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Oh, I've crashed out a couple of times. Enough to learn any verbal answer I give to the question "who are you?" is a lie, and that the same goes for everyone el

Oh, I've crashed out a couple of times. Enough to learn any verbal answer I give to the question "who are you?" is a lie, and that the same goes for everyone else in the world, too. If I read you correctly (from your workmanlike if somewhat stilted English) as German, I grossed last year a bit over 2x, just in cash comp, than that "top 3%" you're bragging about. I kept a hell of a lot more of it, too. That's because my tax regime advantages winners and yours advantages losers. That's okay; losers need to live, and I don't take what would be the significant deductions on my charitable donations in any case, just my first time homebuyer's and honest credits like that. Then I quit that job in November, because life's too short and what the hell could I still have to prove? I'll probably start looking late Q2, or maybe Q1 '26, who knows. I'll need to do something to support the tertiary education I intend finally here in my mid-forties to go back and get, after all. You obviously think a great deal of yourself. That's fine. You should learn to keep a handle on it, though. You can open your mouth so wide you get your feet stuck in it, that way.

pinkmuffinere 1y ago
> You obviously think a great deal of yourself. OP is commenting on the process of becoming-who-you-want-to-be. They feel they’ve succeeded. I get that this may come off as self-congratulatory, but what’s the alternative? Stay silent? Lie and say they aren’t who they wanted to be? They seem adequately humble to me, I don’t understand the hostility
- throwanem 1y ago
  > They feel they’ve succeeded. I have felt the same. > I don’t understand the hostility In English we have the saying, "to speak to someone like a Dutch uncle." There is no hostility in the absence of coddling, and I have been nearly homeless and nearly dead in consequence of assumptions strongly resembling those I see and criticize. I have recovered and am well. My concern is that my interlocutor, I hope, be warned against what I strongly believe I recognize, as very much akin to what was once my own hubris.
  - bluefirebrand 1y ago
    > I have been nearly homeless I have been actually homeless > I have recovered and am well. Very glad to hear that. Same here > I strongly believe I recognize, as very much akin to what was once my own hubris Makes sense why you reacted the way you did then. Sounds like I hit close to home.
    - throwanem 1y ago
      I wouldn't put it quite that way. My mistakes were much more often in trusting to excess and taking too much at face value. I am lately recalibrating. I'm glad to hear we both can say we've overcome it. Keep on not fuckin' up.
  - circlefavshape 1y ago
    > In English we have the saying, "to speak to someone like a Dutch uncle." Do we? What does it mean?
    - throwanem 1y ago
      We do! It means to give advice in rough or harsh fashion, either with the intent of bracing one's interlocutor to attend the advice given, or simply for not caring at all to soft-pedal or sugarcoat. This is actually one of a small class of now somewhat archaic English epithets. I believe the most common survivor is "going Dutch" or "Dutch treat," which was current if slightly oldfashioned as recently as my now three decades gone childhood. That refers to a date or other group event wherein everyone pays their own way, with the heavy implication that whoever made such an invitation (or surprised their party with the news!) is a cheapskate jerk for not at least offering pro forma also to cover the tab. None of these 'Dutch' expressions ("Dutch courage," for alcohol, is another I've seen in live use) is complimentary in original intent, because they date from some dreary war or other in the 1600s that I believe the English lost. More at Wiktionary and, from there, Wikipedia: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dutch_uncle https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dutch_uncle
bluefirebrand 1y ago
> If I read you correctly (from your workmanlike if somewhat stilted English) as German Native English speaker from Canada, actually. My grandfather was from Germany though, so good guess sort of? Anyways, I'm just going to re-organize some of your sentences and suggest you invest in a mirror to take a long and hard look into > You obviously think a great deal of yourself > I grossed last year a bit over 2x, just in cash comp, than that "top 3%" you're bragging about > That's because my tax regime advantages winners and yours advantages losers. That's okay; losers need to live > You should learn to keep a handle on it, though. You can open your mouth so wide you get your feet stuck in it, that way. You should take your own advice, bud
- throwanem 1y ago
  Okay, then per the 2021 census (Statistics Canada) and relevant exchange rate (exchange-rates.org), I made after tax actually a bit under twice what you did. For a 97th percentile income of CAD$150,000 (eyeballing the highest income per age range of any range given) and an 0.83:1 rate with USD (the highest that year), that's ca $125k USD after tax compared with ca $201k, which again was cash, not equity, which at issue price was worth about half that again, for a total post-tax compensation of just over $300k US. Of course those numbers are as bullshit as the first set since we would need to convert and compute tax on the gross and I'm not digging up brackets from four years ago. Still.
  - bluefirebrand 1y ago
    Since you seemed to have missed the point, I'll try one more time: > I grossed last year a bit over 2x, just in cash comp, than that "top 3%" you're bragging about You accuse me of bragging, while you are bragging about making double what I make > That's because my tax regime advantages winners and yours advantages losers. That's okay; losers need to live You accuse me of hubris when you call other people losers > You should learn to keep a handle on it, though. You can open your mouth so wide you get your feet stuck in it, that way. You're the one putting their foot in their mouth > You obviously think a great deal of yourself Every flaw you are accusing me of, you have demonstrated in the very same post where you made the accusation Like I said. You should invest in a mirror and take a good hard look into it

