Prices are set by the company and are limited by what people are able/willing to pay. Which I think is an important distinction to make. I know you were trying to make the point that a price isn’t just equal to its cost to produce. But it’s weird to downplay production costs and then talk about increased profit margins being an incentive when that is a factor.

Funnily enough, the reason Ford gave for the price increase and subsequent decrease in 2023 was production cost changes.

The government offset part of the price for the consumer not Ford. All you’re really saying is “can you really blame them?” for maximizing their profits. Which I think is one of the more insidious sentiments currently.

I came into the comments to post my own song and found 3 others!

Anitek - Cynical Beings

You’re only nice to people to change their mind?

You could use virtual audio cable to output music through your mic and be in the same call.

If you don’t mind youtube there are ways to watch that with others.

There are a ton of ways to stream Internet radio although hosting networking might be an issue. Icecast is my recommendation.

You can all join the same Rust server and play midi files on the in-game instruments.

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Woah! This is so good. Great job with the detail.

Speaking of which, my task bar keeps freezing every day I use it so my system tray and even the time is never accurate.

If you have multiple monitors, change the setting so it only displays on the primary monitor and see if that makes a difference.

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This quote from The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus is interesting to think about in this context.

“All systems of mortality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly. It is ready to pay up. In other words, there may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones, in its opinion. At very most, such a mind will consent to use past experience as a basis for its future actions.”

I’m offended because this is indicative of a much larger problem(distrust amongst coworkers) and I don’t think people should be so satisfied with this band-aid solution.

This feels like a microcosm of society as a whole right now. 3 individuals taking individual action that won’t solve the root problem.

And I can easily imagine the boss(or anyone with actual authority) having their own personal fridge and just ignoring the situation entirely no matter how often it’s brought up.

You can feel fully justified in doing something and still hate having to do it.

Is that part of the joke? The lack of attention to detail.

James Acaster has a similar bit. His twist is that it takes care of his second wish, more friends.

Some of the skips are so fun, I love the cannon canyon level for it.

I worked on a credit union and it was extremely profit driven. They would pay lip service to “serving our members” but it was always about “growing assets profitably”, as they put it.

And it really just felt like an American work culture thing more than anything else. Like one of the previous CEOs had his house paid for, his car; his wife and him even had free health insurance for the rest of their lives. I know all this because he had an affair with a secretary(he forgave a loan she had for $20,000+) and there was a court case.

The people saying it’s non-profit or it all stays local I think don’t realize how much greed is still there and active.

For myself, I don’t hate it, I just don’t seem to get it like everyone else. I just leveled myself up and gave some weapons after a while because I found the combat unengaging and wanted to finish the story. I’m interested in trying out that mod pack someone else mentioned. Maybe the experience will be quite different.

That seems a little presumptuous.

While I think your point is true that its much more abstract than people realize. When I worked at a bank and we disbursed loans and credited/debited fees it was from “GLs” (General Ledger?) which were basically just separate accounts to help keep track. Like we had a “member service” one which was for basically anything with good reason. One time someone did a very large amount but he just basically got told to do it a different way.

Its all just in a computer. I could’ve accidentally credited someone a million dollars but it would’ve been realized when I tried to close my drawer and balance everything out. And the branch would have to be balanced at the end of the day so I assume the bank did as well.

On a related note banks take out loans from other banks. I think a lot of people don’t realize that banks have savings accounts so they have money to lend.

I just moved to a place with one of these! It’s fantastic. The owner is the type of guy to come refill coffee himself.