@Gargron Having taken VC money for a startup, I want to confirm for others everything you've said. They promise big returns to their investors, but most startups fail, so they need the successful ones to make gobs of cash. Modest successes get pushed to take big risks until they get rich or die trying. And if they do win big, they'll be pushed to extract ever more cash, causing enshittification. That's the VC game, and Mastodon is smart not to play it.
Venture Capitalism "...gives VCs more leverage later. "
#Quote by Simon 🥧 man 🥥🌴 🇺🇸 @enmodo
Post: https://mastodon.social/@enmodo/113366794801121527
"...I worked at a VC funded startup and they let it go for two years with no interest in us making revenue. I was told by the founder this was common and gives VCs more leverage later. If you've created something good then you'll need more money to stay in business and they get more equity for continued funding because you're desperate. And if you're mediocre you're never going to be a great exit so they cut their losses and move on."
Vampire Empire
Venture Capitalism
Vulture Capitalism
State Capitalism
(State being the head Vulture + banks cheating everyone else..,
#VampireEmpire ? 🧛 💉 🩸
#VentureCapitalism 💰 🤑 💰
#VultureCapitalism 🦃 👸 💎
#Capitalism the Vanilla flavour with STATE AND BANKS 🏦
Robbing people of their labour and future
Vulture Capitalism...
"...gives VCs more leverage later. "
Venture Capitalism "...gives VCs more leverage later. "
#Quote by Simon 🥧 man 🥥🌴 🇺🇸 @enmodo
Post: https://mastodon.social/@enmodo/113366794801121527
"...I worked at a VC funded startup and they let it go for two years with no interest in us making revenue. I was told by the founder this was common and gives VCs more leverage later. If you've created something good then you'll need more money to stay in business and they get more equity for continued funding because you're desperate. And if you're mediocre you're never going to be a great exit so they cut their losses and move on."
Vampire Empire
Venture Capitalism
Vulture Capitalism
State Capitalism
(State being the head Vulture + banks cheating everyone else..,
#VampireEmpire ? 🧛 💉 🩸
#VentureCapitalism 💰 🤑 💰
#VultureCapitalism 🦃 👸 💎
#Capitalism the Vanilla flavour with STATE AND BANKS 🏦
Robbing people of their labour and future
Vulture Capitalism...
"...gives VCs more leverage later. "
@conniptions @Gargron VC is either Vulture Capital, or if you're an old Goldman-Sachs fan, Vampire Capital.
"Sometimes I like to pretend that things will turn out okay"
#Quote from Jon Lindemann
@mrdiamondj
Post: https://mrdiamondj.social/@mrdiamondj/113366212552554756
The #exittocommunity of @opencollective to a user-governed nonprofit is big news for those of us who rely on it, including #Socialcoop members.
"...hinting seems to me, often, to just be a way to get people to do things without actually taking responsibility for having told them to 🤷♀️"
- Katy Elphinstone #Quote @KatyElphinstone
Lack of sleep is the root of many problems 🛌 💤 ...
Lots of further domino effects happen relative to sleep you've had...
When tired it is natural to:
- over-feed
- see and hear things while asleep
- react differently
- skip things you shouldn't
Overall lack of sleep is related to a domino of extra effects... over-consumption included.
#Sleep #Relative to #Diet #Consumption #Mood etc
Lack of sleep is the root of many problems 🛌 💤 ...
Lots of further domino effects happen relative to sleep you've had...
When tired it is natural to:
- over-feed
- see and hear things while asleep
- react differently
- skip things you shouldn't
Overall lack of sleep is related to a domino of extra effects... over-consumption included.
#Sleep #Relative to #Diet #Consumption #Mood etc
Yes.
Weak Users= Weak everything else.
