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“Chinese media” is apparently a basketball fan with 48 followers posting speculative blog posts on the gamer equivalent of substance. Fuck this Ukrainian “journalist”.

It says, right in the fanfic, it comes from NetEase, a gaming website.

This is a contingency plan

It’s not a contingency plan at all! It’s likely a try-hard post on a gamer forum.

I know you’re all pigs feeding at the trough, but please have some self respect.

NetEase is a video game platform.

The author of this article never links to the article and I can’t find it anywhere.

The author of this article never names the author of the article he’s supposedly writing about. He just keeps saying “the author”.

He’s writing about something that is negative for Russia, as a Ukrainian “journalist”, reporting on what is likely a random gamer doing the same bullshit armchair strategizing that you goons do on a regular basis, without citing a single thing and without backing up any of his claims.

“Chinese media” isn’t discussing anything. This is not journalism. This is pure slop.

Good choice. The author claims there’s an article somewhere in China that someone wrote. Never links to it. Never names the author. It read like fanfic.

How can you even say that? There’s no link to the article in question, if you search for it online the only things you get trace back to this author and this article, and there’s no attribution .

Read “The Mom Test”. You should never ask people if they will pay for your product

The alternative is wasting your time building something no one wants. If you’re going to fail, fail to implement. It’s easier, faster, and costs less. If you fail to sell, you can spend literally years building something that will never make money. The reason the developer wants to start a business is to make money, not build something that works without money

Yoooo, fediverse ecom?! I love that idea.

And it’s totally doable. Ecom has been going through a “headless” revolution for a while now, meaning way better APIs and metadata.

There’s A LOT of problems in the ecom world around product images, availavle inventory, and metadata accuracy, but it’s definitely worth exploring.

Selling something that doesn’t exist yet is the key. A programmer is asking us how to start a business and talking about building something. The answer is not to build right now and instead do the sales work. The programmer and the salesperson are the same in this post, and alignment is guaranteed. The most important thing is sales and the programmer needs to focus entirely on the sales discipline.

And even more important, everyone’s experience with sales people is missing the most critical part of entrepreneurship - selling before a product is even defined! It’s not even about selling something that doesn’t exist. It’s about discovering the pain the customer is before deciding on what to build

Literally the only thing that matters is sales. Sales people make money regardless of whether the product is good or sometimes regardless of it even exists.

Programmers think the game is to make something good. It’s not. It’s telling people to pay you.

Spend all of your time talking to people about what problems they have and then ask them which problems cost them money or whether they would spend money to solve a problem.

Most of the time, if you tell people your idea, they will lie to you about the idea being good, but they will never spend money on it. So don’t try to find the idea that people like. Find the problem that costs people money.

And that’s how you make a business

So a) you admit the point of capitalism is not to work for money but rather to stop working for money and b) every parent that works hard to make sure their kid gets more financial security at the start of their life reduces the amount of work their kids need to do and c) at the upper end of that spectrum, where parents buy their children rental properties or set them up with trust funds, is filled with all of the wealthiest children who, in fact, do not work for their money.

You know exactly how the system works because you have been studying it in order to make yourself financially independent but you fail to reconcile reality with your ideology.

The hardest workers under capitalism make the least - the parents raising kids while working two jobs. Manual labor jobs almost always pay less than bank jobs, and they require longer hours. Think about all the people you have ever met who are on disability leave - they worked in office jobs making $150k/year? No. They worked manual labor jobs for significantly less pay, longer hours, and their bodies are now wrecked because of it. Meanwhile the real estate agents who work part time in the richest parts of the country are pulling in a couple million, have almost zero risk to their bodies, and are in a position to get the absolute best deals on rental properties.

Money is totally unrelated to work except for a very tiny sliver of the spectrum. The biggest factor in your money is your position in the economy - which you first inherit from birth, and then navigate based on the means your family had to support you, and then navigate based on the network you were able to cultivate during the time your family supported you, and finally based on the network your were able to cultivate in your early career.

If you’re born into wealth, you already have the money, you don’t have to work. You are in position. You can work, but it’s not required, and the work you are likely to do will be far far easier than manual labor jobs and will pay far far more because of your positioning.

If you are born into poverty, not only will you be working to support your family by the time your 16, your family will be struggling to support you and you will lack the opportunities to build the network required to land high paying low effort jobs, which the rich child has in spades.

You don’t want to work hard anyway. If you did, you would be out there digging ditches with a mattock or laying concrete or doing manual demolition. Not for you. You’re going to work smarter, not harder. And when you have some money, you’ll use it to make sure it starts working for you so that you don’t have to work.

That’s the whole goddamned point of the system. Everyone is incentived to find a way to stop working. Doesn’t that seem like a contradiction to you? That the only way (in your words) to make money is to work for it and yet the whole point of having enough money is to not work? Really makes you think. Maybe the people with money aren’t actually working for it. Maybe the money they have is working for them and they’re doing whatever the hell they want because they love it and it’s rewarding and it doesn’t require them to work 14-hour days 6-days a week to put food on the table and raise their kids. Maybe in fact the people with the most money actually work the least.

No, that’s just not true. You are trying to win through sheer force of linguistic bullshit. Landlords are LITERALLY not in the middle of any transaction between producer and consumer. They are BEHIND the producer.

Look at it from the flow of money. I get money from my wage. I go to a shop. I give the shop my money and receive a commodity. I do that every day, once per day. On the 30th day, the shop owner takes some of my money that I gave them, and some of the money other people gave them, and gives a specific amount to the landlord.

A middle man, on the other hand, is IN THE MIDDLE. The SHOP is a middle man for the PRODUCER. I go to the shop and buy a toy made by Hasbro, the shop owner takes my money and buys a replacement for that toy from Hasbro. The toy is made by Hasbro and used by me but the shop is in the middle of the transaction. The more toys I buy from Hasbro, the more the middle man makes. This is NOT the case with a landlord who IS NOT IN THE MIDDLE and therefore receives a fixed amount from the shop regardless of how much I spend because the landlord has no idea how much I spend at the shop because the landlord is NOT IN THE MIDDLE.

No. Absolutely not. Landlords are middle men between tenant and the earth. But they are not middle men between consumers and commercial tenants.

Amazon is ABSOLUTELY a middle man because you DO NOT buy directly from the seller you pay Amazon and Amazon pays the seller.

No, that’s not what middle man means.

A middle man is an intermediary. I do not buy food from the farmers market. I buy it from farmers who have paid rent to be at the farmers market. The market is the landlord, not the middle man.

What about all of those people who earn without working? Like, it’s literally what ALL financial independence literature says to do: don’t work for money, make your money work for you.

Ah yes, the liberal solution that never works and is always temporary and doesn’t account for literally any systems of power.

Then it’s not part of the definition? That’s like saying the definition of “apple” is “a fruit from a tree, especially a fruit with simple uniform flesh and a thin skin” and then when I say this orange is not an apple you say “I said especially so it doesn’t really count”

So your definition is now simply military invasion.

Venezuela has had US antagonistic covert ops operating in country since at least 2007. That’s almost 2 decades of needing to find the US spies and their allies to prevent sabotage, coups, false flags, etc.

That’s just the military aspect. They’ve also been under worsening sanctions for almost as long, which has been driven by the US strategy to starve the masses so that they revolt. This processes causes increased desperation among the people, which increases crime rates.

All of these things require the use of authority and as they get worse require more invasive and obvious uses of authority. It’s hard enough to find spies, it’s even harder to find spies and neutaize them without ripping the US off as to how you’re finding them, going even further and finding spies without ever being wrong is nigh impossible.

Full on sarcastic