Capitalism: consequences of greed. Adobe Deletes Bluesky Posts After Furious Backlash
https://petapixel.com/2025/04/10/adobe-deletes-bluesky-posts-after-furious-backlash/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43653885
@dyckron It's almost like the CT had nothing to due with the rise in prices we've had over the last years
#CorporateGreed
Sometimes I think, maybe I should use TrueNAS, and then I remembered that their C•Suite decided to give the 
to FreeBSD... the very same operating system and community of developers and engineers who enabled their company to exist from the start, to scale to the level which brought them success and growth and accolades from the OSS and enterprise storage communities alike.
So no, I don't use TrueNAS. Whatever many reasons they and their indolent fanboys push for moving to Linux, and I have heard them all, it's irrelevant. They didn't just bite the hand that feeds, they went straight over to the clown-show makeup meme table and slathered it on; trying so hard to convince everyone including themselves that this betrayal was the Good and Ethical thing to do.
Luckily there are alternatives, and those will get my time, engineering efforts, and fiscal support. One thing to remember: alienated users do not recommend those formerly loved products to their employers, they do not "spread the love" via organic marketing, and perhaps sometimes they dissuade when they would formerly embrace.
Birthday cards have now become the birthday present (yes I exaggerate). The simplest ones now cost $7. I may have to start making and selling cards again.
Since 2022 the companies that profit from the #Internet have been shedding technical staff in the belief of the power of #AI to replace their #workforce. What are they replacing or redirecting this capacity with?
“Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web: The #MozillaFoundation laid off 30 percent of its workforce and completely eliminated its advocacy and global programs divisions, #TechCrunch reports.
While Mozilla is best known for its Firefox web browser, the Mozilla Foundation — the parent of the #MozillaCorporation — describes itself as standing up “for the health of the internet.” With its advocacy and global programs divisions gone, its impact may be lessened going forward.
“Fighting for a free and open internet will always be core to our mission, and advocacy continues to be a critical tool in that work. We’re revisiting how we pursue that work, not stopping it,” #BrandonBorrman, the Mozilla Foundation’s communications chief, said in an email to The Verge. Borrman declined to confirm exactly how many people were laid off, but said it was about “30% of the current team.”
This is Mozilla’s second round of layoffs this year. In February, the Mozilla Corporation laid off around 60 workers said it would be making a “strategic correction” that would involve involve cutting back its work on a Mastodon instance. Mozilla shut down its virtual 3D platform and refocused its efforts on #Firefox and #AI. The Mozilla Foundation had around 120 employees before this more recent round of layoffs, according to TechCrunch.
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“Navigating this topsy-turvy, distracting time requires laser focus — and sometimes saying goodbye to the excellent work that has gotten us this far because it won’t get us to the next peak,” wrote Syed, who previously worked as the chief executive of The Markup, an investigative news site. “Lofty goals demand hard choices.”
#WhiteCollar / #CorporateGreed <https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/5/24289124/mozilla-foundation-layoffs-advocacy-global-programs>
This reads so true to me.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/democrats-and-the-price-of-protection/
"Elon Musk’s company avoided almost all federal income tax on nearly $11 billion of U.S. income over three years."
#Tesla #Musk #CorporateGreed #USPol
https://itep.org/tesla-reported-zero-federal-income-tax-in-2024/
“Khan warns of ‘catastrophic consequences’ if Trump gives free hand to private equity’”
“A new study finds that doctors' visits at private equity-owned hospitals are significantly more expensive than visits at independent practitioners.
It's yet another example of how private equity is looting America.”
-R Reich
Private equity was already a debacle, & now Trump & his new found oligarchs, want to enshrine the #enshitification.
#CorporateGreed #PrivateEquity #USPol https://www.ft.com/content/ed2ad30a-1e24-4f78-9f1d-4cfc8c170cba
@JoeBeam
Dear Journalists —
The next time a CEO talks about labor costs, mention how much the CEO makes, how much the top 20 other corporate leaders make, and how much has been spent on stock buybacks.
