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Yes it is.

1. Every vote counts but in my jurisdiction the people I would like to win generally do. I’m not _changing_ anything with my vote.

2. It’s not clear to me that these protests are effective. Do you have evidence that they are?

Plenty of Americans do. The structure of the US government means that I have no meaningful influence through my vote, and it’s unclear how to protest effectively from a the exurbs of a flyover state. So what the hell can any of us do?

But if you are hiring people that have had that luxury, and yet have chosen immoral paths, what does that say about them and about you?

You’re playing chess. You see that you have a forced mate in several moves. You’ve already won, but it will happen in 2, or 5, or 10 moves.

Didn’t your momma teach you that two wrongs don’t make a right??

If someone is a jerk to you, and then you’re a jerk to them… you’re still a jerk.

Stupid for us, but I bet people enable it just to get the empty page to go away.

As someone living in SF since before it was implemented, getting the causality right and excluding cofounders seems VERY hard. Things have changed so much here since the early 00s.

Don’t you think they thought this was self-interest?

At scale no group is against its own personal interests. It sucks and it’s hypocritical and annoying, but that’s humans.

If you pick 3% you need 800k/yr! Oh no!

Sadly most of us pay far more than 7%. Fortunately mostly that’s ok and it all works out.

(Except we will work until we die, but hey! Capitalism!)

But “making lots of bets” is a measure of your appetite for risk, not your acumen. So unless you are filthy rich (in which case, kudos!) I think you are more proving parent’s point.

How killer would FSD have to be for it to count as the killer app?

I’d pay at least double for a car with FSD. More if the car’s longevity could be established. Is that killer enough? (Real question).

To be fair, if they don’t know that they probably run Android, and are you even writing for them?

I bet their bubbles are… green. The horror!

It won’t and believing it will is part of ensuring nothing changes. All energy you spend on personally changing should be instead spent lobbying, organizing, and otherwise working politically to effect systemic change. There is no value in individual change. It’s worse than doing nothing.