To be totally honest, both the old AND new testament have lots of sentiments like this, including much of the teachings of Jesus. The new Republican "Prosperity Gospel" is actually a pretty newfangled thing that was once unpopular and seen as fringe. It's manipulative billionaires and corporate types who co-opted it and made it mainstream by bribing well-spoken pastors into changing their tune.
Hence movements and political parties such as Christian Socialism, and old school Catholicism having things such as dislike of excess profits, lending money at interest, the year of Jubilee (forgiveness of all debts every 50 years or so) vows of poverty, etc.
Not Christian myself (anymore) but I found it absolutely fascinating how "Conservative" Christians are basically anti-christs and also just like the Pharisees and corrupt Kings and such that Jesus (and prophets before him) were always haranguing.
One of the weirder phenomena of the low interest rate era in tech was a tendency to see companies primarily as investments. The goal was not to have a functional business, but an exit, often via IPO or acquisition. I have begun to wonder if that explains what Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has been up to lately....
Given how much of a douche he's being (and only because he has organizational power, and not because he has people skills) in the event of a disaster, he'd probably be one of the ones to bite it first, or to be sent on an mission for expendables, to be honest.
When you can't just wave around money or org chart power to solve your problems, then people will start showing how they really feel about you. The way he's running Reddit into the ground shows that he's not a good leader, and the way he's pissing everyone off right now by following in the footsteps of a huge failure (Musk) who's also a jerk is just proving that he's an idiot AND a douche that wouldn't do well if society went awry.
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Not too shocking. A lot of pre-built vendors screw things up. I don't actually enjoy building my own PC's, but do so every 5 years or so to avoid all the bullshit and low quality crap that so many OEM "Gaming" PC sellers try to foist on gullible consumers.
Plus, I can usually save at least a hundred dollars or more off their asking price. To be fair though, I live 40 minutes away from a Micro Center, and it's worth driving there to pick up everything once from there every half decade or so. I used to do comparison shopping and buy bits and pieces off of Newegg, Best Buy, Amazon, etc. but after going back and forth, realized that just buying it all at once from there was cheaper, faster, easier, and also made returning / exchanging things much easier. Plus, a lot of online stores have just gone to shit over the years, especially Newegg.
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What is Reddit CEO Steve Huffman doing? (www.theverge.com)
One of the weirder phenomena of the low interest rate era in tech was a tendency to see companies primarily as investments. The goal was not to have a functional business, but an exit, often via IPO or acquisition. I have begun to wonder if that explains what Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has been up to lately....
Alienware Can't Get It Right - R15 2023 Pre-Built Gaming PC Review (www.youtube.com)
Sponsor: Get 10% off Squarespace purchases (https://geni.us/BqEpf)Dell currently has a sale on its Alienware R15 pre-built gaming PCs, so we decided to take ...