Nobody’s talking about becoming wealthy, we’re talking about bettering your position in life. But you seem pretty sold on exerting the least possible effort and remaining bitter with the results, so have it, I guess.
This is completely untrue. Sure, you’re not going to get ahead by just blindly working at the same tasks, but moving up in the world requires tons of work. Yes, it also requires connections, but you build those connections by establishing a reputation as someone who’s smart, and hard working.
In companies, people play politics to get ahead, and they try to look good rather then be good.[sic]
Some people do, yes. That doesn’t mean it’s the only way. I know many people who have worked their way up from the bottom with diligence and effort, becoming exceptional in their careers. None of them were privileged or connected when they started.
Usually in this context the “work” part is learning new job skills, preparing plans, networking, and that sort of stuff. It could be actual work for your career, like preparing sales presentations for a sales person, or planning a big coding project for an engineering lead, but it could also be time spent educating yourself and building skills needed to get ahead. Everyone here gets so hung up on the people who were born privileged that they completely overlook the people who have actually worked their asses off to build a better life for themselves and their families.
I recognize that Lemmy is largely anti-capitalist, and anti-work, and would hate this idea. But for people trying to better their position in life, move up in the class system we have, build a new career, or become exceptional in the one they’re in, this sort of advice is actually helpful. It is possible, hell, it’s relatively common, for people to bust their asses and improve their positions in life. Complaining that it’s not fair doesn’t get you anywhere, even though it’s true.
Yes, but now they’ll increase them twice, or twice as much. I know, I know, there are economic studies that say otherwise and the general consensus on the left is that prices don’t increase when wages do. I recognize that personal experience doesn’t hold a candle to scientific information. Yet, every single time I’ve seen wages go up in my entire life, the prices soon follow, wiping out the improvements for minimum wage workers and further eroding spending power for the middle class. The poor stay just as poor, the middle class shrinks a little, and the wealthy aren’t impacted at all. I’ve read studies that say differently, but it’s pretty hard to ignore a lifetime of experience. Now please recognize that I’m not advocating against a wage increase. I’m advocating for a law alongside the wage increase that blocks any associated price increases.
It’s just hard to understand how the people of HB as I remember them would get swept up in such hateful politics. There was always a small pocket of skinheads, but now those attitudes seem to be the majority, instead of a tiny little outlier group. I don’t understand how a community can go from Jimmy Buffett, to FOX news. Whatever the driving force, it’s fucking sad.
What the hell has happened to HB in the last 30 years? It used to be such a chill little beach town. Now it seems to be a haven for Nazi, fascist, racists.
When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you’re using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
Bernie is advocating for a 4 day work week with no loss in pay, and you’re arguing against your own best interest before anyone has even objected. Why? I’m not interested in a 7 hour day. 7 hours, 8 hours, it makes very little difference. But 4 days vs 5 days is a major quality of life improvement.
This can’t be defined at the state level. It costs a hell of a lot more to live in San Francisco, than to live in Tulare, CA. Most states have high and low cost areas.
It has already existed for a decade or so. I’m surprised it hasn’t made headlines before. I saw a working demo of it at the Microsoft Visitor Center about 8 years ago. In addition to estimating your mood, it also assigns you a persistent ID, estimates your height, weight, eye color, hair color, ethnicity, and age. It is scarily accurate at all of those things. That ID can be shared across all linked systems at any number of locations. I completely agree with you that there are a lot of concerning, if not downright terrifying implications of this system. It’s a privacy nightmare.