so you’re saying you’re willing to hurt 20 people x amount in order to save yourself y amount of suffering. Literally nothing more neurotypical than that.

what i said was theres value to leadership and to management and if you read between the very visible lines I added that part of their role is determining a coherent path to follow. Thats not to say there are not bad leaders (like those who built the pyramids), or bad leaders (like elon musk, who has no coherent vision). Its also no to say there are not bad managers (like Biden, who seems to barely be at the helm day-to-day) or bad managers (like Elon musk, who does not have the organizational capability and is therefore incompetent).

Pretending that a mass of smart or skilled individuals will spontaneously organize and not be torn apart by internal disagreements is possible, but rare. Look at bands. The beatles really had 7 good years between stardom and shit-hitting-fan. They did really good individual work but they didnt build a pyramid. In contrast, look at linux: whatever technical talent Linux has is outstripped by far by the power of his vision and his standards for how the system must evolve. He, like elon, is famous for being a dick: Linus still gets volunteers.

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If work feels like home.

at home, not like home. theres a pretty significant difference.

If you’re in the ER I’m not sure what else you’d be expecting.

‘bedside manner’

this thread seems to basically just be about cheering on people who cause others deliberate mental anguish.

American here and I am in constant jealousy of Germany.

have you visited? you might find your jealousy is just from ignorance and imagination of what germany might be like rather than what it is like.

For some reason in English we demand one lie to protect everyone’s feelings.

have you ever…interacted with a german? they are not, in fact, robots.

neurotypical game of lying to spare their feelings

you say this like not deliberately hurting people’s feelings for zero reason at no cost to yourself is a bad thing

Your post is obviously super self-serving, but I wanted to note:

there is a premium on leadership qualities rather than technical excellence.

There is a distinction between leadership and management. Both are, in fact, important. And technical excellence is not useful if its not applied in the right direction.

only a handful of people

doesn’t seem like that was really the point. the point was to waste resources on a pointless glorifying memorial – if wheels made it go faster, they would have built more or bigger.

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manifest destiny

lol woops, still getting used to the lemmy UI and got confused. I thought it was him complaining i hadn’t responded. apologies.

peaceful enjoyment of his possessions

so how do you enjoy your possessions peacefully if they break? is repairing them…not peaceful?

No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

So if it breaks, and i can’t repair it, then I lose this property.

Now, one area where i had not previously gone but makes sense in this particular statement, is that if a company prevents you from repairing your equipment and that company is either unwilling (ie they banned you for trying to repair your john deere yourself) or unable (ie bankrupt) to repair your equipment, is that not depriving you of property? Or do you consider the failure of the property to be an act of god which the vendor is in no way responsible for, even if they deliberately design the system to fail you?

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actually most of human history – its a relatively modern invention that you should not be permitted to repair your own property

for example from 1939, it was taken as a given that repair was within the rights of the property owner: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/233177352.pdf

its also part of most property definitions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_property

i would love for you to define a version of ownership which doesn’t include being permitted to do what you’d like with it (barring interactions with other human beings – ie no you can’t bring guns with you everywhere because that implicitly threatens other people)

the ability to repair may or may not grow with the ability to manufacture, but there is no reason to assume it will not.

when we reach your magical future, the right to repair may be represented as DRM installed on your replicator unit which prevents your replicator from repairing a device unless you take it to an Authorized Apple Technician, or it might be represented as nothing because nothing is actually repairable. But assuming your version of the world is absolute fact on the time scale of 100 years is absolutely ridiculous.

“good luck doing magical thing without magical tool” is…technically accurate, but not useful.

oooh, only $400 for a low-end phone with poor battery life? sign mee uppp