I regularly get more expensive prices when browsing on my Apple stuff than my GF on her Android.

The vast majority of people are non-techies, and that’s quite profitable.

80 hours.

What an absolute acid trip of a country.

This works very very well for me as well.

Make sure every point you make is objectively sustainable and don’t deviate from the truth. People hate having rock-solid bullet-pointed lists describing why they’re idiots chucked at them.

Laden or unladen?

(Sorry, I only vaguely remember the sketch)

As with all pricing: because they can.

These people read the cliffnotes and take everything at face value. Reasoning on material does not get you clicks.

Been reading too much Asimov, I see.

It does matter, because the article uses the word “want”.

Why are we saying “engineers” when we know full well there isn’t a single qualified engineer in there that thinks this bullshit is a good idea?

This is management being management.