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Cake day: December 20th, 2023

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  • That’s very simple. Public companies have investors the directors respond to. If the company won’t brag about profits, it will lose investments, reducing its competitiveness and starting a death spiral. If it will pay bigger salaries, it will lose money and won’t be able to brag about profits.

    Our current economy is double crazy in that companies don’t just have to make stable profits to stay afloat, but to ever increase those profits at the expense of everything - including workers.

    The entire system is insane.


  • Exactly!

    Literally everything we ever came up with is comprehensible by humans, and is likely to be comprehensible by a layman given enough time and making sure prerequisites are filled.

    In fact, it takes a good explanation that would click with a given person’s experience and level of expertise to make anyone understand anything.

    It’s just that sometimes people need that specific thing X, and normally it’s needed to those who have some knowledge in another specific thing Y, and it gets expected that a person needing X knows Y (which is not necessarily true)

    This is especially common in the world of computers. Everyone uses them, everyone has to troubleshoot them, but not everyone is the system administrator, to which 85% of the guides often seem to be addressed.