You have to look harder. It's not always explicit as OP says with threats of deportation. Rather there's a huge power imbalance.
Who can we ask to stay late? Who "doesn't mind" 12 hour days? Who "doesn't mind' being on call. Who won't mind if they get a smaller bonus or raise? How about Sandeep who is afraid to say no because if he says no too many times and loses his job him and his entire family have to move back overseas with minimal notice?
That's how real exploitation happens these days. And sometimes even good managers don't realize they're doing it, because, after all, poor Sandeep even said he didn't mind! He's just a really hard worker!
Did you take into account that lead acid batteries are recommended to only be discharged to 50% especially when used for solar ? If not thats now 2200 batteries and $200-$400K.
There's tons of research showing that excessive taxation drives wealthy people out and shrinks the economy. France tried it and reversed course when it was a disaster economically.
The UK is currently experiencing an exodus of wealthy taxpayers due to high tax burdens.
If you want to kill your economy, the fastest way to do so is by ripping off those who employ most of the economy through their business ventures.
Hm thanks for the meta-discussion. I thought I was missing a "reply notification" setting somewhere and was meaning to go search for enabling it one day.
This was also my experience when joining the site. Nowadays I appreciate not having the notifications, but when I joined I didn’t realize there weren’t any and I missed some comments I would have preferred to respond to.
Ai has gone sentient now but just plays video games. And it doesn't want to play with a slow-moving slow-reacting human. It prefers to play against other bots.
I like your line of reasoning and you may be right. But as a user I'll probably try a few of the free trial competitors to see if they do what I want before I put money down. I don't always trust front line customer service and the returns process. Sure, maybe you are the good developer who makes it instant and easy. But maybe you're not and either employ dark patterns to keep me in place or don't respond to me at all to return my money. Then I have to consider if the cc charge back process is worth my time and hassle.
Is chargeback a hassle? I’d think it’s absolutely in the interest of the developer to be responsive to refund requests because chargeback is so trivial with a credit card.
If anything, a downside of the approach I advocated for would be if too many dissatisfied users just issue a chargeback and not even request a refund. For a developer, high rate of chargebacks can presumably cause issues for billing.
Depends on your platform, pricing, how good your product is. Stripe charges $15 per chargeback; if your software costs $100+, it’s probably not a massive concern. If you distribute via a well-run walled garden, chances are it’s not a concern at all.
Chargebacks aren’t so scary. It’s never a default recourse for any customer, especially not the type financially able to buy your product outright (remember patio11’s advice: the higher you charge, the better educated and less problematic are your customers; and any amount is higher than zero). You don’t just issue a chargeback if you didn’t like your new iPhone; same with anything. Whoever issues chargebacks all the time, rather than going through a refund process, is in no time dropped by their bank for chargeback fraud.
As a developer, you only run the danger of accumulating chargebacks if you promise a refund and then simply ignore refund requests, in which case it’s squarely on you. Frankly, there’s no excuse not to have a fully automated refund processing pipeline.
This kind of thing is repeated often, but I don't think it's true. For one thing, how would tattoos last so long then?
More relevantly, I don't think neurons are replaced. There must be some material churn in the atoms and molecules that make them up, but even then different for different molecules - e.g. I don't know how much of our DNA molecules get replaced over a lifespan from the repair or other mechanisms.
The "on average" is doing an awful lot of work. Some cells are never replaced, some organs are replaced every few years or even partially over decades, some organs are replaced every few months (one of which is the skin).
Tattoos however, IIUC, sort of "float" between cells, and as those cells are replaced one-by-one the ink is kept in place by the surrounding cells that are still there.
Who can we ask to stay late? Who "doesn't mind" 12 hour days? Who "doesn't mind' being on call. Who won't mind if they get a smaller bonus or raise? How about Sandeep who is afraid to say no because if he says no too many times and loses his job him and his entire family have to move back overseas with minimal notice?
That's how real exploitation happens these days. And sometimes even good managers don't realize they're doing it, because, after all, poor Sandeep even said he didn't mind! He's just a really hard worker!
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