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Add to that there are sufficient tools that allow for #secure, #E2EE #communication.

  • Like: Even if they don't like #PGP/MIME there's nothing that prevents them from supporting #XMPP+#OMEMO or having any #secure means to communicate.

I do go out of my way to implement better alternatives to existing bad option...

TBH, #unencrypted and thus #insecure communication should disqualify every #company and #organization as a matter or principle and it's high time #GDPR & #BDSG make support for proper #encryption mandatory, regardless if #2FA or general communications!

evening melancholy, paris - gustaw gwozdecki

like this because it's *dark*.
& still intelligible.
the sky above the street is amazing, and the dark forms of people walking on the road seems right. The rows of lights define a passage that seems to begin or end with the woman facing us.
the shapes of the buildings - blurry and unfocused like being in an altered state or maybe reality is questionable here.
I feel safe here, cloaked by night, idk

@art #art #love #cobbles #company #lamplight

→ Thoughts on Bluesky (by @can)
canolcer.com/post/thoughts-on-

“The thing with for-profit companies is, well, they need to make a profit. Not only that, but their main purpose is to maximize profit and the “value” they generate for their shareholders. [I]f your incentive as a company is to maximize profit and grow huge to make your VCs their #money back, you will start rationalizing away your #ideological points one by one over #time.”

Can's blog · Thoughts on Bluesky - Can's blogLet’s talk about Bluesky, the decentralized microblogging application that’s currently eating Twitter and Mastodon’s lunch. Or so some say. In …

Sometimes, being a #Temp has its advantages.

One of them is that I can or rather could tell the #Boss of the #Company who borrowed my #Workforce that I'm not suitable for the #Job, and leave anytime without consequences.

Another is that I don't have to search for work at the place myself. If there's nobody who is capable of showing me what to do or better how to do the task, I'm getting #Paid for just sitting around.

But that can be #Boring as #Hell...

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To follow up on this...

#Neoclassical #economics, jumping off from #Marx, conflated #economic #rent and #profit in order to justify this kind of behavior.

TP=NSV+ER+Ext+M
Where:

TP = Total Profit, or Neoclassical profit, or #Marxist Returns to #Capital.

NSV = Natural Surplus Value (difference between the natural price and the cost of production). This is Classical Profit.

ER = Economic Rent (surplus due to privileged control over a scarce factor of production)

Ext = #Externalities (surplus generated by offloading production costs onto others) AKA #Pollution

M = #Monopoly (surplus generated by manipulating #supply and #demand, typically through control of the #market)

Only NSV is what you would call "legitimate", as the #producer #surplus is paired with a #consumer surplus - their ratio relative to the supply curves.

Now, all the others _reduce_ the consumer surplus and are therefore #theft.

Every single #technology #company (#TechCompany) - no... every single #company #profitable enough to be widely known, and many that aren't widely known, is _only_ profitable because of theft.

What's more, every action of #tech companies this millennia (including offering services for #free) has been designed to engage in this theft.