Interesting language, considering that’s exactly how America was built. That and slavery.

Management needs to be clear with their communication and understanding that people are not robots, that not everyone works to the same level. That’s where it falls apart. Pushing performance towards that unattainable ideal causes more issues than it could ever solve.

Spotify is an anti-music leech. As if their minuscule streaming payouts weren’t bad enough, now this?

‘ Roughly twenty songwriters were operating behind more than five hundred fake artist names. One production company, Firefly Entertainment, was linked to 830 fake artists — at least 495 of which had music sitting on Spotify’s own first-party playlists — while Firefly’s revenue grew tenfold in three years.

The connection between Firefly and Spotify, as Dagens Nyheter and Liz Pelly documented, ran through a lifelong personal friendship between Firefly's founder Fredrik Hult and Nick Holmstén — the man who served as Spotify's global head of music, with ultimate responsibility for playlisting strategy. Two guys from the same small Swedish town. Family vacations together, dinners out, visits to the Spotify office, all lovingly documented on Instagram, including a photo of Hult posing with Firefly producers at Spotify’s 2018 Grammy party.

Dagens Nyheter’s analysis found that Firefly’s tracks land on flagship editorial playlists within one hour of upload—an advantage real artists wait a week or more for, having pitched through standard channels. This speed provides a massive algorithmic head-start — and because Spotify pays from a shared pro-rata pool, every stream these ghost tracks vacuum up is money that would have otherwise gone to legitimate, working musicians.’

https://joelgouveia.substack.com/p/escaping-the-devil-you-kn...

A clear example of judging actions, not words.

A relative had died six months earlier, he was struggling with a relationship break-up, was on medical leave from work and had financial issues.

The man had told a relative he was finding it hard to get out of bed and had occasionally made references to being "better off dead".‘

I wonder if those behind the extortion have even an ounce of humanity to where this story made them question their life choices.

The spread of disease is an interesting subject. Would the same mass casualties have arisen without European colonization, if and when Europeans, Asians, or Africans had reached the shores of the Americas under different circumstances?

The claims of germ warfare, a field unknown of at the time, seem unwarranted, with only one or two confirmed cases of tainted blankets being given to Indigenous tribesmen in the hopes of killing them off. In the most famous case, due to it being documented, the smallpox blanket gift at Fort Pitt had no effect as the warring tribe already had smallpox and may have been the very ones who spread it to the Fort in the first place. The intention is clear but the reality negates it.

‘Oh, my son is calling, let me drop everything and answer. Never mind, he had Google AI call me to tell me he’s running late.’

To reiterate: this is by design and carefully planned out to be this exact way. You sitting on hold for 30 mins saves the company money. Now multiply that by hundreds of thousands of calls.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3753483/

There are other studies with similar findings. It makes sense that this would correlate to men being given different treatment.

I would say I look forward to people eating these words when the bubble bursts in the near future, but shameless horseshit is part of American culture now.

From televangelists, to literal snake oil salesmen, to Trump mobile, cryptocurrency, NFTs and everything in between, the economy is based on separating fools from their money.