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Culture War Roundup for the week of June 29, 2026

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9-9-6 is a punishing work schedule and America maintaining a high standard of living without it is worth prioritizing, but is it really that bad? I don't believe techworkers are working Saturdays a lot. I know there are people working six twelves(which is what normie americans would call it, although for FIFO roughnecks and the like who probably make up the majority of such workers it's more likely to be 7-7 M-Sat). I know techworkers work some unusual hours but is it really normal to work more than about fifty hours a week?

really normal to work more than about fifty hours a week?

No definitely not. I just mean white Americans should not have to compete against cheating Asians. They cheat directly and they cheat by studying and grinding and signaling more than decent whites would consider reasonable. The latter is largely slow to become acknowledged as cheating, but it is indeed cheating in terms of cause and effect.

It's not cheating if they're doing work that is actually useful to people, which the 12 hour shift people probably are. Then other people get to enjoy whatever they produced, which is the point of paying people for their labor.

Working harder than is good or reasonable is cheating, because one attempts to lower others to that miserable level, which is bad or them, or else one takes what is rightfully theirs in terms of status, money, and employment. It's the same as using steroids in sports. It's unhealthy, it's not reasonable, you either win outside of the bounds of reasonable competition and therefore rob your competitors, or you force others to poison their bodies just like you.

what is rightfully theirs in terms of status, money, and employment.

This is specific rather than general, and would depend on intuitions concerning specific events. It depends, ultimately, on what the work is. For instance, I don't necessarily want a pastor or professor who's been grindmaxxing his whole life, I'd like someone who's been cultivating wisdom through conversations, study groups, perhaps even traveling to get different perspectives, praying or reflecting, and other low stress activities.

But that's not because the status is somehow "rightfully theirs" in a caste sense, but because the grindmaxxing doesn't necessarily produce more wisdom, which is what people are paying them to cultivate. If they start thinking their status is "rightfully theirs," they should become subject to the rule of "whosoever humbles himself will be exalted, and whosoever exalts himself will be brought down," because that position is showing a lack of wisdom and maturity.

The oil riggers are welcome to produce more oil, as long as they aren't so exhausted they're making stupid mistakes.

Even if that kind of idiosyncratic statement was true, so what? You just said society isn't real, so if my family wants to outwork your family then you have no say. Society is what sets norms around what is reasonable behaviour. If it doesn't exist then everyone gets to set their own norms, no?

This comment is bad faith. You are following me between threads. Are you sneering at my messages in a Discord somewhere waiting to point out perceived inconsistencies between threads or something? Because it's not just you and these comments aren't exactly wracking up tons of organic views.

Anyway, what I meant by saying society is made up, is that there is no super entity that can be endowed with joint feelings that you owe. Therefore you cannot say it is possible to go behind society's back, or for society to decide something, in the same way that a family can coordinate. Obviously, there exists sets of people. Cheating and mass immigration effect the set of legacy American families and people, each individually in a bad way. Whereas a 25 year old dating a 17 year old effects no one in a bad way.

You are following me between threads. Are you sneering at my messages in a Discord somewhere waiting to point out perceived inconsistencies between threads or something? Because it's not just you and these comments aren't exactly wracking up tons of organic views.

"Discord cliques could be here", he thought. "I've never been this deep in a thread before. There could be Discorders anywhere."

As someone who isn't following you across threads and just saw this comment on the firehose view: once you start sensing private sneering Discords in your walls, you've reached the level of an imageboard schizo who believes that any pushback on [insert hobby horse here] can only ever come from paid, astroturfed, structured opposition too dreadfully big for him to fight. I suppose the probability of a, ahem, sneer club existing isn't literally zero, but it is so close to zero that it's barely worth suffering the (considerable, I might note) aura loss of pointing out, especially on an obscure Colombian bucket welding forum such as this one. Come off it, man. This is virtually never an argument that helps your case, it just scans as defensive reaching for whatever accusations you can muster, for lack of actual arguments.

