And Apple customers were doing this a decade or more ago. They bought into an entire ecosystem, and became APPLE_PEOPLE, for better or worse. And the companies that sell stuff on e.g. itunes are the rent-paying serfs, paying Apple to be vassals and do business. The people with Apple products are maybe a bit more like farm animals…they just get fleeced over and over. They don’t have much input into anything, unless they make a serious break and quit using Apple stuff.
Overall, this seems really great.
I have some sympathy for home owners who currently have lake front property and apparently aren’t going to be reimbursed anything when their property value goes down and their house is no longer in the type of spot the homeowners wanted to live. But it seems so much better for the environment and general safety to get rid of the old dams that the tradeoff is still a good thing otherwise.
Hopefully lots of similar projects will occur worldwide over time.
This has kinda been a thing since the invention of money and real estate
Dinner or drinks first, or it’s likely to not work out. But I wouldn’t care about a TV tuner, so you can safely cut dinner (but leave in at least a drink or two…I mean come on)
neither. They probably just haven’t implemented default facial expressions yet (but probably have support for them).
Pretty nice example of one of the many Ernst ‘collage’ art pieces. To me, he seemed to have a really cool view on what surrealism was all about.
Good for you. Luckily for random stranger lady, you didn’t take advantage of her situation.
Super mommy happy cat is doing hecka job
Solar Installer or Wind turbine installer. Manager or project manager at companies that do solar or wind power installations.
Artist who builds sculptures out of scrap metal and/or trash or recycled objects.
An updated version of ‘junk yard owner’, possibly refurbishing or otherwise breathing new life into objects that would normally be trashed, and selling them to new owners.
So knitting is kind of like cats. Thanks for the tip
Honestly, I’m fine with the normies staying on Reddit and Twitter, while all of us ‘new cool’ folks explore our rebel alliance.
Super wholesome. And the little girl can color it again every week or so I bet! And then grow up to be a tattoo artist, and ride a rad motorcycle
Enough with the lawn ornaments. It was quite charming when I had 2. Bearable when I had 6. But now? 14?! Oh god…
I read a similar article a few weeks ago, and I think your concise summary is better than the article linked in this post.
I think Yanis goes a bit overboard with stating that capitalism kinda no longer exists, since it really is about a new group of rich people simply inserting their companies as evil middlemen who leach money off the whole system.
I’m not sure the solution has to be revolutionary or super complex. I’d think that large countries and groups of countries (e.g. USA, the EU) could implement their own mega marketplaces, leaching off much less money and avoiding the sort of corrupt BS that Amazon etc do to keep prices artificially high, and these governments could also stop allowing the mega platforms to do business in their region. Big countries want to facilitate an economy, and if private industry is proving to be too broken with their current approach, governments could step in to create more functional marketplaces that still work nicely in the internet age and don’t have horrible middlemen crap dragging everything down.