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  • Your simple question has a simple answer. The answer is that different people and different companies have different reasons for supporting Israel.

    Some people are racists, some people sell weapons, some people want money for their political campaigns, some of those groups overlap, etc.

    So obviously the answer is that it depends who you’re talking about.



  • Except the gig economy is far less efficient. All it does is take money from your pockets and put it in really rich people’s pockets.

    What happens when you work as a gig worker? You lose benefits, you lose a union, you don’t get minimum wage, you’re just poorer than you would have been if you had that job before it went gig. Of course your job security is totally shot. But it’s not like the price of delivering a package went down. Of course it went up.

    So somebody got that money that you’re no longer getting. Moreover, if you’re replacing a public service with a for-profit private service, then the people who own the company are going to make sure they get their cut. They’d like to pretend that they will streamline things, but in reality we typically find that they just charge more because nobody can stop them.


  • Well that’s not true at all. If there were other search engines that were legitimate competition, there would be incentive to fix the problems that they face. That was the case over a decade ago, if you recall.

    But then Google got a monopoly, and that meant they stopped caring, and it also meant all of the scammers started gaming their system. In other words, failure to enforce antitrust legislation created this situation and starting to enforce it would solve the problem.



  • I feel bad for you, though. The error rate on the AI searches is high, and you might go the rest of your life not knowing you were lied to, believing the garbage that showed up on your screen.

    In my opinion, the question of quality is paramount. If you want the truth, don’t listen to GenAI, because GenAI doesn’t actually know anything.





  • I think the headline is wrong. It’s not that educators are alarmed because educators don’t offer a college degree in a few months. These are scam programs run by and taken by scammers.

    And it’s pretty easy to see how this will burn the students who thought that they had saved a couple of years. If an employer asks for a copy of your transcript, what are you going to give them? … Or maybe you’ll falsify a transcript, but if you were going to do that then why did you pay $4,000 for your college diploma anyway?

    Of course it’s partly the student’s fault, but it’s much more that money making scam artists who created the scams fault. It’s easy to prey on young people who think they have a quick path to cash, and it should be a crime to do so.



  • I think your conclusion is too generous. Obviously many things can happen in the future as technology evolves, but we need to consider what people have promised us and what they delivered. That’s the definition of integrity. Many of these CEOs and of course this magazine lack integrity.

    And I think you can be even more blunt. You can call out the companies that are riding the bubble as long as they can in hopes that they won’t be replaceable when the bubble bursts. If they can embed themselves with national governments or as pieces of other mega corporations, then they will survive even if they shouldn’t.

    And some companies are run by people who have gotten rich already yet know that their companies will never be able to deliver on the promises that they’ve made. Because the point was for the individuals to get rich, not to sell something economically viable.