Every job I have left has come down to a single factor: management above me was bad, therefore my time was being wasted or results were not being recognized.
There are a lot of good managers out there, no doubt. If you get one, feel lucky because you are. There are also a lot of over-educated people who really should be working in cell phone stores on the sales floor, but instead have made their way into the ranks of the self-important, but have no idea what they are doing.
Further, they are rarely discovered because if they got hired, the people above them are usually clueless too.
Bad employees are easy to spot. Bad managers are harder, but removing them has an even wider effect (especially since a good manager fires all the idiots, freeloaders, bullies, etc. eventually).
"Underpaid" can mean a few things including "I'm not paid enough for the shit I have to put up with."
IT requires seeing some of the worst of humanity, working long hours, and facing constant competition from management which just wants to cut IT costs.
Maybe a solution is to find other ways to cut IT costs, like automating some of these mindless tasks...
Unions made American industry unstable with strikes and transferred money to organized crime. Costs rose and quality plummeted, so industry outsourced.
If the workers had simply pooled resources to buy voting shares in their company, they would have come out much farther ahead.
The real reason that wages are so low is that there are too many people here with more coming each day. Law of supply and demand, remember?
I never broke into a car, I never hot-wired a car, kid.
I never broke into a trunk.
I shall not cause harm to any vehicle nor the personal contents thereof nor, through inaction, let that vehicle or the personal contents thereof. come to harm.
It's like a Southwestern Applebees. All the food still comes off a Sysco truck. You'll do better at Taco Bell for price/performance and also volcanic flatulence.
They allow Leftist brigades like/r/ShitRedditSays and/r/TopMindsofReddit to mass downvote Right-wing content, and encourage users and mods to do the same. That way, technically they have free speech, and simultaneously, it appears that only a small number of people are Right wing, which fits their narrative perfectly.
SGML was a big innovation; combining it with Gopher/FTP to make the web was good stuff too. Ever since then we have focused on new ways to sell distractions to the bloated consumers. The market is about to correct our over-estimation of what that is worth, but in the meantime, I got into tech to change the world, not connect refrigerators to Twitter.
In the meantime, it makes sense to expose people to a range of political thought. If they drift toward the extremes, it means that the middle is failing, not that the extremes are somehow inherently "seductive" or "infectious."
Neo-Nazism, after all, is in the middle of the political spectrum, just turned up to 11.
On the Left you have egalitarians who believe that society "progresses" from a natural state to a Utopia based on equality; on the Right you have people who believe in order, or that there are time-proven principles and structures which fit into a natural order of life which is timeless.
In the middle are people like neoconservatives, Nazis, fascists, and libertarians who want a social order but believe it can be achieved through utilitarian means like egalitarianism.
I find neo-Nazis to be too far Left, but maybe they will work for others.
Why are we trying to block access to this information? "Information wants to be free," so why do we oppose that?
As an Old Right conservative, I naturally oppose government regulation of video games of any kind.
However, we are a culture of sorts, and cultural changes influence what businesses are willing to offer. In that context only, it might be useful to discuss this issue.
To my mind, the angle of approach should be the combination of gun violence and realistic looking scenarios. All video games are violent and war-like, but those that look most like movies or memories could have a conditioning effect, which our Army has capitalized by offering its own 3D first person shooter.
The effect of such games cannot be viewed outside the context of single-parent families, SSRI use, general lack of faith in society, and the failure of our civilization to have any kind of meaningful social order.
So, while every instinct I have has me wondering WTF Trump is thinking in this case, he might be kickstarting a very valid dialogue.
If realistic video games + gun violence + social disorder + medication + single parent homes = a fertile ground for school shooting, then we have a checklist to address, and one of the points can be how our culture rewards super-violent and realistic-looking video games.
He's doing what all Communists do. A Right-wing regime may jail you for attacking the regime, but the Leftists will jail you for not being enthusiastic enough in your support of the People's Revolution.
We've seen this since the French Revolution. The rebels seize power, immediately screw up the economy, then become totalitarian in order to keep the system from failing further, then embark on a series of disastrous wars in order to keep the population motivated. After the French Revolution and the orgy of civilian murder that it brought about, the society was far worse off economically than it had been before. Thus, we got the Napoleonic Wars, the crusade/jihad to convert the world to... Leftism! China is following the same arc. They would not be taking this step had they not noticed serious problems in the economy.
Tell me again how great democracy is, when we all know that people in groups have trouble coming up with coherent answers to any question more complex than "what restaurant should we go to for lunch?" Clearly the Left is trying to conceal the fact that they launched a politically-motivated investigation, sort of like how they used the IRS to suppress Right-wing groups.
maintaining the system that, like all class structures, serves whoever built it
We should all be equal, amirite? Class structures exist because people have different abilities, but that offends Leftists, so they always have to throw those little jabs in there. If we wants truly equal, he should go to the third world where everyone is equally starving and confused.
