This is why I started watching Louis his board repair videos initially, I have no intention to ever solder anything yet Louis has a very healthy and good world view that doesn't stray away from challenging things and making yourself better.
Innovation get exponentially harder as time progresses. Marx identified this fact in the 19th. As a result, the only way for the line to go up at a certain point is for companies to find ways to feign innovation, and steal from others in the economy.
What blows my mind is that someone would sell me a vehicle that has all the functioning components of heated seats - whether I'm willing to be extorted to turn them on or not. So the components I paid for are there, even if I don't pay to have it remotely enabled. The car is mine, components mine, but my ability to use the property I paid for is being limited remotely unless I pay them to stop. This should be illegal.
@@barongerhardt It should be legal to break any software locks on hardware that is in ones possession. Because like you said, wiring in a switch is mostly like flipping a bit somewhere.
@@barongerhardt - That's how you end up with cryptographically signed hardware that's designed to brick itself if you change anything without manufacturer approval. The CEOs need to go to prison for signing off on this garbage. Anything else justifies pulling out a Super Nintendo to play some Super Mario Bros.
As a shade tree mechanic, I can tell you, manufacturers have been putting software in cars to detect non-authorized maintenance on vehicles since at least 2005, that was when I first encountered it. The car will seem to be ok, then run rough, for no reason. I was forced to tell them to go to a dealer, who, for $200, would hit one button to "recalibrate." But the thing is, that same model car with the same engine would also auto-detect maintenance being done, and automatically recalibrate itself. No button from the dealership necessary. The strangest thing to me was how the car would wait until it left the shop, give it a few hours, because completely malfunctioning and revving to 5,000 RPM. that was when I knew it was intentional and malicious.
This reminds me of the movie Don't Look Up where a CEO of huge technology company persuaded the US government to let the asteroid hit the Earth in order to mine rare minerals out of it. After some public backslash they then backtracked from that plan a little and tried to mine the minerals and divert the asteroid away from Earth while it was still on its way. But that has failed because they did not have a reliable enough technology to do so. And there was no plan B. The US mission to stop the asteroid was abandoned in order to mine the minerals out of it. And the Russian mission has failed to even lift off. So the Earth was destroyed.
I have a macbook that started turning off an alarm would go off and I thought I needed to send it to Rossman Repair. This is a testament to Rossman Repair because the first email I got back was something like "it probably has too much Ram, take a Ram chip out" and I removed an extra Ram chip that someone installed previously to me owning the computer. Didnt even have to send it in. They didnt say "send it in, we'll take a look" and charge me whatever hundreds. Rossman fixed my computer without even trying. That is honest
@@NoobsDeSroobs Any computer has a limit to the amount of RAM it is built to manage. There are also specifications for RAM speed and channel width to work around.
@MonkeyJedi99 Yes, but not in a laptop. We are not in the age of 32 bit OS anymore, and you can not physically put enough ram in the little dpace there is to overwhelm a properly design circuit these days.
I know it's a bad take, but I've always loved SMB2. Idk why. Ofc 3 is amazing and world is very good as well. Maybe it's throwing vegetables that I enjoyed... lol
How long until I have to learn how to build an entire car without being an engineer, perform surgery on myself without a doctor's license and produce my own medicine without being a pharmacist?
I remember when my mom developed an autoimmune disease in her 60s. After having insurance her entire life, her insurance company decided that her treatment wasn’t medically necessary so they wouldn’t pay for infusions that her doctor said she needed. The risk of not getting the infusions? Complete paralysis including of smooth tissue and lung function. My parents had to pay between 10-20k for each infusion out of pocket after having health insurance their entire life from that provider. What a great system.
@@DerIchBinDawhat affects most Americans today only affected a small and less “fair” portion of the country…. Now , corporations don’t care, they have smoke for everyone.
@@Darth_Bateman So it did get much worse the last years? More people are affected now and for more and more health issues which do net get covered, do I understand that correctly?
@@DerIchBinDa I'm Finnish, and here some people are scared the current government is going to cause healthcare to become like in USA, due to all kinds of budget cuts being taken due to dept. So hopefully _that situation_ made an example of how mad people might get. At least future _doers_ know they can get away with it, as long as people are willing to impersonate them :P
No, that is not the correct leap to make here. Companies do this because we let them. Pirating and stealing (of this type) does not hurt them. They already have your money. Taking BACK that money hurts them. If a company changes the terms of purchase and you disagree with them, return the product. If enough people do that, they will be forced into corrective action.
@@littleshopofrandom685 Yes, it literally is. If a bully punches you, the correct answer is to stand up for yourself and violently defend yourself. Doesn't matter if it is in school as a child or as an adult using 2A. And in this case, if a company bullies you in their many forms, you are entitled to stand up for yourself and hit back in a way you deem acceptable. Companies and bullies do not get to choose what they deem is acceptable retaliation. It's that simple. Always legal? No. But you know what? I always got in trouble along with the bully at school too. Also, you are wrong if you think pirating doesnt hurt them. They have the analytics to know. Gabe Newell once said "piracy is a service issue." And all these companies know it. Enough piracies and they will be forced to make corrective action as well.
@@littleshopofrandom685 How do you return a product that you have had for years? Most return policies are between 2-4 weeks, rarely can you return something years later. So unless you want to just return a product and get no refund and just ship it to them and pay for that shipping then go at it. In an instance like this the only thing you can do is hack/modify the product to remove there ability to even control the product after you bought it, assuming that is even possible.
Oh, it's been in education for a LONG time. Textbooks are very expensive, and sometimes the only difference between two editions is the order that subtopics are listed, or the ordering of the questions in the quizzes at the back of the chapter. (JUST enough so that if you have a used copy from last year, you can't follow along with the professor's answer key.)
Even worse, I could not purchase used books because professors assigned books that required an online licensing key that would expire within a year. This was back in the early 2010s. I can only dread how it has worsened since then.
@@ProtossHyrdalisk It's not that the money is good, in some places, especially for large corporations people have very little employment options.I don't see myself neither as a socialist nor a capitalist, I simply belive that small bussnises are in most cases more beneficial to employees and costumers, not because small businesses are moral but because they have competition and they have to be better than the competition. For example try to replace amazon as an employer in some areas, it's dificult but if you had 1000 small businesses the costumers and the employee would have a more varied choice.
I think the Problem in the last is, that in the last decades the idea shifted from "How can we create/add value and then get paid for that" to "How can we get paid the most for little added value (because that costs)" . That is also visible at the top of companies changing from engineers to finance people and adding more and more companies together where the top has nothing to do with the problem anymore.
@TiBiAstro well yes and no. The closer the people in charge are to the customer and the produkt, the more they feel accountable. By now the people on top have nothing but numbers. Also they got closer and closer to politics.
This thankfully does open a gap in the market, because I guarantee you as soon as any company actually tries to make things better, people will flock to it (and sure, enshitification will catchup, but just keep switching to whatever is the current best option). That's the beauty of complete freedom of choice without external choice/policy at play. Take your money where it best serves you. I had no issue canceling Netflix when it overstayed it's welcome. It was nice while it lasted, but now the value isn't there for me.
@@QuantumConundrumthat would be great, however manufacturers are trying as much as they can to hook up on their stuff and vendor lock you. For example, if your minors have Apple iPhone - good luck performing any parental controls or geolocation tracking from Android phone. So leaving some vendor lock sometimes can be mission impossible.
Its kinda always been like that, but what use to stop them from getting away with it, was lack of a walled garden. The DMCA prevents you from touching digital locks, and it also nukes fair use because you need an army of lawyers to have fair use rights. With things being digital, there's no easy work around, so the walled garden effect is magnified. Then you have the magnification of the centralization of the market under too big to fail and cost of scale factors, all driven by the thought control of IP rights.
Ifi recall correctly The Train in Poland situation was a Logic Bomb (when X days inside Y GPS perimeter, start giving issues) rather than remote disabling. But it pretty much is the same field of corporate malpractice (if you don't agree to my brutal practices say bye bye to your purchased EQUIPMENT) .
I normally watch UA-cam anonymously, but I felt compelled enough to use my account to comment here. Thank you for everything you do, including your FUTO software. I thoroughly enjoy Grayjay and the keyboard. I saw that Grayjay for the desktop just dropped (even though it's in Alpha right now).
even if you think profit is okay, even if think being richer than 99% can be okay depending on how did you get it; You still can agree there is a STRUCTURAL problem here; most actions of the state, and most of the media and big companies are ruled by a restrict group of enriched people who is there only due to abuse and exploitation. Capitalism is NOT a synonym of free market. Capitalism is when the power of money is bigger than democracy. It's when the state is ruled by capitalists. And capitalists are who have enough power to hijack the state. So you don't even need to be communist to be against capitalism.
I like how they included the word rights in DRM. Rights management. They are not managing their rights, they are managing yours. The term itself is so fundamentally dystopian. Your right to ownership is being managed by them. Your right to do what you want with your property is being managed by them.
@@rossmanngroup nothing has changed, in the end, it is all about control, one day I will come to America, and I wish to work for you, hopefully you are alive by then.
Yep. Have myself a VCR and a PS2 in my bedroom. Although, I’m not as dedicated as you. I do have an Apple TV in the living room. Although, I’ve turned off the WiFi around my house. Everything that I want connected to the internet is hardwired with cat 5-6 and switches.
@yoshikinanami7434 Exactly. I get what I need from it, and it does everything fine. Big oled screen, good camera, micro SD storage, headphone jack, and USB C fast charge. Don't see myself needing anything else, really. Its way cheaper to repair the screen or replace the battery on an older phone.
There needs to be a political party that has a platform that includes consumer protections, privacy, and ownership rights as part of the platform. Warranty and insurance denial (including heathcare) is also a huge issue. Warranties are just arbitrarily denied. Things have gotten so extreme and out of hand in the US.
@SuperFlashDriver You can't win with an independent party. The existing party needs to be taken over. The far right took over the Republican party on an independent platform. What needs to happen is a platform within the democratic party needs to form. I think Bernie Sanders is trying to do this.
It'll never truly happen because all of washington is bought out by corporations. Corporations own the law makers and can afford high-priced attorneys who will tie you up in the court system until you've used your last cent. Even the woefully few "honest-ish" politicians can't even do anything about it, because their purchased brethren outnumber them.
I feel like "how much money you make" and "how you make your money" are connected. While questionable ethics can exist at all levels of profitability, I wonder whether anyone has amassed a net worth exceeding $1 billion without having caused undue harm - whether it's harm to their customers, their employees, or the general public through externalities like polluting the environment?
