elindbe2

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by elindbe2 6y ago
I didn't ignore it at all. The point is that allowing people to immigrate in place of having children would do very little to reduce carbon output of Western countries. Stopping both would be required.
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by elindbe2 6y ago
If your goal is carbon reduction, then allowing people to immigrate is almost as bad as people reproducing. Someone coming from Mexico or Vietnam or Nigeria coming here will likely produce way more CO2 than if they remain in their country
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by elindbe2 6y ago
cries in Chicagoan
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by elindbe2 6y ago
Bank of America has spoken along those lines. ( https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/03/31/ban... )
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by elindbe2 7y ago
Any solution to this problem needs to consider that its not just about getting work done. It's getting the right work done to satisfy the needs of society. Money acts fairly well as a feedback mechanism, because if the work you'
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by elindbe2 7y ago
Sort of a judgement call but from my perspective the process part (which is actually the part I tend to enjoy) of things takes up way more of your life than the result part.
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by elindbe2 7y ago
One million dollars is ~1/23400 of his wealth. If you had $500,000 in your investment accounts, that would be like donating $21.
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by elindbe2 7y ago
How many people actually believe body positivism deep down? For example, how many people would see zero difference between, all things being equal, dating a thin person and a morbidly obese person? I'm sure they are out there but I wo
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by elindbe2 7y ago
I'll volunteer to switch from 30s to 72 if it means I can start collecting social security now. Then I can spend my days competing in the 70+ age bracket of sporting events.
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by elindbe2 7y ago
But the money the company pays out doesn't count as tax paid by the shareholder, and there is very good reason for this from the shareholder's perspective. The company is a separately legal entity created to protect the sharehold
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by elindbe2 7y ago
Free stuff always tastes better
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by elindbe2 7y ago
Something tells me the machines at the frozen pizza factory have been making more than 300 pizzas an hour for a long time.
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by elindbe2 7y ago
It's true that I probably don't work any harder than the subsistence farmer in India living on $2 a day. Does that imply I should start donating all my extra income to them? Until what point? Until I'm living on $2 per day
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by elindbe2 7y ago
Both! I've always though 9am-2pm are ideal work hours (with a lunch break).
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by elindbe2 7y ago
I imagine I would act pretty typically. Quit work. Travel the world and see what I want to see. Spend time at leisure, thinking about the world and my place in it. Develop some kind of spirituality. Take a bunch of psychedelic drugs.
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by elindbe2 7y ago
IMO a lot of problems with our work culture come down to too many hours. If we cut down full-time to mean 20 hours a week, I think a lot of the suffering would disappear. Health conditions would be reduced, ennui from the meaninglessness
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by elindbe2 7y ago
Seems like you should argue for the outright banning of cars if your argument is that cars make things too easy and have a negative environmental impact.
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by elindbe2 7y ago
All you are saying is the laws are enforced (to some degree) not that we agreed to them, and the fact that I live within a system of rules doesn't mean I agree with all of those rules. Show me a social contract with my signature on it
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by elindbe2 7y ago
In my (limited) experience, managers tend to guide (or force) team estimates down.
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by elindbe2 7y ago
Compared to the US it is. Obviously there are going to be ongoing problems in any large undertaking, but Sweden pays half the cost for healthcare per capita. A 50% discount for equal quality care. Americans like myself are getting absolu
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by elindbe2 7y ago
> assuming women raise children is wrong, and sexist too. I have no need to assume this because this is actually the case. This is reality today. When women stop being the primary ones raising the children then there will no longer be
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by elindbe2 7y ago
Women are more likely to desire part time hours because they are always the ones who are getting pregnant and typically the ones raising small children.
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by elindbe2 7y ago
Only if that happens across the board, not in one particular company.
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by elindbe2 7y ago
Moving to this later in the year. We'll see if I tolerate it or not. Unfortunately, there's been no mention of the benefits that are supposed to go with hotdesking (flexible hours and work from home) so it's all downside at
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by elindbe2 7y ago
It's possible I'm mistaken about the commonness, I'm just repeating hearsay. That said, I still think it should become the norm everywhere.
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by elindbe2 7y ago
IMO the first place to start implementing ad bans is in public spaces, which I hear is common in Europe. I don't have to watch TV so I don't see TV ads. I don't listen to the radio much so I don't listen to radio ads.
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by elindbe2 7y ago
My spending is not impossible to estimate and for the most part it is very much under my control. If what you said is true then no one could ever reasonably retire at any age.
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by elindbe2 7y ago
True, but I'm looking at it more over the course of a lifetime. If I need $X to cover all expenses in my lifetime then I need to work $X/Y hours where Y is my earnings per hour. This is a bit oversimplified if you include saving
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by elindbe2 7y ago
There are ways to get rich inside the career world. For example, become a managing director at a big bank.
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by elindbe2 7y ago
It seems like tricky wording used by businesses to pay people less. Tell people in your job description that you offer "opportunities for career growth" and they hear "opportunities to get rich". Then when they're

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