Nah, bringing the indians over is the whole point, cause they can promise the american dream in all but writing, hold their visas over their heads while extorting them.
Most have a wife and kids back home depending on them.. I know because I worked with these kind of people in the US for temporary contract months at a time not seeing their family. It’s like a slightly richer more high tech version of the Mexican immigrant story working on farms to send money back
Hell, a lot of them have family here - they own houses, have kids in school, and all that. And those family members can all be deported from the US in 30 days if Daddy the engineer ever gets fired. Big Tech has a hell of a lot of leverage on those guys.
Id have a heart attack if that was me no exaggeration. I already had to accept getting fired for “performance” because they laid off my team and I was unwilling to put in the extra hours on weekends and nights to make up the slack when I want to be with my family; I got put on a performance improvement plan said I’ll work as hard as possible within normal hours, but I wasn’t doing weekend prep for the Monday morning reporting anymore and got let go because I made peace with it my blood pressure was out of control I knew I needed to lose the job to find something with better balance. These poor Indians must be going insane on the inside from the stress it’s golden handcuffs at what point do you prefer being poor back in India
Unfortunately, and I say this with the utmost respect to my East Indian friends, the technology competency is not where it needs to be in order for this to be an effective strategy. They're gung ho, but tech implementation of projects from that region is frequently somewhat of a nightmare.
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And don’t you dare look into Cascade management his family office. He makes all these claims but his children will inherit Cascade and he approves cascades investment memo
Buffett gave away a big chunk of his wealth, but it was balanced by the appreciation of the remainder. He had 498,320 A shares in 2006, when he started donating big sums after the death of his first wife. He now owns almost 206,363 A shares, or a 59% decline. The stock is up 9X since then.
If he never donated, he would be worth $386 B today.
Pretty much. The process of becoming a billionaire is like the ultimate human rock screen that ends up with just shitbags.
First, you already gotta be from an upper middle class family at worst - that's going to already isolate you from the concerns of the normal working man. Next, you need to have the gall to think you can build a company from scratch which requires a certain hubris.
Then, you've succeeded and made a semi-successful company. Congratulations! What should you do with your newfound 10s-100s of millions of dollars? Fuck off and enjoy the rest of your life on a private island? Spread the wealth and make sure those that were along for the ride with you are compensated appropriately? Nope, instead you have a psychopathic need for more, growing your business into the billions of dollars. Add in the fact that your success has grown your ego to the size of Rhode Island, and now you've explained how 95% of billionaires are the dickweeds they are.
Very accurate an and yet so many ppl have this irrational need to defend the rich like as if they’re gonna pay them for doing so lol.
I think deep down they hope to be part of the 1% so they too can live like it’s heaven on earth
Edit: and what they don’t realise is more often than not u need all the odds stacked in ur favour from birth in terms of family, intelligence, genuine luck to build a great company. Obvs they still need to work rlly hard and should be rewarded but inequality has gotten out of hand
We like to try and say it was pure genius that got these guys to be billionaires but the reality is most of them were at the right place at the right time.
Michigan resident here, Mike Illitch was not someone who cared for others. He had a huge hand in the decades-long decay of Detroit which hurt so many people and families. He has a few media-friendly stories that get touted about (e.g. the Rosa Parks one), but he was pretty much a glorified slum lord. He was a good sports team owner though, much better than his son.
And tbh, people today are kind of encouraging them. Why wouldn't they be assholes if they can get away with some mild tsk-tsking and a slap on the wrist at worst?
It literally is. The only way to get to a billion is to be a big enough piece of shit to exploit and take advantage of a huge number of people. It is physically impossible for anyone to do ANYTHING within their lifespan that is actually deserving of a BILLION dollars. You can't convince me any person in my lifetime will ever actually deserve that much money for something they did. It's just not possible.
Because being a billionaire in and of itself makes a person a greedy cunt. Nobody needs that much money to for 1 man, give it back the public you greedy ass fucks! These people have more money than they could ever spend in several lifetimes and meanwhile the average person is struggling to makes ends meet, shits ridiculous.