This is the exact thing people are saying when they say "eat the rich". Most people, even socialists don't give a shit if the guy that owns a local mechanic shop has a beach house, there is however no POSSIBLE way to get to a billion dollars without stepping on someone else
Not at this juncture no, the ones already at the top will rig it so that nobody of high moral standing can reach their level of wealth and power because they'd be a threat even by just passively leading by example. The way things are set up also systemically favour sociapathic behaviour between the scale being so huge that it's impossible not to fly past Dunbar's Number, and just the amount of politicking that is required to succeed in the corporate world between petty office politics and navigating all the GSR and envious sabotage by coworkers, and the more macro stuff like lobbying and all the lawyering that's required, lawyers and lawmakers especially are both carreers witha perverse incentive in making just basic living for everyone else as difficult as possible because if navigating the law and redressing greivances was easy they'd be obsolete, the entire concept of legalese is less a consequence of things getting more complex and rather a deliberate stumbling blokc put in place to gatekeep laymen out of the big club and featherbed the careers of the parasites.
There are no ethical billionaires. Also yes, I don't begrudge success but there's success and then there's the hyper wealthy. They are not the same thing.
The mega rich actively supress ethical competition because that would just expose what a shameless grift their excuses for needing to do all this unethical crap to be profitable is. So indeed there are no ethical billionaires it's theoretically possible for one to exist but not at this societal juncture where the oligarchy is entrentched and actively rigging the system to only allow the corrupt to be successful.
I’ve left companies and given up serious money for lesser reasons. Why are so many people so complacent and willingly complicit in this crap. I think we need more organization and leadership on the people side, the organism is missing a backbone
There are plenty of organizations and leaders with integrity... but we will never know or hear about them. There is no significant source of funding to magnify their reach and visibility, and they are opposing the deep pocketed lies of industry lobbyists that fund US lawmakers campaigns. The incentive structures are perverse and the system is broken. At least Europe has decent consumer protections...
Oh man, this actually exists?! Does your printer also take ink instead of cartridges? I'd really appreciate if you could post the model number because I can't stand my printer 😅
Louis Rossmann-many thanks and much appreciation for everything you do. You have 2.2M subscribers. It’s on each of us to discourage these evil corporate practices, wherever we engage in discourse. Thanks for your work!
Thank you, Louis! You have such a great way of putting things into proper focus. I don't care how much money a person makes, I care about how they treat their employees AND customers.
Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent revolution inevitable...its not a justification, its a recognition of cause and effect combined with basic human psychology.
The Island of Dr. Monroe should be required reading. At the end of the day, humans are still just animals. A bunch of animals with very primal feelings and reactions. Our civility is built upon a fragile balance of satisfying those primal needs enough that the population can continue putting on the facade, the mask of civility and peace. People are about to learn what happens when you knock over that balance and return humans to their true nature.
I started reading the fourth turning and it goes over this fact in historical detail. We are at a point now where the younger generations don't relate with what was established when the boomers took power. Just as with everything on this planet, entropy happens and you must migrate, adapt, or die (M.A.D for short)
NEWAG really should get nationalized for this. The company fucked around, and it is high time these companies found out this isn't acceptable behavior.
Fined and/or compensate ticket holders (way over the price of tickets) for the stress of stranding them, yes. The government running it instead is not the solution.
@@devyn7853there is no example of privatisation working successfully. I live in Scotland where the trains are nationalised and I can count on one hand the number of times my train has been late or cancelled in the 3 years I've lived there. Meanwhile, my friend in England where trains are privatised just posted today that EVERY train she has caught in 2024 was delayed or cancelled. Every single one. Privatisation👏does👏not👏work👏 (especially when it comes to natural monopolies)
@@devyn7853 A fine is gonna do nothing except make them think they can get away with it by just paying a little money to make the issue go away lol. Fines for companies like NEWAG aren't even a blip on their radar, they're just the cost of doing business.
I've been writing about this on Threads for the past few weeks, and I agree completely. All the memes, all the "support" of "The Adjuster", is a reaction not to a brazen and brutal daylight crime, it's an unleashing of anger, grief, and dissatisfaction about being constantly exploited. It's a shame a guy died, but all that anger has to go somewhere, and this was the easy outlet.
I call the thing that keeps the violent option from being more widespread the "thin veneer of civilization". And some companies, some politicians, some news outlets... are working really hard with 60-grit to scrape off that veneer.
I'd love peaceful positive change! Thank you for being a voice for it. I really hope there are enough decent human beings running business and making decisions that will listen.
why does everyone insist on peace from the exploited while the exploiters get free use of violence? a healthcare CEO gets shot and I'm supposed to hand-wring about the 'culture' and the 'humanity' while said CEO was explicitly letting people die from preventable or treatable illnesses for money and boasting about it to his shareholders? Why is that violence acceptable? because he made the line go up for shareholders?
People just have to accept that doing what is right is difficult and will have costs. Lead by example. Do the right thing when no one else around you is. It will cost, but it's the only way to break the cycle. It will take courage and strength.
Been a few good years I've been following the content. It's good to see you haven't changed much. In terms of peaceful cultural change, the probability of that going down is close to none, but I hope I'm wrong.
Loancare (mortgage servicer)is trying this, I can no longer log in and view my documents. I'm met with a forced arbitration agreement and other forced contracts. I never sign a single document with this company, they purchased the "servicing" contract from my original provider over 8 years ago. I no longer have access to any of my mortgage documents. Cannot for the life of me see how this can be legal.
In USA Federal Law, Forced Arbitration does not apply to outright illegal actions. US Federal Law supersedes local state and municipality law with established precedent in a New York case. Forced Arbitration therefore cannot override existing contracts you signed in a resulting unlawful changing of the contract. Forced Arbitration applies to "controversy". The Terms of Service, Terms and Conditions of software, and the End User License Agreement (EULA) apply to negligible incidents such as typos, as long as those typos do not result in the death of a customer through being served an allergen. Generally, ToS and EULAs are applicable to a "License", like a Driver's License, these are arbitrary attestations of ongoing business between two parties, however a ToS or EULA cannot govern all interactions with a company. It is strongly recommended to maintain physical hard copies of your mortgage documents for reference, should the digital service for accessing them become unavailable. If you feel that your rights are being violated, then you should engage the services of an attorney or other legal representative who can establish that any violations occurring are of a criminal sort and therefore are exempt from any Arbitration clauses whatsoever. If Loancare has broken their contract, you may no longer be bound to the original terms of the contract and may be awarded damages. I am not a lawyer, you will need to engage the services of one to demonstrate a case that a Judge won't be able to dismiss under Arbitration law. Or at the very least, to provide a strongly worded letter to Loancare informing of them of the limitation of Arbitration law, and necessitating compliance with the law within a timely fashion following notification as per the result of any confusion with regards to the governance of Forced Arbitration.
@@marvinmallette6795absolutely love the thorough detail but if this person is already in a ton of debt how are they supposed to pay an attorney or other legal expert?
What's crazy is that economists have been predicting stuff like the "Mario Bros Situation" since the 19th century. It's not hard to look at what people like the robber barons were doing back in the day and think "you know, people can only be pushed so far." Except this time, it's not the workers, but the customers that are getting shafted.
We live in a time when there’s no faith in the social contract. Human societies, from hunter-gatherer gift-giving economies through to medieval monarchs through to renaissance merchants, have always ultimately run on a social contract. That doing work of value to society is rewarded, and we respect those who benefit from our work. Those calling for communist or socialist revolution are really desperately reaching for a perceived return to the social contract, just as those arguing for neoliberalism or right wing authoritarianism are desperately grasping for a return to the social contract. In these dark times, you are right that the small business owner is held to the social contract, when those with more power are not. And many of those with more power might find themselves constrained in a system that forces a twisted view of the social contract (eg, treating their staff awfully in order to keep costs low, in turn keeping sales up, in turn allowing them to pay their staff).
Funny thing is at a glance the mic in the thumbnail makes it look kinda like he's holding a short barreled shotgun so I was like, "oh man he's going to war over Mario" lol
Alternatively impose a mandatory 25 year product warranty on all electronic devices, where corporations can only evade their warranty obligation by making the devices easy to service. "We won't provide batteries because the battery spec is public and literally anyone can make them." - "We won't provide updates because it's been 10 years, but the bootloader is unlocked so you can install whatever operating system you want." - "We won't fix your screen, but here's ten other manufacturers that make replacements you can slot in, and here's the iFixIt page for DIY repair."
9:05 I don't think you're not doing evil stuff just because you're held accountable for consequences. I think you'd rather do the right thing. You've showed us multiple times that between the easy and wrong path, and the tough and right path, you took the right path, Louis.
Man, when Louis said "You know when you see in the comments section of an article about this Polish train thing and someone says 'someone should be playing Super Mario Bros in Poland', you know what the fuck they mean" I realised that I must be getting old because I have no clue what that sentence means, absolutely zero. It's like no-one uses words anymore, every sentence is 50% meme language and 50% references to events that completely pass me by.
I'm guessing it's a reference to the first name of the guy who shot the UH CEO. Mario, Luigi... You know, the main characters in Super Mario Bros. The accused killer is named Luigi. Because if it's not that I have no idea what it means either.
I totally agree with you about the meme speak (I still say it should be spelled meem) and events I don't focus on. It wasn't until I read the comments here that I figured out what the Super Mario thing was all about. I'm a huge fan of Mr. Rossmann and today was a rough watch. Still I applaud everything he said... now that I understand it. :)
@@ddkapps Thanks for spelling it out, I would never have figured that out on my own since I've never read or heard the name and am only vaguely aware of the event itself; that one never stood a chance of getting over the recognition threshold in my brain.
one key point to add about the whole "they aren't making money with innovation". most companies never have. most companies historically relied on population growth to increase the bottom line once they have established themselves, but most 1st world countries are decreasing in their replacement rates, and mark my word, once we do fall below replacement, you'll see some truly evil business practices to ensure quarterly growth.
All cars sold as of 2026 are mandated to have remote shut of and geo fencing.... You can not shut it off remotely or control the geo fencing, so who can, when and why exactly?
Love what you’re saying Louis, but the issues are at least implicitly linked because the amount of profit a lot of these companies are making is ONLY possible thru extortion, and innovation-based growth of a company is too slow for them.
Louis brings out the best point and that's how people's minds have changed when it comes to being ripped off by corporations. When somebody has had enough anything can happen
Louis the problem as i understand it is that you have to start stepping on people to make more money beyond a certain threshold and this dynamic is not just on the individual level, USA wouldn't be the wealthiest country if it didn't exploit other countries.
To be precise, the manufacturer did not disabled trains remotely. The GPS data of all workshops was hardcoded in the PLC code. If train has been left for more than a number of days in one of the hardcoded locations, the firmware simulated random errors, preventing workshop's engineers from starting it.
If a company started that does the following: 1. Pays its entire workforce fairly based on cost of living and value they bring to the company. 2. Charges market rates for their products. 3. Makes their products durable and reliable. 4. Allows independent repair 5. publishes schematics even if for a small fee; their CEO could make $450 Trillion a year for all I care. Those are the values I care about.
Very well said. Those who make decisions that consumers hate never seem to have to deal with that hate by consumers. They let their underlings as they would call them, deal with it.
