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by dikdik 10y ago
yes, many people can "read" sign faster than text. The language is not a 1-for-1 translation of English among other reasons.
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by dikdik 10y ago
I sort of agree with you, but I don't think you completely understand the problem. Yes, it doesn't really "matter" if people are living with their parents or on their own. The problem is what this shift signals. People
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by dikdik 10y ago
Where did you grow up? I'm more than a decade younger than you and grew up in a single income family, lots of children, solidly middle class, and neither of my parents had beyond a high school education. My dad was a straight C studen
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by dikdik 10y ago
I hear this sentiment expressed a lot, as well as the sentiment that millennials only loaded up on education debt to fuel a 4-year party. In my experience they are both wrong in 90%+ cases and are typically used to invalidate any calls to p
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by dikdik 10y ago
I'm in California. Would 100% live with my parents (as much as I would hate it) if they lived here. There are no jobs where I grew up and went to college, I came here so I could work in my desired industry. I actually tried leaving ear
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by dikdik 10y ago
I absolutely agree, but if much of the "value" you provide is via protectionist legislation then all we are saying here is that blue collar workers should lobby for extremely high entry points and credentials for their jobs so the
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by dikdik 10y ago
I do think you are correct about LEAP, but I don't believe a large percentage of the police force would ever condemn anti-drug laws. Don't bite that hand that feeds and all that. I don't think physicians are primarily respons
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by dikdik 10y ago
I don't know. Lots of people in consulting and other white collar gigs will admit (over a few beers) that their job is peddling bullshit, putting together spreadsheets, and really isn't that difficult. Yea, some people can't
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by dikdik 10y ago
Why physicians? Because the proletariat still have a little bit of say on policy in this country. If you ask citizens with strong anti-drug stances why they support tough drug laws, very few (if any) will say "because I hate minorities
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by dikdik 10y ago
> Where is the collateral? You buy a house, don't pay... you lose the house. And what happens when the bubble bursts and the house is now worth 200k less than what it was originally purchased for? The bank writes it off. So I propos
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by dikdik 10y ago
This reminds me of something Laurence on Project Runway recently said, "Either I'm going to be rich or I'm going to be poor, but I'm not gonna be in between." Why work so hard when your discretionary income is barel
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by dikdik 10y ago
"and accept things like education" um, what? Boomers pummeled education into their children as an essential part of success. Now they get to witness their children with a lower standard of living despite "investing" many
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by dikdik 10y ago
I know a slew of people that voted for Trump. Many are in their 20's and 30's and have been treading water since finishing college. Many more are a lot are older and solidly middle class or upper middle class, but are watching the
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by dikdik 10y ago
Didn't lil Wayne just face some internet backlash for saying he "hasn't experience racism" and that BLM is a bunch of bullshit? The so called "oppressed minorities" that do speak out against the PC culture are
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by dikdik 10y ago
Isn't that like saying "preferring to hire men over women is mostly warranted. Men can't get pregnant and take maternity leave!"
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by dikdik 10y ago
The same line of thought can be put to CEOs. How do we know a CEO was responsible for a big bump in stock prices? Maybe the marketing team hit gold this year, the developers/engineers put out something truly game changing, or the entir
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by dikdik 10y ago
But if you had matched the offer before they ever went out job searching, would they end up being around a lot longer? That's the big question.
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by dikdik 10y ago
Looking at people who seem "more impressive" in their work is not a way to gauge your worth. It's really as simple as that. Surgeons appear (and have the social capita) of being the utmost important, but salaries have little
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by dikdik 10y ago
There are many advantages to having the government closer to the people. Having a smaller sect of the world population means officials are more likely to listen to the populace. Very similar reasons why (many) people like working for small
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by dikdik 10y ago
Your argument is just people making excuses. If our food quality went down or the quality of our air went down due to pollution, would you still be quoting "oh well it used to be so much worse in the 40's so don't complain&qu
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by dikdik 10y ago
A lot of people find the "grovel and tell me how much you love me" environment to not be so great.
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by dikdik 10y ago
Thank you. Instead of only propping up poor children, which is only treating the symptom, we need to look at our social and economic policies so parents can earn a decent wage.
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by dikdik 10y ago
It's like Freddie and Fannie took out a student loan! They're finally making good money, but those interest rates man.
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by dikdik 10y ago
You have a point, but I think it is a useful distinction when it comes to work. Talent and skill (while affected by things out of an individual's control) set the baseline of what you are able to accomplish/your potential. Luck pl
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by dikdik 10y ago
Taxes? Ya'know the same way we used to fund most of higher education. But we've cut a large portion of tax funding for higher ed in the last several decades. The job market requires more skills and education (apparently) and for w
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by dikdik 10y ago
Was your high school outrageously expensive???? I went to one of the best in my state, it was public and free (minus book rental fees).
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by dikdik 10y ago
No. If we continue to make educational debt non-dischargeable through bankruptcy, then millennials should be doing more to avoid paying back their loans (in an attempt to break the system) if they cannot secure a good job. Baby boomers get
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by dikdik 10y ago
I've heard a very similar saying about people in LA, as many people love to talk about how narcissistic the population is here. LA does not turn people into assholes, the environment allows assholes to blossom into their full potential
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by dikdik 10y ago
As nice as the sentiment sounds, a majority of our most brilliant people now are working on improving click-rates and keeping the stock market efficient. I don't really have hopes for the utopia you speak of.
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by dikdik 10y ago
I believe you are correct here, however, I do not think there is much of a difference in the end result. The popular phrase is that past techniques (radiation, selective breeding) are like taking a hammer to a genome, whereas new techniques

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