Bro, their arguments are just a fallacy and whining. I'm not on the defensive substantively. Meanwhile they are, like, the exact same type of poster phenotype, totally the kind to have some kind of sneer group going. It's super autistic actually to believe in atomization to the point where you think sensing a discord group is insane paranoia. Have you never used discord? or had a group chat?

Have you never used discord? or had a group chat?

I have, but I don't screenshot randos I'm talking to online and share it out of the blue like "look at this retard" or something, nor do any of my friend groups to my knowledge. My point and reason for my reply is that complaining about X-cords being out in force and confidently asserting that the thread is being raided, that the poasting is inorganic, that they're Nooticing etc. is a very common pastime - and yet in all the years of using imageboards I haven't seen even a shred of meaningful evidence to those malicious coordinated sneer 'cords actually existing. Absolutely none. Barely even any screenshots which by all accounts should both be trivial to produce, and give the shitposter the warm fuzzies of sekrit clubbiness and being In The Know. The "malicious coordinated action" is always, always just mythical use of free will by sufficiently deranged singular posters, amply demonstrated by the occasions when a janny deigns to ban a single schizoposter's IPs and like half of a thread disappears instantly. It's not more complicated than that.

they are, like, the exact same type of poster phenotype, totally the kind to have some kind of sneer group going.

See this is the kind of thing you start sensing when you dig your heels in too deep, they're totally the kind to stalk me, bro, totally laughing in their 'cord right now, trust me bro. Is this supposed to be an argument, purely because (again) the possibility is not literally zero? If anything "heh that's just %fallacy_name%" smacks more of Redditposting than the uh, poster phenotypes on display here.

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Nope, I just use the last posted page to browse and saw one comment then the other. No sinister Discord groups to stalk random people. Just reading. Promise.

And even if you want your discussion at the level of individuals then you may feel it doesn't harm anyone and another individual may feel it does. If that individual can persuade other individuals to intervene through social pressure or laws then you end up in the same place. Sets of people can coordinate actions from families on up.

You exist in a world with other people. Those other people may have different views to you. That you don't think it harms anyone matters not a jot. Only what you can persuade others to accept. To that extent society is real.

Stop with the amoralism. this is a philosophical forum where we discuss what is just. this is not a business, political party, or parliament. It is just for natives to prevent a 9 9 6 race to the death in their own country. it is unjust for jealous busybodies to meddle with romantic relationships that of those of strangers. It is not a logical rebuttal to merely describe the amoral process by which injustice happens. I am sure if I browse your profile you will have ideals and wants and shoulds in there. I already demonstrated to another person commiting this fallacy that I could reply just as easily with fallacious amoralism to any of your oughts.

We do discuss philosophy but we aren't a philosophy forum. The Culture War is very little to do with what is just and more to do with the overarching clash of culture within societies. So it shouldn't really surprise you if your ideas are critiqued within that framework.

Having said that pragmatism is a philosophy, so pointing out that your ideas do need to account for others is a valid point.

Or to put it another way, you can say people shouldn't care when a 25yo man dates a 16yo girl. And a valid response is shouldn't is irrelevant only what actually is.

This is a discussion forum, so you don't get to control who responds or the frame of their arguments. You can simply choose not to respond if it goes in a direction you don't wish to pursue however.

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Your lack of consistency is your problem, not your interlocutor's problem.

My view is consistent but they are trying to make it seem inconsistent by exploiting my choice of rhetoric in two separate scenarios. No one is that studious of my comments so it smells like cheating/sneering to me but I could be wrong.

Assuming that people are engaging in targeted stalking just because they respond to comments that are buried deep inside threads is unreasonable. Lots of users use the "firehose" page to scroll through all comments as soon as they are made, with no regard for how deep into a thread they are.

This is the second person to follow me around between threads, tying two unrelated things I said together in a feeble attempt to feel like they discredited me. You might have used the firehose page, but it's looking like they are sneering at at least one of my comments and then trolling for more.

Modern tech companies aren't doing jackshit that's useful to most people. That's why things have been so easily hollowed out and the makework sinecures have been put up for foreign tender for no reason. It's very hard to beat an Indian at stupid bureaucratic games and the majority of tech employment is now stupid bureaucratic games as 5% of the workforces actually contribute the revenue.

