The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
It is not that there is no sociocultural intervention that would reduce the gap. It is that there is no politically acceptable intervention, because all of them will look like they are disproportionately punitive to black people.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
You don't need to show that most black people are committing crimes. You can alternately show that you can't stop the black people who are committing crimes from doing so, which seems to be empirically correct.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
Used to. Between state capacity increases, parental helicoptering, and the gentling of youth through chemical means, a lot fewer high school students drink than used to.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
Yep, I think there are two points at which the brain could be said to no longer be developing -- one is when it begins to decline as you suggest. And the other is death, as indicated by the aphorism "Biologists have a special word for 'stable': dead".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11hr ago
I don't think it's actually true that "the mainstream right wing opinion is the anti vaxx naturalism bullshit". Poster who posted that likes to slip in false things, possibly in an attempt to manufacture common knowledge.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11hr ago
But sure, the problem with gun violence in the US is that Billy Bob put a giggle trigger on his PSA.
And regardless of how often stories like you describe keep happening, the majority of people in the United States will continue to believe this unironically. You can't fight the propaganda machine.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
This feels like hyperbole. Communist China assigns everyone a role, not the right in the US of A. But if it's just a premise, ok.
The right lacks in the USA lacks the power to do so. But they'd like to. Heck, even the European 2rafa seems to want that; her variant has roles assigned according to heredity, which is certainly traditional.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Management simply can't resist the idea that they can take their best technical people and multiply their effectiveness by having them do people stuff. They create the non-management roles but they still expect "leadership" from the technical people; the difference is they don't get hiring or spending authority.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
We know that an increase in supply is not what's causing unemployment, as tech employment is dropping. Supply isn't all that elastic so that increase in supply due to increase in demand usually doesn't cause unemployment -- such inrushes have happened, but were more than absorbed by the industry.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
At least in the UK's uniformly fucked housing market, the average homeowning Boomer is worth more dead than alive because they are under-occupying a valuable family-sized house.
Worth more to whom?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
A high rate on a lower balance means that you needed a much lower deposit (and had the benefit of those high interest rates while saving for it).
Alas, no, you didn't. Savings deposits were stuck at 5.25% due to something called "Regulation Q" while inflation and loan rates soared. And people didn't do money markets and buy T-bills individually back then. This was repealed in phases starting in 1980, a bit late to help.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The tech sector right now has a lower unemployment than the general US economy
Tech sector unemployment hit a low of 1.8% in 2018 and is now 3.8% and rising. That's an absolutely massive change. In the meantime, total unemployment hit a low of 3.5% in 2020 and is now 4.3% and steady, which is a much smaller change. And "rising" is important, if you're already not working.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
More employment opportunities, sure, but the days of big numbers on the paycheque will be over. Now you'll be on the same level as administrative staff and the other employees you used to look down on as bullshit jobs.
Software developers do not tend to look at the administrative staff as "bullshit jobs", at least not at the companies I've worked at. If you're going to engage in schadenfreude, at least have good reason.
(The jobs software developers do look at as "bullshit jobs" are as likely to be automated).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
There's two separate issues/lanes here. Some people are beneficiaries of public retirement spending at massive scale despite not actually self-funding their retirements and some are being accused of hoarding.
And between the two this covers pretty much every old person who worked.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
My father had to scramble to find a defense job so they wouldn't send him to die in Southeast Asia. My experience wasn't as bad but I did graduate into a recession. Some millennials got screwed pretty hard entering the workforce during the GFC. There's certainly plenty of things that suck now, but the zoomers on X utterly reject the idea that anyone else ever had problems.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Then live your life. But your implied idea that people who have already worked and saved should be dispossessed and sent back to work (which, as I said, you'd complain about too) so young people don't have to... well, even if you could pull it off, it works for one generation only.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Of course as narcissists, that is unacceptable to them. If they were not narcissists, we would all be 140 IQ super models right now from eugenics.
Someone would. Neither you nor I would exist.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Mask off moment where AI adoption en masse is going to rip back the curtain as to how our owners really feel about the mass of us peons?
The mask has been transparent since the change from "Personnel" to "Human Resources".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Who brought those laws and regulations in, exactly?
The people running things in 1964.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Yes and a lot of the youth today are toiling under the expectation the vast panopoly of elderly welfare that currently exists will have a machete taken to it long before they get there.
And this has been true since Gen X started working. I'm sure there have always been younger people who think the way to get ahead is to just to steal old people's stuff, but they're as wrong as evil now as they always have been.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
There's more than one argument. Rampant crime discourages shops big and small. But lack of demand discourages certain kind of shops.
Anyway, the food desert definition is
Census tracts qualify as food deserts if they meet low-income and low-access thresholds:
Low-income: a poverty rate of 20 percent or greater, or a median family income at or below 80 percent of the statewide or metropolitan area median family income;
Low-access: at least 500 persons and/or at least 33 percent of the population lives more than 1 mile from a supermarket or large grocery store (10 miles, in the case of rural census tracts).
So small stores/bodegas don't count.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Median mortgage payment as a percentage of median income: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1RDJB
FRED doesn't have data further back, but it's worse 1981-83
That's one of many reasons boomers aren't impressed by the whining. Yeah, things are in fact bad now (though there was a lot of the same whining pre-COVID when they were not). But they were worse in the 1980s, when many boomers were trying to get their life started.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
That's only half of individualism, though. Assigning everyone a role and holding them responsible for fulfilling is still collectivist.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
In my industry there is a saying about some people having X years of experience and others having 1 year of experience, X times. Teachers, by nature of the job, nearly always fall into the second pattern -- each year is the same as the last. And they get seniority pay increases because they're public employees with unions. Most jobs are not like that -- if experience people get more pay, they're expected to do a better job.
All three are true. Everything we've tried has failed, and while we have ideas that may work, they are blocked for reasons.
Right now, the intelligentsia of both sides have decided the answer is gun control, but that is unlikely to work either for many reasons.
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