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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: January 22, 2022, 10:31 pm
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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: guest55
Date: January 24, 2022, 7:50 pm
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That's more like it! :) Rightists, and Westerners in general,
who often resort to ad hominem attacks themselves when speaking
on leftists and leftism, deserve nothing but the same in
response. Although, in the case it could be argued Biden didn't
really commit to ad hominem because it was in fact a stupid
question on behalf of the Fox News reporter.
On hot mic, Biden appears to call Fox News reporter 'stupid son
of a b****'
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> President Biden was caught on a hot mic Monday appearing to
call Fox News reporter Peter Doocy a "stupid son of a ****" in
response to a question asked at the start of a White House event
on lowering the prices of consumer goods.
>
> As the meeting at the White House wrapped up, a reporter asked
the president for an update on a call held earlier in the day on
the situation in Ukraine. Biden seemed impatient that the
question had veered off the topic of the meeting.
>
> “The only reason I don’t like doing this is that you never
report on why I called a meeting, and this is really important.
I had a very, very, very good meeting — total unanimity with all
the European leaders. We’ll talk about it later,” Biden told the
reporter. “Thank you.”
--- End Quote ---
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> Another reporter then proceeded to shout out a question about
a Pentagon plan to possibly send up to 8,500 U.S. troops to
Eastern Europe in anticipation of a Russian incursion in
Ukraine.
>
> Biden ignored that question, and the reporters were in the
process of being escorted from the room when Doocy yelled out,
“Do you think inflation is a political liability in the
midterms?”
>
> “That’s a great asset — more inflation,” Biden responded in a
low voice that was heard on his live microphone. “What a stupid
son of a ****.”
>
> It’s the second time in a week that Biden was heard
criticizing a question posed to him by a Fox News reporter. At
the conclusion of a White House press conference on Thursday,
Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich fired off a question
about Biden’s response to the threat posed by Russian President
Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.
>
> “Why are you waiting on Putin to make the first move, sir?”
Heinrich asked.
>
> “What a stupid question,” Biden said as the reporters were led
from the room.
--- End Quote ---
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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: guest55
Date: January 31, 2022, 12:40 am
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The "MetaWorld" Is Here
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> They have infiltrated kickstarter and now there is no safe
haven. This has to be a troll attempt with how much they abuse
the word "meta". But this is also 2022, so I know better.
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvngASvhMRU
Food for thought: Perhaps everything KiraTV mentions toward the
end of the video about how if we continue down the Metaverse
path long enough eventually corporations like Amazon and Tesla
will be renting your mind for digital currency and using it to
control one of their automated robot's in one of their
warehouse's while the controller is strapped into his lounge
chair at home, getting paid digital currency so that they can
live the life they've supposedly always wanted in virtual
reality, may not be what people like Musk and Bezos have in mind
currently, but do these people understand human-beings? Do they
understand human psychology and the psyche? Do they even believe
that consciousness could not have evolved and that there is
actually a human soul? Do these types of people even understand
"The Shadow", and the warning thereof expressed by Carl Jung? Do
the good guys really always win in this world, or do the good
guys actually lose more often than not in this world?
Asmongold Reacts to "Predatory Monetization of Video Games" by
How Money Works
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> Asmongold watches "The Predatory Monetization of Video Games -
How Money Works". Are video games about fun anymore? Or is it
all just microtransactions, lootboxes and shady predatory
schemes trying to get you to empty your pocket? How Money Works
explains exactly how modern games get you hooked on buying
virtual items for not so virtual money and how game developers
use human psychology to make you FORGET you're spending real
money. Asmongold discusses how we can stop these predatory
monetization practices in video games by collective action and
by law. In Belgium it is illegal to sell loot boxes, a gambling
ban is in effect since 2019. Will we see a similar law in the
rest of Europe and America soon?
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqh3uOJqy0
The Predatory Monetization of Video Games - How Money Works
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> Thank you to Morning Brew for being my first ever video
sponsor. Anybody who has watched my channel for some time knows
that I will only work with brands I personally use myself.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcQl-paEdIQ
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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: guest55
Date: January 31, 2022, 12:56 am
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Former Valve economist calls Facebook's metaverse 'a Steam-like
digital economy' with Zuckerberg as its 'techno-lord'
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> Yanis Varoufakis also discussed "pay-to-earn" and the
blockchain's long-term consequences.
