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Incorrect. As GP pointed out, tech salaries were relatively in line with other mid-level professional roles until the late 2000s, well after software and networked automation had transformed many industries. This was because, at the time, t
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High incomes in tech were a symptom of the money printing that was supposed to keep the economy afloat largely never reaching past the ranks of the alumnae of certain colleges and universities. They exploded from the liquidity surplus that
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For posterity: because it's not reflected in any way that passers-by would be able to see, I would note that this post has been going up and down in points all day. It is reflective of the tension surrounding GP's thesis. American
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>I'd venture that most consumption is a status game. I would include the debasement of one's moral soul for social-climbing purposes in the set of aforementioned sacrifices. :) In any case, I did mention the dangers of overco
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>It's almost as if the so-called Invisible Hand of the market is God distributing punishment and reward. Amusingly, Capitalism as a concept fits the definition of an "Eldritch Abomination."
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I think this paints an inaccurate picture. I have many West Indian family friends who also grew up in Brooklyn during this period. Education was emphasized in those households. Finding success or not was largely a factor of who successfully
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>ran by non-native English speakers that gets hacked every few months with a redirect to porn or russian sites. I imagine that this would be a problem.
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I'll emphasize a point you alluded to: tab hoarding is driven partly by the algorithmic instability of served content. If pages didn't refresh on the platform's whims, users could navigate back and forth to hub pages, like th
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To correct in specifics but not character: there were renter support/eviction prevention programs, as well as some amount of eviction moratoriums. All almost without fail came alongside mortgage/homeowner relief (with owners able
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That's fine. Sure, there are downsides that increase as consumption increases, meaning that overconsumption (however that's defined) is undesirable. However, consumption enables cultural expression that otherwise would be economic
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And I was being rhetorically facetious. Your point is negated by the ones I brought up.
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>I had never heard of prohibition as a tactic to oppress racial minorities. Not everyone who is white today was white 100 years ago. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=prohibition+anti+immigrant Take your pick.
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No, they shouldn't. SS is meant to prevent destitution, not enable luxury. Wealthy Americans owe the working and consumption classes whose sacrifices make their riches possible; there is no such obligation to ensure those elite earners
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We're almost back. Search quality degradation has made finding even things you know exist significantly more difficult and time-consuming.
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Found one.
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A cook is a bad analogy for the rank held by the people involved. It's more like "son of the estate owner" or "head guard", except it's both of them because it was multiple execs. So, yes, the estate owner shou
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>Seems >Appears You don't seem very confident. I would suggest incorporating data regarding crime that is kept out of the justice system (the victim or police refuse to press charges), as well as determining whether or not white
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I disagree. If running or volunteering at a soup kitchen were viewed by the would-be criminal as options for fulfilling their needs, they wouldn't be. There is something - generally psychological or social - pushing them to self-destru
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There's a difference between not being a big fan of drugs and wanting the onerous law enforcement and incarceratorial regime which was eventually implemented. Without much meaningful input from the CBC, I imagine. Your "Ehh, sort
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You've misunderstood the nature of desperation. People doing those things are absolutely desperate - for a dopamine hit, for love or intimacy or community, for something to do with their time that is meaningful (losing all your money i
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"We all want" Let me push back on that. We are all TOLD to want, using psychologically manipulative tactics. Advertising as corporate/Capitalist propaganda.
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When I was in my early 20s, I flew into Providence, RI. I was too young to rent a car, and too poor to take a taxi all the way to my final destination, so I had to take it to the place downtown where the busses all crossed paths. I only lea
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Every train station I've been to in the Northeast has been within a few minutes walk of a subway station, light rail station, bus hub, or taxi stand. What you mean by "few options" is "no car rental", which is an un
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The acknowledgement that GP's obersvation is significant might lead to further reevaluation of "set" attitudes, based on the recognition that self-serving bias was involved in their formulation.
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This comment doesn't make sense, particularly wrt TFA.
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Intersectionality.
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> I don't see how personal recommendations are corrupt. Well, that would be the problem.
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> wouldn't the company perform better if we did other things with that excess money? Of course. That's not what CEO pay/employee does, though; it trivializes the massive (over)compensation by putting it in seemingly-small
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This is true. Bottom-barrel* retail food service gigs don't count. (And even then... I'm certain the manager at the Gamestop I applied to at 18 binned my paper app immediately because he was hiring his friends.) People don't
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This is quite an arbitrary metric.

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