Another problem that the people don't realize is sometimes it's literally impossible to get these CEO's out of power. You gonna sue a billion or trillion dollar company? Good luck. The gov will bail them out and you'll be left in financial ruin. I'm not saying that Luigi's a hero, but how else are you gonna make these people pay?
Stop using these company's services/products. But those who shoot someone in the back, and those that cheered him on, are also probably the same ones too weak to actually choose alternative products on mass.
@@benwhittle7204I'm not condoning their behavior But you do realize almost no health insurance company in the US is for YOUR benefit? Sure they give you options, but they will try to say no when they absolutely can.
Whether we like it or not, at the end of the day, super Mario is the only thing they are going to listen to. The choice of sequels really isn't on us, but them. I'm tired of sequels are would like to see some new IPs similar to those of old.
@@benwhittle7204 - ...and what happens when those companies buy up all of their competitors and all 20 brands are owned by the same megacorp that does the same stuff across every brand name and product line? Are we supposed to just not have bank accounts? Go without basic phone service?
Mr. Rossmann, what do you think of the soon-to-be-announced ThinkPad X9 Aura Edition which doesn't have a TrackPoint? In their press material, they advertise its... non-soldered SSDs. As if it isn't a given, on a ThinkPad no less. As if it's a feature to brag about. Update: It's worse. It's so much worse... No Page Up/Page Down keys, the Delete button is in the wrong place (remember the transtition from 7-row to chicklet?), the Fn and Ctrl are swapped. This has got to be an out-of-season April Fools joke. It's so over.
No track point, no think pad. They have been slowly butchering the IBM legacy. When they remove the track point, They will have completed their mission, and are no longer allowed to call it a think pad.
@@rossmanngroup When roku added that and prevented me from watching my movies I canceled them and the movie I like that was on roku came out on bluray any way so i don't need them any more I even got a portable bluray player to. I took a picture of me canceling it and posted on there twitter I don't know if they care but I did any way.
8:56 “My small business can’t do this because I would be held accountable.” Yup; big businesses get away with it simply because they’re so big. Just like the schoolyard bully.
A rolling stock manufacture not letting a railroad maintain its own rolling stock is insane. Companies messing with other companies is whole different level.
It often feels like anyone I talk to is not familiar with companies screwing over their customers, mandating a subscription and giving all your information to them and making products with all kinds of proprietary stuff and closed source shit without giving the customer the right to own.
Hey Louis, I admit that I do make fun of people who knowingly buy from X companies, and I often say, "You deserve to be screwed." To clarify, this sentiment is directed only toward those who are fully aware of X company’s practices yet continue to support them. I say this because, ultimately, the strongest way we can push back is with our wallets. While advocacy and speaking out against manufacturers' policies are important, consumer spending sends the most powerful message. Unfortunately, many people don't care until they experience the consequences themselves. That’s why I say, "You deserve to be screwed" it’s a wake-up call to recognize the impact of their choices.
Law is the opinion of politicians asserted trough use of violence. It has nothing to do at all with justice. Justice is to right a wrong. While Vengance to to harm someone that has harmed you. When justice is not possible. The people will seek Vengance. Threats only go so far as people have something to lose. But to be honest. If a loved one died because some unscrupulous company say that they didn't need a treatment. I would problably be the #1 fan of Mario Bros. And the least there would be in my mind is pleasing the opinion of politicians.
Well here's the thing, though, with most corporate gazillionaires. It's very rare today to find one who made his big bucks by doing anything other than cheating lying stealing abusing...
Changing the terms after the sale is nothing more than bait and switch. It should be a crime because it is criminal. You are so insightful in saying what you've said here. You hit it right on the head for why things are the way they currently are. The real problem is that faceless corporations own the government.
changing the terms post-sale is no different then them breaking into your house and stealing 20 bucks from your wallet, and it's a disgusting that it isn't treated as such. if they want the customer to agree to flexible terms, then that shit needs to be defined in a contract, signed at the point of sale, and not some "you agree if you tear open the box" nonsense either. actual, real signed paper that both parties can keep for their records. If companies that engage in this behavior were not thieves to begin with, then they would not be afraid to put their terms out in the open before money is exchanged.
I wanna highlight something. I may not agree with Louis on billionaires, but he's entirely in his right to not identify with leftism, even if I do. I think the primary difference between someone like Louis and an actual leftist/communist is the analytic conclusion that all of this predatory stuff is an inevitable consequence of the way capitalism works.
Why is it acceptable for governments to use violence and the threat of violence or it's citizenry but it's not acceptable (or considered a dark place) for the citizenry to use even a modicum of violence when the government is abusing that power....?
The biggest problem with this train manufacturer is that they blocked trains remotely whenever they appeared in independent workshops for a planned inspection, not related to any failure. Other train workshops did these inspections cheaper, so to prevent the inspection from being cheaper, the manufacturer remotely turned off the train, blocked it completely whenever the GPS position matched the location of such a workshop. Finally, manufacter sued a group of hackers, hired by the train owner (the one who bought the train), who discovered in the source code of the train controller that something like remote blocking is possible for violating copyrights to the code.
in a sane world it should not be possible to copyright the code that hard goods require in order to function as sold. at least, it should not be any more illegal to reverse engineer a gear assembly than it is the code that drives the engine timing or whatever.
@@swolfington The reality is that these hackers were accused and sued for copyright infringement. Disputes in Polish courts can drag on for 8-10 years or even longer. Even if they win the case in the end (which is not obvious in Polish law), they will lose a few good years of their lives and a lot of money on lawyers.
Amazon is now scummy as well with their pay for ad free and I bet you didnt know if you don't pay you also don't get Dolby Atmos or Dolby Vision. Absolute scam. And they call it brought to you with limited interruptions. Lol.
I agree. The way it once was went sour with the internet. I believe it was then everything started. Long time ago when you bought some product you got a manual with it in how to fix stuf if it breaks. Now you get a qr code to get run over. Thanks for great videos.
Thank you Louis... This is actually the sinest and most rational take I've heard on this. No identitarianism, just historic facts. The reason we have the law in the first place is to prevent people from taking justice into their own hands. When it fails, it's dangerous for everyone.
The consequences for remotely shutting down those trains should have been the same consequences that I would receive if I got mad about the policies of United Airlines and decided to sabotage their software, grounding all their flights for a week. The executives at Newag, the manufacturer who had remotely shut down those trains, should be spending DECADES in prison for opting to shut down critical infrastructure. Domestic Terrorism charges, or similar. Why is it even governments like to accept the premise of assholes?
Louis is 90% of the way there, but just how much money these companies / people make SHOULD absolutely be a point of focus. The fact that these companies make BILLIONS of dollars is more than just salt in the wound, it's a direct contributing factor to the quality of people's lives. Most people agree that we shouldn't print infinite money, so when companies make ever more money with ever increasing profits, where does that money come from? Their profits by definition leave less money in the economy for everyone else. Most people cannot comprehend the amount of money these companies make and how far that money would go to improve society / people's every day lives if it was not off-shored or concentrated to a select few at the top.
you are almost making the connection... At one time the money companies did make (going with US companies since I am in the USA) did stay here and improved the USA. that company had Americans working for them in factories that was here which those workers spent money in the community in which more people had money and so on.. then NAFTA came which the giant sucking sound started and those local jobs were sucked away, which now all other biz which relied on those people having money to spend all of a sudden didn't have it anymore which meant they closed which meant more people with no money. Where I live in 1990 quality of life was good, by 2001 quality of life was not good due to nafta. 2024 quality of life is still not good. What needs to happen is no more globalism, the US needs to make everything is needs with American labor. no more made in commie china shit imported. If it is to be sold here then it needs to be 100% made here. As for the money printing, that gets to the companies via the fed print and spend into the stock market for the most part. fiat currency is a time b0mb that will go off. Gold/Silver is the only way to correct that.
@@Dratchev241NAFTA really isn't the issue or cause for our modern globalism problems. The real problem is the same as it has always been: resources. This includes raw materials, manpower, technical knowledge, research & development, etc. Not every country has the immediate resources to fix their problems. Take European countries for example, most of them don't have access to massive oil reserves, so they need to trade from somewhere like the Middle East. Or if you want a more local example here in the USA, we don't have the manpower to fulfill our agricultural and construction needs, so we hire people from Latin America. Mind you, this is something that has always been a problem throughout history. Kingdoms have always fought for precious farmlands, territory and trade routes, manpower sources (a.k.a. slavery), and important water resources.
@@Ruben_M.The USA absolutely has the manpower to occupy these jobs without immigrants..... The point is they hire immigrants who accept getting paid pennies for their labor...
5:00 This is the argument that the general public has been making about the Brian Thompson situation. People were cheering because a bully got retribution, the fact that he was profiteering was only fuel to the fire...
If you thought BMW was bad, watch what's happening with the new Dodge Charger Two trims, identical in every way, but one has base model performance and the other is the performance trim. The only difference? The performance trim has software that tells it to go faster. And it costs $20000 more than the base model. A software package...
Over simplifying it to "it's just a software change" won't help you understand it. There are warranty implications, essentially Dodge is potentially taking on a bigger warranty claim risk as just one example. I'm actually all for these kinds of things, that allows the manufacturer to mass purchase and simplify production lines.... provided that it DOES actually reduce costs for the ones NOT opting to enable that "feature". Which is what SHOULD happen, but it doesn't, they just claim a bigger profit from the lower spec'd version, which is why I am currently against it.
I don't care how unpopular this is, it's the truth. American cars stopped innovating a long time ago. I'm not saying I want a Chinese car or that I trust a Chinese car, but you see what's going on in China with cars that would cost the equivalent of 20,000 to 40,000 US dollars. It is amazing. They're making cars that can go in a circle stationary. Then you look at Ford, whose latest patent is advertising to you based on spying sensors inside your vehicle. ua-cam.com/video/5euh13nd10g/v-deo.html Or GM whose latest innovation is selling your personal data to insurance companies so they can hike your rates without your consent. ua-cam.com/video/seyvYETWf34/v-deo.html I don't want to live in China,. I have to acknowledge, though, that there is a giant difference between the rapid innovation happening in their automotive industry in hours where Ford, who has almost completely gotten out of the sedan industry because their cars sucked so much and were not able to compete, is tasking their engineers with coming up with new and inventive ways to spy on and advertise to people inside the vehicle. American automakers are a meme
@@rossmanngroup Stellantis (soon to go the way of British Leyland) is a Dutch corporation, Louis. That new Dodge Charger has no roots as an 'American' car.
@@rossmanngroup which is why, love them or hate them, Tesla has been able to actually disrupt the giant legacy American car industry, because Tesla continuously evolves, while the rest are asleep at the wheel (pun intended). While China absolutely shouldn't be underestimated, they're still drastically behind in terms of things like safety, go watch the Xiaomi EV crash on the track, look at the driver's seat after the crash, but also importantly, at the end of the video, they show pictures of the "big beefy" brake calipers, as one such example.... There are also questions on whether or not the CCP are _heavily_ subsidising cars from the likes of BYD, selling them essentially at a loss, with the sole purpose of destroying the American and European car market. America stopped innovating a long time ago, not just with cars.
