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Dude, it'll be totally radical this time around! No psych!

Whoever doesn't want the job. Seriously, if you WANT the job, you should immediately be disqualified.

Yeah, I'm at 7. With kbin still being actively worked on, basically still a prototype, and then just being exhausted from full stack web development all day, my desire to make something cool that may disappear in a month is just really low.

I initially though Space Engineers sounded "meh" after having played things like NMS and E:D, but ... I really REALLY enjoyed it!

Hehe, a Spez dispenser

"Far Right" and "Extremist" are not Christian. Christian is John 13:34

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another."

That's what being woke is. Loving one another, regardless of how we may or may not have sinned.

The ones who stay probably do see themselves as powerless, which is a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy.

My parents don't believe in climate change because of their religion, which means they will NEVER change their minds.

"Well, the earth is only about 6000 years old, so all those numbers are meaningless because they're based on false assumptions...."

I tried telling them, "You believe in God, well, he gave you a brain, don't you think he wanted you to use it and maybe not take a couple thousand year old story so literally?" They weren't happy.

...or for that matter, when is the first time? Cuz... I haven't.

I definitely feel frustrated and saddened that people don't realise how much power they have to end this bullshit. All of these problems only work if the populous is compliant with it and complicit in it.

So much this! But many never realize it. It's so sad though how many people are well-adjusted to such a sick society.

...but most people with any shred of empathy would be pushing for that in his shoes.

Empathy? In late-stage capitalism? 😏

I mean, so... I'm a software engineer who used to specialize in automation. I ended up having a crisis of conscience decades back, realizing that I was putting people out of work. "Hey, good job on that project, our client can afford to let 30 people go now!" never really felt like great praise to me. It actually felt really really shitty knowing the work I was doing was making it possible for the "nobility" to further gain back control of the "serfs".

I figured that the only way this could ever benefit society as a whole instead of shareholders and owners would be if we moved more to a society with things like UBI, with perhaps the people who end up getting something extra being the ones who actually DO the dirty jobs and provide actual worth to society, instead of becoming obscenely wealthy at the expense of empathy and good human spirit. Unfortunately, at least here in the states, anything that smacks of "socialism" automatically equals dictatorship (glossing over that capitalism offers just as many examples of being abused by the "ruling" class). So there's the whole zeitgeist to battle against before the comfortable and less-informed majority will even listen to anything that's in their best interest.

As you say, interesting times indeed. I'm not hopeful that we'll see that sort of shift in my lifetime however, sigh....

Comments are heavily focused on the title of the article and the opening paragraphs. I'm more interested in peoples' takes on the second half of the article, that highlights how the goals companies are touting are at odds with the most likely consequences of this trend.