Linkedin Cringe/hell

[RisingThumb]

That's true, but it just moves the problem - no competent businessman would withdraw stocks from a successful company in order to pursue a bad purchase - and this isn't just a case of him thinking it was a good purchase and being mistaken (which would be forgivable as mere incompetence), he went ahead with it and sold his stock even after everyone told him this was a terrible idea.

This would be like Richard Branson selling stock in Virgin to buy a majority stake in a failing web enterprise - it's bad business.

This isn't the same at all? And I would hardly consider someone who at one point not too long ago was considered the richest man in the world by valuation as an incompetent businessman. Twitter isn't a failing web enterprise? I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a terrible business idea, but it's a disruptive business move, and a lot of companies followed suit with layoffs. Regardless, it's not a publicly traded company, so it doesn't concern me too much.

I mostly own index funds as they are far more reliable. I know about diversification - that doesn't mean I should buy into bad stocks on the off chance they turn out to be good - especially of those bad stocks are vastly overpriced by all estimates.

If you're buying Tesla stock to diversify and because "it's paying out well right now" - fair enough. But buying stocks because you think they will give a return is a far cry from believing in the company or the man behind it. You didn't present an argument that Tesla was good to buy for money, you presented an argument that Tesla was a genuinely forward-thinking and innovative company, and that's simply not the case.

I bought around December when it was massively undervalued, around $140/share. I don't do short term, I'm somewhere between a long-term and medium-term(most recently selling a bit of Nvidia because that pump rally has me worried about a corresponding dump). I don't think Tesla is an innovative company, I just think it's ahead of the ball and is a good high-risk, high-growth stock option. I don't do funds because I'd rather select the stocks based on industry knowledge I have, and not based on some retard fund manager who will take their own cut, and because I'm young and can take bigger risks, for bigger growths.

The problem is that you claimed directly that considering Musk a scammer was unjustified because Tesla is innovative. Now you agree that Tesla isn't actually innovative.

I never made an argument about Musk's character, and it's irrelevant to me if he is or isn't a scammer. It's also irrelevant to me if Tesla is or isn't innovative.

Given that they aren't innovative, do you concede the point that Musk continually promising everything from full self driving by 2020, to money-making robotaxis that never matetrialised essentially makes him a con artist, since he has essentially convinced everyone that his non-innovative market-share-losing car company is actually worth more than the rest of the American car industry combined, based entirely on false promises?

Promises fail, problems come up, Musk plays the market well... doesn't make him a con artist or scammer as those are extreme judgements of character. Overpromising and underdelivering doesn't automatically make someone a con artist- this happens all the time in software development. Occam's Razor is ahelluva thing. I also don't believe they are entirely false promises either as self driving has come some way. Still far from perfect, but a lot better than it used to be. I don't like to demonise people- least of all people who have a lot of news and rumours circling around them as it makes it very hard to cut through to the truth.

Not really. Most of the people who invest in his offerings will end up broke. Just look at what happened to those who invested in SolarCity (and what will happen to those who invested in StarLink)

Maybe as an investment. Starlink holds up, see this. It's just not good for city bugmen, it's good if you live in the country.

Unsustainable growth based on speculation is already a scam, but Musk goes one step further - we're not just talking about some companies that are doing honest business and might end up doing well or not depending on how the market goes, we're talking about companies which deliberately lie, overpromise and make all sorts of wild claims to jack up their share prices, convince people to invest, and then evaporate.

It's a textbook scam. This isn't just "capitalism being capitalism", this is fraud and it needs to stop.

And why should I care? The economic system is so massive and bulky and terribly destructive that I might as well leech upon it like a parasite. Take all the gains I can off of it, without caring for the way it degrades- if I don't care, and I just support acceleration, it leads towards capitalism collapsing, and the increase in my resources allows me to establish myself better within the system, and to put me in a position to invest in myself, my family, my tribe, my community in order to prevent negative consequences hitting them as hard. This textbook scam describes most startups in America. Hell, most growth-focused businesses. Infinite growth isn't feasible, but investors like to think it is.

The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.

- Ted Kaczynski
In the medium-term Tesla is an interesting high-growth high-risk stock option, and I like it for that

 

[inuyashiware]

Linkedin just makes me psychotic every time I look at what people are posting on it. Truly the peak of globalized capitalism sheol.

post any cringe you find here.