pinkmuffinere 1y ago

> You obviously think a great deal of yourself. OP is commenting on the process of becoming-who-you-want-to-be. They feel they’ve succeeded. I get that this may come off as self-congratulatory, but what’s the alternative? Stay silent? Lie and say they aren’t who they wanted to be? They seem adequately humble to me, I don’t understand the hostility

throwanem 1y ago
> They feel they’ve succeeded. I have felt the same. > I don’t understand the hostility In English we have the saying, "to speak to someone like a Dutch uncle." There is no hostility in the absence of coddling, and I have been nearly homeless and nearly dead in consequence of assumptions strongly resembling those I see and criticize. I have recovered and am well. My concern is that my interlocutor, I hope, be warned against what I strongly believe I recognize, as very much akin to what was once my own hubris.
- bluefirebrand 1y ago
  > I have been nearly homeless I have been actually homeless > I have recovered and am well. Very glad to hear that. Same here > I strongly believe I recognize, as very much akin to what was once my own hubris Makes sense why you reacted the way you did then. Sounds like I hit close to home.
  - throwanem 1y ago
    I wouldn't put it quite that way. My mistakes were much more often in trusting to excess and taking too much at face value. I am lately recalibrating. I'm glad to hear we both can say we've overcome it. Keep on not fuckin' up.
- circlefavshape 1y ago
  > In English we have the saying, "to speak to someone like a Dutch uncle." Do we? What does it mean?
  - throwanem 1y ago
    We do! It means to give advice in rough or harsh fashion, either with the intent of bracing one's interlocutor to attend the advice given, or simply for not caring at all to soft-pedal or sugarcoat. This is actually one of a small class of now somewhat archaic English epithets. I believe the most common survivor is "going Dutch" or "Dutch treat," which was current if slightly oldfashioned as recently as my now three decades gone childhood. That refers to a date or other group event wherein everyone pays their own way, with the heavy implication that whoever made such an invitation (or surprised their party with the news!) is a cheapskate jerk for not at least offering pro forma also to cover the tab. None of these 'Dutch' expressions ("Dutch courage," for alcohol, is another I've seen in live use) is complimentary in original intent, because they date from some dreary war or other in the 1600s that I believe the English lost. More at Wiktionary and, from there, Wikipedia: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dutch_uncle https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dutch_uncle

bluefirebrand 1y ago

> If I read you correctly (from your workmanlike if somewhat stilted English) as German Native English speaker from Canada, actually. My grandfather was from Germany though, so good guess sort of? Anyways, I'm just going to re-organize some of your sentences and suggest you invest in a mirror to take a long and hard look into > You obviously think a great deal of yourself > I grossed last year a bit over 2x, just in cash comp, than that "top 3%" you're bragging about > That's because my tax regime advantages winners and yours advantages losers. That's okay; losers need to live > You should learn to keep a handle on it, though. You can open your mouth so wide you get your feet stuck in it, that way. You should take your own advice, bud

throwanem 1y ago
Okay, then per the 2021 census (Statistics Canada) and relevant exchange rate (exchange-rates.org), I made after tax actually a bit under twice what you did. For a 97th percentile income of CAD$150,000 (eyeballing the highest income per age range of any range given) and an 0.83:1 rate with USD (the highest that year), that's ca $125k USD after tax compared with ca $201k, which again was cash, not equity, which at issue price was worth about half that again, for a total post-tax compensation of just over $300k US. Of course those numbers are as bullshit as the first set since we would need to convert and compute tax on the gross and I'm not digging up brackets from four years ago. Still.
- bluefirebrand 1y ago
  Since you seemed to have missed the point, I'll try one more time: > I grossed last year a bit over 2x, just in cash comp, than that "top 3%" you're bragging about You accuse me of bragging, while you are bragging about making double what I make > That's because my tax regime advantages winners and yours advantages losers. That's okay; losers need to live You accuse me of hubris when you call other people losers > You should learn to keep a handle on it, though. You can open your mouth so wide you get your feet stuck in it, that way. You're the one putting their foot in their mouth > You obviously think a great deal of yourself Every flaw you are accusing me of, you have demonstrated in the very same post where you made the accusation Like I said. You should invest in a mirror and take a good hard look into it