The fine for financial crimes needs to be in addition to whatever profit was made from the crime.

The problem - the greater, potentially insurmountable problem - is... corruption and dishonesty.

If you use a term like "profit", then they'll find another way to move money around and categorize it as something else that doesn't qualify. Many huge companies already pay little to no taxes this way. If they can find ways to lower their tax burden, they can find ways around most things. It will not always happen, but given time I'm sure someone will innovate faster than law can keep up.

The end result will ultimately be auditors or auditing... which if not purely independent can be corrupted. This can come from the company, if they are hiring auditors or self reporting, by whatever authority is in charge of auditing, or by the powers that be starving the auditors of resources which is exactly what has happened to the IRS and US tax system.

He might endorse his own family if he doesn't run himself. All the benefits, none of the work.

Probably family.

As long as it's streaming from their hardware like the article outlines that's fine.

Renting their hardware will become the only access to hardware that anyone can afford... because all the rest was made scarce by the demand for more enterprise hardware for them to rent out to everyone.

I think it depends on which family member and how recently he has taken his meds.

Last I saw, Toyota owns like 20% of Subaru and they are "strategic partners".

Many wealthy, powerful people take credit that they don't deserve and earn an enormous profit for doing so. It is a common enough belief that having enough money or power to enable someone else's idea makes the enabler as, if not more, important and deserving than all of those involved in every other aspect of the project.

What has "AI" become, after all? Rich and powerful people stealing the entire collective knowledge and creative works of humanity, mostly without just compensation or even consent. They then combine that collection and a vast quantity of wealth to take as many resources as they can afford to, half in an effort to deny those same resources to competitors trying to do the same thing. Their goal is to become the most dominant source of truth and creativity, which they will then hoard and rent to the highest bidders. All the while promising the good it will do, while simultaneously manipulating the output of this "source" so that it more reflects their interests and worldview.

Americana’s will only do shit that doesn’t inconvenience them.

For some, sure. For others I think a good part of it is the fear of doing shit that will negatively impact others like them.

I am in a position of privilege and can afford the inconveniences, but what effective act could I take that wouldn't result in making the lives of numerous other people tip out of balance and potentially cause them or their dependents to become unhoused or go without food or medicine?

For the average person, living has become more and more precarious. We have fewer and fewer safety nets and the rich are quick to make those they have power over feel the pain of resistance first. We have no guarantee of healthcare, less and less food assistance, unaffordable childcare, poor elder care. All purposely done by the capitalist class. This has created a human shield around them.

It's like the only options are indirectly accelerationist. Cause unavoidable collateral damage, blame those at the top, and hope it inspires those at the bottom to act instead of turn on you? I don't like that.

A critique of capitalism, no matter how accurate, is not a "world view."

I couldn't think of a better word for it while taking a shit... you literally used it in your response... and now you want to criticize my word choice?

The point was that there was something akin to idolatry because a person's name was in the term for something people agree with. Goalpost shifting?

I've never seen liberals goose stepping...

I see. I'm going be similarly pedantic, because you are clearly a disingenuous troll. Liberals wouldn't be caught dead praising anything but capitalism. Goose stepping, yeah, Lol. Project much, troll? ✌️

No, because not everyone is so well known for having formalized a specific worldview that the worldview itself is named after them.

Do Keynesian economists worship Keynes? Do people who deeply believe that Newtonian physics is vital for understanding reality at the macro scale practice idolatry?

You are either disturbingly naive or a troll. Terms don't magically become religious just because they incorporate the name of a foundational figure in them.

Honestly, the way shit is going, get what you can while you can. Gaming is only going to get worse and more expensive by the week.

Data centers in space, data centers on ships... it's likely just an attempt to avoid laws and oversight.

Cancelations like this are why I have, one by one, canceled every steaming service I had. Every new show, regardless of whether or not it is good or well loved, is guaranteed to be canceled if it doesn't somehow become wildly successful and a cultural staple (like Game of Thrones before it went downhill) and bring in near infinite money and new money making opportunities... so why bother watching it?

This stupid pattern of refusing to followup with any additional investment if it doesn't instantly go gangbusters is exhausting and betraying fans across markets. The executives attribute no value to long-term reputation anymore - it's just a resource to be spent making a quick buck. Great brand, product, or IP with loyal customers? Buy it. Three choices - 1. Cut every imaginable cost, milk the brand dry, maybe load it with debts and go bankrupt if it doesn't last very long, rinse and repeat. 2. Invest a shitload of money in it to manufacture a worldwide success (but don't actually invest energy making sure it is in good hands), rush it with even more money, then when it fails to meet expectations you shove it in the closet to try again next decade when fans forget how much you fucked up the last one... or maybe sell it to someone else if you've fucked it up too many times. 3. Find a way to slowly trap customers with false promises and low prices and slowly ruin it until it is a thoroughly enshittified but profitable mess and milk it dry.

"Many of us built, whether it's bought homes or whatever, based on this promise of stability," Jesuthasan said. "There was this expectation that the tail was bigger. And we took on liabilities and obligations early on because of that tail. I think this generation has seen that tail dissipate."

In other words, when millennials did what their parents did and assumed if they worked hard they'd get to live a decent life. Then they got fucked by companies whose priorities became getting as much out of their employees as possible while investing in those employees as little as possible.

As a millennial, I hated the idea of debt. As a result, I've had no debt beyond college loans despite being able to afford a lower middle class lifestyle. It took me never living alone (roommates, SOs) but I did it. The education was bullshit and the loans were obscene but I got a piece of paper that helped me keep my job. After working in the public sector for 20+ years I actually had my loans forgiven... and now rent is going through the roof to compensate. Still, I might actually own a home before I'm 50, assuming current and future landlords don't decide to take me for all I'm worth.

When I finally own a home, I'm sure it'll get washed away by the thirteenth "century flood" that year or some other bullshit thanks to climate change. So fucking glad I decided not to have kids. Fuck this world.

In the US, conservative lawmakers have been waging a quiet war against our postal system for a while now.

Highlights: They forced it to be self-sustaining (cut federal funding), then when that didn't kill it they forced it to, in a very short time frame, pre-fund retirement benefits ahead of time for all current and former employees.

The postal system is more or less dependent on the funds it gets from spam mailers.

Edit: To clarify, I'm not insinuating that the bulk/majority of its income is from junk mail, I'm just stating that its not nothing, so they don't really have an incentive to kill that source if revenue.

Golden.

Essentially, the employees most excited and inspired by “visionary” corporate jargon may be the least equipped to make effective, practical business decisions for their companies.

“This creates a concerning cycle,” Littrell said. “Employees who are more likely to fall for corporate bullshit may help elevate the types of dysfunctional leaders who are more likely to use it, creating a sort of negative feedback loop. Rather than a ‘rising tide lifting all boats,’ a higher level of corporate BS in an organization acts more like a clogged toilet of inefficiency.”

More arrests of college students walking out of class and peacefully protesting the situation in Gaza. This time UT Austin.

I've seen a number of news articles disproving this recent viral claim - saying the "bots" traffic lost was just the equivalent of Russia's Google's crawlers. Honestly though, beyond occasional use of Lemmy, I don't use any social media so I have no experience as to things feeling different.

Is it actually quieter out there or is it just wishful thinking?

...and if you do, hoooooo boy. I hope you like a coup, because you are going to get a coup.... or sanctions... or a blockade... or all three.

Honestly, the current situation is beyond double standards. The Republicans have free reign to more or less break any of their own rules and suffer almost no consequences. Meanwhile, literally anything a Democrat does is spun into multiple mutually exclusive conspiracy theories that their base and the media somehow manage to spout simultaneously.