Don’t fall for his aw shucks bullshit, he’s as ruthless as the rest of them.
He just has the advantage of running a holding company that puts some distance between him and the ruthlessness (plus he doesn’t know how social media works). What Warren looks for in an investment is fundamentally bad for the employees and the industry the operate in: WFC, GEICO, KHC, Helzberg diamonds. He’s a billionaire sweatshop investor.
That's the thing... Definitely the jobs are going to go away. But instead of offering alternatives, say, as stupid as it sounds, Star Trek universe (where no one works), they move towards self-preservation and legacy of the same system. All of them.
The Google guys are legitimately crooks too... You gotta dig deep to find their real story, but the short version is that they're a bunch of hustlers. They're not "nice guys" dude. That's not what happened... They created some PR BS where they lied to people about not being evil while they flat out ripped people off.
The mantra was "don't be evil" while at the same time you could Google pirated material from any major software company with 1 search query in Google. So, they were 100% evil the entire time.
So, it was "don't be evil, just let our users steal from our competitors." Wow, 25 years later, their competitors are almost all gone. I wonder how that happened? Oh, it's because they were being evil the whole time...
People absolutely need to stop falling for clear and obvious PR stunts and tricks.
Brin usually keeps super quiet compared to other billionaires, but he's always creeped me out for some reason.
Sidenote, I remember taking a class from Udacity in like 2012 or something, where Sergey Brin did some guest lessons. He looked high as fuck the entire time.
Brin usually keeps super quiet compared to other billionaires, but he's always creeped me out for some reason.
I think he got into minor trouble over something he said on the podcast "This week in startups." I can't find the episode for the life of me, but when I was listening to it, I couldn't believe my ears. I just so incredibly shocked that there was a business leader saying that kind of stuff. Just basically acting like a complete thug... I'm pretty sure he was talking about how he used to rip people off with penny stocks or something, as if him explaining how he used to rip people off was a "credibility booster" or something...
It was as if he was trying to suggest "Yeah man, I rip people off all the time, that's why I started Google."
I was just sitting there listening to it with my mouth wide open in total shock... As I was thinking: "Oh, it's a bunch of thugs, I see..."
Calls on corporations and puts on everything else. No one is paid, no one buys anything. No revenue, no expenses, money devalues into meaningless as the fallout wars begin, but stocks pump anyway bc the AI CEOs all regurgitate "AI AI AI AI" followed by the complete text of Mein Kampf every earnings call.
Tesla cars never achieve full autonomy, but automated locks do prevent anyone from entering (or leaving) the vehicle. People either die of starvation, or are brutally massacred by Palantir-enabled Predator drones mistaking them for ISIS agents. There are no cool wasteland gangs, just Cybertruck technicals berserking around crashing into shit over and over.
Eventually everyone is wiped out, rising oceans swallow all continents, and halobacteria once again rule the Earth. NVDA market cap still reaches $10T, somehow.
Our management recently has decided to micromanage every possible stat you can monitor about an engineer and threaten people with underperforming by making up numbers to hit. So that’s fun.
My last job was trending hard towards 'developer metrics', current job is all about 'vague allusions'. My manager hit me last week with a "people have been telling me things are taking too long/not responsive enough/some other vague bs", but can never point to who's saying or even what specifically it's referring to. I get this about once a month, and I'm pretty sure it's just a scare tactic to keep everyone on their toes.
I miss the old days (2010's-2022) when management was bending over backwards to make sure they didn't upset the engineers..sure was nice
good luck with that. Companies like Google, Nestle, and Unilever are pretty deeply entrenched and it is hard to avoid giving them money. If these companies are to suffer the consequence of their path, they will only feel it when the things they care about get destroyed.
If machines can do all jobs, you don't needs humans anymore and can reduce the population to a few million. Tiny population = means more land, more space, more wealth, more safety and less conflict for the remaining.
