"Eventually?" Where were you? There already were and are shortages. Costco at the beginning of March and seeing 10 gallons of only whole milk and no eggs, when they usually had 4-500 gallons of milk and thousands of eggs out for sale. The place was empty and there was little stock for months.
Google can do whatever they like. They're a company, not the government. And as such, they will always bend to the mercurial whims of both rich investors and the government (who is also owned by the rich).
The only way to fix that is a nearly-uncensored#, non-profit& communications and streaming platform that is globally-distributed and doesn't have a SPoF. Trying to get a content creators' union is all-well-and-good, but it doesn't solve the fundamental problem of reliance on corporate greed that will never assure access to speech.
# There are only a few topics that shouldn't be enabled like child porn and actually planning mass murder.
& Nonprofit itself while it supports monetization for creators with only minimal fees to cover costs.
Yep. He's not exactly running the Johns Hopkins tracker and his amateur, pseudo-journalism toy has a shelf-life that will be worth nothing within months. It's like bragging about shutting down a startup that was worth money and could've been sold. Destruction of and missing value is stupid.
It also subsidizes largess such as unnecessary buildings and retreats. University department managers treat budgets as signs of status, and try to build as large of org chart pyramids as possible.
Source: I worked at a top 5 US university as an employee, on both the business and academic sides, for 7 years.
I think I read that somewhere on the side of a bottle of Dr. Bronner's soap in the shower. Although, every permutation of writing that could ever be written by a million monkeys at typewriters is on the side of a Dr. Bronner's too. Even this comment. #meta
Entities with too much consciousness can't handle their own consciousness and either go Warhol, invent the atom bomb, or make a startup selling silicone girlfriends because their bulging brains get in the way of their more fundamental drives.
I went bankrupt around 2016 and am homeless (vehicle dwelling), yet have ~$9000 USD in student loan debt that wasn't dischargeable or forgivable. I spent over $40k on a degree I cannot use as I am now considered disabled (SSDI). Navient is still after me and checks my credit every few months looking to pounce. I bet they'll reach into my online-only bank account and take the little money that I need to eat, buy gas, medications, and pay copays. It took me over 7 years and a lawyer to get SSDI ($1300), and it can be taken away every 2 years. If you're poor or disabled in America, you're automatically a criminal trying to steal and so austerity crumbs are justified.. and delay, hoping you'll just give up or die. For 9 years, I lived on $199/month for food and $149 in cash.
There is no out for me because 99.99999% of Americans are either too comfortable, learned helpless cowards, and/or too ignorant to understand how bad we have it and how much we're being screwed. There will be no rebellion even though a calm but determined march of 5 million people to the seats of power could overwhelm any resistance and remove the corruption. The key problem is endurance by separating church and wealth and mass-media and state for the future. Without fixing corruption driven by the elites above the system, nothing can change.. and not preventing them from stealing power some other way again is only a temporary, pyrrhic victory.
Work stoppages are reactionary temper-tantrums seeking a few more crumbs from the master. Protests, petitions, awareness campaigns are all pointless virtue-signaling onanisms. Why pick rapist 1 or rapist 2.. presently, voting is accenting sheepishly to an inverted totalitarian, pluto-kleptocratic empire, not republican psephocracy. Be like George Carlin and not so.. maybe let's (assuming you're American) dent the universe and fix this bitch.
Firstly, i'm sorry to hear about your situation. I have met so many people with similar stories about struggles when I lived in the city. I am curious though -- why aren't more people more angry given how desperately so many people have their backs against a en economic wall?
Do you think the Protests, petitions, awareness campaigns are just appeasement campaigns to make people think they have a choice? How is it people do not see through it eventually? (side note: i've been voting in the US for 21yrs and have only once found a candidate i truly felt inspired to vote for (Bernie))
Not to sound callous... but you took out the loan on those terms. Are they unfair terms? Sure. Were you ignorant and naive to agree to them? Absolutely. But should you also take some responsibility for the situation you now find yourself in? Yes, you spent $40k.
It sounds like you had to fight to get SSDI, not sure what that means, but at this point if you're making $1300/m you could start to pay off a loan that you took out and have a responsibility towards.
Again I don't know you or your situation at all but it sounds like you don't wanna recognise that at least a little bit of the problem is you.
Some might say to reproduce, reduce suffering in other beings, create, work, enjoy, and/or maximize entropy.
It's whatever reason you want it to or it simply just is. Pondering on it doesn't help live it well; in fact, usually the opposite.
It's a gift. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. I count innumerable reasons for gratitude even though I:
- can't work (just got SSDI after a 10 year Byzantine odyssey)
- can't have friends
- have no money
- live in a van
- to save bullet-points: also ADHD, mild Asperger's, treatement-resistant depression (tried 14 medications), sleep apnea, insomnia, high blood pressure, tachycardia, undiagnosed connective tissue disorder, stutter, hunch-back, osteoarthritis, overweight/skinny extremities, a torn shoulder, plantar fasciitis, gradual neurological decline (I can't code or focus anymore), and failing vision (ARMD runs in my family).
- And TMJ, vestibular schwannoma, or vascular stenosis because all I can think about is the pain in my ear, neck, throat, and head while the ER CT radiologist said "it's nothing" while my ear rings, feels like a spike is in my head, and I hear my pulse constantly.
^ These aren't complaints, per se, but facts for perspective.
Life is suffering. Make the best of the available opportunities in the now with as much grace as one can muster. Fuck biology and existential uncertainty, and just squeeze the juice of life because it'll all be over in a flash anyhow. Why not have a good time for as long and as often as possible? Fuck it.
I would things, jump in the deep end, get the fuck out of your comfort-zone, and give fewest fucks short of going Jim Morrison. Don't die in retirement in front of a TV or be like a modern human staring at glowing screens waiting by the phone for outrage news or social media approval. Be a source of making or doing something, anything. Be cool with mistakes and imperfections, they give it character. Learn a new skill. Make your bed. Do something.
PS: Stay away from uppers, downers, and booze. Btw, Missing a dose of mirtazapine felt exactly like a hangover, so it seems plausible that depression is only deepened by ab/use of some substances. Instead, Maslow's hierarchy focus: exercise, sleep, diet, light, etc.
