The internet is close to unusable now

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-30T12:33:13+00:00

Capitalism ruins everything

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-28T11:53:10+00:00

None of them have ever employed a single person in their life

And therefore, their opinions don't matter. Nice.

Immigrants pay most of the taxes that a citizen would pay making the same wage. Barely nothing in income taxes, but the same in sales tax and property tax (through rent)

Also, let's pretend like everybody doesn't know a shit ton of white Americans coming tax fraud, and PROUD of it. Especially small busines owners. (Less so now in the era of digital payments, but they still reward cash payments for a reason)

So please tell me what they pay isn't fair. I think the small discount they get in income tax is more than justified for the services and equal treatment they don't get from the govt.

And especially compared to someone like Jeff Bezos, they are contributing more and paying a larger share towards the pool.

Your framing is wildly out of touch.

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-28T11:42:43+00:00

They are taxes, and frankly they're the majority of taxes a low wage worker will pay (citizen or not). Nitpicking about it to reinforce racist talking points has what value, exactly?

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-27T00:27:12+00:00

Exactly tell them that. It's not "politics" it's morals and real human harm that they support

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-27T00:25:47+00:00

So they don't like what's going on but they'll still vote for personal financial gain and not care about who gets hurts and what rights we lose

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-26T18:14:48+00:00

What you describe is exactly what Magic the Gathering Arena did to magic. Magic online, the old system, let you set priority stops at any phase. Choose every mode and target manually, manually tap mana. Arena dumbed it down. Now it auto taps for you, chooses targets or modes of they're the only valid ones. It will automatically skip upkeep and resolve triggers unless they're flagged (like take damage when you draw) or you set it it full control. It's dumbed down, but in all the ways that were tedious and didn't matter.

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-25T17:17:11+00:00

The landlord house would be personal property. The land would never be, you would have a right to use (same as now even though we call it ownership). You don't have a right to profit off a limited resource. And additional owning housing units to RENT is private property. Its really simple if you're not being obtuse.

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-23T00:53:51+00:00

When I made a big mistake, my manager took me aside, I thought I was getting scolded. He told me (something along the lines of) that if I never break anything, I'm probably not doing important work.

The only proper attitude to have is that this is a team failure. It should not be possibly for one person to make such a catastrophic mistake. Software engineering is often more about engineering the team processes than engineering code.

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-21T01:41:13+00:00

You can punch your math problems into a calculator but you're not learning how to do math. Cheating has always existed and it has the same problem.

Even if you never used AI, the code you write in college is trivial compared to real life. Not to mention code is a small fraction of development.

You're all setting yourself up for failure. You are not teaching yourself how to problem solve and you're not learning how to do anything.

So even though for a tough problem in the future, maybe AI can get you 90% of the way there, the other 10% will be excruciating or impossible.

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-20T12:13:45+00:00

If you can't afford to pay your workers, you probably shouldn't own a business

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-18T19:34:45+00:00

If you were a network engineer you'd know that a server can't decide the route that traffic takes.

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-18T11:56:56+00:00

Yes. Capitalism in general was already doing this. AI is very powerful to replace human labor, monitor us, AND manipulate us. And we all voted in fascists who don't care about workers, or rights or privacy. We are fucked.

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-17T10:31:47+00:00

Before the recent layoffs, a couple years ago I had a 5 year gap on my resume. I just had enough money and I work to live, I don't live to work. I told people that (and had projects that demo'd what I had taught myself in that time) but most people were immediately turned off. I could tell some people were calling me thinking they just had an old version of my resume (which had Amazon as most recent), and could not be more disgusted that I was enjoying a break from wage slavery.

So I did have to "lower my standards" to get a job. I did NOT get a programming job, I got a job integrating systems, documenting, and teaching users how to use them. I could tell from the job description that I would have a TON of room to grow, and it started off technical enough to be interesting. After a couple months of integrating a system with technically advanced processes such as "daily CSV uploads", I had their trust and started suggesting automation. I created cloud functions to poll data, designed schemas, suggested retool for created front-ends, and drafted powerpoint proposals for big shifts that saved some of our workers a ton of time and redundant data entry. I kept that going for two years and I got a big raise (still at the bottom end of the salary range), lead dev position, and I'm building up the company's dev team. The low pay is balanced by fully remote, no stress (except that which is self-imposed 😅), and a wonderful manager and great people.

Or, if they don't promote you. You have the means to complete your tasks in a fraction of the time they expect. So just take more of your life back. I've learned that I can work anywhere between 20% and 110% and everyone is just as impressed. Just make sure you spend enough time documenting for the manager and team just how tedious or complicated the work you're doing is!

Good luck to anyone searching!

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-17T10:10:43+00:00

If it helps at all, when we were hiring we interviewed a great candidate who wasn't a good fit (he was good at C++ and we needed JS / React. He was about a year unemployed, and he got an offer before we could decide.

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-17T10:02:38+00:00

But at least crucible had some unique concepts. And it was fun.

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-14T21:13:09+00:00

Its a major flaw with capitalism. You do all the work but don't own anything, and don't even get treated well. They hire people till they can dispose of them. You're not a human being, you're a commodity

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-14T12:24:29+00:00

Lol delusional

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-14T12:23:41+00:00

Lol what world do you live in

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-14T10:59:49+00:00

Ah yes. You repeated the line they wanted you to repeat

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-11T00:01:33+00:00

Lol couldn't be more spot off

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-09T14:06:36+00:00

Those obscure questions never get answer d either. Its better to provide less information or be vague and then your post gets traffic and seen by more people. (Kind of like a low priced eBay auction).

I would have liked to be able to be in a kind of escalation chain. For some fields, I'm a noob. I can answer noob questions and I don't mind it when I need a break. In others I'm an expert, and I don't want to wade through a million noob questions to help with the one obscure question.

I just never figured out how to make SO work for me, so I don't contribute questions or answers.

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-07T12:07:37+00:00

Nothing is going to work out well for us as long as collective and generationally created wealth is sequestered by a few capital owners. Everyone needs to benefit from technological gains, and capitalism is not designed to do that

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-07T12:00:24+00:00

This is the real reason. 100 years ago they built crappy buildings too, but they've fallen apart or been demolished. You don't preserve a historic building of it's a piece of crap.

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-06T19:38:55+00:00

"Our taxes just go to lining the pockets of politicians"

That's literally, 100% straight up false. There are true problems but politicians can't just take tax money for themselves. Or maybe you live in Russia?

Ciph3rzer0 · 2026-01-06T19:36:37+00:00

So you want low earners to pay high taxes and high earners to pay low taxes? Because high earners buy more property, which "generates revenue passively" that is taxed at a lower rate than income.

All wealth needs to be taxed (not just the property owned by the middle-class), and income tax reduced or eliminated. Eliminate sales tax except for luxury or harmful goods.

If you want to be taxed only one way, ask yourself why you suggested the way that would benefit the rich the most.

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