Ok but you need to understand that if your business has shareholders, this is literally illegal.
In the U.S. it is federal law that a business must do everything within its power–including environmental damage and worker exploitation–to maximize investor profits every year, or those shareholders are entitled to sue the business and it will be dismantled to pay what they are legally owed.
Shareholders have too many rights.
The system needs to be overhauled massively, but shareholders should be able to sue for less and should be able to be sued (and prosecuted)for more.
You want to invest? Fine. That’s what you’re doing, and that’s all you’re doing. If you don’t like the business’s plans or how they handle their money, you sell your stock and go someplace else. You take the dividend payout you’re given, and you’re the last person in line when handing out money.
Your investment doesn’t work out? That’s what gambling is. Better luck next time.
We also need a law that says that if a company is convicted of a crime, it’s board of directors and CEO are automatically guilty of committing that crime via conspiracy, and subject to the “for humans” laws rather than the “for companies.”
That means if Wal-Mart steals millions in worker wages, the CEOs and Board are prosecuted as if they’d robbed a bank of that same amount. If Hobby-Lobby smuggles artifacts, the people at the top are prosecuted as smugglers and thieves. If a company dumps toxic waste into a river against regulations, well, if any individual human did it, we’d call them a terrorist.
And we need a law that makes it so that companies that settle with the government cannot admit “no wrongdoing”.
This is also why enshittification begins almost immediately when a startup goes public.
That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.
Hate Apple and are more than happy to spite them in some way
No one will know which is it
This guy inspired me to repair my own macbook. First of all, you should know that I am not… like, I have to look up HOW to look up what my computer specifications are. Tech, that ware either soft or hard, is not a subject in which I experience comfort or competence.
But my puppy peed on my keyboard, and I asked the apple store, or the fucking mac cafe, or the godsdamn Computer House Chill Zone or whatever cute ass name they have for their bullshit store, and they said it would be TWELVE HUNDRED DOLLARS TO REPLACE MY KEYBOARD. I’m not even exaggerating.
So I asked the internet, well how hard IS it to repair? And I saw this guy’s video, and while I am no techie, I AM fueled by spite, so I was all “oh, they do that shit on purpose specifically so they can charge me $1200 bucks or make me buy a new computer hunh? FUCK THEM” and I bought all the tools I needed for about $25 and I bought all the parts I needed for about another $25 and I watched a few tutorial videos, and I replaced my own keyboard.
So, once you are doing the actual deed, it becomes pretty obvious that they are finding creative ways to make this much harder than it has to be on purpose. On thing that stood out to me is, instead of all the tiny screws being the same size, there are about two dozen very slightly different sizes. They could easily be all the same size, or like, two sizes at most, but no.
These mother fuckers will take a panel that screws into place and they’ll use a different size screw for each corner. They are so close that you almost cannot tell them apart visually, but they each will only screw into the matching corner. Like, it’s a pretty clear “fuck you” to anyone trying to do repairs.
anyway, this guy is also fueled by spite, and doing holy work, and I have mad respect
This is awesome. Man is doing good ass deeds 24/7 because he’s giving people control.
amhrancas 