Exactly

I’m dead 💀

Hey yknow that’s a good point.

You didn’t present any ideas or solutions to argue against. There’s no argument happening here.

Nor are there strawmen because there’s no argument being made.

You said that there’s generally a lack of imagination with regards to this stuff and I was just sharing my opinions as to why.

I think most people (correctly imo) don’t see how a large enough company can operate without some hierarchy, which seems to run up against the idea of being entirely equally employee owned.

There’s always going to be leaders (manager or just someone who others listen to) That person necessarily has more responsibility and control than his peers and is justly compensated more (otherwise nobody would put in extra work, say, to train as an engineer or doctor)

That person has their own interests that don’t always line up with the company and may use their influence to guide the company in a way that benefits them.

Suddenly you have a worker class and a bourgeois-esque class.

Most people (incorrectly imo) think that the “unbiased” checks and balances in government counteract that.

If there’s another option that accounts for hierarchies in large employee owned and operated companies let me know…. please

EDIT: large as in number of employees

It def adds some flavor to the social media political scene

The news bot posts are more annoying to me than the politics.

At least here there’s more than trump lovers and trump haters.

I hate scrolling into infinite bot posts with 0 comments

Complicated issues are complicated. Neither Reddit, lemmy, Twitter (x?), nor any social media platform is particularly well suited towards discussing complex decisive topics.

Lemmy has some very aggressive communists.

I’ve been lucky enough to dodge the crazy right wingers though.

People way into politics and pedophiles always causing trouble on the internet

That’s nice, dear

Yeah, but only if you agree with the other people who are complaining loudly, otherwise it’s hardly worth the time.

That’s not true. IRC is a client-server system. Your messages go to a server and are “relayed” to clients.

It’s not a p2p messaging system

Honestly can’t tell if that’s sarcasm. Look up “tracking pixels” if you want to see how not private the internet is, regardless of ur search engine

Dude, calm down wtf?

Also like… just using DuckDuckGo doesn’t mean u have privacy online…

Oracle is like Apple but for b2b. Everything is vendor lock in and very expensive. They don’t treat their employees particularly well. They don’t like adhering or supporting standards.

I remember a quote once that being evil was actually their business model.

Truth be told they’re probably just as evil as anywhere else, they’re just very loud about it.

What’s doomscrolling?

Centrists: “Bro why are all these old people ass at governing” FIFY

Your DS? What’re you 30?

…cries in back pain

There’s a chip shortage. Most people just use web based apps, so stay on their phones / cheap laptops Enthusiasts usually just build their own machines. Everything is more expensive. The list goes on