I was on an international flight recently that had a few different camera angles you could watch. Flying over the Himalayas was an exceptional view out the window so I was glued to that angle instead of the cameras on a six inch screen. I think it was a Thai airlines flight from Bangkok to London but I don’t recall.
My office’s IT helpdesk guy had a similar comic in his office. 3 panels of a guy at his work computer miserable, and the last panel he’s at home on his own computer happy as a clam. So true
Markets are not always fair or efficient but that doesn’t mean capitalism is a pyramid scheme. It is still very much the opposite.
I’m not interested in a back and forth internet flame war about this, so I’ll just say you are straight up wrong about economics being a zero sum game. This is a very common fallacy that somehow persists, most likely because we are all being squeezed by our corporate overlords for everything we are worth. But that is different from a zero sum game.
If you’re interested then you should google “economics zero sum game fallacy” and learn a bit. Then come back if you are interested in engaging in some more discussion in good faith.
It fundamentally is NOT a pyramid scheme. In a pyramid scheme there is no actual product or service of value and simply extracts wealth from the people in lower tiers. Value, or wealth, is simply the byproduct of an equitable transaction between two or more parties.
That’s a great idea to lift everyone out of poverty! If we all gave each other a penny we’d all be rich.
Imagine you own a goose that lays golden eggs. It lays one golden egg per year. How much would you sell it for? Probably not one golden egg, but definitely you’d sell if for a million gold eggs. You’d probably settle for maybe 5? 10? 15? Something like that.
Suppose the goose only lays one egg per year now (or none at all!) but it’s still young and most people expect it to start laying four or five or even ten or twenty eggs per year in a few years from now. It’s impossible to tell for sure how many it’ll lay over its life, or when that will happen, or if it will happen at all. NOW how much do you sell it for?
That’s the stock market.
A bunch of investors think a bunch of gooses will start laying a ton more golden eggs soon, and they’re willing to pay big bucks now in exchange for the possibility of that in the future. This isn’t a pyramid scheme or a zero sum game or anything like that. It’s just a prediction of the future which may or may not be correct, and only time will tell.
You couldn’t possibly be more wrong. Whenever two people engage in a transaction and walk away happy, value has been created. A zero sum game would be if the economy were a pie of static shape, where if you have more then I have less. But it isn’t like that. The pie grows, and every time there is an equitable transaction with value being created, the pie gets bigger and everyone is better off. That’s the opposite of a zero sum game.
What are you doing with your extra time? I bought a keyboard recently with a digital screen that shows you which key to press, sort of like guitar hero. Also learning spanish and thinking about buying an entry level nice telescope.
Hopefully more content and more simplicity. I haven’t experienced much of either yet. There’s tons of threads about how great Lenny is but I’m just not seeing it yet ¯\(ツ)/¯
Haven’t we known this for literally decades now? After the Patriot Act passed in 2001 and precisely zero fucks were given by the general population. Then a few short later facebook comes out and I realize oh ok not only do people not care about their privacy, but they’ll freely and gleefully hand it over in exchange for a digital dog park where they can go around sniffing each others butts.
Now that you mention it, I really wonder what would happen if all my exes got together to talk shit about me. What would that groupthink decide about me? Oh god nevermind, banish the thought…
I had literally the exact same thought the other day. Pretty much every single thread on my front page was bitching about reddit in some way shape or form. Ugh
If you ever get raided by the Feds they’ll probably raid your friends and family’s houses too so it is generally advisable to avoid using friends and family for offsite storage.
I’ve encountered more trolls, assholes, and general dickheads here on lemmy than I ever have anywhere else on the Internet, and I’ve been around for a long time now so that’s really saying something.
Idk what’s more frustrating: the idiots and assholes themselves or the fact I see threads like this every day talking about how awesome lemmy and everyone around here is (are?).