I would posit that humans in fact need someone to be worse off than them as a coping mechanism for their own suffering/misfortune/whatever.
Only the more pathetic and narcissistic among us.
Not necessarily. The pathetic and narcissistic among us my do so consciously, but I would argue a vast majority do it subconsciously. We are always comparing ourselves to others in some way, even if we don't explicitly realize we are doing so. It's in our nature.
I fear people don't need that but quite a number seem to enjoy it. If we do actually need to feel better than others then that is a very sad commentary on us as a species.
It's not needed, but it's a coping tool, one of several that we have. Fear and hatred towards the "other" is another big one that is being prominently featured right now(think Terror Management Theory without the overly-morbid focus on death of the self and more it's projection onto other groups). There's also escapism, whether through relatively harmless acts such as fantasy or role play (cosplayers/furries/etc) or more damaging acts such as the increasing opioid epedemic.
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The word you are looking for is "define". Yes, this survey did a piss-poor job of defining "job burnout" so I'm helping them with the task.
A good definition would be "your only motivation for coming in to work and doing your job is so you don't make a mistake and have all 8 of your bosses stopping by to hassle you about TPS reports."
Try working construction for minimum wage and not knowing where your next job will come from. Then have your blood pressure tested.
Ahh the "staving people in Africa" argument your mother made to get you to eat your vegetables. Great example of the fallacy of relative privation. Just because other people have it worse doesn't mean you should be grateful for a possibly better but still bad situation.
I would posit that humans in fact need someone to be worse off than them as a coping mechanism for their own suffering/misfortune/whatever. No matter what you are going through, the knowledge that someone else has it worse than you allows you to claim some sort of superiority or status over them. A child that is neglected or abused at home becomes a bully at school because he can exert power over his victims. A low wage worker in an unskilled menial job supports cutting safety nets because "I'm busting my ass and can barely get by, why should they get by for free?". It's why poverty porn works, part of why we scapegoat. Humans are hierarchical animals and in a hierarchy the worst place to be is on the bottom and, if you can't identify a group below you, you are on the bottom.
I think part of what he forgets is that the United States, by dollars, is the largest exporter in the world. We may Imports a lot, but our economy is heavily dependent on exports as well.
You have to remember though that a lot of US exports aren't commodity, consumer goods. They are high dollar items like heavy machinery, aircraft, farming equipment, cars, etc.
According to wikipedia, there are 46 passenger airlines (sidenote: calling your airline "Okay Airways" is probably not the best branding) in China. Almost every major city government in China has some kind of ownership stake in an airline. By 2025 it is estimated that there will be 4000 commercial aircraft operated by Chinese airlines as opposed to 1500 in 2010. A lot of those 2500 could be Boeing aircraft. A 737NG costs around $100 million currently. Even if they only buy 500 of them, that's $50 billion in orders. Trump gets us into a trade war with China, they slap a 25% tariff on that and it adds over $12 billion to the cost. So instead of buying 737s, those airlines wait a little bit, maybe lease some older aircraft, and by Chinese produced Comac 919s for half the price of the 737s.
We get into a trade war with China, the US loses in the short term and the long term
To me, this is no different than highly automated systems such as trains that still require humans to monitor them. You still hear about trains going to fast and derailing and turns out the person monitoring the controls was asleep, or texting, or whatever. Very often, if they survive, those operators get charged at the very least with negligence and manslaughter. I would expect and assume that will be the case with this too. It's not a fail on Uber's part because the technology is not ready for independent operation (which explains why they have a driver behind the wheel). Still not an Uber fan, though.
How would you propose to solve the problem of needing 3 extra rooms in a high school where the projections say that the population will peak in 3 years then decline over the next 5, leveling off in 10? Sometimes they are permanent solutions, sometimes not. Sometimes the projections are wrong.
Put a fence around them so that the area is secured, with a gate that be unlatched from the inside but requires a key on the outside? Then the doors to the rest of the school can remain unsecured during school hours.
Does your school HAVE AN ACTUAL PROBLEM with suspended students or fired employee entering school grounds? If yes, could it be solved better and cheaper with a retired cop sitting at a front desk/gate? THEN we could discuss about pros and cons.
Or even easier, use your existing resource officer, some of the countless administrators (how many vice or assistant principals do schools have now these days?), or teachers on a free period to periodically walk the hallways. 100% revenue neutral since they are already paid to be there.
Don't worry. We will all be living on Mars and admiring the view over cocktails soon. And don't worry about cost: we will just borrow more. The good times will never end!
