AnonymousActuary
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AnonymousActuary
8d ago
correct - regardless of subsidies there are no economies of scale to having more kids if you work. Whereas if you have a stay at home parent each kid gets progressively easier. You are still adding net difficulty but the difficulty/expense added goes down, indeed, in some cases the work in total decreases once kids get old enough - they play with each other more and can start to help out around the house.
AnonymousActuary
9d ago
I'm not sure changing culture is hard and slow as opposed to perhaps poorly understood? Culture sure changed fast in March 2020, and against in May/June 2020.
AnonymousActuary
23d ago
I guess people are upset that it is more blatant than the obvious stock running that has been going on forever, but it seems straightforwardly of the same kind to me.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
This is such an odd perspective on insurance and damages that I'm sort of at a loss for words
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
We're risk averse and generally nerdy, so the odds of ending up in a better situation after divorce if we already got lucky enough to outkick our coverage once are not great ;)
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
yeah the correct statement is "trump probably wins if COVID doesn't tank the economy" the late 2019 economy was legitimately awesome, and it's a real bummer it got nuked because once again, we must always do what is best for old people.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
Shades of this classic essay: https://mattlakeman.org/2020/03/21/against-dog-ownership/
I think dogs if you have a sizable piece of land (or even big yard) are totally fine. Or if you already have kids. I absolutely have some internal judgement towards any couple I see that has a dog and no kids (probably should go to confession)
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
I would say my personal politics are that a combination of well-meaning regulations that scope-creeped plus just general regulatory accumulation over time (way easier to add than to subtract) is the general answer to "what changed in 1971"/"Why is growth not 1-1.5% higher annually"/"why can't we do things in the world of atoms", so that influences my opinion on BS jobs.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
I should've written more than a sentence - most of the time people see something that looks like a bullshit desk job that doesn't actually create value (or are in a job they feel like doesn't create value), that job needs to exist due to regulation, and often is positive sum due to regulation.
I am very well compensated to do a job that creates lots of monetary value for my employer and others, but it only exists due to Government regulation, and arguably, a world where I spent my time teaching kids or doing some kind of research would be better.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
this is exactly it and the part of bullshit jobs people miss. Bullshit jobs exist almost entirely because of regulation - the job may seem useful, but it is only useful because regulation requires it/makes it worth paying for.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
I'd like the secret to pull 100-hour days seems quite useful.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
I mean how to win friends and influence people is objectively awesome and I won't stand for this slander
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
Sanderson has some good stuff though the quality has gone down lately. Just started his part of the WOT saga and like it so far. I have a couple friend's wives who read some Sanderson and are what I consider high-quality people.
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
Reminds me of a Twitter thread (eigen robot maybe?) where his dad was losing weight while home health was trying to get him to eat healthy and he finally just made him bananas foster and his dad ate all of it, followed by him being like "what are we doing here"
So, bananas foster?
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
I thought Artemis was noticeably worse than the other 2, curious if others agree
AnonymousActuary
3mo ago
Whenever billionaire discourse comes up I wonder what percentage of the people engaging in it think A. Being a billionaire means you have a salary of a billion+ a year B. Being a billionaire means you have a Scrooge McDuck style mansion filled with ash
As opposed to what if often means, you have a controlling (or large) ownership interest in a company you built that has been enormously successful.
Or you inherited a fortune from someone who did - that part is maybe more justifiably upsetting.
AnonymousActuary
4mo ago
the interesting thing is when I first started reading him he really struck me as conservative if anything - probably anti-Trump, but someone who would have happily voted for Romney. Curious if it was audience capture or too much time in academia or just TDS that got him in the end.
AnonymousActuary
4mo ago
If you don't read his writing on LoTR you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Especially his sections on the books.
AnonymousActuary
4mo ago
I think you are maybe trying to say this is a bad thing which makes no sense, yes, actually getting to participate in my hobbies with my kids is tremendously fun.
AnonymousActuary
4mo ago
For safety and legal reasons I would be really surprised if someone made a completely autonomous robot whose job it was to give orders to the other robots.
if you think no one is going to do this you have not been paying attention
AnonymousActuary
4mo ago
Yeah the true original sin is no indexing of benefits to lifespan (SS), and healthcare trend in general (medicare and Medicaid)
AnonymousActuary
5mo ago
I mean honestly I think we should just have a megathread on this. I don't see discussion going away
AnonymousActuary
5mo ago
yeah I don't feel any reason to have an opinion on this for 4 days. Seems like the MN Governor disagrees.
AnonymousActuary
5mo ago
Fair enough. Slap on wrist accepted
yep it's all fun and games until we remember we live in a society with mandated health insurance with no pre-existing condition exclusions that socializes costs.
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