part of what makes them hard calls is that they will often have significant repercussions for the person who made them and that they considered it a fair price

It's no coincidence Hegseth lobbied hard for pardoning Eddie Gallagher who was basically a spree killer in uniform and had his own unit sabotage him so he wouldn't kill civilians.

"You weren't there, I had to make the hard calls" is a great rhetorical device because it supposes that being in charge absolves one of sins. If an airline pilot crashes a plane because of a bad decision they are held to a higher standard than this.

"I produce 10x more than I did last year but still make the same money. And the machine I now use eats human fingers. Who the fuck is benefiting here?"

Not a difficult issue, not a weird position for a person to have.

"I'm being paid the same now, when I make 500 shirts a day, as I did when I made 50 shirts a day. Where the fuck is the money going?"

The popular idea of luddites is entirely due to generations of capitalists trying their damnedest to obscure what is a very simple issue.

Programmer: We trained it on nothing but typos! It doesn't work! It's getting worse!

CEO: *in the middle of gooning, not even looking away from his screen* Trulyn't?

Like if I buy French fries at Wendy’s they shouldn’t give a fuck about how much ketchup I use but every music service is “no dummy listen to this playlist” “we noticed you haven’t listened to this ad free podcast” “let me email you song suggestions” if Wendy’s emailed me about fries I’d become Amish

If JK Rowling herself doesn't separate her art from her transphobia, and has said she sees every Harry Potter fan as a fan of her transphobia, and uses every dollar she makes to fund transphobia, I need people to stop insisting they "separate art from artist" because it's beyond disingenuous atp