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God this dystopia is so boring
And evil.
You move 16 tons and what do you get…
the fact that google is charging employees more than motels on the side of the road is surprising, 99 a night is still about 3k a month. granted i know its for temporary until the employee can relocate but, not much of an incentive.
more than motels on the side of the road
Not exactly; in that area, a Motel 6 costs around $300/night. California, man.
oof that is rough, yea motels cost between 75-120 a night around here depending on cost. I guess it’s better than I thought it would be lol
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Google employees are not brain dead. They made google to what it is today
“what it is today” a tax-evading, weapons-manufacturing, privacy-invading, wannabe monopoly, that’s continually fucking up their core products and radicalizing people into the far right for profit?
ya gotta agree at least significant parts of those workers’ brains are dead
Google is pretty brain dead today tho.
I’m sure that pretty much no Google employee is happy with this. But it’s the classic “I don’t want to lose my place near the top of the industry which I’ve spend my entire life getting to, so I can’t criticize my employer or the direction the industry is going in any way.” Self policing and going along with whatever the man decides so you don’t lose your job and means of supporting yourself and your family. Same with a lot of the people working on the Web Integrity thing I imagine.
There are a lot of different places in the industry where these Google developers could work. I am employed by a company where developers have flexible schedules, no overtime work (except in unusual circumstances), and three days a week of work-from-home. The catch is that my company pays a lot less than Google does - still enough for an upper-middle-class lifestyle, but less. So our developers tend to be people who have children and want to spend more time with their families, and they’re willing to take a pay cut to do that. (Note that by the time you’re the sort of person who has the option of working at Google, “supporting your family” means working less, not more.) Google’s developers are people who prefer higher pay and/or a more fast-paced environment. They might not like this policy, but they don’t want to leave. They could if they wanted to.
In other news, Google opens the cheapest hotel in California
You can check out any time you like but you can never leave.
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$99 a night for company rooms? Around here we can get a shitty room, AND a hooker for that price. Not to mention drugs being readily available in the parking lot.
Not enough drugs in the world could make me interested in that hooker.
How about an entire bottle of Viagra taken at once?
I think I’d be more interested in finding a cardiologist at that point.
and a dermatologist
I’m guessing there’s no shortage of drugs on the Google campus.
It may be cheaper than a hotel or apartment, but why should an employee have to pay to go to work when they could be working remotely?
“Because fuck you, that’s why.”
-Google
At $99/night it’s like renting for $3000/month. Even in silicon valley that’s pricey.
What if I paid to live there, but still worked remotely from my apartment or wherever?
cheaper than most hotels, and certainly cheaper in any city the Google has a campus location at.
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google ecosystem is better than anything else out there, prove me wrong
Next up will be these tech companies offering company script to buy things at the company store while paying that rent to the company room. You know, to help transition into the new indentured working environment.
♫ You do 16 POSTs, whaddya GET? ♫
♫ Status code 200, pride and accomplishment ♫
Status code 200
Status message: 500 internal server error
You load 16 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
Didn’t gage company towns making a comeback on my 2023 Bingo card
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Next they will start issueing company scrip, then a company town around the YouTube mines.
Paddy’s dollars.
Companies will start using crypto as a way to recreate what scrip was back before it was banned. Meta made a play for that a few years back but luckily they failed.
Say what you want about crypto in general, but it’d be an extremely bad choice for company scrip…
Depends on the implementation, you can make contracts do anything, and if the bulk of the currency is premined and in the hands of the corporation, they can manipulate its value freely. Not every cryptocurrency works the way Bitcoin or Etherium work, some are quite centralised (see XRP for example).
Meta could demand that ads on its platform are paid in metabucks, pay employees (partly) in metabucks and manipulate the market by controlling liquidity. Essentially they’d be their own sovereign corporation issuing its own currency.
All true!
You should consider transaction fees though: someone’s gotta pay 'em. “Run their own chain” you might say, but then just use a database. Don’t need crypto-economic security when you’re the issuer and primary retailer.
That leads into having a public ledger. Great for public blockchains, but if you’re issuing company scrip, you probably don’t want outsiders auditing transactions.
Yeah, transaction fees can go to the issuer, so the corporation could double dip.
And as for transactions being publicly available on the ledger, SEC filings are public too, corporations openly bragged about raising prices beyond inflation and making record profits and they still had most of the populace convinced that the cause of inflation was just those darn lazy Millennials that didn’t want to work any more.
In the modern manufacturing consent era, it doesn’t matter that the truth is publicly available as long as you control mainstream media (which a corporation like Meta can easily do, first on their own platform and secondly by buying ads in the right newspapers).
