spice things up and put a bomb in it ^/j

closest non-apple alternative to appleTV is probably nvidia shield, but it may have enshittified when i wasn’t looking. appleTV is pretty much the only apple device I use these days, every now and again i use my old ipad

take it up with the UN i suppose, not to mention the various other human rights organizations who have reported on this

no way am i gonna click that link

I’d argue the “left” agrees that the owners of capital play an essential role in most economies nowadays, but also believe that it doesn’t have to be that way.

So… they don’t play an essential role. If we can make do without them, we don’t need them!

My comment was a little tongue-in-cheek, I don’t think leftists truly want billionaires to go live in a mountain. Personally, I’d rather bring them to justice for their crimes against humanity.

Libertarians, most commonly. It’s the plot of their favorite book, Atlas Shrugged, as I mentioned

It’s ironic that the left and the right share the fantasy of Atlas Shrugged: that all of the rich people would fuck off and go live isolated inside a mountain to show how much (little) we need them

The ruling class is allowed to inflict infinite violence upon you, but the moderators here do not allow for you to suggest the ruling class shouldn’t have a monopoly on violence.

It is typical liberal behavior, enforcing the status quo for no reason other than civility.

You sure do love deep throating that boot, huh? Are you a small business?

It does, it’s called plunder.

If you can’t see how layoffs are used to suppress worker rights and keep pay as low as possible then I’m sorry but you are a total fool.

Literally nobody care’s at all.

Or, you know, workplaces organize and form strong labor unions?

How does boot taste?

It isn’t just ineptitude. Of course executives at Microsoft know that they could be good and be successful with consumers. But they don’t need to please consumers, they have far more important customers: the surveillance state, and the military industrial complex.

Once corporations have a near-monopoly position, they do not need to make good products anymore. Microsoft has enough money already to completely fail at everything for centuries and they’d be just fine. So they can focus on other goals, such as dismantling online anonymity for the benefit of the ruling class, who owns and controls Microsoft.

Anyone who wouldn’t go with China over Amerisrael a million times over is simply a victim of unbelievable volume of propaganda.

The US is by far the single worst, most oppressive country on the planet and it isn’t even close.

Canada is part of five eyes and is functionally a US vassal. There’s little difference between a Canadian tech company and an American tech company.

This also goes for most NATO countries

because capitalism

inb4 this post gets deleted by pro-zionist lemmy.world mods/admins

The judiciary is, by and large, owned and controlled by the ruling class. Don’t expect anything resembling justice to come from that system.

A far better alternative is to replace CEOs with democratically organized workplaces, where everyone has an equal say and equal reward. Also known as socialism.