@@benwhittle7204 i'm not so sure i'd describe tesla as "evolving". no real product refreshes since each product's initial release (why does the model S still look the same after 13 years for example), "Full Self Driving" isn't full and actually went backwards by replacing LIDAR with cameras which dramatically increased the error rate (things like lane change into brake slams and the like). Lots of promises never followed up on like the hotswappable battery packs, the aforementioned FSD, and that perpetual scam claim of future robotaxi functionality (ala "it will drive itself as a taxi while you're not using it so paying 80k for a 40k car will actually make you money in 5 years yada yada"). Not to mention the robotaxis themselves and that Optimus joke are actually all remote controlled behind the scenes, but it's taken out of the playbook that worked for them before: build a passable looking prototype for demo and figure out how to make it work after showing it to the public to raise stock price. And dont get me started on the uglyass Cybertruck, which of the $500 preorders that actually followed through on buying, only 2% have actually been delivered and are plagued with quality control and safety issues leading to large recalls. Tesla is running exclusively on hypefumes, but they've only got the veneer of innovation... Not sure how long it will be before the shoe drops, or if they'll finally stop pufferying and actually make what they claim to be (where the hell is the Roadster?)
One does not have to like/agree/condone something for it to be true. The relentless pressure of helplessness against these forces that people face everyday will eventually create these situations.
I've been living in Poland my entire life and it's a country where things change and new regulations are introduced only when someone dies from negligence. So yeah sometimes these thoughts cross my mind, what if we just expedite this change and start with some politicians. But that's no way to run a society.
I'm not Marxist either, but I believe you are not honest in this one because you forgot a crucial point. If you condemn selfishness, you should also acknowledge that: 1) We are not equal; we don't live in a just world, but rather the opposite. Some of us are much luckier than others (starting with the fact that we inherit wealth/success/contacts or poverty/problems simply by being born in one spot and not in another). 2) There is also a lot of selfish ways to use money (e.g., to influence politics or news for your own interest, to accumulate goods that are polluting/endangering the planet, to finance selfish or useless businesses, etc.). Everyone has a duty to make the world a better place, the poor but also the lucky ones who can live without struggling, and one of these duties is to share. Notice that I don't believe giving to the poor is the solution to stop poverty because I believe it's mostly a social issue. I'm not Marxist; I'm scientific.
Oh my I remember the Polish train DRM scandal. I put the date the "DRM" chose for the trains' secondary compressor to "fail" in my calendar so I never forget. I cannot believe the audacity of the train manufacturer, and I suppose this is a successful example of showing them this behaviour is not acceptable.
I just wanted to point out you are spot on with people making fun of the customers. It's gotten so bad, there is a war going on within the video game industry and its customers. UA-camrs and influencers are actively siding with companies against customers. Instead of daring to complain to the companies about criticisms they themselves admit to having... I've seen these influencers make videos basically making fun of the customer, telling them not to complain. Often outright lying and pretending said criticism doesn't exist. And I'm willing to bet, half of you reading this side with the companies and corporations.
Yeah, the problem is people normalize this and even defend it. When I point this kind of thing out to people about their electronics or computers, they either shrug it off and say "well it's never going to affect me so why should I care?" or they defend it adamantly because they have to justify that they bought it anyway.
The question is, should healthcare BE a company? I submit that the answer is no. I'm fine with capitalism, but there are things it should not be involved in - infrastructure, government, healthcare. We need to root it out of these things
Thank you for putting this into words far better than I could. I don't like people getting harmed. I don't think you can only condemn illegal things. I think if you affect other people's lives you should never be immune to consequences. These 3 things are hard to combine, but we had too much of people not feeling the consequences of their actions and I'm sick of it.
It’s scary, but you’re right. Not a single sane person thinks it’s weird that Super Mario Bros did what they did. We’ve crossed the line of how much ruthless greed we can tolerate.
While I don't condone the mario bros reaction thing, I completely understand why someone who was wronged to a great extent, rather it is financially or physically, (or both) would do that. Especially if you feel you have nothing left to lose. People often judge at surface level "oh he was one of those people, or he supported that". There is a reason the Trucker Protests happened. There is a reason certain political gatherings that the media won't shut up about happened. People reach their breaking point when the thumb is pressed down upon them for too long. Everything is broken. And even those who say they will fix it, often fail to do so.
Also on the other side of the coin, what Luigi did, didn't solve the problem either. Within 1 day the CEO was replaced with another one, like a Duracell being swapped out for an Energizer. The CEO is just a job position. And they don't even call all the decisions for a company. They're a puppet for the board of directors. A meaningless cog. Just like every job position below that. The machine continues.
@@Tall_Order true, but now being CEO is just a little more dangerous. You can't tell me the new CEO isn't thinking "am i going to get boondock sainted today?"
I'm not against people making profit as long as they pay taxes. But there's a point where you can't make that much propfit without blood in your hands.
Taxation is theft, especially given how we've watched billions of our dollars go to other countries or people here illegally all while actual Americans are hurting or outright abandoned after these floods, fires, hurricanes, etc.
I think the message is clear: Don't steal from people, and if you sell them something they own it. Selling insurance and then doing everything you can to deny legitimate claims is theft. Retaining ownership of hardware through software after a sale is theft. Defending yourself against thieves is justified self defense.
I've started playing gen 5-8 video games now. Use an older non smart TV too. The new trends are making everything worthless. Were being screwed by big tech
This is not just a computer repair channel. This is a channel of moral integrity and valuable content. 👍🏼
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Every channel should be a channel of moral integrity and valuable content.
Basically no different from a political channel advising people of what lies ahead.
Wait...this is a computer repair channel?
This is why I started watching Louis his board repair videos initially, I have no intention to ever solder anything yet Louis has a very healthy and good world view that doesn't stray away from challenging things and making yourself better.
I guess the quote feels more complete like this: "These days they don't make money through innovation, these days they make money by extortion."
Innovation get exponentially harder as time progresses. Marx identified this fact in the 19th.
As a result, the only way for the line to go up at a certain point is for companies to find ways to feign innovation, and steal from others in the economy.
I've been told that there is no greater insult to an economist than "rent-seeking."
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Aye
That's how Oracle works.
What blows my mind is that someone would sell me a vehicle that has all the functioning components of heated seats - whether I'm willing to be extorted to turn them on or not. So the components I paid for are there, even if I don't pay to have it remotely enabled. The car is mine, components mine, but my ability to use the property I paid for is being limited remotely unless I pay them to stop. This should be illegal.
"You will own nothing, and like it."
It shouldn't be illegal, but it should be 100% legal for the owner to splice in a switch to the 12v.
@@barongerhardt It should be legal to break any software locks on hardware that is in ones possession. Because like you said, wiring in a switch is mostly like flipping a bit somewhere.
@@barongerhardt - That's how you end up with cryptographically signed hardware that's designed to brick itself if you change anything without manufacturer approval. The CEOs need to go to prison for signing off on this garbage. Anything else justifies pulling out a Super Nintendo to play some Super Mario Bros.
@@barongerhardtIt is legal to do that ...
I thought he had a flintlock strapped to his chest like it's the mf 1700s 💀
It's to fight off Apple lawyers
@@45545videos as the founding fathers intended
I love musket balls and my Flintlock Glock - Captain Dan.
Yeah, that's one giant microphone.
@@tenrec
Speak softly and into a big mic. Or something...lol
Remember: Louis Rossmann is not suicidal.
He's also not a real threat to the system - he doesn't have enough money to be 😉
how do you know? maybe he is
@@kerolokerokeroloyou seem suicidal…
@@kerolokerokerolo shut up fed
remdnmber: sloud rkrksnod nyo sucijda 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
I thought this was actually going to be about Super Mario Bros.
Just watched the new movie with my niece yesterday. She loved it.
Me too, I got clickbaited hard 😭
It took me a second to relize what he meant by that.
Yeah :| I wish he would stick to using cats to draw in viewers.
Then Nintendo would send him a cease and desist.
Nintendo videos get taken down faster than videos about unaliving people.
As a shade tree mechanic, I can tell you, manufacturers have been putting software in cars to detect non-authorized maintenance on vehicles since at least 2005, that was when I first encountered it. The car will seem to be ok, then run rough, for no reason. I was forced to tell them to go to a dealer, who, for $200, would hit one button to "recalibrate."
But the thing is, that same model car with the same engine would also auto-detect maintenance being done, and automatically recalibrate itself. No button from the dealership necessary.
The strangest thing to me was how the car would wait until it left the shop, give it a few hours, because completely malfunctioning and revving to 5,000 RPM. that was when I knew it was intentional and malicious.
"Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."
"Board member in The Outer Worlds"
This reminds me of the movie Don't Look Up where a CEO of huge technology company persuaded the US government to let the asteroid hit the Earth in order to mine rare minerals out of it.
After some public backslash they then backtracked from that plan a little and tried to mine the minerals and divert the asteroid away from Earth while it was still on its way. But that has failed because they did not have a reliable enough technology to do so. And there was no plan B. The US mission to stop the asteroid was abandoned in order to mine the minerals out of it. And the Russian mission has failed to even lift off. So the Earth was destroyed.
There's a Kurt Vonnegut quote about how we will go down in history as the only society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective.
The thing that always bothered me about this one... they aren't creating value... they're taking it from somewhere.
That's basically the end result The Corporations are going for.
I have a macbook that started turning off an alarm would go off and I thought I needed to send it to Rossman Repair. This is a testament to Rossman Repair because the first email I got back was something like "it probably has too much Ram, take a Ram chip out" and I removed an extra Ram chip that someone installed previously to me owning the computer. Didnt even have to send it in. They didnt say "send it in, we'll take a look" and charge me whatever hundreds. Rossman fixed my computer without even trying. That is honest
Proofreading matters
Apple... Having too much RAM.
@@jessl1934 take this L
@@NoobsDeSroobs Any computer has a limit to the amount of RAM it is built to manage.
There are also specifications for RAM speed and channel width to work around.
@MonkeyJedi99 Yes, but not in a laptop. We are not in the age of 32 bit OS anymore, and you can not physically put enough ram in the little dpace there is to overwhelm a properly design circuit these days.
And here I thought Louis was gonna talk about how much he loves SMB3 and is considered the greatest game of all time.
It’s a great choice. I’ll always be a Super Mario World guy, but do love SMB3
We, patricians, know that Lost Levels is actually the best game
We all know that Doki Doki Panic was the only Mario game to ever exist
I know it's a bad take, but I've always loved SMB2. Idk why. Ofc 3 is amazing and world is very good as well. Maybe it's throwing vegetables that I enjoyed... lol
Server Message Block is shit, no matter the version
How long until I have to learn how to build an entire car without being an engineer, perform surgery on myself without a doctor's license and produce my own medicine without being a pharmacist?
The time is now
I met a bachelor did a frame up overhaul on his pickup every so many years.
