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[–] Fades@lemmy.world 52 points 11 months ago

Billionaires truly believe they deserve our money. There is no need for earning because they see themselves as owners of it all from the start, entitled to fuck

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 50 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

Thanks! Fuckface has gone off the rails taking on Disney.

[–] kismattic@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Thanks, appreciate you!

[–] kpw@kbin.social 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Vote with your wallet is only ever said to those whose wallet is thin.

[–] GojuRyu@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

And those with the money to vote with their wallet, it often happens through political bribes, leagal or not.

[–] UnaSolaEstrellaLibre@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wait, not that free market!

[–] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

That ol' opt-in mixed economy be sound reaaalll good right now..

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And here in Sweden he is pissy that the workforce has rights as well, and I predict he'll be even more pissy to realize that his handling of the entire situation has made other people less in favour of switching to a Tesla. Solidarity is big here - even with the general population of right wing voters.

[–] kismattic@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Really love to hear that! Back around like 2016-2019 I loved the idea of switching to a Tesla. Couldn’t afford it but always thought it was something to strive for. Well, that is no longer the case for me and I actively encourage people to shop other EV’s if they’re set on them and to avoid anything with his name tied to it.

I feel dumb promoting the dude with a low effort meme, but hearing replies like this I feel makes it worth it.

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I'm still hoping that DMC comes out with an alpha 5 variant I can afford

[–] Zekas@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

"I have no problem being hated" says the petulant man child that's definitely handling it

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

They're not even demanding anything.

They haven't said "tone it down and we'll come back" they just said "goodbye".

How is that blackmail? There's nothing he could do now to appease them (I guess maybe step down?)

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

cocaine is a hell of a drug

[–] kismattic@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Don’t forget the ketamine!

[–] Greggo@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's a reason why most corporations try to keep a squeaky clean appearance to the public. They're trying to make money. It baffles me why Elon thinks public perception doesn't apply to him or his corporations. It's like he thinks the world is comprised of halfwit tech bros that will lap up any old bit of garbage that comes out of his mouth. Yes, freedom of speech is vital for democracy, but not everyone is required to agree with you or pay you money because you think you are right. A critical short coming of many narcissists.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's pretty easy to understand why he thinks he can get away with it when other companies get away with slavery and murder.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Refused a work proposition for X/twitter yesterday. They are recruiting for their service handling vidéo media

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Can't imagine why anyone but MAGA cultists would want to work for them at this point.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Why is this position open?"

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 4 points 11 months ago

Lol didn't go this far, the name is confusing enought to lose time wondering if this is for twitter/X or some mystery company.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah and when you see how they are fighting against unions in Europe, you can expect great working conditions.

[–] kismattic@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Haha love this! Did you give them any reason why? Or just turned them down??

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nope, just told I don't want to work for Elon when I was asking what company is this work description for. The name X is so confusing that I was wondering if this is X/twitter or if the recruiting company was trying to hide the name of their client. Took like 2-3 LinkedIn messages to be sure it was twitter/X.

[–] kismattic@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Glad they got the feedback that people don’t want to work for the baby king! SWE here, I wouldn’t ever working for one of his companies or really any of the top tech places , but I also have full imposter syndrome so none of them would want me either 😂

[–] monkE@feddit.ch 5 points 11 months ago

Bruh hes literally started the trend of wether Twitter or Facebook, which is worse.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't fall for it.

Rich people promote neoliberalism not because it works, but because they get rich off it's failure. The "free market will fix it" is just another of those lies. The most hated companies in the world continue to bring in record profits.

X continues to operate despite their frontman being plausibly a neo-nazi and undeniably a fuckstain. Whatever damage has been done wasn't due to the public, but billion dollar companies.

The free market doesn't fix shit, regulations do. Everything else is just a pantomime.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social -4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Free market does not suppose to fix shit. It supposed to select the best products for consumers and the worst to die.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Is that why Edge, Facebook, AT&T, Bing, gmail, Tesla, and a hundered other examples are still around even though they are objectively bad products compared to competitors?

Or is it that multi-billion dollar companies subsidize them because they have near monopolies on the space through exploitation and shady business practices including being publically subsidized loss leaders until they got a stranglehold on the market?

The natural steady state of the "free market" is monopoly. Look at the computer hardware and tech world, and the internet. The closest we have had to a completely free market in a long time. There were practically 0 rules and regulations around them for dozens of years. What happened? Companies all bought each other until there are oligopolies or monopolies in each market, without exception.

[–] Cowbee@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Why does the market reward anti-consumer companies like Apppe, that use their dominant market share to intentionally sabotage their own products to make people buy more?

For example, why does Apple fight against Right to Repair? Is it for the consumer, or is it for profit?

The market isn't supposed to select for the best products for consumers, but the most profit, period. That's why medicine is marked up skyward, because customers cannot not buy medicine.

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

And it doesn't