Can we make user to care? May be yes through education.
https://iambrainstorming.github.io/chapters/how-to-tackle-disinformation.html
https://iambrainstorming.github.io/chapters/cooperation/cooperation-secrets.html
https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/guide-effective-nonviolent-struggle-2/
"BILLIONAIRES CANNOT EXIST
WITHOUT OUR POVERTY"
"MILLIONAIRES ARE THE MIDDLE CLASS"
"...THIS IS DICTATORSHIP BY LAW"
YOU AREN'T MIDDLE CLASS
YOU ARE WORKING CLASS
the billionaire, oligarchic class has so gamed and skewed valuations of wealth in this country, unless you have assets that can be liquidated in the MILLIONS, you are NOT the middle class anymore.
doesn't matter if you are making +100K. between student debt, credit cards, many of y’all are one health care crisis away from an eviction and homelessness.
YOU ARE NOT MIDDLE CLASS
MILLIONAIRES ARE THE MIDDLE CLASS
🧵
#Google #Search #Antitrust #Lawsuits #Law (November 1, 2024)
...are going to force the company to come up with a new strategy to preserve their marketshare.
1/ They'll no longer be able to bribe companies to make them the default $earch option,
and
2/ will no longer be able to collect the 30% tax from app #developers in the Google Play store.
#GretaThunberg about #Rules
#ClimateJusticeNow and rules that needang changing
#FreeSchool = #Notes #Quotes from #Books #Videos #Talks #Websites all around #DIY Care# and #Caring as our main #Politics / #Politics
#Degrowth / PostGrowth
#WellbeingEconomy #DoughnutEconomics
#CaringEconomy / #CareEconomy / #Partnerism
"Free School" is a term for a movement born from the 1960's / 70's using educational living & learning practice towards #Caring & #DIY with all others (all at the same time - not an after-thought or specialism in 1 field or person who is a #compartmentalised person ignoring others in other fields). Caring to involves more things, increasingly aiming towards everything...
Posts are 1-line #Notes and #Quotes that links all other things (it's all relative).
Long comments use CW to shorten post vertically and add a 'show more' button to reveal more text if you want it. Long posts might seem bad but it's giving chance to more connection and understanding.
All things towards #Freedom (life moving from Shorter to Deeper thought).
Freedom doesn't come from short-depth lifestyles / short lines of text / ignoring / #inaction. Not less communication between lovers of similar things. MORE!)
#FreeSchool = Learning Together 🔁
#FreeSchool = Working Together 🔁 (eventually + I do Free work for Freedom.
#FreeSchool = Co-Operating & #DIY Solutions 🔁
See My #FreeSchool (Hashtag) for latest examples anytime. Or keep open and refresh from time to time:
https://qoto.org/web/tags/freeschool
#FreeSchool ➡ Increment Talking + Peacefully solve everything.
TLDR - Inaction = Fascism
Trust comes from "slowly but surely"... Doesn't have to be all-in, but peace doesn't come from one-way short messaging on 'social' Mastodon either - collecting memes and cats only is limited!
Remember we need develop better humans as well as 'develop' code on computers etc.
☮ Peace needs more... even to save all types of cats!
Get in touch - I'm someone that cares for everything because it's all human-related...
Human #chats welcome - I using #Jitsi audio chat which uses JUST browser (ANY PLATFORM + 2minutes to enter !)
(i.e. no-install / no account / no google / instant / privacy-respecting / safe-enough, etc!) Really the best out there - any platform / device! Instant audio chat !
Just ask for a link and prepare a few topics!
#AltText used (when I remember).
FREE WORK - I do free audio and video editing (anything considered - just ask).
Again - Creating Trust needs a bit of trust given "slowly but surely"... not all-in... being relaxed about it... but has to be more - 'working' like a 2nd job towards peace because your job isn't going to do it / it's now allow by State to get there! War increases prices etc ☮
So do "peace" as a side-job like it was your real job in the world, parallel to the Capitalism (Trap) you (we) were born into. We have to accept that and fight out of that and not be comfortable in it.
Heart and Soul all the way.