Lurker > WingsOfGood

> prove me wrong

We do live in feudalism. We've replaced lords with CEOs, knights with lawyers, and serfs with "unskilled yet somehow essential labor"

What's to deny? The backslide towards feudalism always happens, and very occasionally gets kicked the other way.

There's always someone getting richer and richer no matter the platform.

In contrast to Communism, which starts with the regular people being poor and owning nothing.

They're union, I'm not.

Everything eventually decays back into feudalism.

He can fire me, I can't fire him. So yeah I sorta am subservient to him in the workplace. That's kinda how employment works my guy.

I already told you that there are other people employed that do those things. If he asked me to then I wouldn't, cause theres a union and I'd get my ass kicked for it.

Late Stage Capitalism just wraps back around to Fuedalism.

"It just becomes Feudalism?" "Always has been"

Correct. Performing ad hoc requests was in the job description.

No, there are other people employed to do those things. I run financial reports and create invoices.

It's usually clear to people...

By definition, yes. Workplace hierarchies aren't hard to understand. They even come with a fancy chart on Workday.

They act like hardcore socialists in one topic and then in another will talk about how taxes are theft.

Then they should go work for themselves. As long as they're subservient to him and coming to him for employment then he's the more important one.

By definition, yes. He's the boss.

The boss probably realized that he was wasting time returning the cups himself-_-

That's ridiculous, I feel bad for people who have to work for a manager like this.

"Don't offer to put the empty cup in the kitchen? Qualifications and experience be damned, gtfo!"

Childish and petty imo

If you actually own that nine or ten square meters the shack sets on, that's capitalism.
Otherwise, it's feudalism all over again.

Paying to start your car: a dystopian fantasy or the not-too-distant future?

In principle, so-called in-car microtransactions are no different from in-app purchases you make to upgrade, say, your VPN service to have a better speed and more locations. The problem, however, is that some carmakers arent just adding flashy new features and putting them behind paywall they are starting to take away features that are usually free.

In 2018, BMW drew massive backlash after it introduced a yearly subscription fee for Apple CarPlay, a smartphone integration system that most other carmakers, including Kia and Mazda, made standard. BMW argued that the $80 annual subscription fee would allow it to keep the base cost of new BWMs at bay but autolovers were not having it. A year later, BMW backpedaled on its plan.

One could argue that once you have splashed on a luxury car, then you have to bear whatever additional costs are thrown your way. But it is one thing for luxury automakers to behave outrageously; another, perhaps more worrisome, is that mainstream brands have also caught on to this trend and are now trying to monetize what little software they have rather than pursue innovation. This approach seems dubious, and we are far from alone in thinking so.

Last year, the worlds largest automaker, Toyota, found itself on the receiving end of a torrent of criticism after it bundled a key fob remote start with one of its subscription packages. The feature allows drivers to warm up a vehicles engine without actually getting into the car. Toyota initially confirmed the functionality would become part of a paid subscription and cost Toyota owners $8 a month. After the plan was met with outrage, Toyota claimed that the inclusion of the key fob remote start in the subscription plan was an inadvertent result of a relatively small technical decision, and promised to review it.

one example that is truly horrfying to me is when companies like monsanto own seeds and sue
innocent farmers for growing from seeds in the fruits they grew.

its bizarre. how lays could copywright a potatoe. a whole potatoe type and farmers were taken to court for just growing a potatoe.

As more automakers put factory features behind paywall, were racing towards a bleak future

Let's not pretend you know or care about some obscure native american tribe that no longer exists. I want an example of a civilization that has only jobs its workers enjoy doing.

Im a little annoyed but Im also 100% guilty of straight up typing a reply to someone and then forgetting to hit send and then realizing it two days later and being like well its too late to reply now! and then that snowballs until its been like two weeks and I finally hit them with the ayyyy sorry Im so bad at responding lol even though Ive looked at their text every day, even had things that I NEEDED to text them about, but felt too awkward to reply after so long

I await your real-world examples of utopias with no shit jobs.

and the answer to that is yes

It's worth mentioning that you and your boss were much more likely to be of similar socio-economic class back then.

Well, to be fair, all of them wouldnt have been able to do the job.