I am not really sure there is anything to misunderstand here. Apple makes machines for people who want simple, Fisher-Price style interfaces to do repetitive tasks. They take a hint from BMW and sell them as high-end gear, despite often using older parts or being slow as mud. To compensate for this, Apple sells itself as a revolutionary, hip, politically liberal company. They have been doing this since 1983 or so. When an individual behaves this way, we call them a fucking hipster. I am not sure why the rules should be different for a mega-corporation that hides its profits overseas to avoid taxes. That's just common sense, cheating on your taxes, and it's as American as apple pie and multiple independent re-entry vehicles.
Instead of what we want, which is a la carte access to certain shows and movies, they want to sell us cable television over the internet. Brilliant. Hopefully no one falls for this.
The dirty secret of capitalism is that it is not meant to work as a stand-alone; it requires some kind of social order. Since the 1960s we have abolished that social order and in its place added regulations and doubled the number of people in the workforce. The result is that most jobs are bullshit and can be done in four hours a week most weeks, but we have to be there looking busy for 40-60.
As a result, people are taking their work home so that they can really jam on actual problems and ignore all the bullshit, meetings, paperwork, silliness, etc. It's just more efficient. And if they did not see their colleagues again? No one would care. Only the really sad and lonely find their jobs important. For the rest of us, it is just what is demanded of us to pay in order to live, and we secretly resent it and the people who try to cheer us up by talking about "having a case of the Mondays." We would never socialize with these people if we were not forced to, which is why such people love jobs.
In the future, everyone will be a contractor who gets a retainer to be on-call and is paid by the hour, will work from home, and probably pay a lot less for work clothes, commuting, insurance, etc. Plus you get to be around your family and possibly, work a small garden so you can get actual food, since the stuff in the stores is mostly overpriced toxic gunk.
"Here, let us raise the cost of your labor, and transfer the benefits not to you, but to the union, which is gonna skip town anyway when your employer decides to off-shore, outsource, automate, or use cheap illegal alien labor!"
Slashdot Mirror
I thought this interview with Francis Irving of Redecentralize.org said a lot about the benefits of a decentralized internet.
Every job I have left has come down to a single factor: management above me was bad, therefore my time was being wasted or results were not being recognized.
There are a lot of good managers out there, no doubt. If you get one, feel lucky because you are. There are also a lot of over-educated people who really should be working in cell phone stores on the sales floor, but instead have made their way into the ranks of the self-important, but have no idea what they are doing.
Further, they are rarely discovered because if they got hired, the people above them are usually clueless too.
Bad employees are easy to spot. Bad managers are harder, but removing them has an even wider effect (especially since a good manager fires all the idiots, freeloaders, bullies, etc. eventually).
"Underpaid" can mean a few things including "I'm not paid enough for the shit I have to put up with."
IT requires seeing some of the worst of humanity, working long hours, and facing constant competition from management which just wants to cut IT costs.
Maybe a solution is to find other ways to cut IT costs, like automating some of these mindless tasks...
Unions made American industry unstable with strikes and transferred money to organized crime. Costs rose and quality plummeted, so industry outsourced.
If the workers had simply pooled resources to buy voting shares in their company, they would have come out much farther ahead.
The real reason that wages are so low is that there are too many people here with more coming each day. Law of supply and demand, remember?
Two world wars were fought to save democracy.
Now it is threatened by "fake news," whatever that is?
Forget it -- if your system is that fragile, let it fall.
Giving everyone the vote, regardless of whether they can tell fake from real, was a mistake obviously.
Etch it into your brain.
It's like a Southwestern Applebees. All the food still comes off a Sysco truck. You'll do better at Taco Bell for price/performance and also volcanic flatulence.
They allow Leftist brigades like /r/ShitRedditSays and /r/TopMindsofReddit to mass downvote Right-wing content, and encourage users and mods to do the same. That way, technically they have free speech, and simultaneously, it appears that only a small number of people are Right wing, which fits their narrative perfectly.
Behavior can be a problem: screaming racial slurs at a group before attacking them.
Some things are not a problem, but are sort of distasteful: screaming racial slurs at a group.
Other things are actually useful: logical discussion of race, ethnicity, and whether or not diversity is functional at all.
SGML was a big innovation; combining it with Gopher/FTP to make the web was good stuff too. Ever since then we have focused on new ways to sell distractions to the bloated consumers. The market is about to correct our over-estimation of what that is worth, but in the meantime, I got into tech to change the world, not connect refrigerators to Twitter.
Either we live in a free state or we do not.
In the meantime, it makes sense to expose people to a range of political thought. If they drift toward the extremes, it means that the middle is failing, not that the extremes are somehow inherently "seductive" or "infectious."
Neo-Nazism, after all, is in the middle of the political spectrum, just turned up to 11.
On the Left you have egalitarians who believe that society "progresses" from a natural state to a Utopia based on equality; on the Right you have people who believe in order, or that there are time-proven principles and structures which fit into a natural order of life which is timeless.
