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.
43m ago
Endemic black gun violence wasn’t much of a social issue in the US until 1970 or 1980, was it?
A little earlier; the uptick in homicide starting after 1963. The limited data I can find suggests the homicides were of similar racial mix as today (and got more white as you get into the 1980s). It is tempting for the wrongthinker to draw a straight line between the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and this fact, but I don't know of any direct evidence for that.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1hr ago
Old people seemingly keep getting older with only limit what fraction of the GDP we dare not to sacrifice to their care.
As a person of a certain age, I assure you death is still around. Quite a few of the parents of those in my social circles are facing it (or have already died)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1hr ago
Presumably, "in America" or "in the Western world". As soon as you have a child, you are a slave to it by proxy. You have to raise it as the powerful members of your community wish it to be raised, or face social and governmental wrath. This has always been true, though state capacity increasing has made it worse -- getting disapproving sniffs from those who don't like the way you raise your child is not as bad as disapproving sniffs plus stern letters from "educators" and visits from CPS or the local police. And, the way they want children to be raised has gotten more and more intensive. Full time personal supervision of them. Not just school but all sorts of "enriching" activities. Every sort of safety measure. Supporting them until they finish undergraduate. Etc.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16hr ago
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.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16hr 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.
16hr 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.
17hr 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.
17hr 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.
1d 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.
1d 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.
2d 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.
3d 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 actions are not politically acceptable, and that is why we cannot implement them. It does not matter if there are ways of stopping black criminals if we cannot implement them. We've seen what happens if we try -- the pushback gets stronger until we stop doing it, people who notice the issue are ostracized, it becomes illegal to use data to demonstrate things, and if the data stubbornly keep showing the wrong things, they just stop publishing or collecting it.
Then we can't stop it.
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