I strongly suggest you learn more about the history of media. Your post has nostalgia for a time that never existed.
You may also wish to consider the notion that your perception of newfound media dishonesty has more to do with a well-known demagogue who has made it a mission to destroy all media outlets that do not fully support him than anything in the media.
One main benefit of a return is that it creates costs to Amazon (shipping, returns processing, then disposing of the returned product). I'd like to think this makes Amazon marginally more likely to do the right thing, because it takes the profit out of the problematic products.
Most small businesses would suffer no harm at all from an adversary with an initial $10MM allocated toward an attack. After all, most businesses have no employees who have ever done anything even remotely questionable. And besides, it's super cheap and easy to win in court if truth and justice are on your side. (and the same in print; there's no way to for an investigative journalist to create disproportionately bad press)
You're definitely correct, right, and very smart. I agree with all of your points.
Did you know that Peter Thiel, in his own words, decided to "create a shell company to hire former investigative reporters and lawyers to _find_ causes of action against Gawker", and to then give it a starting timeline and budget of "three to five years and $10 million"?
I can't help but laugh that a guy who calls himself 'Smirking Revenge' is a stan for Peter Thiel's revenge by proxy lawsuit. If you were a fictional character, I'd think the author was being a bit heavy-handed with your aptronym.
This wouldn't be terribly surprising. My wife's internal combustion car has a CVT that emulates an automatic with gears and shift points, presumably because that felt more natural to drivers than having the engine just run at optimal RPM.
a very good one-day forecast for SPY is between -9% and +5%.
a very good one-year forecast for SPY is between -45% and +95%.
a very good 20 year forecast for SPY is between 5% and 18%.
One can imagine how somebody looks at the uncertainty of the one-day and says 'fuck it, I'm not buying any stocks'. But they'll be outperformed by people who understand the bigger picture.
Yah, it's a real shame that the fossil fuel (and adjacent) industries spent decades spreading misinformation and disinformation, and funding the hell out of any effort that created even the tiniest bit of doubt in the public mind (be it fringe research or straight PR).
I'm a Sr Manager at a FAANG company (and I started here in my 40s). My direct reports include other SDMs, senior product managers, and staff/principal engineers.
You mention "trying" for management. If you haven't previously managed people, then you probably won't be able to get a good SDM role directly. Instead, your best path would be to be hired as an SDE, demonstrate strong managerial bones (mentorship, communication, process orientation), and then transition to SDM after a few years.
If you've mostly been an engineer, then you may want to learn more about what's expected from different levels of engineer so you can determine, realistically, where your experience will be sufficient, and where there will be gap.
We generally trust that every page of a kids book will be roughly as expected given the title and author of the book. We trust the same of things like PBS kids programs.
In my last job we were sufficiently sophisticated users of AWS that we routinely had conversations with product managers to learn if specific features were on the roadmap, and if so, if there was an ETA. We had these conversations because we were debating whether we wanted to write a solution of our own, or if we wanted to wait for a generalized one to be released.
That said, the product managers generally left us with information such as "this is actively being worked on", "this is planned work in the upcoming quarter, but it could change", "this is on the roadmap without a date", and "this is not on the roadmap". No specific dates promised, but it was still good enough for our purposes.
I hope they weren't using our requests to push for specific dates, internally.
That's absolutely true if you're selling to businesses (especially large businesses).
I had the same experience hosting on AWS (having previously hosted on colocated bare metal server). An entire category of sales friction almost entirely disappeared, and it was friction that was common on the largest and most profitable accounts.
You may also wish to consider the notion that your perception of newfound media dishonesty has more to do with a well-known demagogue who has made it a mission to destroy all media outlets that do not fully support him than anything in the media.