Adventures in Greed (Megacorps vs Everyday people)

[rachel]

[kiiada]

Damn that's a good quote. Especially applicable to digital media

[rachel]

Work. Consume. Your life means nothing without it.

[here cums the fuck truck]

Work. Consume. Your life means nothing without it.

thats the kind of grim mindset i grew up with. produces very happy little worker bees but they get sad sometimes for no reason.

[Mozai]

"Work Will Set You Free", or as they say in German "arbeit macht frei".

[rothen]

Twitch, a platform I used to rather like, has recently changed their ad service so that adblock no longer works. This is made worse by the fact that individual streamers have no control over the number, type, or timing of ads shown. I spent a few weeks opening the site every few days to check whether any adblock extensions worked, seeing an ad, and immediately closing the tab. This morning, I decided enough was enough, and cancelled my subscriptions and abandoned the site.

In a similar vein, adblock has degraded on YouTube over the past couple of months. While my adblock still saves my seeing the ads, they now appear as several seconds of white screen before the video; I used to never have any hint of ads at all. Without really thinking about it, I've found my YouTube use diminishing substantially since this started.

No content is worth ads, and realizing this is what made me stop watching TV when I turned 18. As for any site that insists otherwise, I'll abandon it.

[here cums the fuck truck]

I use ublock origin i have no idea if it works on twitch but it still works on youtube, cheers

[kiiada]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQeGBHxIyHw[/video]


TLDR; The warning signs of unionization according to Amazon:
- Workers begin using terms like "living wage"
- Workers begin talking too much about policies and benefits
- Workers look burnt out and depressed

Please report these employees so that they can be "handled" properly

[rachel]

[rachel]

Millions of videos deleted off of PornHub and credit cards are now refusing payments for PornHub accounts. WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?

...Meanwhile on facebook...

[rachel]

An ad telling you to steal content to make money

[rachel]

GameStop stocks go from a low of $2 last year to nearly $150 today. Hedge fund managers who were hoping to short sell are pissed. Even Elon Musk tweeted about it.

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1354174279894642703

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EUbJcGoYQ4[/video]

[rachel]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6tT_PMnEbU[/video]

[kayimbo]

if melvin capital can't pay, their brokerage has to pay. If their brokerage can't pay, their bank has to pay.  If the bank can't pay, the government has to pay.

We can bankrupt the US by buying gamestop.

i saw some random number that melvin capital is losing 1 billion dollars per 11$ share price.  Goldman sacs has about a trillion in assets, so if we can get gamestop to 11,000$ goldman sachs will be bankrupt.  The US has 269 trillion in assets, so 269 * 11,000.

[Anomaly]

Every day hedge funders lose lots of money is a good day.