I was one of the only ones in my video gaming group to not get it, and it's been a month(?) and none of them are playing it anymore.

Probably, who is gonna come after you? The company has decided it is too expensive to repossess them.

You're not gonna get much off a goldfinch

How about we set the number to 0 and go from there.

We made the decision to not even try watering the lawn this year. Guess it was a good call.

Minimum wage (federally) hasn't gone up in almost 15 years

Streaming music is a very negligible impact. We've had streaming music for 2 decades.

This is extremely important. Your best raises and title changes will come from changing companies, not internally.

Yup, and this applies to any company. If you don't own the business, you are a line item, not "family". Always be ready to jump ship for a better opportunity, because they will do the same.

Seems like they could have a machine with higher level access air gapped, and a less secure machine for browsing the internet but not internal tools. Would still suck for copy paste and things of the line, but would probably work in most cases.