[–] 8 points 2 years ago

The new one is definitely too expensive for me. I have a phone that I'm not really happy with, but I'm keeping it for as long as possible. After that, I'm probably going to look for a used fairphone. I don't see myself going with another completely unrepairable device.

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    Zoom, the videoconferencing platform that profited substantially from remote work during the pandemic, is now asking employees to return to the office. Its CEO, Eric Yuan, claims Zoom meetings don't let people build trust or be innovative.

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    Yuan explained that trust is essential "for everything," and he finds it hard to build not only that but also innovation and debates over Zoom.

    "Quite often, you come up with great ideas, but when we are all on Zoom, it's really hard," Yuan said, according to Insider. "We cannot have a great conversation. We cannot debate each other well because everyone tends to be very friendly when you join a Zoom call."

    [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The US is uniquely fucked. What the rest of the west shows though is that the housing crisis exists even without the idiocy that is American suburbanism. The consistent factor across the board is housing-as-profit.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    It's speculative investments, housing as assets instead of, well, housing. In almost every major city in the west there is an astonishing number of empty apartments. In my hometown of Berlin there is essentially one large corporation that owns most of the city as investment. Also, new housing is constantly being built - but not for (average) people to live in it.

    You may also recall that the whole thing came crashing down in 2008? Or have we just forgotten what happened there and the effects it has to this day.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    You have to be a complete moron (and pretty ignorant) to believe housing prices are so high because "there is simply not enough supply". Have you lot slept through the last decades? Do you know anything that's happening?

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    Ich weise diese Unterstellungen zurück, Unterstellungen sind ein journalistischer Trick - diese dürften in der freiheitlich-demokratischen Grundordnung nicht vorkommen, Sie hätten mich anders fragen müssen. Jetzt frage ich mich: Woher kommen Sie? Welche Institution sind Sie? Sind Sie ein privater Verein, der eine kleine Meinungsforschung zu einem Geschäft macht, um mich zum Anreiz zu bringen, irgendwas zu kaufen?

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