I remember when my mom developed an autoimmune disease in her 60s. After having insurance her entire life, her insurance company decided that her treatment wasn’t medically necessary so they wouldn’t pay for infusions that her doctor said she needed. The risk of not getting the infusions? Complete paralysis including of smooth tissue and lung function.
My parents had to pay between 10-20k for each infusion out of pocket after having health insurance their entire life from that provider.
What a great system.
As an European I really always wondered what took so long that somebody did a Luigi in a country filled to the brim with guns. I would be livid!
@@DerIchBinDawhat affects most Americans today only affected a small and less “fair” portion of the country…. Now , corporations don’t care, they have smoke for everyone.
@@Darth_Bateman So it did get much worse the last years? More people are affected now and for more and more health issues which do net get covered, do I understand that correctly?
@@DerIchBinDa I'm Finnish, and here some people are scared the current government is going to cause healthcare to become like in USA, due to all kinds of budget cuts being taken due to dept.
So hopefully _that situation_ made an example of how mad people might get. At least future _doers_ know they can get away with it, as long as people are willing to impersonate them :P
@@DerIchBinDaAfter watching Jillian Michaels episode on Luigi and american healthcare system I finally understood how insane their "healthcare" is.
if THEY change the agreed upon ToS, im free to do what i want including "pirating" , aaannd so on... THANKS LOU
Love how THEY say that THEY can change the ToS at any time! Isn't IP law wonderful?
Changing the agreement one-sidedly should be illegal with no exemptions other than force majeure like one party being incapacitated or dead.
No, that is not the correct leap to make here. Companies do this because we let them. Pirating and stealing (of this type) does not hurt them. They already have your money. Taking BACK that money hurts them. If a company changes the terms of purchase and you disagree with them, return the product. If enough people do that, they will be forced into corrective action.
@@littleshopofrandom685 Yes, it literally is. If a bully punches you, the correct answer is to stand up for yourself and violently defend yourself. Doesn't matter if it is in school as a child or as an adult using 2A. And in this case, if a company bullies you in their many forms, you are entitled to stand up for yourself and hit back in a way you deem acceptable. Companies and bullies do not get to choose what they deem is acceptable retaliation. It's that simple. Always legal? No. But you know what? I always got in trouble along with the bully at school too.
Also, you are wrong if you think pirating doesnt hurt them. They have the analytics to know. Gabe Newell once said "piracy is a service issue." And all these companies know it. Enough piracies and they will be forced to make corrective action as well.
@@littleshopofrandom685 How do you return a product that you have had for years? Most return policies are between 2-4 weeks, rarely can you return something years later. So unless you want to just return a product and get no refund and just ship it to them and pay for that shipping then go at it. In an instance like this the only thing you can do is hack/modify the product to remove there ability to even control the product after you bought it, assuming that is even possible.
Oh, it's been in education for a LONG time. Textbooks are very expensive, and sometimes the only difference between two editions is the order that subtopics are listed, or the ordering of the questions in the quizzes at the back of the chapter. (JUST enough so that if you have a used copy from last year, you can't follow along with the professor's answer key.)
I remember it back from 1985
Even worse, I could not purchase used books because professors assigned books that required an online licensing key that would expire within a year. This was back in the early 2010s. I can only dread how it has worsened since then.
@@Morncreek Books should just be part of the tuition.
@@macethorns1168 I'm lucky that's the case in my university.
@@macethorns1168but then how are the people at the top of the pyramid scheme supposed to make their money?
Let's be honest here, they're not abusing just the customers, many of these companies are also abusing the employees
The thing is the money is so good most people will put up with it.
@@ProtossHyrdalisk It's not that the money is good, in some places, especially for large corporations people have very little employment options.I don't see myself neither as a socialist nor a capitalist, I simply belive that small bussnises are in most cases more beneficial to employees and costumers, not because small businesses are moral but because they have competition and they have to be better than the competition. For example try to replace amazon as an employer in some areas, it's dificult but if you had 1000 small businesses the costumers and the employee would have a more varied choice.
It's not criminal to identify as a Socialist
Let's be honest, all these companies are abusing their employees
Welcome to capitalism - Profits over People!
I think the Problem in the last is, that in the last decades the idea shifted from "How can we create/add value and then get paid for that" to "How can we get paid the most for little added value (because that costs)" .
That is also visible at the top of companies changing from engineers to finance people and adding more and more companies together where the top has nothing to do with the problem anymore.
I hate to tell you this, but capitalism has always been about how to squeeze the most out of the least, always.
@TiBiAstro well yes and no. The closer the people in charge are to the customer and the produkt, the more they feel accountable. By now the people on top have nothing but numbers. Also they got closer and closer to politics.
This thankfully does open a gap in the market, because I guarantee you as soon as any company actually tries to make things better, people will flock to it (and sure, enshitification will catchup, but just keep switching to whatever is the current best option).
That's the beauty of complete freedom of choice without external choice/policy at play. Take your money where it best serves you.
I had no issue canceling Netflix when it overstayed it's welcome. It was nice while it lasted, but now the value isn't there for me.
@@QuantumConundrumthat would be great, however manufacturers are trying as much as they can to hook up on their stuff and vendor lock you. For example, if your minors have Apple iPhone - good luck performing any parental controls or geolocation tracking from Android phone. So leaving some vendor lock sometimes can be mission impossible.
Its kinda always been like that, but what use to stop them from getting away with it, was lack of a walled garden. The DMCA prevents you from touching digital locks, and it also nukes fair use because you need an army of lawyers to have fair use rights.
With things being digital, there's no easy work around, so the walled garden effect is magnified. Then you have the magnification of the centralization of the market under too big to fail and cost of scale factors, all driven by the thought control of IP rights.
Ifi recall correctly The Train in Poland situation was a Logic Bomb (when X days inside Y GPS perimeter, start giving issues) rather than remote disabling.
But it pretty much is the same field of corporate malpractice (if you don't agree to my brutal practices say bye bye to your purchased EQUIPMENT) .
It was both, the logic bomb output was that the train system wouldn't start at all, so the trains were effectively being disabled.
poland Polska is an US NATO Enclave..satellite these days, nobody should be suprised their Trains lock up😅
I mean, that's basically what John Deere was/is doing. Multi-million dollar piece of equipment that they can just shutdown whenever.
"Deny, Defend, Derail" has to the be the funniest shit i've heard all month
It's "Deflect", not "Defend". They know they can't defend this.
@@one_step_sideways They did deflect the train, though. Off the track.
@@one_step_sideways I'm going off of what was originally on the bullet
@@megatronskneecap it's funny Till the derail part becomes reality because the Break is deactivated....
trolley problem solved
I normally watch UA-cam anonymously, but I felt compelled enough to use my account to comment here. Thank you for everything you do, including your FUTO software. I thoroughly enjoy Grayjay and the keyboard. I saw that Grayjay for the desktop just dropped (even though it's in Alpha right now).
Thanks I had totally missed the entire FUTO thing. Just installed the keyboard and voice. 👍
i typed this comment with the futo keyboard. heck yeah 😎
Enshitification is the natural evolutionary path for any corporation
Microsoft
It's the carcinization equivalent of the business world.
even if you think profit is okay, even if think being richer than 99% can be okay depending on how did you get it; You still can agree there is a STRUCTURAL problem here; most actions of the state, and most of the media and big companies are ruled by a restrict group of enriched people who is there only due to abuse and exploitation.
Capitalism is NOT a synonym of free market. Capitalism is when the power of money is bigger than democracy. It's when the state is ruled by capitalists. And capitalists are who have enough power to hijack the state. So you don't even need to be communist to be against capitalism.
DRM is the worst thing to happen since subscription models.
DRM is there before the suscription models.
@AntiGrieferGames There are also far worse things lurking in the background which will include these two elements... and a lot more.
DRM predates these services for a very long time, and many many people like the fsf warned very strongly about it.
I like how they included the word rights in DRM. Rights management. They are not managing their rights, they are managing yours. The term itself is so fundamentally dystopian. Your right to ownership is being managed by them. Your right to do what you want with your property is being managed by them.
@@rossmanngroup nothing has changed, in the end, it is all about control, one day I will come to America, and I wish to work for you, hopefully you are alive by then.
MAMMA MIA LUIGI, this is a shitty terms of service…. WAAAAAaaaaoooooooooo
It's OK Mario, I've got you... Hold my beer battered shrimp.
@ Luigi…. It’s the mushrooms…. Imma think I’m a tripping the ballzzz…. MAMMA MIAAA 🍄
Luigi: where's the CEO ?
@@wikwayer he is in another castle.
@@rhetorical1488 Luigi: not for long
This is why i have a 15 yr old car, a 7 yr old phone and do everything from my computer with cords. No streaming services or nadda. Sick of it all.
Hanging on to a phone for at least 6 years should be the norm. Phones nowadays aren’t getting that much better each generation.
Yep. Have myself a VCR and a PS2 in my bedroom. Although, I’m not as dedicated as you. I do have an Apple TV in the living room.
Although, I’ve turned off the WiFi around my house. Everything that I want connected to the internet is hardwired with cat 5-6 and switches.
@@ProtossHyrdalisk how do you hard wire a device that does not have a rj45?
@yoshikinanami7434 Exactly. I get what I need from it, and it does everything fine.
Big oled screen, good camera, micro SD storage, headphone jack, and USB C fast charge. Don't see myself needing anything else, really.
Its way cheaper to repair the screen or replace the battery on an older phone.
That is the only solution in such a ridiculous clown world :'D
There needs to be a political party that has a platform that includes consumer protections, privacy, and ownership rights as part of the platform. Warranty and insurance denial (including heathcare) is also a huge issue. Warranties are just arbitrarily denied. Things have gotten so extreme and out of hand in the US.
Isn't that what the "Independent" party is for???
@SuperFlashDriver You can't win with an independent party. The existing party needs to be taken over. The far right took over the Republican party on an independent platform. What needs to happen is a platform within the democratic party needs to form. I think Bernie Sanders is trying to do this.
It'll never truly happen because all of washington is bought out by corporations. Corporations own the law makers and can afford high-priced attorneys who will tie you up in the court system until you've used your last cent. Even the woefully few "honest-ish" politicians can't even do anything about it, because their purchased brethren outnumber them.
@SuperFlashDriver Independent is for supporting third party candidates that won't win anything and don't intend to either
@@superduperdrew12345 Hmmm...it was just an idea.
I feel like "how much money you make" and "how you make your money" are connected. While questionable ethics can exist at all levels of profitability, I wonder whether anyone has amassed a net worth exceeding $1 billion without having caused undue harm - whether it's harm to their customers, their employees, or the general public through externalities like polluting the environment?
