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  • The US is awash with guns. 3D printing a gun is more expensive and time consuming than just buying one illegally.

    A 3D printer can mainly make things like frames. The one part that’s actually hard to make is the barrel. That one isn’t made in a 3D printer.

    Lots of 3D printers have open source firmware. There are several designs you can build yourself from easily available parts. So it would be easy to patch out the detection.

    Even if this was implemented, it would have negligible impact on gun related crime in the USA. It also would make 3D printing guns only marginally more difficult.

    This is just attention seeking populism and might even get enough attention so lawmakers will try and implement it.

    Watch this fear mongering video by wired on it and read the comments.


  • Limerance@piefed.socialto Memes of Production@quokk.auceos are parasites
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    8 days ago

    This comment doesn‘t seem to understand the difference between a capital owner and a leadership position.

    Someone who owns a machine is a capitalist (capital owner). That owner can then use the machine to produce something themselves or rent it to out to others. They can also find a different person to produce something with the machine or rent it out. In return for the use of the capital (machine), the owner ask for rent in the form of a share of profits (this is where shares come from) or a fixed rate (rent, credit).

    In the ideal case the capitalist gets a steady return without putting in much labor besides checking his bank account regularly. They are not a leader though and don’t make managerial or business decisions on what jobs to take on, who to hire, and other day to day operations. All of that is on the guy running the show, a leader, or CEO.

    Of course in practice even most CEOs paid in shares don’t own a significant part of the company. CEOs are hired by the actual owners to perform a job.

    Entrepreneurship and starting a business also needs different skills, than keep an existing business running. The former means taking high risks and innovating rapidly. The latter means stability and evolutionary change.


  • A good CEO knows the right people outside the company. No company operates on its own. They all have suppliers, partners, customers, competitors, a market, media, regulatory bodies, etc.

    A CEO that’s on good terms with leaders of relevant companies, government, unions, lobbying organizations, journalists, politicians, etc. is a real asset to a company.

    Convincing investors to hand over money, local government to expedite construction permits, lawmakers to pass sensible regulation, suppliers to trust a long term relationship, media to cover positively, etc. all work better when the other side deals with one person they can trust, instead of an ever changing committee.

    For large companies a CEO also has the role of representation the company externally to the public and internally to the workers. A symbolic master of ceremonies brings cohesion, culture, unified vision, ritual, structure. A CEO is also the person to make the hard unpopular but necessary decisions. This makes him a scapegoat, also a very useful role. Everyone can blame the CEO for everything bad.

    A CEO is supposed to be a leader, not a manager.