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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Well it’s true, to a certain extent.

    If an employee (or a chatbot, for that matter), promised an egregious sum for no reason, I don’t think the company should be liable either.

    Imagine getting hired to do support, having a friend open a chat and you promising to give him a milion dollars. Makes no sense.

    But getting mislead about ticket pricing and them then refusing to refund the fare at least partially (the part that they promised would not be charged) is absolutely something they should be liable for.

    And lawyer fees plus some pocket money for wasting peoples’ time, if getting a refund entails more than an email or two.










  • Do workers simply will iron ore into existence

    In terms of costs, yeah, that’s exactly what they do. Someone’s getting money for it, be it the land owner, the workers, the company providing the tech for it. Doesn’t matter, there’s always a person at the end of the cost pipeline.

    workers pockets X owner’s profit

    In terms of inflation, this just doesn’t help. Workers spend almost everything they get (living paycheck to paycheck), rich people do still spend the money (which means the money ends up in someone elses pocket) and yes, they will spend more than the average worker, but they also invest a big chunk, usually locking up the money, and at least temporarily taking it out of circulation.

    Which reduces inflation, that’s the point of high interest rates :)


  • If I might add, what do you think costs are?

    Do you think there’s a box you put cash into and it gives you iron ore back?

    Nope, there’s a miner who gets paid to get it out of the ground. The miner uses a pickaxe which costs something, sure, but who do you think made the pickaxe? It was a worker somewhere who got paid to manufacture it.

    Money doesn’t disappear, it goes into someone’s pocket eventually, either through wages or through corporate income.

    If costs are going up it means that someone somewhere is getting richer, meaning he has more money to spend, meaning things get more expensive.