The bitrates, on the other hand...

Donkeys are noble animals!

> I don't see why people couldn't organize at the grassroots level and build/solve real problems their local (or global) communities may be facing.

Usually it's because when they do, their de facto owner - "the state" - goes after them with guns and trained sadists.

>I really don't see why we need all of the VCs, marketers and MBAs... No offense to anyone but the typical SV tech company structure and operations just don't even seem efficient... much of the focus is on marketing/manipulation, enshitification, dark patterns and other dishonest and ultimately counter-productive bullshit.

That's called value creation: manipulating human populations to perceive certain arrangements of matter (or of notions) as "valuable", i.e. that those forms have some inherent quality which legitimately causes individual volition to subject itself to outside command for the sake of the given arrangement.

I am. Who's the rest of y'all?

Don't kill your ego. It's innocent.

Find who framed it.

Can confirm: am mole person, live at mall.

Write software for fastfood which decides the fate of millions.

Don't know who I work for or what qualities made me get the job.

+1 for the original insult ("control fetish") from the disembodied spirit that broadcasts bitflips at your electro-chemical controller ;-)

By directing your attention towards, or away from, physical phenomena that mechanically affect your lower back: overexertion, underexertion, posture, nutrient intake, crowd...

Science opportunity! >:]

Get yourself locked up in the slammer for a night while carrying a fresh burner; observe them writing down your IMEI and IMSI; see if that makes you start getting robocalls.