EightBitBlood

What incentive does a rich billionaire have for starting a business? Money? They have billions.

The only business they start are for themselves / the benefit of other businesses they own. Their wealth accumulates, and it is spent only to perpetuate its growth. It does not find its way into new businesses. It does not create new sector growth.

However, the people that want billions and don't have it have a hell of an incentive to start a business and run it well.

Incredibly well said. And couldn't agree more!

Especially after working as a game dev for Apple Arcade. We spent months proving to them their saving architecture was faulty and would lead to people losing their save file for each Apple Arcade game they play.

We were ignored, and then told it was a dev problem.

Cut to the launch of Arcade: every single game has several 1 star reviews about players losing their save files.

This cannot be fixed by devs as it's an Apple problem, so devs have to figure out novel ways to prevent the issue from happening using their own time and resources.

1.5 years later, Apple finishes restructuring the entire backend of Arcade, fixing the problem. They tell all their devs to reimplement the saving architecture of their games to be compliant with Apples new backend or get booted from Arcade. This costs devs months of time to complete for literally zero return (Apple Arcade deals are upfront - little to no revenue is seen after launch).

Apple used their trillions of dollars to ignore a massive backend issue that affected every player and developer on Apple Arcade. They then forced every dev to make an update to their game at their own expense just to keep it listed on Arcade. All while directing user frustration over the issue towards developers instead of taking accountability for launching a faulty product.

Literally, these companies are run by sociopaths that have egos bigger than their paychecks. Issues like this are ignored as it's easier to place the blame on someone down the line. People like your manager end up getting promoted to the top of an office heirachy of bullshit, and everything the company makes just gets worse until whatever corpse is left is sold for parts to whatever bigger dumb company hasn't collapsed yet.

It's really painful to watch, and even more painful to work with these idiots.

So idiots failing to take responsibility and arguing about it is now news? Can't wait for the coming articles about the "debate" over who caused the next great American depression.

Agreed. This strategy works best in a two party system. Much easier to divide and conquer only 2 choices. Not so much with ranked choice voting and multiple parties. The US was a time bomb of corruption wating to be purchased from either political party. Putin just paid the most for GOP access and got it.

My dude, we are being sacked repeatedly by Trump right the fuck now. Usually to the benefit of foreign governments or his stateless billionaire friends.

2 Billy to kill Kashogi. Multiple Trump businesses getting government contracts. USAID and soft power sold for parts. A fucking gilded 747 from Jordan. A supreme court that takes "gifts". Ukraine weapons going to Russia and Israel instead. And Medicaid just got dismantled for billionaire tax breaks.

Higher Education is unaffordable. Minimum wage hasn't increased in two decades. Housing is unaffordable. Healthcare is unaffordable. And inflation and unemployment have been growing all year.

These things were exponentially less fucked just 20 years ago. Now abortion is illegal, and spending money is more protected as free speech than protesting. I've watched as we keep losing our rights to stateless hostile billionaires sacking them for profit.

Canada and Mexico won't have anything left to sack at the rate we're converting what remains of our freedoms into profitable suffering.

As someone who ghost wrote the hottest garbage imaginable for Sony pictures, I can confirm you are 💯% correct. The secret is studios just need to hire someone that gives a shit about the IP they're writing for. Watts gave a shit about Spiderman, and changed the story to improve his movie (after some good fan insight). Most writer hired guns do NOT give a shit about the IP they are writing for at all. cough Madam Web cough

Yes. We are heading towards a crash. We are very much already in one, and have absolutley no way out.

Trump killed all US international commerce with his TACO tariffs and is currently propping up a failing stock market by converting medicaid dollars into ICE / TECH BRO MILITARY funding. The stock market keeps doing great because our tax dollars are propping up companies like Google, Plantir, and Amazon through government grants instead of providing us a safety net. That money will run out eventually, but likely not before more CEOs are killed over it.

Literally we are living through the gilded 1920's again but with an American Hitler.

We now have years of uncontrolled inflation well above target rates, a corrupt government, wealth inequality worse than the French revolution, and rampant unintelligent Tariffs hurting all international trade at the cost of every small business in America. These are the same factors that caused the great depression, and if you think it's not going to happen again, you are wrong.

We are a country being lead into disaster by the least competent people imaginable.

I'm not afraid from answering questions or engaging with hard concepts...

You absolutley are.

You just redefine any hard concepts you encounter as rambling, then refuse to engage with it.

You even admit to this readily:

I'm not interested in responding to the rest of your rambling...

Conveniently, what you've labeled as rambling is all the comparative analysis and supporting studies I've provided that immediately prove what I'm saying as valid.

We very much could be having that conversation if you were willing to listen.

Instead, you're trying to convince yourself this conversation isn't reasonable unless we ignore everything I've said that you don't like.

Here's another question to prove my point:

• Can you explain what parts of what I'm saying is rambling to you? (Specifically, direct examples of what I've said that comes across as "confused or incoherent.")

I would very much like this list, as it's the same list of hard concepts you keep running away from.

Thank you! All good. Appreciate the notice, and great mod work.

I mean, he did the same with COVID. And despite the fact that it killed more Americans than in all the wars we've ever fought in combined, here he is doing it again. People are just going to keep dying, and the media will continue to normalize it.

What "hard questions" have I avoided?

How about answering the following question first to prove you actually intend to answer what you've avoided:

• Do you think vaccines cause Autism?

I'll bet you do.

It's the same identically flawed reasoning you're using for men and testosterone.

Specifically:

• People who are vaccinated are more PrOnE to Autism!
• Men with testosterone are more PrOnE to violence!

Do you also have thought terminating memes about vaccines in that vein too? Maybe something equally sarcastic and dismissive like the Kool Aid man bursting through a wall saying "NoT aLL VaXxED haVe Autism!"

Do you think everyone who got the COVID vaccine is also prone to death too?

What you are completely failing to grasp is what "prone to" means in an analytical and scientific context. And through that failure of comprehension you are driving through a dump truck of bullshit trying to convince me it's fertilizer.

With that context, here's the "hard question" you keep avoiding (this is the third time I've asked):

What is the difference between men who are violent and men who are not?

This is the same as if I were to ask:

What is the difference between those who are vaccinated, and those who are vaccinated and have autism?

These are the questions that actually get us meaningful answers in science. You shouldn't be avoiding them.

I've provided my hypothetical answer to this question, specifically, that men can adapt to managing their increased emotions from testosterone over time - and I supported it with a study you dismissed due to poor reading comprehension or malice.

You have provided no answer, and have only avoided this question as if it doesn't need asked. This is despite this question literally being the whole point of this conversation.

Instead, you've spent this time making it very obvious you have no interest in what I have to say. Especially when I clearly proved you are only arguing on assumptions, having interpreted the source you provided wildly out of context.

You dismissed all that as "rambling and illogical" because you can't admit to being wrong - that you clearly came to the wrong conclusion from your source.

So now you are pretending to need help seeing these questions and details despite how you've been ignoring them due to your own insecurities in the first place.

I fully expect you'll ignore these two questions further, and asked them simply to prove that assumption right.

This is about the response I expected.

Nothing I said was idiotic. If anything, it was oversimplified. I even provided analogies.

But like I said, your overreaction was expected. It is the common behaviour of people who prefer avoiding hard questions instead of considering answers they don't like.

It's hard to admit you're possibly wrong. A "traditionally masculine" behaviour you keep providing great examples of. Quite to the contrary of your own conclusions.

Thank you for clarifying that this conversation is exclusively about your opinion, not the clear facts outside them you keep ignoring willingly.

You can have the conversation with yourself from here.