Go to a good fire and brimstone preacher and sit in the pews for a while and whatever comes out of his mouth is far less hellish than the job market today.
>“We don’t have a manufacturing culture,” Mr. Gassée said of the nation’s high-technology heartland, “meaning the substrate, the schooling, the apprentices, the subcontractors.”
He’s 100 percent correct and if you disagree you underestimate the effects of the Fax Machine on the economy and over-estimate the effects of the internet of 2005.
if you believe the conspircy theory that Satoshi was created by an intelligence agency, then having it discovered would make a some people wary of using it.
The thing about sputnik is that everyone knew that the soviets would launch a satellite before America did but people freaked out when they actually saw or heard that bleeping ball hovering over there head.
reels suck. American apps like instagram and twitter focus on selling users information to advertisers while chinese apps like tiktok and Rednote focus on selling advertisements to users, and the later produces higher quality FYPs and less slop.
In five or six years you will have american consumer apps pretending to be chinese, like Haagen Daez or Matsui
Silicon Valley's obsession with high-margin SaaS is kinda similar to Detroit's fixation on high-margin gas-guzzlers – both overlooked the disruptive potential of foreign competitors focused on what consumers actually want
more that execs are looking for an excuse to tell their board of directors why sales are falling that doesnt include online ordering. the movement to E-Commerce is a double hit to stores because not only do they directly lose sales but when something is ordered from their stores (on e.g -doordash) they have to put people on packaging those goods- which they see no income from and makes the brick-and-mortar store less staffed.
Even if shoppifting tripled it would be minuscule in the overall scheme of things. Groceries pay 2 dollars per dozen eggs to farmers and have to toss out them out every few days, wastage-wise it’s basically a blip
if im reading a big sci-fi anthrology, i just search for key-terms that interest me and read the stories that contain them (eg, robot, colony,planet etc)
It feels like global disposable income isn’t growing but that’s not true because the list of necessities increase the more income increases, if you lived like a person in the 90’s did you could save a huge amount of money,