Sorry. My underwear is beyond repair

Yeah. Lots of people didn’t vote because we had two evils. The greater evil won…

Thank you. This sent me on a rabbit hole of differences between LLC and Corporations. LLC being a pass through protects the owners a little bit but passes through all the tax and some of the liability (hence Limited Liability). I remember reading something about how banks got significantly more risky with investments and predatorily with their practices when they started moving from partnerships to corporate structures.

Maybe we should get rid of corporations and force all companies into a partnership or LLC structure. Less to hide behind.

I used to not vote because all politicians are evil. Someone pointed out that if everyone picks the lesser of two evils then things are going to get less evil. I’ve voted every opportunity since.

Corporations are just legal structure organizing people together to do something. The soup kitchen, local artisan, person cutting hair out of their house, they all set up an LLC to operate under. They didn’t instantly become evil.

But if I need to buy a blender, plywood, or underwear (my shopping list this weekend), I’m going to have to buy it from a corporation. If I could buy it from a less evil corp then hopefully I make things less evil.

Why was this downvoted? I just listed the companies on NAACP website so you didn’t have to open link.

Grocery stores have some good actors with employee owned and coops.

Yeah. Was surprised NAACP had them on their list but I suppose they still have DEI verbiage. But shady company (he types on his iPhone…)

Apple Ben and Jerry’s Costco Delta Airlines ELF Beauty

Yeah. That’s my local grocery store. It sounds like they treat their employees well and do a lot in the community. And tortillas.

I mean… is that union busting? I thought I read the union threatened to strike. Costco raised wages to advert a strike. Isn’t that just unions working as intended?

I make specialty vehicle electronics. My immediate thought was very small and cheap sensors. Similar to tire pressure monitoring but wired with CAN or something similar.

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Hugo and bear blog are not Federated though right?

As soon as you think you know all the fediverse services out there…

Yeah. I’ve done WP before just wanted to try something new. Sounds like your setup isn’t too bad though.

I agree. AI could be good for first line of defense specifically for sorting our traumatizing gore and the like.

For normal moderation I think it’s only useful in the same way as spell check. Second set or eyes but human makes the final call.

Yes I think so. If they had an ad free versions I’d pay for it.

What are they looking at doing for revenue?

Yeah but Valve is centralized ownership still. One guy has majority and that makes a difference. A coop could be customer led from get go. 51% customers 49% employees or something like that.

The point being if you structure it as for profit you can charge for things and build a good product. You can make rules that says 100% of the profits have to be redistributed and no one can change that. It’s how many farm co-ops work.

You could do a for profit without investors. Any profit goes back to employees and paying users. Make it the operating agreement from the get go and no one could come in.

Non profit in many places means you can’t sell a service. So you rely on donations. Which means you’re constantly asking for donations.