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  • We are not talking about what the most realistic case scenario would be if something like royalties were implemented. Of course companies will find ways to screw their workers, for example, with speculative profit as part of payment etc etc. I’m with you in that yes that’s what’s most likely to happen if it were applied in our society in this day and age and in some countries it would go worse than in others. We get that.

    The whole point of this comment thread was what isn’t happening, therefore, which morals or ethical considerations one doesn’t need to mind because of that. It’s not that “this payment style would be better if implemented”, rather, " if payment worked that way, pirating would be harmful to the workers"


  • I’m not the person you replied to at any point in the thread, and I agree that there is potential for a slippery slope in a similar way it happens with tipping culture.

    But my understanding of the original comment was that workers should also get a share of profit after the game is released, with no changes to the salary they received during the production stage which is just covering for labor as it happens everywhere else. Upfront payment and royalties, proportional to profit. (This type of arrangement is unusual but exists, or used to exist, in publishing, for both authors and illustrators).

    The idea wasn’t to change it one for the other but hypothetically add it, but we know greed won’t allow that to happen, which is used as a moral point for piracy: you are not hurting the people who did the hard work at all





  • Yes especially when you take into account the amount of people who can barely speak the official language of the country who are seeking a driver’s license. You don’t know their cultural backgrounds, their experiences or expectations. When you are explaining a set of rules, it helps to be consistent and thorough. It also prevents people who fail a test to sue or complain against the organism saying they were never informed.

    Source: I am an immigrant that got a drivers license in a country with this type of left turning. I don’t know if things are still the same, but when I did my training and test, nobody forced me to watch or read stuff. I was free to choose how many times I wanted to watch or read a resource.











  • Mothra@mander.xyztomemes@lemmy.worldThe way of the monk
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    11 days ago

    We’re discussing the use of lose and loose in particular, not other words; and in the specific context of the text in this meme. Just because you can think of plenty of examples of social networks that have loose structures (and so can I, and most people) doesn’t mean it’s okay to use the word any way you feel is right for you.

    Or in other words, a sentence can be structurally sound but be invalid in terms of cultural convention and language use. And in such a case, it’s still deemed to be grammatically incorrect - whether it’s misspelling or misusing of the word.

    But you have the right to disagree all you want.

    I disagree:

    The phrase ‘tight-knit community’ exists, and is fairly commonly used.

    We were not discussing ‘tight-knit’

    A ‘loose-knit community’ would have…

    Yes, would have. I’ve never heard the term, perhaps it exists. But it’s used as an adjective here, not a verb as in our case. Point irrelevant.

    A social network is often mathematically/academically/professionally described as a bunch of points, clustered, with connections between them.

    Even the very word ‘network’ is etymylogically derived from a net, an interwoven mesh.

    You very much can literally loosen or tighten a net, make one that is more pourous or more dense in terms of threads in any given surface area.

    Hey there ya go, even Threads is an actual name for a social network.

    I think the metaphor or analogy of social networks being described by other terms that literally apply to an actual net or fabric is… actually incredibly common.

    All this is irrelevant. Of course you can describe loose networks. Or meshes. Or nets. Note loose is an adjective in all of these cases, again. Not the usage we were originally discussing.

    … You’ve never heard a person being described as having 'loose ties to (other person/group)?

    Yeah I’ve heard. Adjective again.

    Have you never watched any kind of detective show, a ‘stop the terrorists’ political action thriller?

    Yes, I have. Irrelevant though.


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    Loosen ties means to make cords or ties less tight. It’s a physical thing. For example, with your shoestrings, you can loosen these ties if they happen to be too tight. You can also lose your shoestrings, meaning you lost them and don’t know where they are anymore.

    You don’t talk about emotional or social ties like that. You can lose social ties though, in the sense of loss. But you don’t loose social ties, it doesn’t make sense. That’s the difference between the two words.