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You’ve boxed this off in some artificial way, IMO.

Open source coders provide software development and support services for free. They’re not providing a physical product.

I feel like you’re stuck on some ephemeral concept around what a service is.

Human beings provide a services for a variety of prices. A business provides a profit generating pipeline.

And we all see how those can vanish over night. Or just decide to kill things coughgooglecough

Seems like a contrived line in the sand, IMO

Fair point. Except I don’t post, follow feeds only, put nothing about my personal life in my profile, and they asked for my birthday.

So my point was aimed more at advertisers buying on Twitter: they filled in the blanks and got them all wrong. And the one they had the data for they got wrong.

That and I’m not a internet consumer really. Twitter can see I’ve blocked over 1,000 accounts that promoted tweets. Is that statistic being shared with advertisers?

Likely not. Advertisers believe so who cares.

It’s so ephemeral as to be useless.

Not Google, but Twitter thinks I’m a 45 old married male with 3 kids

I’m 39, divorced, and have 2 kids

It’s almost as if the big data sales pitch is an epic joke like nuclear powered everything being pitched in the 50s

I was just reading about how McConnell has steered billions to the Paducah, KY region since coming to power.

Shockingly, the rest of the state hasn’t seen quite as much.

It’s almost as if it’s how the public allows politics to work in general.

So you don’t use open source

This reminds me of the article the other day about the internet being an SEO wasteland

Basically our business networks run the same way (not a shock at all): sycophants spam aristocratic investors with half assed bullshit solutions to juice the odds of hooking one

The obvious is a robust welfare state. I mean it seems pretty clear to now that inequality goes up, social stability decreases, major overhaul, a generation of babysitting it... like just stop pandering to the meme we can’t afford universal healthcare and college education. Cause we also cannot afford leashing the next generation to soon to dead men’s gambling debts.

But that effectively ends the point in aristocracy, the meme that we must cater to all these rugged individuals living off grandpas old money. So that’ll never fly.

Violent revolt it is! Front row to the apocalypse! /s

It’s a subjective life goal, is my point.

The article says so many people are doing it, the techniques are so well known, there’s little new info to glean in the activity itself, so it’s basically Xbox achievements for people with excess money as far as my subjective take on its value.

Our economy is so ridiculously hung up on gamifying FOMO and statistics to satisfy yet another gameified endeavor in financial economics.

And we rip tons of resources out of the ground each year to support our generation diddling their novelty button.

All I mean is I’m pretty done supporting the marketing BS of a bunch of aristocrats.

This is more like “rich westerners chasing FOMO feels”.

I have a hard time supporting politically that we owe deference to a minority experiencing shallow novelty and calling them life dreams, given the externalized costs foisted on society as a whole.

There are peaks closer and the difference in sensory experience is marginal.

This is just “more money than I can spend so I’ll shovel it a little at everything.” Which is politically indefensible given how society is manipulated to enable it.

Costs.

They don’t have the political power to entirely privatize immigration policing. But their platform is “small government”, so the budgets are as tiny as possible, which devolves right into dehumanizing results.

Not to be glib, but going to your job is what is measured, and taken implicitly as approval for it all.

In the end it underlies their motives for finding ways to normalize the public to the social march we’ve been tapping our toes to: shuffling along to their businesses, propping up their immense gains.

Stop giving deference to aristocratic rhetoric if you actually care.

You made connections between things and the workplace that the parent did not imply to my eye.

It was an array and you started making a dict, assuming whatever connections you wanted.

See Americans are trained to not be so gaudy but quietly believe in these things. I see it all the time when I actually push people to share their political views. Democrats and liberal minded folks totally ok with bombing the Middle East and making life cheaper and easier for America.

So I guess it’s something of a ymmv, depending on whether you actively dig or just idly observe.

I think what the internet has shown is we all have wildly varying ideas of what being free means at an individual scale but at a macro social like scale pretty much just follow the corporate drum beat.

Push for universal services.

IMO that’s the concrete way to begin to normalize away from the bulk of the things you describe.

When we show the aristocracy we can peacefully organize around our own interests, that will have them properly concerned.

I guess I’m assuming “economic apocalypse” means “fall of the nation state concept as we know it.” since that is the lynch pin for economic trade.

Business operations as a whole are so reliant on the legal rails, like it or not, they’d have to fail spectacularly to create “economic apocalypse” to my mind.

I forget some people see run of the mill loss of wealth status as akin to loss of life. So perhaps apocalypse to them means going from $100 million in wealth to merely $10 million, but the social foundations that support that wealth largely remain intact

You’re assuming cash will hold value after a so-called economy apocalypse?

If the economic credibility of the nation goes, so too does the value of its cash currency.

What’s a “more white collar workers than jobs” economy look like?

Personally, I’m leaning into useful life skills, like growing food, reconnecting to hunting, low level electronics, rebuilding my car, and home myself with my money now.

I’d rather have deep experience in head and hands than a wheelbarrow full of dolla dolla bills y’all with the buying power of East German currency.

Not that I have any way to be sure the implosion is coming any time in my remaining years. But still, if we’re talking about how to prepare for such a thing, let’s get real: investments in today’s ephemeral value stores are the worst idea for securing yourself against economic collapse