It takes very little effort imo. I’m already boycotting Amazon. Yeah, there are some things I just can’t get elsewhere but it’s nothing I’ll die without. Its not like they even have the best prices.
The boycott would be easy since they would have already replaced most of the general public's jobs by that point and no one would have money to buy anything anyway.
They don't seem to understand this boardgame of life where they have all this wealth is at a precarious tipping point. Yes they will end up with all the money but that will just make them a big target when those with nothing flip the table.
Nah, he always sucked. I actually found this thread by searching for Brin since I saw his quote on Bluesky, and the first Reddit result was a NYTimes article from 16 years ago where he is reported saying he was sick of Googlers who felt entitled to things like bottled water and M&Ms.
"Decent" is a bit relative, most people who've worked or talked with him said he was a bit stupid but mostly harmless in a "decent" way. But yeah it's obvious there was a turning point where money turned him really egotistical and detached from reality.
Larry Page though? Always was an asshole and a moron to boot. My coworker lived in the dorms with him and everyone hated Larry
Larry and Sergey notoriously have been quiet for years and now Sergey comes out of the woodwork and says this shit? Dude…seriously someone is pulling strings and has every one of the tech billionaires balls in a vice. There’s some weird ass shit going on, and I can’t be the only one who’s noticing.
Yeah I've been thinking something similar. Not just tech but various corpoations that traditionally just keep their mouths shut are now coming out and saying antagonistic things. Which is bad for business. Even if you think all your staff and customers are morons you don't come out and say it. You smile at them and tell them they're great. Then your ake all their money and laugh about it quietly behind closed doors.
It seems a lot of these businesses are showing their true colours to the world, and it's changing the sentiment among customers and potential staff. It's like they want everyone to hate them, but why?
Apple and Microsoft have remained pretty much silent, and Google and Musk seem to be saying the quiet part out loud. Banks are screaming their new found love for fossil fuels again.
When the tide rolls back on the current political climate (which always happens it doesn't matter which side you're on) people will remember all this stuff. And where's that gonna leave them? Social networks are coming out all "anti woke" but the people who support that represent like 30% of thier customer base at most.
Isn't it better for business to have happy staff, happy customers?
They’re seizing the moment. 2020-2022 scared them all (a possibility where labor has negotiating power). The orcs in charge will permanently decapitate labor and keep the “geniuses” in charge forever. Altered Carbon might become a documentary.
The next time you hear anyone venerating some techbro as a visionary, do something that this websites ToS finds objectionable. We got ourselves here by sucking these people’s dicks and now their boots are gonna be permanently planted on our necks
Have you tried Google’s AI? Consistently terrible. I say they stay the course making failure products to offset the daily billions they make advertising gambling to children.
No no no, he’s a totally cool down to earth guy according to 60 minutes, cuz he hates sports cars. I remember what a big deal 60 mins made about him driving a Prius or a scooter or some lame shit as if it made him likable. This guy is the epitome of a shitty tech bro.
Honestly our economy and outlook as a society was better when we let the jock frat bro types run industry than it is with all of these fucking tech dorks taking all of their insecurities and grievances out on everyone.
This new breed of wealthy elite is just awful. In the old days CEOs were just corrupt and selfish. Nowadays they’re selfish and corrupt and angry because they were virgins until they made their first million, and they’re out to have their revenge tours.
Everyone I know hates AI. I haven’t googled anything in weeks, can’t stand the AI answers. Apples AI isn’t anything to write home about. It’s time to bury this horse, it’s dead. Stop beating it and tossing money a a product few people want.
Unironically a pretty good idea. Why pay a CEO hundreds of millions of dollars a year when you can get an AI model to do it for free? Seems like an easy sell. Call it sergAI
Nah. 30 hours is the perfect ‘genius to productivity’ ratio.
Less than that is just fooling around. More than that is just meetings you don’t need to have. So 30 and a few meetings and some lunch breaks and you’re good to go.
The poor billionaires don't have it all and they deserve it all. We should give them everything we have and then let them harvest our organs. Everything for the precious billionaires
what a terrible day to have eyes
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