Corporate lab rats

 

[Some_porcupine]

Corporate lab rats

mindhive, psyop in real time, on live tv net.
assimilation. redditi(fi)cation
it is automatic. how circlejerks eventually do...

 

[LostintheCycle]

The emojis really add something, don't they?
Many comments about this report are forgetting that this is global, meaning it includes the world outside of the Anglosphere, like Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America. They keep talking about how to fix it back at home, talking about Andrew Tate or history education, but this report is essentially irrelevant to the world they live in.

 

[RisingThumb]

The emojis really add something, don't they?

YES, THEY ADD EVERYTHING!!! A few emojis can tell a whole story, like THESE ONES HERE!!!

 

[Some_porcupine]

r/LinkedInLunatics​

Similar to r/LinkedInLunatics

• r/linkedincringe

 

[wearyinternettraveler]

bury me:

If You Can't Find a Job, It's Your Fault

(If you're one of those people who loves to blame the government, the President, the economy, your country, your school, your lack of experience, your excess of experience, your culture, your race, your major, your age, or your language skills, and enjoy being a finger-pointing victim, please leave

www.linkedin.com

>realtor
It's funny because she doesn't have a real job either

 

[RisingThumb]

Being good doesn't pay the bills

 

[InsufferableCynic]

Kill it with fire

 

[pronoundisrespecter]

Kill it with fire

I would rather work for free than have to submit a video introduction to a prospective employer as if I'm on a fucking reality TV show

 

[RisingThumb]

Kill it with fire

I understand the motive behind this. Cover letters can be automated now. Voice clips are also possible to automate.

So a proper introduction that involves GROVELLING AT THE FEET OF YOUR CORPORATE OVERLORDS is this(the same way cover letters are).

 

[Pangolin]

Kill it with fire

Fuck no, though then again we are already there with the whole video interviews.

I will add a new category of linked-in posts:
The whine posts to bitch about it in clean corpospeak about why they arent somewhere or why they cant or why life is to hard. Woe is me. That usually elicits very tepid responses since nobody cares about why you can't, but these are also the easiest posts to create.

 

[Some_porcupine]

Or allegorical stories and metaphors why we suck
So much of LI and twitter are just those
Slovaks are (stupid, weak, clueless, backstabbers...)

 

[Vitnira]

I avoid LinkedIn whenever possible and just browse my emails for recruiter spam. The whole website is too cringey for me.
I'm one of those people that finds certain levels of cringe actually painful. I can handle low-tier cringe if it's funny enough, but LinkedIn is such a constant stream of mild cringe I can't stand browsing it for too long. It hurts.

So much posturing. So much virtue signalling. So much fakeness. I basically update it once a year with my skills and job roles, pop in to stalk people, look at what roles are available for my skillsets (gives me a pulse on what specific things to focus on growing and highlighting).

>reddit, 4chan, Discord all lend themselves to spectacular cringe because they are dumpster fires. LinkednIn is like a slowly simmering hobo trash can fire.

 

[Pangolin]

Oh yeah I use it sometimes to look at my peers from school and such and look at how little they have accomplished compared to me. So mainly I just use it as a site for boasting. I also use Facebook the same way, as a site to boast about how my life is so awesome.

Keep in mind you're seeing them at their best. All their bad situations and failures are kept secret.

 

[Some_porcupine]

Oh yeah I use it sometimes to look at my peers from school and such and look at how little they have accomplished compared to me. So mainly I just use it as a site for boasting. I also use Facebook the same way, as a site to boast about how my life is so awesome.

Keep in mind you're seeing them at their best. All their bad situations and failures are kept secret.

bad for me i cant fake

 

[ビンス]

 

[wearyinternettraveler]

[snip]

These footfags are getting out of control!

 

[あ-L-る]

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What about having two DIFFERENT shoes? Or one feet with a shoe and the other without? And what about using a jetpack? Checkmate liberals.

 

[LostintheCycle]

I made an account to do some trolling on Linkedin, not really trolling but more like a parody account. Had a whole backstory too, but unfortunately Linkedin said I was 'suspicious' and said I have to download an app and take a picture of government issued identity to get my account back. My account and posts have been scraped too, BASTARDS