sysgen

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[–] sysgen@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If your goal is to hurt high finance then anticapitalist theories are correct, not salafism.

And of course it didn't mean nothing, it was a terrorist attack. It just wasn't any kind of remotely effective attack against finance or some bullshit like that, it was just an attack against the tallest building because what else would you attack with a plane. I'm not the one giving it meaning that the authors of the attack never gave it.

[–] sysgen@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The entire point of financial capital is that attacks against things like their headquarters mean nothing. That's not where they get their power. All you're going to do is murder replaceable cogs for no reason.

[–] sysgen@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I never said working class. I said PMC. Ie, not bourgeois. Being a glorified excel formula or a janitor for a parasitic industry does not make you guilty and it's not equivalent to being a cop or a soldier. The class interests of those respectively are PMC and working class.

[–] sysgen@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)

95-97% of the people in a typical high finance office are working class or PMC people. The reason why finance is so lucrative is because it concentrated wealth so effectively. I know this because I was an IT guy in a very very high finance firm a long time ago - the vast majority of people are paper pushing schmucks and excel/PowerPoint contortionists and, like, 3-4 guys are partners or whatever and take the dough. And most of the times they're going to be at home or on a trip sipping martinis, possibly with clients. Another 4-12 people are going to be sharing a bit of the profits in exchange for overworking the rabble. It's a bit different nowadays since the quantitative finance people took over a lot of it and they only employ people that could work in tech but yeah traditional finance is mostly a PMC trap. The bourgeoisie is too smart to spend their life in a cubicle. At most there would maybe be the replaceable CEO.

[–] sysgen@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The vast majority of people there were PMC at worst, not bourgeois.

[–] sysgen@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

You can buy roblox cards in the street, so actually they do

[–] sysgen@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

Despite thinking he's a commie he's still the most popular major politician, which does give some hope.

[–] sysgen@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

The goal is that now that they've been caught pirating lyrics, they have to pay MusixMatch for their lyrics, perhaps on a per request basis, so they lose money by making it available.

[–] sysgen@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Interceptors are more difficult to make than the missiles themselves, and often are more expensive. They also don't have 100% interception chance so you need to fire 2-4 just to be sure.

[–] sysgen@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

I guess it also depends on where, places that get less applicants are probably much more likely to answer back.

[–] sysgen@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

It's good because you can use it to cut through the corporate bullshit, it's bad because the people most active in it are prestige and money obsessed freaks. If you make a post without stating how much money you make 90% of your replies will be about that.

On the other hand it's saved me from multiple very very bad decisions, so it's good in that sense. It would be cool if it was more generalized and wasn't just for programmers/salespeople/project managers/quants.

[–] sysgen@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Not true, I've gotten a dozen or so.

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