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lagrangian
19m ago
Roth IRA limits are not that high. ~250K currently, with for two-income family - or moderately well earning one-income - is not a lot. Once you hit that, no Roth for you.
Mega-backdoor Roth 401k allows up to 70k/year contributions with no income limit. Your employer has to offer it. FAANG does. It's a normal roth in terms of tax treatment.
When leaving the employer, you can convert to roth IRA with no penalties. Even better, you can leave it as non-roth until leaving the company, again with no penalties (but ofc you pay the income taxes to convert to roth).
KingOfTheBailey
45m ago
A government that cannot maintain territorial integrity is a government I consider to be "too small".
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
1hr ago
Yeah, weird. Almost as though they had different conditions which led to them taking different actions.
They almost all either switched prior to mass education and industrialization in their countries, or they half-assed it and ended up with a weird Frankenstein system like the UK, Canada, and Australia
TIRM
1hr ago
I like when then they bust someone and scarily state that he had a few guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition in his home. Pretending as though that is noteworthy or strange.
srf0638
1hr ago
A different post reminded me that I just finished Anton Myrer's Once an Eagle, a sprawling midcentury epic supposedly beloved among America's military officer corps. Doesn't really get into gear for a while but no regrets. Now chipping away at John Holt's How Children Fail, as reviewed in the ratsphere--so far, some of the phenomenology of confusion seems exceptionally penetrating and insightful, but there's a good deal that seems wrong or confused. And there's not much of a positive program yet, but after all it's not called How to Unschool.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
1hr ago
I don't really disagree with that, but it's not relevant to the argument. I can think of a lot of jobs I think are net negative.
solowingpixy
the resident car guy
1hr ago
I'm a big fan of Lionel Shriver's The Mandibles (published in 2016). Mania was a fun take on cancel culture. Apparently her latest novel is set to take on immigration.
TIRM
1hr ago
Public school administrators as a parasite class. The teachers are far below these people.
But I actually think most school administrators are not productive in a "positive net value of their labor sense". There's been a multi-hundred percent increase in school administrators in the past few decades. There's some correct level of administration and then there's the Iron Law of Institutions run wild. I think we are far into the second case regarding public school administration.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
1hr ago
Same reason we don't use the metric system
We don't use the metric system because it's not in the rational interests of people to switch. The imperial system sucks for kids (because they have to memorize the conversions), and if you have to do the math by hand I guess, but your typical adult already knows the conversions they need and has a calculator to handle the math. So they get no benefit, but would have to put up with learning all the new measurements. There's no upside for them.
anon_
1hr ago
This may be true, but the price of accepting that (for us in the US) is that our government will never get a handle around removable aliens.
Zephyr
1hr ago
The parallels between being woke and being in a religion have definitely not gone unnoticed.
MayorofOysterville
1hr ago
Thats about what I learned approximately five years later from your timeline.
Rov_Scam
2hr ago
I-9 only requires proof of identity and proof of eligibility to work in the US. Most people use a driver's license for the former and a Social Security card for the latter, neither of which requires citizenship. And the law only requires that the employer inspect the documents for their authenticity, not conduct an investigation to determine if the person is actually, at this moment, eligible to work in the US. He could have easily gotten a Social Security card when he was here legally on a student visa, and used that for all his I-9s.
TIRM
2hr ago
I don't understand why the right is so opposed to it.
Same reason we don't use the metric system:
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Revelation 13:16-17
This is overstating it a bit, but there is some portion of America that opposed the metric system and opposes things like national IDs or implantable payment chips as being "the mark of the beast". The beast being a seven-headed monstrous enemy of God. Or at least symbolically represented as such.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
2hr ago
"The media is trying to make ISIS look like bad guys and from media reporting, they seem pretty bad..."
They could just be bad! It is very, very likely that an illegal immigrant from Guyana who gets a position of high office is a sketchy character. Even without the cash, guns and so on he'd still be a sketchy character.
Quantumfreakonomics
2hr ago
How did this work? What was the gears-level social fabric (heh) that prevented people from changing jobs?
anti_dan
2hr ago
That aside, I am a big fan of national ID cards. The US should have one, and so should every other country. I don't understand why the right is so opposed to it. It's the easiest way to control illegal immigration.
Because it will not be so used. We already have sanctuary cities which house most of the illegal immigrants in the nation. Their cops will be mandated to not check that, as they currently are in those jurisdictions.
If you actually look at the US laws, you would observe that it is seemingly a very strong immigration code that should already be easily able to deal with the illegal immigration problem. The reality is tens of millions of illegals in America. How? Sand in the gears. No law can get rid of the sand. You could try to mitigate it by hiring millions more ICE agents and immigration judges. The sand throwers would re-direct enough of their efforts to preventing that hiring to continue to stifle you.
4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
2hr ago
No, because they are heavily confounded in both directions. The people who choose to remain in such communities against the backdrop of modernity are bound to be ones that are relatively happy to do so, and the sight of modern living is bound to induce some jealousy. It would in many ways be like trying to make inferences about cavemen from the San Francisco homeless.
God I remember how hammered "I am Charlotte Simmons" was by critics. I enjoyed it, admittedly as a sex crazed teen.
Unfortunately I have no contemporary literature to suggest. I think it takes brass balls to write about a culture just a year or two after it's hit a discernable apex.
Has anyone seen One Battle After Another yet? Is it the lib resistance bait all the (ostensibly positive) reviews make it out to be? I've enjoyed a number of PTA's past films, but all the reviews using the words powerful or important or timely give me a bad feeling.
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