This is the exact thing people are saying when they say "eat the rich". Most people, even socialists don't give a shit if the guy that owns a local mechanic shop has a beach house, there is however no POSSIBLE way to get to a billion dollars without stepping on someone else
This is a fact
Not at this juncture no, the ones already at the top will rig it so that nobody of high moral standing can reach their level of wealth and power because they'd be a threat even by just passively leading by example. The way things are set up also systemically favour sociapathic behaviour between the scale being so huge that it's impossible not to fly past Dunbar's Number, and just the amount of politicking that is required to succeed in the corporate world between petty office politics and navigating all the GSR and envious sabotage by coworkers, and the more macro stuff like lobbying and all the lawyering that's required, lawyers and lawmakers especially are both carreers witha perverse incentive in making just basic living for everyone else as difficult as possible because if navigating the law and redressing greivances was easy they'd be obsolete, the entire concept of legalese is less a consequence of things getting more complex and rather a deliberate stumbling blokc put in place to gatekeep laymen out of the big club and featherbed the careers of the parasites.
There are no ethical billionaires. Also yes, I don't begrudge success but there's success and then there's the hyper wealthy. They are not the same thing.
The mega rich actively supress ethical competition because that would just expose what a shameless grift their excuses for needing to do all this unethical crap to be profitable is. So indeed there are no ethical billionaires it's theoretically possible for one to exist but not at this societal juncture where the oligarchy is entrentched and actively rigging the system to only allow the corrupt to be successful.
As doctor who said, logical conclusion to capitalism. Short term profits mean shorter term of life.
I’ve left companies and given up serious money for lesser reasons. Why are so many people so complacent and willingly complicit in this crap. I think we need more organization and leadership on the people side, the organism is missing a backbone
There are plenty of organizations and leaders with integrity... but we will never know or hear about them. There is no significant source of funding to magnify their reach and visibility, and they are opposing the deep pocketed lies of industry lobbyists that fund US lawmakers campaigns. The incentive structures are perverse and the system is broken. At least Europe has decent consumer protections...
I recently got myself a new printer at home. It took some serious searching to find a printer that DIDN'T have a monthly subscription. WTF
Oh man, this actually exists?! Does your printer also take ink instead of cartridges?
I'd really appreciate if you could post the model number because I can't stand my printer 😅
Im in the exact same boat....can you share which one you purchased? Im still searching for one
Get a Brother @@cgrooney9945
Pls share the name
I have ancient Canon and Brother laser printers so I'm safe. I doubt I'll buy another printer.
Louis Rossmann-many thanks and much appreciation for everything you do. You have 2.2M subscribers. It’s on each of us to discourage these evil corporate practices, wherever we engage in discourse. Thanks for your work!
Thank you, Louis! You have such a great way of putting things into proper focus. I don't care how much money a person makes, I care about how they treat their employees AND customers.
Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent revolution inevitable...its not a justification, its a recognition of cause and effect combined with basic human psychology.
Remember that when the people you dislike have their own violent revolution.
The Island of Dr. Monroe should be required reading. At the end of the day, humans are still just animals. A bunch of animals with very primal feelings and reactions.
Our civility is built upon a fragile balance of satisfying those primal needs enough that the population can continue putting on the facade, the mask of civility and peace. People are about to learn what happens when you knock over that balance and return humans to their true nature.
@@DerekS-kq3zh Ok corporate simp.
I started reading the fourth turning and it goes over this fact in historical detail. We are at a point now where the younger generations don't relate with what was established when the boomers took power. Just as with everything on this planet, entropy happens and you must migrate, adapt, or die (M.A.D for short)
Hmm, did Pelosi send you in here to find some way to justify and distract from her involvement?
NEWAG really should get nationalized for this. The company fucked around, and it is high time these companies found out this isn't acceptable behavior.
Or bare minimum FINED the price of the train.
People in charge of Newag have political connections. It wouldn’t surprise me if they punished the people who discovered the wrong-doing.
Fined and/or compensate ticket holders (way over the price of tickets) for the stress of stranding them, yes. The government running it instead is not the solution.
@@devyn7853there is no example of privatisation working successfully. I live in Scotland where the trains are nationalised and I can count on one hand the number of times my train has been late or cancelled in the 3 years I've lived there. Meanwhile, my friend in England where trains are privatised just posted today that EVERY train she has caught in 2024 was delayed or cancelled. Every single one.
Privatisation👏does👏not👏work👏 (especially when it comes to natural monopolies)
@@devyn7853 A fine is gonna do nothing except make them think they can get away with it by just paying a little money to make the issue go away lol. Fines for companies like NEWAG aren't even a blip on their radar, they're just the cost of doing business.
*I never expected **_Louis Rossman_** to discuss Super Mario Bros...*
I've been writing about this on Threads for the past few weeks, and I agree completely. All the memes, all the "support" of "The Adjuster", is a reaction not to a brazen and brutal daylight crime, it's an unleashing of anger, grief, and dissatisfaction about being constantly exploited. It's a shame a guy died, but all that anger has to go somewhere, and this was the easy outlet.
Is it really a shame when mass murderers are stopped?
I call the thing that keeps the violent option from being more widespread the "thin veneer of civilization".
And some companies, some politicians, some news outlets... are working really hard with 60-grit to scrape off that veneer.
@@MonkeyJedi99 Truth! They’ve pulled out the sand blaster!
Indeed! I don't like murder but I don't want to die because my insurance doesn't want to cover my treatment.
If civilization gets sold out barbarism remains.
I'd love peaceful positive change! Thank you for being a voice for it. I really hope there are enough decent human beings running business and making decisions that will listen.
keep hoping
why does everyone insist on peace from the exploited while the exploiters get free use of violence? a healthcare CEO gets shot and I'm supposed to hand-wring about the 'culture' and the 'humanity' while said CEO was explicitly letting people die from preventable or treatable illnesses for money and boasting about it to his shareholders? Why is that violence acceptable? because he made the line go up for shareholders?
I'd love it too.
But I'm not waiting for it anymore.
There aren't.
People just have to accept that doing what is right is difficult and will have costs. Lead by example. Do the right thing when no one else around you is. It will cost, but it's the only way to break the cycle. It will take courage and strength.
Been a few good years I've been following the content. It's good to see you haven't changed much.
In terms of peaceful cultural change, the probability of that going down is close to none, but I hope I'm wrong.
Loancare (mortgage servicer)is trying this, I can no longer log in and view my documents. I'm met with a forced arbitration agreement and other forced contracts. I never sign a single document with this company, they purchased the "servicing" contract from my original provider over 8 years ago. I no longer have access to any of my mortgage documents. Cannot for the life of me see how this can be legal.
In USA Federal Law, Forced Arbitration does not apply to outright illegal actions. US Federal Law supersedes local state and municipality law with established precedent in a New York case. Forced Arbitration therefore cannot override existing contracts you signed in a resulting unlawful changing of the contract. Forced Arbitration applies to "controversy". The Terms of Service, Terms and Conditions of software, and the End User License Agreement (EULA) apply to negligible incidents such as typos, as long as those typos do not result in the death of a customer through being served an allergen. Generally, ToS and EULAs are applicable to a "License", like a Driver's License, these are arbitrary attestations of ongoing business between two parties, however a ToS or EULA cannot govern all interactions with a company.
It is strongly recommended to maintain physical hard copies of your mortgage documents for reference, should the digital service for accessing them become unavailable. If you feel that your rights are being violated, then you should engage the services of an attorney or other legal representative who can establish that any violations occurring are of a criminal sort and therefore are exempt from any Arbitration clauses whatsoever. If Loancare has broken their contract, you may no longer be bound to the original terms of the contract and may be awarded damages. I am not a lawyer, you will need to engage the services of one to demonstrate a case that a Judge won't be able to dismiss under Arbitration law. Or at the very least, to provide a strongly worded letter to Loancare informing of them of the limitation of Arbitration law, and necessitating compliance with the law within a timely fashion following notification as per the result of any confusion with regards to the governance of Forced Arbitration.
That forced arbitration is legal is just mindblowing, I am so glad it is not legal here in Germany.
@@DerIchBinDa Germans are fine, unless they speak against the regime, then it's off to jail. #Schwachkopf
@@marvinmallette6795absolutely love the thorough detail but if this person is already in a ton of debt how are they supposed to pay an attorney or other legal expert?
We need so many player twos.
Happy new year Louis, may we all strive for the honesty you emulate.
I had this in the background and when i came back i saw the mic at 7:53 and thought " HOLY SHIT IS THAT A SHOTGUN" till i got closer LMAO
What's crazy is that economists have been predicting stuff like the "Mario Bros Situation" since the 19th century.
It's not hard to look at what people like the robber barons were doing back in the day and think "you know, people can only be pushed so far."
Except this time, it's not the workers, but the customers that are getting shafted.
It's both workers and consumers, the inevitability of maximal capital accumulation demands it be taken from everyone
The workers are the customers. These corporations make us for fractions of value that we did decades ago then extort us for every penny of that back.
Legitimate question: what's up with Super Mario Bros? What connection does it have with people rising up against corporate abuse of customers?
@@leonro The guy who allegedly shot the UH CEO is named Luigi.
@@leonroOne of the Mario brothers is named Luigi, so people are bringing it up in reference to Luigi Mangione, who killed the UnitedHealth Care CEO.
We live in a time when there’s no faith in the social contract. Human societies, from hunter-gatherer gift-giving economies through to medieval monarchs through to renaissance merchants, have always ultimately run on a social contract. That doing work of value to society is rewarded, and we respect those who benefit from our work. Those calling for communist or socialist revolution are really desperately reaching for a perceived return to the social contract, just as those arguing for neoliberalism or right wing authoritarianism are desperately grasping for a return to the social contract. In these dark times, you are right that the small business owner is held to the social contract, when those with more power are not. And many of those with more power might find themselves constrained in a system that forces a twisted view of the social contract (eg, treating their staff awfully in order to keep costs low, in turn keeping sales up, in turn allowing them to pay their staff).
Nowadays I am addicted to your updates.
This has so much therapeutic value, it's insane :')
Funny thing is at a glance the mic in the thumbnail makes it look kinda like he's holding a short barreled shotgun so I was like, "oh man he's going to war over Mario" lol
Companies should not be allowed to sell stuff that can't be worked on/repaired! Seems like it would keep more crap out of landfills.
Alternatively impose a mandatory 25 year product warranty on all electronic devices, where corporations can only evade their warranty obligation by making the devices easy to service. "We won't provide batteries because the battery spec is public and literally anyone can make them." - "We won't provide updates because it's been 10 years, but the bootloader is unlocked so you can install whatever operating system you want." - "We won't fix your screen, but here's ten other manufacturers that make replacements you can slot in, and here's the iFixIt page for DIY repair."
9:05 I don't think you're not doing evil stuff just because you're held accountable for consequences. I think you'd rather do the right thing. You've showed us multiple times that between the easy and wrong path, and the tough and right path, you took the right path, Louis.
Man, when Louis said "You know when you see in the comments section of an article about this Polish train thing and someone says 'someone should be playing Super Mario Bros in Poland', you know what the fuck they mean" I realised that I must be getting old because I have no clue what that sentence means, absolutely zero. It's like no-one uses words anymore, every sentence is 50% meme language and 50% references to events that completely pass me by.