#poverty increases by about 8 percent in places where a #walmart opens relative to places without one even when factoring in the most optimistic cost-savings scenarios.
In the 10 years after a Walmart Supercenter opened in a given community, the average household in that community experienced a 6 percent decline in yearly income—equivalent to about $5,000 a year in 2024 dollars—compared with households that didn’t have a Walmart open near them. Low-income, young, and less-educated workers suffered the largest losses.
#economy #capitalism #unemployment #corporations #CorporateGreed
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/walmart-prices-poverty-economy/681122/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8103Zq_kBaM&pp=ygUPc3RhdXMgY291cCBuZXdz
#AmazonWorkers #HOMELESS, Can't Afford A Closet
What the fuck?
#Capitalism #corporategreed #classwar #workingclass #workingconditions #FUCKAmazon
#FuckJeffBezos #FUCKtheElites #FuckBillionaires
#capitalism #AmazonHolidayStrike #AI
"The biggest banks are planning to sue the Federal Reserve over annual stress tests."
#BigBanks have been criticizing the Fed for 15 years. CEOs want to weaken regulations to increase profits. They want less onerous stress tests, lower capital requirements... They likely assume that Trump make their wishes come true. The stress tests & other regulations came about after the Financial Crisis to protect depositors.
Most common way for capitalists to shed risk is by shifting it onto their workers -e.g. sending workers home on slow days & refusing to pay them for the rest of their shifts. Easy for capitalists to do -bc workers have a collective action problem: for workers to force their bosses not to do this -all have to agree to go on strike/honor picket-lines. The only person the boss needs to convince to screw you this way is themself.
#WorkersRights #CorporateGreed
TY @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/18/loose-flapping-ends/#luigi-has-a-point
How Disney conspired with government officials to steal over $100 million from theme park workers
https://popular.info/p/how-disney-conspired-with-government
Comment: at the end of the day Disney is a corporation, with all the associated baggage/malfeasance.
#capitalism #corporations #Disney #Pixar #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #CorporateTax #WealthTax
#WorkersRights #solidarity #unions
#ChristianRight #antiLGBT #transphobia #Christofascism #transgenocide #Florida
UnitedHealth’s Unchecked Growth Has Caused Widespread Misery
https://jacobin.com/2024/12/unitedhealth-insurance-profits-growth
* despite antitrust regulators’ efforts to rein it in UnitedHealth Group keeps growing
* control ever more of the health care sector
* corporation’s expanding power meant worse care, higher prices, mounting human toll
#healthcare
#capitalism #corporations #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #UnitedHealth #BrianThompson
#billionaires #WealthTax #AssetForfeiture #CorporateRegulation #CoporateTax
“The Czech is in the Mail”
by Another Angry Voice on Substack
“The [Labour] government has approved the sale of Royal Mail to #Czech #billionaire #Daniel #Křetínský, turning what was a not-for-profit public service just eleven years ago into a billionaire's plaything”
https://open.substack.com/pub/anotherangryvoice/p/the-czech-is-in-the-mail?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios
ProPublica: UnitedHealth Profiteering Off Limiting Care for Children w. Autism
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/16/annie_waldman_uhc_autism_care_denials
* private healthcare companies face incr. scrutiny
* dissatisfaction w. company’s exploitative policies/frequent denials of care
* ProPublica: UnitedHealthcare is aggressively trying to limit mental health coverage/treatment for 1000s of children w. autism
* effort to cut costs/curtail care
#healthcare
#capitalism #corporations #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #UnitedHealth #BrianThompson
UnitedHealth Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids w. Autism
https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealthcare-insurance-autism-denials-applied-behavior-analysis-medicaid
* private healthcare companies face increased scrutiny following killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
* aggressively limiting mental health coverage/treatment for 1000s of children w. autism
* effort to cut costs/curtail care
Killing of Brian Thompson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Brian_Thompson
#healthcare
#capitalism #corporations #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #UnitedHealth #BrianThompson
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