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None of that has much to do with what my original comment was about.
The whole headcount thing was your point, not mine. I could never tell where you were going with it.
You’re saying that it’s impossible for powerful, completely degenerate people to be capable of playing their power games.
No, I never said its impossible. I said the closer you get to seeing those in power, the less likely it appears to happen for a number of reasons, but mostly because they are simply not as smart or capable as we generally give them credit for. Wealth and power does not equal intelligence.
I don’t understand what you’re getting at. Of course tech companies have a lot of employees if you count all the “mechanical turks”. That’s simply misleading.
Are you seriously dismissively calling tech workers from outside the West “mechanical turks” like they’re throwaway people? I’ll say this as nicely as possible: Fuck that racist bullshit!
These are people like you and me. No different. They contribute high tech and high quality work to multi million and billion dollar programs. They may make a fraction of the wage we do here in the West, but that isn’t because they are any less smart, skilled, ambitious, or honest. That is only the product of history and geopolitics. I’ve personally gone to India and seen first hand the work they do, and worked alongside them. They work as hard as we do for a better life for themselves and their families. Fuck you for thinking less of them.
This post of mine can probably get me banned, but if it goes that way I’ll take that if the alternative is accepting open racism.
The whole headcount thing was your point, not mine. I could never tell where you were going with it.
No, I never said its impossible. I said the closer you get to seeing those in power, the less likely it appears to happen for a number of reasons, but mostly because they are simply not as smart or capable as we generally give them credit for. Wealth and power does not equal intelligence.
Are you seriously dismissively calling tech workers from outside the West “mechanical turks” like they’re throwaway people? I’ll say this as nicely as possible: Fuck that racist bullshit!
These are people like you and me. No different. They contribute high tech and high quality work to multi million and billion dollar programs. They may make a fraction of the wage we do here in the West, but that isn’t because they are any less smart, skilled, ambitious, or honest. That is only the product of history and geopolitics. I’ve personally gone to India and seen first hand the work they do, and worked alongside them. They work as hard as we do for a better life for themselves and their families. Fuck you for thinking less of them.
This post of mine can probably get me banned, but if it goes that way I’ll take that if the alternative is accepting open racism.