an economy where jobs hide their salaries is confusing

you want people with skills but you refuse to signal how much you want people with those skills

if you actually are clear and honest about how much you want those skills, people would learn those skills to sell them to you...

but instead they would rather play poker and tell you they don't want the skills... while complaining to someone else (government, universities, whatever) behind citizen's backs about how lazy the average citizen is for not having the skills -- yet they refuse to disclose how much they want said skills to make said skills a target for the citizen to want to achieve to receive the incentive of the moneys that citizens require for living

self-fulfilling retardation

deception is the root of all evil I swear

Just normal capitalism proliferated by our beloved murica

late-stage capitalism. "everybody trying to fuck over everybody else (while complaining about being fucked over), just in hopes of getting close to the top of the fuck-heap"

In an asymmetrical bargaining situation (1 employer - many employees) transparency benefits the side with smaller arity / greater upfront commitment. Employees know how much developers are paid, and they know how badly they need you, but because they also know that there are applicants who absolutely need a job, it's in their best interest to not reveal any of that info.

Deception is inherent to bargaining. Information can be forcibly revealed with external pressure from eg. the state, but unless a lot of energy is spent chasing down individual violations (as is the case in eg. Austria), this simply incentivizes de-emphasizing or obfuscating the public information. For example, forcibly revealing salaries often motivates companies to reframe more of your salary as bonuses or benefits.

... I don't think it's capitalism btw

I'm so offended at the notion

in communism this system would be even worse, because there's less property rights so it's easier to loot your neighbours

it's a spiritual problem, not a tool problem

@jestdotty you don't understand what you're trying to talk about

@lorentz nor am I complaining that they're wrong in doing what they're doing

I can easily show them how it's wrong and win the tug of war on deception perfectly fine... it's just funny to me

@iiii you can feel free to enlighten me if that is the case

@jestdotty

> because there's less property rights so it's easier to loot your neighbours

not really. unless your neighbours are hoarding factories and stuff.

but i guess that it'd take at least a few years to explain to you that: no, the car you're driving does not count as "means of production".

@tosensei my government is hoarding my data does that count as property that they're violating

what about them taking taxes out of your paycheque before you get it. or how they can garnish your wages from your bank account for various reasons

what if they tell you you owning your pet weasel is now illegal and take it and shoot it? was that your property? because it wasn't a rare breed you can't even sue them for money. actually just kidding. you can't sue governments at all because the judges have a conflict of interest relying on government to be able to have a career for their current lifespan

@jestdotty you are, and extemely so, conflating "the theoretical concept of a system of government" and "the pratical downfalls that EVERY system has, because it is made by humans who are, on average, not much smarter than you".

as for your specific examples:

#1 is something that every big corporation does, in a much bigger extent than any government ever could. all the time

#2 is just a convenience for you - if you have to pay taxes (as you do in every civilised country), why not let the system worry about the busywork?

#3 can be split up in "why are you owning non-dometicated wildlife without a license showing you are capable of doing so?" and "you just inserting a worst-case scenario that, still, could happen in every system, while ignoring that a democratic state is the system where this is least likely due to safeguards within the system"

#4 yes, you CAN. judges DON'T have a conflict of interest. it's called "division of powers" - a key principle of a strong democracy.

@jestdotty but seriously. you should let professionals check that brain damage of yours, i believe it is getting worse...

@tosensei I mean my IQ is 145 so humans are not "little smarter than me" and you're so stupid it's painful to watch you exist...

I can't even

you're like a walking disinformation billboard and it's so criiinge. do you have any other mode?

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you don't remember me saying I just had several doctors, many of which were neuroscientists check my brain? if you missed that... how can you think yourself to be any good at knowledge. I can't even

I had a MRI and EEG also. and a spinal tap. less than a month ago. again, no less. and they took my blood every 12 hours or something. how much more allopathic medicine authority do ya need before your brain comprehends knowledge in front of your face?

high IQ does not mean "smart". it can also mean "highly efficient at being dumb".

imagine an overclocked supercomputer running bogosort.

@tosensei nowhere did I state something contrary to that

you just said average people are not much smarter than me. objectively they are not smarter than me. that's it. not making any other ascriptions.

what are you even trying to defend. being a dickhead? lol

@jestdotty

> I mean my IQ is 145 so humans are not "little smarter than me"

here you implied it that you're smarter than the average human because you have a high IQ.

that is very much the implied statement "high IQ means smart". or completely nonsensical rambling. pick your choice.

or do you just not know how language works?

@tosensei TIL IQ is not an academic measurement of smart

@jestdotty i doubt you're capable of learning anything, really.

@tosensei not by you definitely 😝