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People started saying this several years ago and yet it hasn’t really come to pass.

Candy Crush is probably the majority of that.

I think they are just saying MS will rush out yet more Halo games, ie Halo 14, Halo 15, etc

As someone who works in big tech with a partner at a similar big tech company _but with player coaches, DRIs, etc_ it is basically the same thing except messier.

Your manager who used to just focus on motivating and unblocking their people? Now they have to ship code too since they’re a player coaches! You’re a DRI who needs management to get your project unblocked? Too bad your player coach who has to ship code now also has 20 direct reports because the hierarchy was flattened so you can’t get time with them until next week and are blocked until at least then.

It is the hot new trend from the “thought leaders” who have all consistently copied each other’s bad ideas for the past 10 years.

Because most people in tech never took a philosophy course or an ethics course and think that tech is obviously a good for the world and that there are no downsides to advancing tech. So any efforts that try to apply ethics to it are overreaching, ignorant, and futile in the face of the good that is tech!

Just a Jack Dorsey thing. He writes all of his communications like that.

Not everyone is at a point where they are greenfield picking a language for a new project. Sorbet was built by a large organization (Stripe IIRC) and is used effectively by organizations with large Rails codebases. I think Sorbet is a great way to maintain velocity on a large Ruby codebase after the initial velocity benefits of dynamic typing have ceased and the dynamic typing is actually a drain on velocity.

Setting reasonable minimum wages would take care of citizens without a patchwork of programs being needed.

Low-end jobs aren’t non-existent. The EU still has people working at fast food joints. But the EU mandates paying those people a reasonable amount of money. The US is much more guilty of forcing people in low-end jobs to require government handouts despite being employed.

Anyone working in a full time job of any sort should be able to live without government assistance. The EU’s labour laws come much closer to that than American laws do.

Are they forced in? I thought they were given a choice of pursuing a treatment program funded by the state, or getting a more conventional punishment such as jail time.

I believe the above post is quoting Spotify, not making a guess.

> Could the US do better? Yes.

That is like comparing a toddler to Usain Bolt in a race and saying the toddler could have done better.

The US isn’t even trying to manage any money from its resources in a way that benefits its citizens in the long term. Americans should be furious about how poorly managed the wealth from these natural resources is being managed, but instead seem to think that America is too different from Norway to even consider doing a similar sovereign wealth fund. The same bad arguments get made about healthcare all the time.

Lots of American Exceptionalism in this comment and the replies.

The Norwegian state makes so much money off of oil because of how well they manage the revenues. The US could do the same thing but chooses not to.

The difference between the US and Norway isn’t in the amount of fossil fuel reserves one possesses vs the other. It is in how the money from those resources is used. The US privatizes it while Norway puts it towards the public good.

My understanding is that the various unions view Tesla’s actions as a threat to how labour works in Sweden. There apparently isn’t even a minimum wage in the country as everything is governed by these collective agreements. So if they let Tesla come in and not play by the rules it could open the floodgates for other large corporations to come in and do the same, slowly eroding the system.