Re: What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot?

On 2025-06-25 22:15:11 +0000, Your Name said:

On 2025-06-25 08:52:46 +0000, R.Wieser said:

Your Name,

 The main cause of so-called "inflation" is the ever-increasing pay packet given to the morons in management.

 Do you think that the cost of the components and stuff related to actual manufacturing and the wages of all the people related to manufacturers stays static ?  I hope you don't.

 They aren't, but it is mainly the management that benefits. The actual workers might get a measley 2% wage increase while the management gets 10% plus extra perks.
 These increases then cause the company to have to increase the product price, which in turn means the customer needs a wage increase from their company to be able to buy things ... and the snowball laughing called "inflation" keeps gaining more and more layers. Most of it is artificial nonsense created by greedy people wanting more money for themselves, and you don't get more greedy than management, who are already massively overpaid for doing little actually useful.

Here's an extreme example, but it proves the point ...
Steve Jobs as Apple's CEO was reportedly paid a salary of just US$1 per year*.
Tim Cook as Apple's CEO reportedly gets paid US$3million per year, plus "bonuses".
All that US$2.9+million extra money has to come from somewhere, and in most other companies it would have to come from raising prices**. It's the customers who *ALWAYS* end up paying for it.
Ass I said, an extreme example. Successive CEOs of normal companies rarely get a $3million dollar salary increase in one go.
* Yes, Steve Jobs also got stock and perks, but so does Tim Cook.
** In the case of Apple, it has so much cash in the bank, that Cook's
   salary can easily be paid for using invesment interest alone, which
   is partly why Apple's prices rarely rise much from model release to
   model release.
On the opposite side of the coin. A food product company in New Zealand was recently put into bankruptcy, owing a millions of NZ$ to staff, tax department, and suppliers ... yet, somehow the idiots who ran the company into the ground where able to re-buy the company back at the "fire sale" price.
A.  How did the management people have the money to buy it back? Staff
    haven't been paid, yet the management have "spare" cash in their
    personal accounts.
B.  More importantly, *why* were they allowed to buy it back? They
    already ran it into the ground with huge debts, so they should not
    be allowed to run another company for X years. The whole thing
    stinks of some sort of legal greedy tax / debt avoidance scheme.