In the middle are people like neoconservatives, Nazis, fascists, and libertarians who want a social order but believe it can be achieved through utilitarian means like egalitarianism.
I find neo-Nazis to be too far Left, but maybe they will work for others.
Why are we trying to block access to this information? "Information wants to be free," so why do we oppose that?
Thinking like economists here, this suggests that NYC's problem here is not AirBNB but a lack of affordable hotel options.
Solution: incentivize the building of more hotels that are affordable.
We do not need another few hundred lines of law to join the millions already in force, usually misinterpreted, which cause higher costs for everyone.
Looks like politics is a dead end for conversation. What's your favorite classic death metal band?
As an Old Right conservative, I naturally oppose government regulation of video games of any kind.
However, we are a culture of sorts, and cultural changes influence what businesses are willing to offer. In that context only, it might be useful to discuss this issue.
To my mind, the angle of approach should be the combination of gun violence and realistic looking scenarios. All video games are violent and war-like, but those that look most like movies or memories could have a conditioning effect, which our Army has capitalized by offering its own 3D first person shooter.
The effect of such games cannot be viewed outside the context of single-parent families, SSRI use, general lack of faith in society, and the failure of our civilization to have any kind of meaningful social order.
So, while every instinct I have has me wondering WTF Trump is thinking in this case, he might be kickstarting a very valid dialogue.
If realistic video games + gun violence + social disorder + medication + single parent homes = a fertile ground for school shooting, then we have a checklist to address, and one of the points can be how our culture rewards super-violent and realistic-looking video games.
He's doing what all Communists do. A Right-wing regime may jail you for attacking the regime, but the Leftists will jail you for not being enthusiastic enough in your support of the People's Revolution.
We've seen this since the French Revolution. The rebels seize power, immediately screw up the economy, then become totalitarian in order to keep the system from failing further, then embark on a series of disastrous wars in order to keep the population motivated. After the French Revolution and the orgy of civilian murder that it brought about, the society was far worse off economically than it had been before. Thus, we got the Napoleonic Wars, the crusade/jihad to convert the world to... Leftism! China is following the same arc. They would not be taking this step had they not noticed serious problems in the economy.
Tell me again how great democracy is, when we all know that people in groups have trouble coming up with coherent answers to any question more complex than "what restaurant should we go to for lunch?" Clearly the Left is trying to conceal the fact that they launched a politically-motivated investigation, sort of like how they used the IRS to suppress Right-wing groups.
We should all be equal, amirite? Class structures exist because people have different abilities, but that offends Leftists, so they always have to throw those little jabs in there. If we wants truly equal, he should go to the third world where everyone is equally starving and confused.
I am not really sure there is anything to misunderstand here. Apple makes machines for people who want simple, Fisher-Price style interfaces to do repetitive tasks. They take a hint from BMW and sell them as high-end gear, despite often using older parts or being slow as mud. To compensate for this, Apple sells itself as a revolutionary, hip, politically liberal company. They have been doing this since 1983 or so. When an individual behaves this way, we call them a fucking hipster. I am not sure why the rules should be different for a mega-corporation that hides its profits overseas to avoid taxes. That's just common sense, cheating on your taxes, and it's as American as apple pie and multiple independent re-entry vehicles.
Instead of what we want, which is a la carte access to certain shows and movies, they want to sell us cable television over the internet. Brilliant. Hopefully no one falls for this.
Antitrust cannot reap Google too soon...
The dirty secret of capitalism is that it is not meant to work as a stand-alone; it requires some kind of social order. Since the 1960s we have abolished that social order and in its place added regulations and doubled the number of people in the workforce. The result is that most jobs are bullshit and can be done in four hours a week most weeks, but we have to be there looking busy for 40-60.
As a result, people are taking their work home so that they can really jam on actual problems and ignore all the bullshit, meetings, paperwork, silliness, etc. It's just more efficient. And if they did not see their colleagues again? No one would care. Only the really sad and lonely find their jobs important. For the rest of us, it is just what is demanded of us to pay in order to live, and we secretly resent it and the people who try to cheer us up by talking about "having a case of the Mondays." We would never socialize with these people if we were not forced to, which is why such people love jobs.
In the future, everyone will be a contractor who gets a retainer to be on-call and is paid by the hour, will work from home, and probably pay a lot less for work clothes, commuting, insurance, etc. Plus you get to be around your family and possibly, work a small garden so you can get actual food, since the stuff in the stores is mostly overpriced toxic gunk.
Let's talk about lives being destroyed by accusations of racism, which fits with my original point:
Might want to look that one up; he's a law professor of some repute.
Here's some more information of interest:
https://www.cato.org/survey-re...
https://today.yougov.com/news/...
http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...
I believe, if you scroll up, that the original post was:
"Here, let us raise the cost of your labor, and transfer the benefits not to you, but to the union, which is gonna skip town anyway when your employer decides to off-shore, outsource, automate, or use cheap illegal alien labor!"