and fully protected free speech and right to self-defense and transparency of the state. I'm not talking about forcing others to give you platform, I'm talking about shadow bans, about state secrets not being something you'd care about if you hadn't signed anything, about state official's decisions being only contestable in court, something like that. Anything forcing you to keep your head down.

OK, done dreaming.

It's not about productivity. If that were the real goal then the entire system would be structured radically differently, given what we know now through actual research. The real goal is ensuring that workers do not have ample time or energy to collectively organize. Make sure they don't have the time to even think about anything else, and you ensure they damn sure don't have the time to rebel. The other goal is ensuring there are a significant number of unemployed people in terrible enough conditions to make them desperate, but not so terrible that they are incapable of working. That way if s few stray workers get a bug up their ass about organizing and striking, there's a reserve army of labor in the homeless and unemployed communities that can step in and scab.

Self? Kinda. To others? Don't get caught.