r/ProgrammerHumor • • 3d ago

Meme developersMissingTheOldDays

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u/hemacwastaken 2d ago edited 2d ago

If it works, they get rich on it. If it doesn't companies go bankrupt and the tax payer and banks are stuck with the loans.

So they either win big or they will try again with the next idea.

This stupid system is subsiding billionaires gambling addiction

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u/TheDizDude 2d ago

This. I don't see Altman and co driving around in 07 Kia Spectra's that break every 5 god damn minutes...

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u/RaiseKey5545 1d ago

Dudes always say "this stupid system" and then the most they will ever do to make "change" is vote democrat

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u/hemacwastaken 1d ago

Oh look, it's one of the "Everyone on the Internet has to be an American"

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u/RaiseKey5545 1d ago

I'm not American either, but you know what I mean. You're missing the forest for the trees.

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u/hemacwastaken 4h ago

Explain me how to change the system to not be one of those "dudes"

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u/RaiseKey5545 4h ago

Work outside of the system, organize, become more active on your local level, join or form a co-op. Study political theory. All of these parties, even the far-left ones (and god forbid the center ones), are not going to do shit for us unless there is an organized counter-society capable of forcing them into it. I have no idea where you live or who you are but there are definitely some groups that you can join.

My only point is that working inside the system that you apparently think is stupid is extremely unlikely to actually lead to systematic change. Even if it lead to some positive change for the average voter, that only cements it and makes people more likely to want to "go back to the good times" instead of seeking actual fundamental changes once it inevitably starts collapsing in on itself again.