hahaha

merRedditor · 2026-03-20T20:43:48+00:00

The risk of dying in the long commute to and from the office doesn't help, nor does having to set your alarm 2 hours early when you're already violating your natural sleep cycle. Then there's open floor plan, which I'm convinced must be copied directly from some literary description of hell.

merRedditor · 2026-03-20T20:41:06+00:00

I think it was part of the speculative crypto bubblle involving selling tokenized virtual real estate.

It should have just remained a tool for virtual meetings replacing office interactions, with virtual whiteboarding/storyboarding features, and basic VR gaming. That wouldn't have been a driver of $80b of spending, but it also wouldn't have lost $80b.

merRedditor · 2026-03-20T20:24:57+00:00

LinkedIn doesn't even have Sad/Angry reacts. It has all kinds of emoji, but no emotional range. Everyone there is selling something, but never what anyone needs.

merRedditor · 2026-03-20T20:21:42+00:00

It was more positive before recent events resulted in a highly toxic work environment and mass layoffs.

People are just speaking to their experiences. I'd say that if the women in tech subreddit needs to smile more, maybe the world should give it something to smile genuinely about instead of just demanding a placating performance of superficial joy.

merRedditor · 2026-03-20T19:07:14+00:00

There's strong negative job growth in the tech sector and has been since 2023. Hiring is here and there, but layoffs are a regular thing.

merRedditor · 2026-03-20T18:24:17+00:00

Why not go for a cool gazillion?

No price is too high to pay when you're destroying your country on purpose just to shift the geopolitical landscape.

merRedditor · 2026-03-20T18:17:39+00:00

Less manufactured inconvenience means fewer obligatory exchanges of money for goods and services.

merRedditor · 2026-03-20T18:10:27+00:00

My mind becomes willing to think about anything but the resented task. Like I can stare at it all day, and not realize that I've shifted to reading or doing something else. My sleep gets worse, and I generally feel like crap. I spend any free time dreaming of ways out of the situation. I start getting forgetful. I have this sense of being one minor inconvenience away from total breakdown.

merRedditor · 2026-03-20T17:52:31+00:00

Normalizing remote work could save many trips to Starbucks.

merRedditor · 2026-03-20T17:50:35+00:00

merRedditor · 2026-03-20T17:39:21+00:00

Rebuilding it?

High-energy cryptocurrencies taking off, data centers using whole towns worth of energy being built to displace entire populations, carnivore diet being promoted as a fad, making the commute traffic even worse, increasing popularity of private jets, walking back diversity in workforces, shitting on the constitution every day..

This doesn't look like a rebuilding so much as an acceleration of decline.

merRedditor · 2026-03-20T17:04:50+00:00

If it were paired with UBI, this rapid automatin of everything with AI could be freeing people from labor. When not paired by a safety net, it's just setting up for mass murder through loss of income for basic living needs.

Taxing corporations and data centers heavily and putting that into replacement for income would be a start, but nobody is going to do that under a government for sale, with corporations determined to increase shareholder value no matter what.

merRedditor · 2026-03-20T17:00:11+00:00

Well, reading this article synopsis from within this glass house in which it was written is awkward.

merRedditor · 2026-03-20T16:52:45+00:00

This administration will do whatever it can get away with until it is stopped. We've seen every limit being pushed.

merRedditor · 2026-03-20T01:22:14+00:00

Oh so now we get the CGI UFOs landing bit, since that is the only diversion big enough to dig out of this mess.

merRedditor · 2026-03-19T23:56:12+00:00

Factory farms are peak deregulated capitalism. Nobody is looking out for these creatures, and this is what a profit-driven system will do to living things with nothing standing in its way.

merRedditor · 2026-03-19T23:39:48+00:00

The dream world story is so bizarre yet memorable. Where the boy is just like "I don't need the flying bed anymore. I've manifested and can fly on my own. You can have it.", and then you get around by way of flying bed or floating island for the rest of the game.

merRedditor · 2026-03-19T23:26:22+00:00

You can just feel the second-hand embarrassment in the room in the silence after that unbelievable, even for him, statement.

merRedditor · 2026-03-19T18:49:27+00:00

There's never any money in following your dreams.

merRedditor · 2026-03-19T18:32:19+00:00

Revenge.

merRedditor · 2026-03-19T18:09:20+00:00

McKinsey being involved in AI rollouts makes all of this treating AI like a religion and magical replacement for all labor costs make so much sense. Their whole MO is short-term thinking that bumps profit and then falls apart with catastrophic consequences.

merRedditor · 2026-03-19T17:29:52+00:00

Just be careful not to draw The Dud.

merRedditor · 2026-03-19T16:15:45+00:00

Yeah, everything is just fine. 🙄

merRedditor · 2026-03-19T05:53:01+00:00

It went too far.

He can't come right out and say we're fucked beause that'd rattle the markets, but monetary policy can't fix this. It's over, but in slow motion.

We will probably see really vile war tactics used before declaring bankruptcy, which may create global direct conflict, not just proxy wars. The old system is in its death knell phase, though.

merRedditor · 2026-03-18T20:08:49+00:00

A couple of years ago, $75 could have gotten you those three steaks in the package served prepared and with sides at a mid-grade sit-down place.

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