Amazon has built a logistics system that is one of the best in the world, and computing infrastructure that probably IS the best in the world (at least of that available to outsiders). They also have a really nice retail website which sells a lot of useful things, and a video entertainment system which is pretty nice.

Microsoft, stodgy old dinosaur that it is, still underlies almost everything corporate, and they, too, have a significant player in computing infrastructure.

Apple, of course, makes the iPhone and the Mac and everything associated. And they have a video entertainment group too.

Alphabet does a lot of useless crap, but they still do Google search. And maps. And another significant computing infrastructure offering. And YouTube. And Waymo.

NVidia makes hardware that makes a lot of computing possible.

Tesla is for some reason considered a tech company; they make cars.

And then rounding off the Magnificent 7 is Meta. Oh well, they can't all be useful.

And that's about 10% of each of their workforces with massive amounts of random cargo cult bureaucratic employees doing fuck all. There are useful outputs but most are relatively siloed within businesses that then use the massive surplus created by that useful output in order to perpetuate sinecures.

If most tech work is bullshit anyway, then why don't these white workers who are apparently so much more talented and deserving than Indian immigrants go do something that actually contributes to society instead, rather than whining about missing out on opportunities to be a parasite?

I made retirement money on a lucky tech startup strike (which I wouldn't consider to have actually accomplished anything of social value, but yay money) and I'd still consider any healthy or sensible society would preserve its sinecures for natives. I've seen how Indian friends go about the job application process and it's equal parts impressive and terrifying how optimized they were at getting into tech roles. Their ability to actually deliver never really entered the picture.

Money, dear boy.

Because doing something that actually contributes to society is seen as "low status".

Also it can be genuinely difficult to find a pathway. Most forms of charitable work you can think of are going to turn into babysitting foreigners and drug addicts. Competing on manufacturing from a Western country is typically very difficult due to the wage and construction costs.

Im not talking about charity so much as moving out of Silicon Valley and getting a normal job at a normal company.

The six twelves people mostly signed up for it for the opportunity to make more money, usually in jobs that would be tough to replace even if they might be unpopular in certain circles(oil extraction in particular likes this schedule). No one really finds this schedule controversial- those guys almost always volunteered for it. I think he's referring to the oriental grindset of overstudying to boost test scores above what IQ would predict.

No one really finds this schedule controversial

It's controversial enough to require overtime pay, because a more decent population that existed in the past decided man is more than a workbot.

Yeah, I don't necessarily like grinding at learning as a widespread practice, though that mostly seems to be about worrying that the only alternative to passing tests and office drudgery is too horrible to contemplate. The main way around that is making second or third tier jobs bearable. It should be alright (and largely is in America) for a moderately smart person to work as a cook or something. People make fun of liberal arts baristas, but that is a sign that America is producing barista jobs that are better than someone grinding super hard or running back to their families, which is good, actually.

Being a cook sucks- the pay is bad, the hours are maximally terrible, and the working conditions are usually awful, and it's stressful and you're surrounded by felons and have to be bilingual. But there's lots of jobs which do not take a grindset to get into for moderately smart people which are totally fine; you can be a teacher or accountant or cop or work in most trades and make a decent living for a manageable work life balance- and America has lots of second chances if your kids have the same parents and you don't do drugs or commit violent crimes. Not getting into Jane street isn't a consignment to working in a sweatshop.

My father and grandfather were cooks.

I'm confused about my father's trajectory, because he's never been in trouble with the law, got a college degree in the 70s, upstanding member of his church community, remained married to the same woman for 40 years, refused to learn Spanish, and yet was a line cook surrounded by Spanish speakers for years. Then he went and taught high school for a decade. My understanding of the situation is that he is just incredibly uncharismatic, and couldn't figure out the boomer job search methods, but it's kind of weird in retrospect. Also, we were homeschooling, and living partially off of... stocks gifted by relatives, I think?

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