Once we get the Space Force up and running that will really kick off the space economy. Think of the value alone in building and supplying all those Trump branded properties: the Trump Interstellar Hotel, Mars-a-lago, and of course the Trump Presidential Golf Club Luna.
Tell me this: how do you explain the retro-reflective prism on the Moon's surface, that you can bounce a laser off of, and prove it did a round-trip to the Moon by measuring the lightspeed delay?
Isn't the standard answer to that that it was placed there by a rocket later? I don't think the argument was that we couldn't and still can't get to the moon, but rather that we didn't send people there back in the 60s.
What would be an interesting experiment is to have the same set up of prisoners and guards, but have all the prisoners and one of the guards in on the experiment. The one guard treats the prisoners exceptionally cruel and against the stated rules of the experiment. How would the other guards (the actual participants in the study) respond? Do they identify with and try to copy or protect someone who is nominally their peer, or will they try to protect the prisoners?
You can do that now. The answer is yes. Most men who live long enough will get prostate cancer, but it will develop late enough and grow so slow that something else will kill you first. It's the people that get prostate cancer early that have to worry.
He beat out a guy named Gray. Grays company is now a nationwide wholesale electrical supplier and is one of the largest employee owned companies in the US.
No thanks. They tell you it's a nice, safe study. Next thing you know your melting from the inside out and dead, the evil group that conducted the experiment has run off to a hidden compound in the Amazon, and a secretive multinational paramilitary organization has to hunt them down.
And would you have helped pay for all those kids education, food stamps, healthcare, etc? Or was one of those millions of kids just going to pop out of their mom holding a warp drive?
Because if we wanted to live in a country where complete adoration of the ruler was required we'd live in North Korea or Thailand with its lese majeste laws. You should always be critical of your rulers, because that's how you make things improve.
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I would posit that humans in fact need someone to be worse off than them as a coping mechanism for their own suffering/misfortune/whatever.
Only the more pathetic and narcissistic among us.
Not necessarily. The pathetic and narcissistic among us my do so consciously, but I would argue a vast majority do it subconsciously. We are always comparing ourselves to others in some way, even if we don't explicitly realize we are doing so. It's in our nature.
I fear people don't need that but quite a number seem to enjoy it. If we do actually need to feel better than others then that is a very sad commentary on us as a species.
It's not needed, but it's a coping tool, one of several that we have. Fear and hatred towards the "other" is another big one that is being prominently featured right now(think Terror Management Theory without the overly-morbid focus on death of the self and more it's projection onto other groups). There's also escapism, whether through relatively harmless acts such as fantasy or role play (cosplayers/furries/etc) or more damaging acts such as the increasing opioid epedemic.
>> gatekeep The word you are looking for is "define". Yes, this survey did a piss-poor job of defining "job burnout" so I'm helping them with the task.
A good definition would be "your only motivation for coming in to work and doing your job is so you don't make a mistake and have all 8 of your bosses stopping by to hassle you about TPS reports."
Try working construction for minimum wage and not knowing where your next job will come from. Then have your blood pressure tested.
Ahh the "staving people in Africa" argument your mother made to get you to eat your vegetables. Great example of the fallacy of relative privation. Just because other people have it worse doesn't mean you should be grateful for a possibly better but still bad situation.
I would posit that humans in fact need someone to be worse off than them as a coping mechanism for their own suffering/misfortune/whatever. No matter what you are going through, the knowledge that someone else has it worse than you allows you to claim some sort of superiority or status over them. A child that is neglected or abused at home becomes a bully at school because he can exert power over his victims. A low wage worker in an unskilled menial job supports cutting safety nets because "I'm busting my ass and can barely get by, why should they get by for free?". It's why poverty porn works, part of why we scapegoat. Humans are hierarchical animals and in a hierarchy the worst place to be is on the bottom and, if you can't identify a group below you, you are on the bottom.
I think part of what he forgets is that the United States, by dollars, is the largest exporter in the world. We may Imports a lot, but our economy is heavily dependent on exports as well.
You have to remember though that a lot of US exports aren't commodity, consumer goods. They are high dollar items like heavy machinery, aircraft, farming equipment, cars, etc.