I'm guessing it's a reference to the first name of the guy who shot the UH CEO. Mario, Luigi... You know, the main characters in Super Mario Bros. The accused killer is named Luigi. Because if it's not that I have no idea what it means either.
@@ddkapps Thank you, that makes sense.
I totally agree with you about the meme speak (I still say it should be spelled meem) and events I don't focus on. It wasn't until I read the comments here that I figured out what the Super Mario thing was all about. I'm a huge fan of Mr. Rossmann and today was a rough watch. Still I applaud everything he said... now that I understand it. :)
@@ddkappsYeah it is 100% that.
First time I've seen people reference it like that tho.
@@ddkapps Thanks for spelling it out, I would never have figured that out on my own since I've never read or heard the name and am only vaguely aware of the event itself; that one never stood a chance of getting over the recognition threshold in my brain.
When you spend more $ on lobbying than improving your customer exp, you're not the good guy
one key point to add about the whole "they aren't making money with innovation". most companies never have. most companies historically relied on population growth to increase the bottom line once they have established themselves, but most 1st world countries are decreasing in their replacement rates, and mark my word, once we do fall below replacement, you'll see some truly evil business practices to ensure quarterly growth.
All cars sold as of 2026 are mandated to have remote shut of and geo fencing....
You can not shut it off remotely or control the geo fencing, so who can, when and why exactly?
Source?
@Morncreek look it up.. was publicized months ago... multiple youtubers have already covered this.
Part of that bi-partisan “infrastructure” bill.
Bi-partisan is how you know it’s bad for everyone.
Love what you’re saying Louis, but the issues are at least implicitly linked because the amount of profit a lot of these companies are making is ONLY possible thru extortion, and innovation-based growth of a company is too slow for them.
Louis brings out the best point and that's how people's minds have changed when it comes to being ripped off by corporations. When somebody has had enough anything can happen
Louis the problem as i understand it is that you have to start stepping on people to make more money beyond a certain threshold and this dynamic is not just on the individual level, USA wouldn't be the wealthiest country if it didn't exploit other countries.
To be precise, the manufacturer did not disabled trains remotely. The GPS data of all workshops was hardcoded in the PLC code. If train has been left for more than a number of days in one of the hardcoded locations, the firmware simulated random errors, preventing workshop's engineers from starting it.
If a company started that does the following: 1. Pays its entire workforce fairly based on cost of living and value they bring to the company. 2. Charges market rates for their products. 3. Makes their products durable and reliable. 4. Allows independent repair 5. publishes schematics even if for a small fee; their CEO could make $450 Trillion a year for all I care. Those are the values I care about.
did this with doom... paid 60$ for it only to have to sign up a bethesda account to actually play it. wtf???
Yeah it bad.
But atleast on steam you can see it before purchasing.
@321Jarn Guy probably just hasn't actually bought a game in a while
Very well said. Those who make decisions that consumers hate never seem to have to deal with that hate by consumers. They let their underlings as they would call them, deal with it.
Another problem that the people don't realize is sometimes it's literally impossible to get these CEO's out of power. You gonna sue a billion or trillion dollar company? Good luck. The gov will bail them out and you'll be left in financial ruin. I'm not saying that Luigi's a hero, but how else are you gonna make these people pay?
Stop using these company's services/products.
But those who shoot someone in the back, and those that cheered him on, are also probably the same ones too weak to actually choose alternative products on mass.
@@benwhittle7204I'm not condoning their behavior
But you do realize almost no health insurance company in the US is for YOUR benefit? Sure they give you options, but they will try to say no when they absolutely can.
Whether we like it or not, at the end of the day, super Mario is the only thing they are going to listen to. The choice of sequels really isn't on us, but them. I'm tired of sequels are would like to see some new IPs similar to those of old.
Oh boy. Pelosi's connection needs to be investigated.
@@benwhittle7204 - ...and what happens when those companies buy up all of their competitors and all 20 brands are owned by the same megacorp that does the same stuff across every brand name and product line? Are we supposed to just not have bank accounts? Go without basic phone service?
Mr. Rossmann, what do you think of the soon-to-be-announced ThinkPad X9 Aura Edition which doesn't have a TrackPoint? In their press material, they advertise its... non-soldered SSDs. As if it isn't a given, on a ThinkPad no less. As if it's a feature to brag about.
Update: It's worse. It's so much worse... No Page Up/Page Down keys, the Delete button is in the wrong place (remember the transtition from 7-row to chicklet?), the Fn and Ctrl are swapped. This has got to be an out-of-season April Fools joke. It's so over.
No track point, no think pad. They have been slowly butchering the IBM legacy. When they remove the track point, They will have completed their mission, and are no longer allowed to call it a think pad.
Is it Lenovo? I know Thinkpad is very popular among comp geeks, but no Lenovo for me I'm afraid. No Huawei, no Opera, no Tiktok... you get it
@@D.von.N on older thinkpads you can get rid of almost (if not all) spyware etc.
@@rossmanngroup When roku added that and prevented me from watching my movies I canceled them and the movie I like that was on roku came out on bluray any way so i don't need them any more I even got a portable bluray player to. I took a picture of me canceling it and posted on there twitter I don't know if they care but I did any way.
Are Framework laptops as good as a classic T-Series thinkpad?
8:56 “My small business can’t do this because I would be held accountable.” Yup; big businesses get away with it simply because they’re so big. Just like the schoolyard bully.
2:36 “she looks at me with this 😡“
A rolling stock manufacture not letting a railroad maintain its own rolling stock is insane.
Companies messing with other companies is whole different level.
look into the airline industry. you have to buy the rights to work on ANYTHING.
In the journey for maximum profits, you’re always gonna end up with the question of “should I be unethical” and the answer will always be yes.
It often feels like anyone I talk to is not familiar with companies screwing over their customers, mandating a subscription and giving all your information to them and making products with all kinds of proprietary stuff and closed source shit without giving the customer the right to own.
Hey Louis, I admit that I do make fun of people who knowingly buy from X companies, and I often say, "You deserve to be screwed." To clarify, this sentiment is directed only toward those who are fully aware of X company’s practices yet continue to support them. I say this because, ultimately, the strongest way we can push back is with our wallets.
While advocacy and speaking out against manufacturers' policies are important, consumer spending sends the most powerful message. Unfortunately, many people don't care until they experience the consequences themselves. That’s why I say, "You deserve to be screwed" it’s a wake-up call to recognize the impact of their choices.
Law is the opinion of politicians asserted trough use of violence. It has nothing to do at all with justice.
Justice is to right a wrong. While Vengance to to harm someone that has harmed you.
When justice is not possible. The people will seek Vengance. Threats only go so far as people have something to lose.
But to be honest. If a loved one died because some unscrupulous company say that they didn't need a treatment. I would problably be the #1 fan of Mario Bros. And the least there would be in my mind is pleasing the opinion of politicians.
Well here's the thing, though, with most corporate gazillionaires.
It's very rare today to find one who made his big bucks by doing anything other than cheating lying stealing abusing...
AKA walking through a series of open doors
Changing the terms after the sale is nothing more than bait and switch. It should be a crime because it is criminal. You are so insightful in saying what you've said here. You hit it right on the head for why things are the way they currently are. The real problem is that faceless corporations own the government.
changing the terms post-sale is no different then them breaking into your house and stealing 20 bucks from your wallet, and it's a disgusting that it isn't treated as such. if they want the customer to agree to flexible terms, then that shit needs to be defined in a contract, signed at the point of sale, and not some "you agree if you tear open the box" nonsense either. actual, real signed paper that both parties can keep for their records.
If companies that engage in this behavior were not thieves to begin with, then they would not be afraid to put their terms out in the open before money is exchanged.
I wanna highlight something. I may not agree with Louis on billionaires, but he's entirely in his right to not identify with leftism, even if I do. I think the primary difference between someone like Louis and an actual leftist/communist is the analytic conclusion that all of this predatory stuff is an inevitable consequence of the way capitalism works.
Why is it acceptable for governments to use violence and the threat of violence or it's citizenry but it's not acceptable (or considered a dark place) for the citizenry to use even a modicum of violence when the government is abusing that power....?
First they came for electric vehicles, and I did not speak out - because I didn't dive an electric vehicle.
yeah but, billionaires are building bunkers on private islands for a good reason. They know this, they're prepared, and they don't have to care.
Well good news is that after they all move to the bunkers, only the good folks will be left and then things can become better again.
The biggest problem with this train manufacturer is that they blocked trains remotely whenever they appeared in independent workshops for a planned inspection, not related to any failure. Other train workshops did these inspections cheaper, so to prevent the inspection from being cheaper, the manufacturer remotely turned off the train, blocked it completely whenever the GPS position matched the location of such a workshop.
Finally, manufacter sued a group of hackers, hired by the train owner (the one who bought the train), who discovered in the source code of the train controller that something like remote blocking is possible for violating copyrights to the code.
in a sane world it should not be possible to copyright the code that hard goods require in order to function as sold. at least, it should not be any more illegal to reverse engineer a gear assembly than it is the code that drives the engine timing or whatever.
@@swolfington The reality is that these hackers were accused and sued for copyright infringement. Disputes in Polish courts can drag on for 8-10 years or even longer. Even if they win the case in the end (which is not obvious in Polish law), they will lose a few good years of their lives and a lot of money on lawyers.
Amazon is now scummy as well with their pay for ad free and I bet you didnt know if you don't pay you also don't get Dolby Atmos or Dolby Vision. Absolute scam. And they call it brought to you with limited interruptions. Lol.
Related: importing people from low trust societies to run our companies
I agree. The way it once was went sour with the internet. I believe it was then everything started. Long time ago when you bought some product you got a manual with it in how to fix stuf if it breaks. Now you get a qr code to get run over. Thanks for great videos.
Thank you Louis... This is actually the sinest and most rational take I've heard on this. No identitarianism, just historic facts. The reason we have the law in the first place is to prevent people from taking justice into their own hands. When it fails, it's dangerous for everyone.
The entire intro is just the pitch to be head of the FTC :) #MakeItHappen
Happy New Year Louis!
The consequences for remotely shutting down those trains should have been the same consequences that I would receive if I got mad about the policies of United Airlines and decided to sabotage their software, grounding all their flights for a week. The executives at Newag, the manufacturer who had remotely shut down those trains, should be spending DECADES in prison for opting to shut down critical infrastructure. Domestic Terrorism charges, or similar. Why is it even governments like to accept the premise of assholes?
