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198 votes
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Unity reveals plans to charge per game install, drawing criticism from development community
151 votes -
Piracy is surging again because streaming execs ignored the lessons of the past
136 votes -
The war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity - the goal is avoiding a commercial real estate crash
132 votes -
Twitter blocks links to rival Threads, while CEO downplays reports of traffic decline
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Why is Elon Musk doing what he is to Twitter?
From a non-MAGA’ers perspective; He took a perfectly fine (albeit starting to decline) social media platform with millions of users and derailed it completely from what it was before to a farce....
From a non-MAGA’ers perspective;
He took a perfectly fine (albeit starting to decline) social media platform with millions of users and derailed it completely from what it was before to a farce.
Why even buy Twitter if you’re going to change the entire format, including the actual name of the brand? Why not build a competitor from the ground up and call it X?
Unless you’re the melonhead billionaire your guess is better than mine, but I wonder if this bumbling incompetence is pre-orchestrated somehow or if he’s making it up as he goes.
119 votes -
Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting at Twitter, as protests continue to rock Reddit
105 votes -
Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start” but concealed from lawyers and judges
104 votes -
Is anyone else just fed up with companies being greedy?
It feels like in the last few years so many companies are becoming incredibly greedy in a chance to try and raise profits and please the shareholders, companies hoping that people will comply as...
It feels like in the last few years so many companies are becoming incredibly greedy in a chance to try and raise profits and please the shareholders, companies hoping that people will comply as they have no choice and give away more of their money to allow these companies to make record levels of profits.
It seems like people are getting less and less and what they have left the companies just want more and more from everyone. I'm not referencing any specific company here but I have seen these trends in the last couple of years get a lot worse.
Customer Impact
- Raising prices there is some valid reasons to raise prices, but sometimes prices are raised just as a way to make more money quickly.
- Quality reduction it feels like companies are asking more money for less quality goods more than ever.
- Excessive manipulative marketing especially on social media and other playes which can misleed people.
- Data explotation companies mis-using peoples data just so they can make some quick money.
Employee Impact
- Wage stagnation Despite the soaring profits many companies refusing to increase wages, leading to financial insecurity.
- Unfair labor practices Companies expecting more from their employees for less money basically.
- Job insecurity replacing workers with automation and outsourcing to cut costs.
- Mental health high pressure enviroments to force profit-driven companies causing record levels of mental health issues.
Society and Enviromental Impact
- Polluting Companies prioritising profits over the enviroment leading to pollution, waste etc
- Economic Inequality Coporate greed leading to income disparities, undermining social coheison.
- Unfair influence on policy Companies using their power and wealth to influence policy making
My question is, when is enough is enough? At what stage should something be done? Anything? to stop corporate greed from runing society?
102 votes -
SAG-AFTRA officially calls strike as National Board approves guild’s first walkout against film & TV industry since 1980
99 votes -
Apple has kept an illegal monopoly over smartphones in US, Justice Department says in antitrust suit
95 votes -
Evernote, the memory app people forgot about, lays off entire US staff
93 votes -
Exclusive: Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March
91 votes -
Ugly numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT reveal that AI demand is already shrinking
91 votes -
Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
88 votes -
Greedflation: corporate profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global prices, study show
87 votes -
Teamsters in the USA win historic UPS contract, with zero concessions
87 votes -
Unity CEO steps down
86 votes -
New York judge orders cancellation of Donald Trump and family members business licenses in New York State
84 votes -
Remote work to wipe out $800 billion from office values, McKinsey says
84 votes -
Return to office policies do not improve company value, but do make employees miserable: Study
83 votes -
An open letter to Johnson & Johnson regarding its strategy to extend its patent on bedaquiline leading to a predicted six million lives lost over four years
79 votes -
Microsoft wins US FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard
76 votes -
Bosses are fed up with remote work for four main reasons. Some of them are undeniable.
76 votes -
Tumblr to begin selling user content to AI generative service companies, opt-out will be per blog
75 votes -
Spotify’s podcast plan is going off the rails
75 votes -
Boeing whistleblower: production line has “enormous volume of defects” bolts on MAX 9 weren’t installed
74 votes -
Bosses dislike work-from-home but suspect they’re stuck with it
72 votes -
SanDisk’s silence deafens as high-profile users say Extreme SSDs still broken. SanDisk is ignoring lost data claims. It's time to ignore the company's SSDs.
71 votes -
‘Don’t mess with us’: WebMD parent company demands return to office in bizarre video
68 votes -
Intuit is shutting down the personal finance service Mint and shifting users to Credit Karma
68 votes -
Squarespace purchases Google Domains
68 votes -
Apple formally endorses right to repair US legislation after spending millions fighting it
67 votes -
OpenAI announces leadership transition
65 votes -
Spotify is raising the price of its single-account premium plan for the first time since 2011 and hiking other services as well
65 votes -
Alexis Ohanian (site co-founder) resigns from Reddit's board, urging them to fill his seat with a black candidate and pledging future gains on his stock to serve the black community
63 votes -
Discord to start showing ads for gamers to boost revenue
62 votes -
“Going shopping” is dead: How stores sucked the fun out of an American pastime
62 votes -
Microsoft has been temporarily restrained from buying Activision Blizzard, US judge rules
62 votes -
Google has officially changed its mind about remote work
62 votes -
Six months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable
61 votes -
Pizza Hut is lying: They’re not firing their drivers because of a minimum wage hike
61 votes -
Senators ask CEOs why their drugs cost so much more in the US
60 votes -
Amazon is warning employees they risk undermining their own promotion prospects unless they return to the office (RTO) for three days a week, as was mandated by CEO Andy Jassy months ago
60 votes -
San Francisco’s downtown becomes a wake-up call for other cities in the US
60 votes -
Polish hackers repaired trains the manufacturer artificially bricked. Now the train company is threatening them.
59 votes -
Spotify is the world's biggest music streamer but rarely turns a profit and just cut 17% of its workforce – its business model looks increasingly precarious
59 votes -
Los Angeles is exploring banning cashless businesses, following the example of New York City, Philadelphia, Massachusetts, Colorado, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Washington, DC
59 votes -
Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints
59 votes -
Elon Musk sues the lawyers that forced him to buy Twitter
59 votes