The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday – 14th September 2021
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Moderation rules are more lenient for this section, but try and play nicely.
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This:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/126363973/corporate-cliches-distract-nicely
Along with a preoccupation with ‘the brand’, it’s become pervasive.
Thankfully people are beginning to see through it
What controls us? Pavlovian responses to the call tone of our devices? ‘We are all prisoners here of our own device.’
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018812004/how-our-smartphones-are-turning-us-into-dopamine-junkies
$7.5 billion – thats a fair bit
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/126468116/amazon-to-spend-75-billion-making-auckland-a-centre-for-cloud-computing#comments
i want be happy but remain sceptical – Jeff Bezos isn’t known for his great record on worker rights
and theres so many other issues highlighted in the comments section of the article
and rocket lab and so great on working conditions either
https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/technology/soul-crushing-inside-rocket-labs-toxic-workplace-culture
whats the point in having these places . .
if Amazon can provide best conditions for its people , then no probs otherwise i dont think NZ needs it and not before economic fairness and wellbeing in this country .