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  • To be clear this is tin foil… But the vibe is the same.

    Mainly, they get decent budget and staff but they are not pushing the product forward. They don’t care about mass reach or usability, they cover this with claiming that their core audience is a journalist living under an oppressive regime when their user is tech nerd in the west.

    Either way there better solutions for that kind. It just doesn’t feel like they competing here.

    Kinda like Firefox stop pushing the edge.







  • US is under going a demographic shift as boomers aging out and gen z is barely enough to replace them as wage slaves. Also, there is cultural shift in attitude to work with younger generations, who see no prosperity from their labour.

    This is causing pressure on wages that owners can’t handle emotionally or otherwise. Owners are disgusted at the idea of a labour market actually being a market. Migration pre covid since 2000 was steady at 1 million net inflow per year, it is now closer to 2-3m. These people are used to suppress wages of the indigenous workers.

    Manufacturing jobs did get shipped off but are also now getting reshored as part of a strategic reshuffle US did after covid. but a lot of these modern manufacturing is automated so we are not giving back to the glory days of millions of six pack joes living the “middle” class life style.

    Global capital is extracting ever more productivity and price gouging us on consumer end of existence. WIN WIN! And the state is letting them…