Companies grow and shrink from a combination of market and internal forces. Companies sometimes need to shrink or grow. The economy and culture are constantly changing. That is why it is very hard to predict where things will go.

Your example of having a company with a set amount of employees that produce a set product happens pretty frequently. A lot of employee owned or family businesses are this way.

I think most of your post can be summed up with why do investors want more and more money. The answer is because they can. If your company owes money to investors then they will beholden to them in one form or another.

There is another worthy discussion here and it is about boards. Boards that do not contain equal representation for the employees and the public can be very destructive.

Most of the corporate abuses we have suffered come from having perverse leadership non-representative of these two most important influences.

This is a well reasoned response. For sure the problem is just exacerbated by AI. The real problem is Intellectual Property in the first place.

There is no theft period. There is perhaps copyright infringement for commercial entities. This is a civil legal matter and has almost no bearing on anything you are discussing.

You must also consider all art is iterative. This means all art is based off art that came before it. You cannot create art in a vacuum and every artist borrows heavily from our culture

We are not here to judge what is or isn’t art either. This is a treacherous road where people can deny art like a collage because it doesn’t fit their definition of art. Everyone is actually an artist by definition unless they have literally never spoken, written, sang, or drawn.

There is definitely a worthy discussion around AI art. Right now we don’t really have AI so it is not really creating anything. It is more of fill in the blank taking the best guesses based on prior work.

I believe, as other posters have stated, that Intellectual Property is actually anti-art, anti-science, and anti-technology. The problems we face with AI pale in comparison to a broken system beset by capitalists hell bent on controlling our culture and extracting as much money as they can through doing so.

The current political climate is really stupid making people unsure about what to do.

FTFY

Translation: People pay us to push propaganda that hurts people. The government told us to stop and that hurts our pocketbook!

Medical misinformation is not political speech. Fuck everyone who made it this way.

Ah yes, incelunism.

It’s one of those moving picture things from Harry Potter. I think it is buffering?

Well damn, I got all kinds of old games that don’t work on newer Windows properly, I guess that means it is an OS failure for that use case.

I refuse to install intrusive anti-cheat in Windows, why would I install it Linux, if I even could.

Looks like we just found our new head of marketing boys! Tells us more about ads in people’s sleep.

It is ridiculous of course but I do have one strange anecdote about this. I have been in a lot of retirement and assisted living homes and there can be some serious tension between racist resident and their non-white caregivers when they speak there languages around them.

One old Vietnam vet would get the fuck triggered out of him when the Filipinos would talk in Tagalog around him. They ended up making a rule that they can’t speak non-english around him. Not saying that this was right, but it was understandable.

A lot of people decided to create a parasocial relationship with him posthumously. It is pretty fake to be honest. The fact they want to punish others for supposedly one person’s actions is beyond fucked up.

So much projection in that monologue. They are coming for us! So transparently stupid.

He was most recently in Japan meeting with their far-right movement. Apparently they had big plans for this loser like next President big plans. This is why they pretend to be so upset.

Lol that was a good narrative wasn’t it? Fighting the good fight and all that. Too bad it wasn’t reality and Disney fell inline like every corporation.

Little brown kisses for the next passenger.

The best is when they don’t get a seat for the dog and it just crowds everyone the whole flight.

Surprise! It is not the dog, but plague carrying fleas.

It is okay, you got caught up in the propaganda of what was his political leanings left or right. I am just here to tell you that your doing exactly what they want you to do. Hence the useful idiot

I am assuming the truth. Just like OP said. He is a product of conservative culture regardless if he embraced or denied it.

Sweep up is a reference to cleaning up.

It doesn’t matter what you think or even I think. They already branded him as leftist. They are already attacking innocent people with political violence like the terrorists they are.

The reality is he was raised conservative in a conservative religion, in a conservative family, in a conservative town, and in a conservative state. He is one of them. They know this, I know this, but you seem confused.

They have a name for this and it is useful idiot.

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