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The anglo-centric view is really a USA-centric view. UK firms, for whatever reason, don't seem to feel obligated to pay more than 50-60k GBP per year, and they still manage to fill their cube farms. And the foreigners who speak more t
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We need work for plenty of reasons, but most jobs don't really contribute to our civilization's continued success. Many are even opposed to it. I don't agree with Graeber's conclusions, but his observations are solid:
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> don't be surprised when you're competing against people from all over the globe, who will probably take a lower salary than you, who probably aren't entitled as you, and will bite at the opportunity. This competition mos
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Could be worse. At least they're not working for hedge funds, defense contractors, or management consultancies.
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> Should we just have not OTC options for pain at all? We should not pretend they're harmless. And we should probably make opioids more available (albeit still regulated): If the pain is bad enough that you'd risk your liver,
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You're absolutely right that cheating is endemic. At the same time, all proctoring software I've ever encountered was garbage. I believe the solution is to require candidates to take exams at a Prometric or Pearson VUE physical l
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Another reason your new term is superior: "Flexible-location" implies that I might not live within commuting distance of one of my employer's offices. "Work-from-home", so far, has been abused by employers who are h
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Sounds like the company where I work. Extreme lack of leadership.
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I liked this until everyone got paid the same. That's the fastest way to lose all of the people who can get more elsewhere. And it's not going to be the laggards who jump ship...
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You can (and should) freeze your Work Number file. https://theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze/
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Hilarious if true.
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Yeah, I think very few are under any logical or intellectual delusion, but constant reinforcement and signaling affects everyone subconsciously.
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> How is not censoring and being banned any more productive than the status quo? It lets the Chinese Communist Party pretend their citizens don't live in a curated bubble designed to reinforce feelings of nationalism and loyalty to
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Some form of appeal to the rights of the individual is the cry of every political minority until it seizes power. Some of the group's members might actually be pluralist civil libertarians at heart. But this news demonstrates that the
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Popular speech doesn't need defending. If the ACLU sacrifices its principles to earn the approval of the woke authoritarian left, then the people in charge never really had those principles.
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It reads like a descriptive statement, not a normative one, because it calls out specifically that the corporation enriches its management , not its employees.
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If you ground them up, that would solve the texture problem. The only drawback would be the accumulation of herbicides, metals, and radionuclides in their flesh. Highly appetizing.
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Having eaten some bugs myself, I can tell you that they are disgusting even when properly cooked and seasoned. The legs and exoskeleton are very, very hard, but not quite crunchy either. Like chewing on a number of small plastic toothpicks
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This is almost certainly a case of attempted parallel construction. Indulge my hypothetical: 1. A newspaper article is posted at 1PM. 2. A suspicious comment that contains nonpublic, incriminating information is posted on a message board at
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Proves my point. An actual white supremacist rejected the non-white leader of the Proud Boys and split off to form his own group. The Proud Boys were not a white supremacist organization. Attempts to use this despicable man's quotes t
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A culture built on human sacrifice has nothing to offer. The Spanish did nothing wrong.
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Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, and every other stooge who provided rhetorical cover for the BLM riots last year are still enjoying their Facebook accounts, so it doesn't look like the policy is getting applied evenly as you suggest it ought.
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That article is a litany of false talking points that leftists repeat as dogma. Case in point: > known white supremacist groups such as the Proud Boys The Proud Boys were headed by a man named Enrique Tarrio [0]. Enrique Tarrio is of A
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> A 40% top federal bracket and a 10% top state bracket don't result in 50% of your actual income going to taxes. Our household is in the top 5% (not even top 1%) nationally, living in a medium-tax state, and we managed to max out t
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No, marginal rates don't even go that high. Once you include sales taxes (which are 12% in a jurisdiction not far from my home) and property taxes (which aren't taken against income but are still taxes), it's not hard to get
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Federal income taxes Social Security taxes Medicare taxes State income taxes Local income taxes State/local real property taxes State/local personal property taxes Sales taxes It's pretty easy to get to 50 or 60%, depending o
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Yes, Netanyahu is much worse.
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This is demonstrably false. There was no coup attempt, only a peaceful protest. The protestors were happy to remain outside. There's video evidence of Alex Jones using a megaphone to tell the protestors to walk around the building
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My right to educate my children to the best of my ability trumps your desire to hold them back for some imagined benefit that might accrue to their classmates. Your plan is just crab bucket mentality dressed up in egalitarianism's clot
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> That said, the reason why most homeschoolers are much better off today is because parents who care about education and have the wherewithal to tutor their child self-select to homeschool. If you believe in the growth mindset, you neces

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