Louis is 90% of the way there, but just how much money these companies / people make SHOULD absolutely be a point of focus. The fact that these companies make BILLIONS of dollars is more than just salt in the wound, it's a direct contributing factor to the quality of people's lives. Most people agree that we shouldn't print infinite money, so when companies make ever more money with ever increasing profits, where does that money come from? Their profits by definition leave less money in the economy for everyone else. Most people cannot comprehend the amount of money these companies make and how far that money would go to improve society / people's every day lives if it was not off-shored or concentrated to a select few at the top.
you are almost making the connection... At one time the money companies did make (going with US companies since I am in the USA) did stay here and improved the USA. that company had Americans working for them in factories that was here which those workers spent money in the community in which more people had money and so on.. then NAFTA came which the giant sucking sound started and those local jobs were sucked away, which now all other biz which relied on those people having money to spend all of a sudden didn't have it anymore which meant they closed which meant more people with no money.
Where I live in 1990 quality of life was good, by 2001 quality of life was not good due to nafta. 2024 quality of life is still not good.
What needs to happen is no more globalism, the US needs to make everything is needs with American labor. no more made in commie china shit imported. If it is to be sold here then it needs to be 100% made here.
As for the money printing, that gets to the companies via the fed print and spend into the stock market for the most part. fiat currency is a time b0mb that will go off. Gold/Silver is the only way to correct that.
@@Dratchev241NAFTA really isn't the issue or cause for our modern globalism problems. The real problem is the same as it has always been: resources. This includes raw materials, manpower, technical knowledge, research & development, etc.
Not every country has the immediate resources to fix their problems. Take European countries for example, most of them don't have access to massive oil reserves, so they need to trade from somewhere like the Middle East. Or if you want a more local example here in the USA, we don't have the manpower to fulfill our agricultural and construction needs, so we hire people from Latin America.
Mind you, this is something that has always been a problem throughout history. Kingdoms have always fought for precious farmlands, territory and trade routes, manpower sources (a.k.a. slavery), and important water resources.
@@Dratchev241agreed, but what you're suggesting would require an IMMENSE amount of money and effort, and at least like a decade.
@@Ruben_M.The USA absolutely has the manpower to occupy these jobs without immigrants..... The point is they hire immigrants who accept getting paid pennies for their labor...
You're completely blowing past the fact that **most** people are not determined and driven to succeed.
5:00 This is the argument that the general public has been making about the Brian Thompson situation. People were cheering because a bully got retribution, the fact that he was profiteering was only fuel to the fire...
If you thought BMW was bad, watch what's happening with the new Dodge Charger
Two trims, identical in every way, but one has base model performance and the other is the performance trim. The only difference? The performance trim has software that tells it to go faster. And it costs $20000 more than the base model. A software package...
Over simplifying it to "it's just a software change" won't help you understand it.
There are warranty implications, essentially Dodge is potentially taking on a bigger warranty claim risk as just one example.
I'm actually all for these kinds of things, that allows the manufacturer to mass purchase and simplify production lines.... provided that it DOES actually reduce costs for the ones NOT opting to enable that "feature".
Which is what SHOULD happen, but it doesn't, they just claim a bigger profit from the lower spec'd version, which is why I am currently against it.
I don't care how unpopular this is, it's the truth. American cars stopped innovating a long time ago. I'm not saying I want a Chinese car or that I trust a Chinese car, but you see what's going on in China with cars that would cost the equivalent of 20,000 to 40,000 US dollars. It is amazing. They're making cars that can go in a circle stationary.
Then you look at Ford, whose latest patent is advertising to you based on spying sensors inside your vehicle. ua-cam.com/video/5euh13nd10g/v-deo.html
Or GM whose latest innovation is selling your personal data to insurance companies so they can hike your rates without your consent. ua-cam.com/video/seyvYETWf34/v-deo.html
I don't want to live in China,. I have to acknowledge, though, that there is a giant difference between the rapid innovation happening in their automotive industry in hours where Ford, who has almost completely gotten out of the sedan industry because their cars sucked so much and were not able to compete, is tasking their engineers with coming up with new and inventive ways to spy on and advertise to people inside the vehicle. American automakers are a meme
@@rossmanngroup Stellantis (soon to go the way of British Leyland) is a Dutch corporation, Louis. That new Dodge Charger has no roots as an 'American' car.
@@rossmanngroup which is why, love them or hate them, Tesla has been able to actually disrupt the giant legacy American car industry, because Tesla continuously evolves, while the rest are asleep at the wheel (pun intended).
While China absolutely shouldn't be underestimated, they're still drastically behind in terms of things like safety, go watch the Xiaomi EV crash on the track, look at the driver's seat after the crash, but also importantly, at the end of the video, they show pictures of the "big beefy" brake calipers, as one such example....
There are also questions on whether or not the CCP are _heavily_ subsidising cars from the likes of BYD, selling them essentially at a loss, with the sole purpose of destroying the American and European car market.
America stopped innovating a long time ago, not just with cars.
@@benwhittle7204 i'm not so sure i'd describe tesla as "evolving". no real product refreshes since each product's initial release (why does the model S still look the same after 13 years for example), "Full Self Driving" isn't full and actually went backwards by replacing LIDAR with cameras which dramatically increased the error rate (things like lane change into brake slams and the like). Lots of promises never followed up on like the hotswappable battery packs, the aforementioned FSD, and that perpetual scam claim of future robotaxi functionality (ala "it will drive itself as a taxi while you're not using it so paying 80k for a 40k car will actually make you money in 5 years yada yada"). Not to mention the robotaxis themselves and that Optimus joke are actually all remote controlled behind the scenes, but it's taken out of the playbook that worked for them before: build a passable looking prototype for demo and figure out how to make it work after showing it to the public to raise stock price. And dont get me started on the uglyass Cybertruck, which of the $500 preorders that actually followed through on buying, only 2% have actually been delivered and are plagued with quality control and safety issues leading to large recalls. Tesla is running exclusively on hypefumes, but they've only got the veneer of innovation... Not sure how long it will be before the shoe drops, or if they'll finally stop pufferying and actually make what they claim to be (where the hell is the Roadster?)
One does not have to like/agree/condone something for it to be true. The relentless pressure of helplessness against these forces that people face everyday will eventually create these situations.
"That baseball bat fell off the balcony building." That was too specific. lol
I've been living in Poland my entire life and it's a country where things change and new regulations are introduced only when someone dies from negligence.
So yeah sometimes these thoughts cross my mind, what if we just expedite this change and start with some politicians. But that's no way to run a society.
I'm not Marxist either, but I believe you are not honest in this one because you forgot a crucial point. If you condemn selfishness, you should also acknowledge that:
1) We are not equal; we don't live in a just world, but rather the opposite. Some of us are much luckier than others (starting with the fact that we inherit wealth/success/contacts or poverty/problems simply by being born in one spot and not in another).
2) There is also a lot of selfish ways to use money (e.g., to influence politics or news for your own interest, to accumulate goods that are polluting/endangering the planet, to finance selfish or useless businesses, etc.).
Everyone has a duty to make the world a better place, the poor but also the lucky ones who can live without struggling, and one of these duties is to share. Notice that I don't believe giving to the poor is the solution to stop poverty because I believe it's mostly a social issue. I'm not Marxist; I'm scientific.
Hearing kitty meowing in solidarity after ‘walk out after dealing with this bullshit behavior’ was the cherry on top.
Oh my I remember the Polish train DRM scandal. I put the date the "DRM" chose for the trains' secondary compressor to "fail" in my calendar so I never forget. I cannot believe the audacity of the train manufacturer, and I suppose this is a successful example of showing them this behaviour is not acceptable.
We’re going to have more Luigis coming out because we need them.
I just wanted to point out you are spot on with people making fun of the customers. It's gotten so bad, there is a war going on within the video game industry and its customers. UA-camrs and influencers are actively siding with companies against customers. Instead of daring to complain to the companies about criticisms they themselves admit to having... I've seen these influencers make videos basically making fun of the customer, telling them not to complain. Often outright lying and pretending said criticism doesn't exist. And I'm willing to bet, half of you reading this side with the companies and corporations.
How many of those influencers are getting paid?
@@arthurwintersight7868Too many, but also not all of them, which means some just do it naturally. Which is a lot worse.
Thumbs down but you can't see how many
@@arthurwintersight7868 all the ones with sponsors and free copies of games to review, i'm sure. sad thing, is a lot of them do it for free.
Yeah, the problem is people normalize this and even defend it. When I point this kind of thing out to people about their electronics or computers, they either shrug it off and say "well it's never going to affect me so why should I care?" or they defend it adamantly because they have to justify that they bought it anyway.
I was expecting this to be a video about nintendo, not the trains from c3. lol
The question is, should healthcare BE a company? I submit that the answer is no. I'm fine with capitalism, but there are things it should not be involved in - infrastructure, government, healthcare. We need to root it out of these things
Thank you for putting this into words far better than I could. I don't like people getting harmed. I don't think you can only condemn illegal things. I think if you affect other people's lives you should never be immune to consequences. These 3 things are hard to combine, but we had too much of people not feeling the consequences of their actions and I'm sick of it.
It’s scary, but you’re right. Not a single sane person thinks it’s weird that Super Mario Bros did what they did. We’ve crossed the line of how much ruthless greed we can tolerate.
While I don't condone the mario bros reaction thing, I completely understand why someone who was wronged to a great extent, rather it is financially or physically, (or both) would do that. Especially if you feel you have nothing left to lose. People often judge at surface level "oh he was one of those people, or he supported that". There is a reason the Trucker Protests happened. There is a reason certain political gatherings that the media won't shut up about happened. People reach their breaking point when the thumb is pressed down upon them for too long. Everything is broken. And even those who say they will fix it, often fail to do so.
Also on the other side of the coin, what Luigi did, didn't solve the problem either. Within 1 day the CEO was replaced with another one, like a Duracell being swapped out for an Energizer. The CEO is just a job position. And they don't even call all the decisions for a company. They're a puppet for the board of directors. A meaningless cog. Just like every job position below that. The machine continues.
@@Tall_Order true, but now being CEO is just a little more dangerous. You can't tell me the new CEO isn't thinking "am i going to get boondock sainted today?"
@@Dratchev241 I agree. And sadly, probably none of the other people like Luigi will come to the realization that it isn't the answer.
@@Tall_OrderAny machine eventually stalls given enough damage. Many misunderstand the scale of the work necessary.
I'm not against people making profit as long as they pay taxes. But there's a point where you can't make that much propfit without blood in your hands.
Any amount of money that you generate without using your own labor is exploitative. The point is that you offer equal compensation.
Taxation is theft, especially given how we've watched billions of our dollars go to other countries or people here illegally all while actual Americans are hurting or outright abandoned after these floods, fires, hurricanes, etc.
The problem is taxes are rarely used properly, especially with bigger governments. Most governments are essentially corporations themselves nowadays.
Profit comes from exploitation, no getting around this..
2:00 The companies pay for astroturf campaigns, so don't be so sure all the perceived pushback is real.
I think the message is clear: Don't steal from people, and if you sell them something they own it.
Selling insurance and then doing everything you can to deny legitimate claims is theft. Retaining ownership of hardware through software after a sale is theft.
Defending yourself against thieves is justified self defense.
I've started playing gen 5-8 video games now. Use an older non smart TV too. The new trends are making everything worthless. Were being screwed by big tech