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> Former Greek Finance Minister and one-time in-house economist
at Valve, Yanis Varoufakis, gave a long and freewheeling
interview to the website, the Crypto Syllabus, focusing on the
blockchain, its potential and disappointments, and where it sits
in the larger context of politics, surveillance, and economics.
>
> Of particular note to PC Gamer readers is his description of
his time with Valve. Varoufakis had access to Valve's data on
Steam's nascent player-to-player marketplace in the early 2010s,
which he used to advise the company and his own economics
research. Describing Valve's initial pitch to him, Varoufakis
said:
>
> "Ten years ago, the metaverse was already up and running
within gaming communities. Valve’s games had already spawned
economies so large that Valve was both excited and spooked. Some
digital assets that had previously been distributed for free
(via the game’s drops) began to trade for tens of thousands of
dollars on eBay, well before anyone had thought of NFTs.
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> You get the sense of higher-ups at Valve realizing they've
stumbled into uncharted territory with their digital economies,
and wanting to control them before they got out-of-hand. Like PC
Gamer's Natalie Clayton, Varoufakis sees the connection between
these nascent digital marketplaces and the current bustle around
NFTs. He went on in the interview:
>
> "Today, a decade later, it is clear that gaming communities
like the one I studied at Valve have been operating as
fully-fledged metaverses (to use Zuckerberg’s term). Gamers were
drawn to them by the game but, once ‘inside’, they stayed to
live out a large part of their life, making friends, producing
goods for sale, consuming entertainment, debating, etc.
Zuckerberg’s ambition is to insert his billions of Facebook
non-gamer users into a Steam-like digital social economy –
complete with a top-down platform currency that he controls. How
can I resist the parallelism with a digital fiefdom in which
Zuckerberg dreams of being the techno-lord?"
>
> I enjoyed Varoufakis' refreshing perspective on NFTs and
cryptocurrency. He combines an expert's knowledge of their
origin and the potential use of blockchain technology with an
understandable and bracing contempt for their current function
as speculative assets and vectors for fraud and exploitation. I
particularly enjoyed his statement later in the interview that
"...the idea that people must now play like robots to earn a
living so as to be human in their spare time is, indeed, the
apotheosis of misanthropy," an absolutely blistering critique of
the "pay-to-earn" concept currently being pushed by gaming
companies like Square Enix and Ubisoft.
>
> The entire interview is well-worth reading. Varoufakis'
discussion of his time with Valve and comments on games in
particular give way to thought-provoking ruminations on the
nature of our economy and exploitation. Either way, we
appreciate another expert joining the chorus that the metaverse
is bullshit.
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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: Zea_mays
Date: January 31, 2022, 10:02 pm
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And they, in all seriousness, are calling this one of the
strongest stock markets and best economic recoveries in
decades...
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Yes, it's real:
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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: guest55
Date: January 31, 2022, 11:37 pm
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Never ceases to amaze how disconnected from reality people can
actually be. Seems many of these Western CEO's haven't been
living in the same world as the rest of us for a long time
now....
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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: guest55
Date: February 4, 2022, 11:38 pm
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The Ultimate Form Of Greed
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> Apparently a massively pay to win market, that generates you
billions of dollars revenue using predatory mechanics and
preying on people with gambling addiction isn't enough, so South
Korean publisher Netmarble decided to ignore their own market
due to Blockchain being illegal and instead export 70% of their
new games to the rest of the world to line the pockets of
already billionaire owners. Good times.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4n_TsHn9p8&t=14s
I don't really care about the wealth of billionaires either
really, until they start doing dumb shit like this: (Still don't
understand why anyone actually needs that much money though...?)
Rotterdam may dismantle historic bridge for superyacht
reportedly owned by Jeff Bezos
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> Rotterdam is considering a request to dismantle part of a
historic bridge to allow a yacht reportedly owned by Amazon
(AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos to leave the shipyard where it is
being built.