According to wikipedia, there are 46 passenger airlines (sidenote: calling your airline "Okay Airways" is probably not the best branding) in China. Almost every major city government in China has some kind of ownership stake in an airline. By 2025 it is estimated that there will be 4000 commercial aircraft operated by Chinese airlines as opposed to 1500 in 2010. A lot of those 2500 could be Boeing aircraft. A 737NG costs around $100 million currently. Even if they only buy 500 of them, that's $50 billion in orders. Trump gets us into a trade war with China, they slap a 25% tariff on that and it adds over $12 billion to the cost. So instead of buying 737s, those airlines wait a little bit, maybe lease some older aircraft, and by Chinese produced Comac 919s for half the price of the 737s.
We get into a trade war with China, the US loses in the short term and the long term
That would be a "hairy potter" festival. A "harry potter" festival would be a bunch of people standing around heckling someone making earthenware.
To me, this is no different than highly automated systems such as trains that still require humans to monitor them. You still hear about trains going to fast and derailing and turns out the person monitoring the controls was asleep, or texting, or whatever. Very often, if they survive, those operators get charged at the very least with negligence and manslaughter. I would expect and assume that will be the case with this too. It's not a fail on Uber's part because the technology is not ready for independent operation (which explains why they have a driver behind the wheel). Still not an Uber fan, though.
Why would immigrants be afraid of ICE? As an immigrant, you're supposed to carry your green card at all times.
Unless you were convicted of a misdemeanor charge 18 years ago or even just speaking Spanish.
How would you propose to solve the problem of needing 3 extra rooms in a high school where the projections say that the population will peak in 3 years then decline over the next 5, leveling off in 10? Sometimes they are permanent solutions, sometimes not. Sometimes the projections are wrong.
Put a fence around them so that the area is secured, with a gate that be unlatched from the inside but requires a key on the outside? Then the doors to the rest of the school can remain unsecured during school hours.
China doesn't have mass shootings for a good reason.
No, people just go crazy and attack elementary schools with meat cleavers.
Does your school HAVE AN ACTUAL PROBLEM with suspended students or fired employee entering school grounds? If yes, could it be solved better and cheaper with a retired cop sitting at a front desk/gate? THEN we could discuss about pros and cons.
Or even easier, use your existing resource officer, some of the countless administrators (how many vice or assistant principals do schools have now these days?), or teachers on a free period to periodically walk the hallways. 100% revenue neutral since they are already paid to be there.
Don't worry. We will all be living on Mars and admiring the view over cocktails soon. And don't worry about cost: we will just borrow more. The good times will never end!
Once we get the Space Force up and running that will really kick off the space economy. Think of the value alone in building and supplying all those Trump branded properties: the Trump Interstellar Hotel, Mars-a-lago, and of course the Trump Presidential Golf Club Luna.
*Leans back to watch the chaos and reaches to pop open a.....oh wait*
Google fixes false positive rate of patient death predictor machines by training another machine to kill patients predicted to die.
Tell me this: how do you explain the retro-reflective prism on the Moon's surface, that you can bounce a laser off of, and prove it did a round-trip to the Moon by measuring the lightspeed delay?
Isn't the standard answer to that that it was placed there by a rocket later? I don't think the argument was that we couldn't and still can't get to the moon, but rather that we didn't send people there back in the 60s.
What would be an interesting experiment is to have the same set up of prisoners and guards, but have all the prisoners and one of the guards in on the experiment. The one guard treats the prisoners exceptionally cruel and against the stated rules of the experiment. How would the other guards (the actual participants in the study) respond? Do they identify with and try to copy or protect someone who is nominally their peer, or will they try to protect the prisoners?
Waluigi fired the arrow that you took in your knee
2.5 gigawatts! That's enough to power 2 DeLoreans!
You can do that now. The answer is yes. Most men who live long enough will get prostate cancer, but it will develop late enough and grow so slow that something else will kill you first. It's the people that get prostate cancer early that have to worry.
He beat out a guy named Gray. Grays company is now a nationwide wholesale electrical supplier and is one of the largest employee owned companies in the US.
So, basically your solution to have money when you retire is predicated on already having money......
No thanks. They tell you it's a nice, safe study. Next thing you know your melting from the inside out and dead, the evil group that conducted the experiment has run off to a hidden compound in the Amazon, and a secretive multinational paramilitary organization has to hunt them down.
APD headquarters isn't near the capital building in Atlanta.
My favorite (albeit tragic) was Japan training school kids and women to defend beachheads with spears......
And would you have helped pay for all those kids education, food stamps, healthcare, etc? Or was one of those millions of kids just going to pop out of their mom holding a warp drive?
Because if we wanted to live in a country where complete adoration of the ruler was required we'd live in North Korea or Thailand with its lese majeste laws. You should always be critical of your rulers, because that's how you make things improve.