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by Esophagus4 1y ago
The idea of needing to impress an in-crowd enough to get an invite to join reminds me of fraternities in college (which I withdrew from half way through the process) and well-heeled yacht clubs or country clubs. I’d much rather make friends
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by Esophagus4 1y ago
Absolutely - it read to me like a grown up fraternity. Rush our social event and we’ll call you if you’re cool enough (or similar enough to us) to join the club and attend our invite-only poker night. Maybe I just have a weird outcast compl
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by Esophagus4 1y ago
Yeah, I could certainly see that being an outcome where there is just a group of displaced workers never to be employed again. I also wonder how many “new employment opportunities” are generally worse off for the displaced (gig economy etc)
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by Esophagus4 1y ago
No, you’re right. Ultimately, after large-scale technological innovation that leads to societal change like worker displacement (like happened after agricultural innovations displaced farm workers in the American South, or manufacturing inn
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by Esophagus4 1y ago
Fair point - I guess it would be interesting to see how accurate many “people watchers” are, empirically. That being said, I think I’m willing to suspend disbelief a little. I do think there’s an art to being able to not only read people, b
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by Esophagus4 1y ago
Thanks, you just saved me half of my reading list!
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by Esophagus4 2y ago
> Or you have some emergency situation where a higher travel speed is a matter of life and death? Can you provide such a scenario? Or, more importantly... can you provide a reason why this hypothetical, extremely unusual edge case should