> The Dutch city has received a request from a local shipbuilder
to remove the central section of the historic Koningshaven
Bridge so that a superyacht can sail to the sea, it said in a
statement to CNN Business on Friday.
> Rotterdam officials said the shipbuilder still needs to apply
for a permit. The city said it would consider the preservation
of the bridge's structure along with the impact on the
environment and local economy, including jobs in the
shipbuilding industry, before approving the permit.
>
> The shipbuilder would need to pay for the bridge to be
dismantled, the city added. An extensive renovation of
Koningshaven Bridge, known to locals as "De Hef," was completed
in 2017 and municipal officials promised it would never again be
dismantled, according to Dutch public broadcaster Rijnmond.
>
> Other bridges on the route between the shipyard and the sea
would not have to be altered, city officials said.
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HTML https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/business/jeff-bezos-rotterdam-yacht/index.html
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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: Zea_mays
Date: February 7, 2022, 1:47 am
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> This is how ridiculous Western economics are. It's just all
about numbers to these people....
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This post from the other thread reminded me of this:
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> Did removing one olive lead to an airline saving thousands of
dollars?
>
> Quite a common story that gets brought up around airports or
business meetings when someone wants to provide a famous example
of small change for massive savings is the olive story.
> [...]
> [quote]First place goes to American Airlines for the
brilliant, yet simple cost cutting measure they implemented back
in 1987. The airline was able to save $70,000 in 1987 by
eliminating just one olive from each salad served in first
class.
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[/quote]
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> This is attributed to Bob Crandall, the American Airlines CEO
of that timeframe. He was indeed a very driven individual to
reduce cost and make money. This particular exploit is covered
in a book called Corporate Creativity: how innovation and
improvement actually happen By Alan G. Robinson, Sam Stern. The
story is detailed on page 107, although there it is claimed it
saved $500,000 annually! Which is significantly over most of the
references I found claiming anywhere from $40,000 to $80,000
(more in line with your question). Maybe that's accounting for
inflation?
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HTML https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/5935/did-removing-one-olive-lead-to-an-airline-saving-thousands-of-dollars
See also:
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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: Zea_mays
Date: February 7, 2022, 3:06 am
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> Don't ask for a big pay rise, warns Bank of England boss
>
> Workers should not ask for big pay rises, to try and stop
prices rising out of control, the Bank of England governor has
told the BBC.
> [...]
> This represents the biggest fall in living standards since
records began in 1990.
> [...]
> Mr Bailey said that while it would be "painful" for workers to
accept that prices would rise faster than their wages, he added
that some "moderation of wage rises" was needed to prevent
inflation becoming entrenched.
>
> Mr Bailey said: "In the sense of saying, we do need to see a
moderation of wage rises, now that's painful. I don't want to in
any sense sugar that, it is painful. But we need to see that in
order to get through this problem more quickly."
>
> In the year from 1 March 2020, Mr Bailey was paid £575,538
including pension.
>
> That is more than 18 times higher than the median annual pay
for full-time employees of £31,285 for the tax year ending 5
April 2021.
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>
> Quibi's founder reportedly told staffers to listen to a song
from the movie 'Trolls' as he announced they would be losing
their jobs
>
> Quibi's founder, Jeffrey Katzenberg, told employees on a call
on Wednesday to listen to a song from the movie "Trolls" to help
lift their spirits during the company's shutdown, according to a
report from The Wall Street Journal's Benjamin Mullin, Joe
Flint, and Maureen Farrell.
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HTML https://www.businessinsider.com/quibi-jeffrey-katzenberg-suggested-trolls-song-amid-layoffs-2020-10
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Re: Monetary Wealth
DIR By: guest55
Date: February 10, 2022, 12:08 am
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Rep. Porter On Congress Stock Trading Ban: We Must Earn Back
Public Trust
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> Rep. Katie Porter: “We need to be earning back their trust,
and the way to do that is to hold ourselves to a higher
standard. And so, we need to simply ban trading stocks by
members of Congress.”
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