• ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
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    Call me medieval, but I don’t understand these people… If I somehow had a ploy to make that kind of money in one shot I’d make like a bandit and vanish… Then retire. That kind of money is never work again money. I could retire at 30 and die in my 80s a rich man.

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      See and that is why I almost pitty such people. They never learned how to be a normal person. How to be satisfied with what you have. But I did say almost. Cause they make the world a shithole for the rest of us.

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      Cause you’re thinking like an unhappy poor person. Not like someone who has the entire world at their disposal to consume and exploit.

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      But that woman in the photo looks like she loves her job & loves the tech industry, she will show up gladly every day and do whatever it is she does to earn that 30 million per year. In fact she would probably show up gladly every day and do her work regardless of how much they pay her, which makes me wonder why they’re even paying her at all, we don’t get paid to do things we’re good at & enjoy!

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    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886728

    And remember,

    Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think ‘oh, the lawnmower hates me’ – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle. — Brian Cantrill (https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m1s)

    And

    I actually think that it does a dis-service to not go to Nazi allegory because if I don’t use Nazi allegory when referring to Oracle there’s some critical understanding that I have left on the table […] in fact as I have said before I emphatically believe that if you have to explain the Nazis to someone who had never heard of World War 2 but was an Oracle customer there’s a very good chance that you would explain the Nazis in Oracle allegory. — also Brian Cantrill (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fvDDPaIoY&t=24m)

    • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      (Wow your time stamps work. The last few years every time stamp I’ve written exactly like that, correctly, simply hasn’t been working. Just links to the beginning of the video. I really need to figure out what’s going wrong.)

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        I borrowed the comment wholesale from the first link, thank the OG ycombinator masklinn for their timestampery!

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        You don’t know what jobs they cut. It was likely service offices and phone help and secretaries and maintenance people and commissioned sales people and such. They couldn’t have cut 30,000 programmers and hardware engineers.

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        About what I’ll make this year as a CNC machinist. And at least I’m making tangible and useful objects for jet engines and rockets (space, not war). A lot of those C suite executives do jack shit for humanity and get paid more in a week than I make actually working all year.

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          I assume most of the layoffs were in support roles and not the main coders or hardware engineers. I assume it was a lot of secretaries and intern level stuff and phone rep and sales people supplemented by commissions and cleaning crew and maintenance jobs. Probably shut down some service offices too.

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    Hot damn, how did she manage to scam a whole company executive and its shareholders into thinking shes worth 29.7m dollarydoos?

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      Or that her inner circle of friends include someone in high up places.

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      “I will cook books and keep firing people until we make more money this q than last q”

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      There is no actual sentiment in the image, lol. On its face, it’s just stating two facts, not explicitly criticizing anything.

      One could feasibly spread the exact same image as a positive thing, just depends on the audience.

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    How dare tell USA their problem? Why don’t you go there and do something? Gwon! Gwon!! You little punk! If USA could do somethin, they would.

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      No can do. It’s just too big. Nobody can do anything about anything because it’s soo big. You can’t phantom the size of USA before you get in a car and drive some hours across the state border only to realize that you’re still in the same car.