Bless you, must have hit “+” somehow, “-” fixed it and turned back on the autoframerate skip. Been a rough summer and losing my “zone out” retro gaming time was going to crush me. Thanks for the extra 1UP

“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell, Animal Farm

Ah, my bad, that would have been a better community. TBF I was pondering this in the shower.

3rd type- sees Real wages falling each year, has college debt or car debt or credit card debt or had to buy a new furnace on an installment plan or God forbid wants to take a vacation or or or

Anyway, this person has to try keep climbing or they will lose their car/ be kicked out of their apartment, nothing in society will support them as they “failed at their job and/or must be lazy”, etc.

There truly are some doofuses at every level of organization, the closer to the top people more often are playing the cruel game to win, but middle management are hardly the game theory types–they wouldn’t have accepted their job if they were that strategic as there is no winning.

So depressing to see working class folks going after other working class folks(someone with supervisor or manager or director in their title) because they “have it better”…the latter almost exclusively are trapped in a different fucked up system.

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Oh look, all the stupid Africans. Jesus, how could anyone not question this?

I mashed the down arrow because it’s probably more strongly correlated with GDPPPP or access to free, high quality education than an inherent measure of intelligence. Crappy correlations to pseudomeasurements and concepts with racist results? What is this, the SATs?

Ideal productivity, under capitalism.

Sure…I mean a play without asides? The temptation and effect can be glorious if used appropriately.

Isn’t it wild what humans are capable of? Someone can understand human nature and history to the degree to write some of the things in HP and yet completely have blinders on to their own biases that would enable the same things?

Just read “the Hearing” with my kid tonight, a chapter early in HP 5, when one of the better villains in popular literature is introduced, Delores Umbridge. First time I read HP5 was 20 years ago, reading it again today only for the second time with current context is instructive.

The Hearing is an important chapter as it, for the first time, lays out that the institution running the wizard world might not be on Harry’s side, that there may be political motives behind processes, treatment and proceedings, and overall pulls the adolescent curtain down on the assumption right and good are running everything in the world of wizarding. Umbridge becomes the embodiment of propaganda, misuse of position, and how much damage motivated actors can do when handed power.

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Here’s the VP of Reddit’s community cited in the article, Laura Nestler, preaching super engagement from a platforms most fanatical users to power content for the 90%.

She suggests, intrinsic motivators such as “autonomy”.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vWUMW6Ovf6o

She was at Yelp prior, which if you want to look at a steaming pile of a wasted company, man give reddit 5-10 years.

You’re saying he’s a synthetic fiber and not the traditional cotton plain weave? The textile industry will be shocked!

By design. It took me a long while to realize that coming off the “cut middle management, they don’t do anything” 80s and 90s outsourcing then “globalization”(outsourcing), and then startup culture that evolved “we’re lean startup”, the entire last 4 decades of management practices based on BS spewed by Big 4 consultancies all boils down to pretending you don’t need people to do work and it will magically be completed by someone else.

When you don’t design a process with failsafe staff, when something changes or goes wrong, you’re immediately in the red. Most companies, and many of the processes they use have never had full staff to even see what the world would look like. Quarterly margins are too important.

That 8pm workday? Someone should have been there to deal with it, instead it’s you. Maybe it was a QC person, that was never hired, or your engineer was rushing, or you went with a cheap supplier, your your Corp wants to pay absolute minimum wages so you have incredibly high turnover…these are all costs and get to be born by you, their employee. Sorry, can’t approve your life outside of work. From there, when capable, willing you finally reached exhaustoln says fuck it, the cost gets passed onto the consumer.

Boeing doesn’t even put doors on planes correctly anymore. I had 3 recalls for my car in the last 2 years. Any company or industry from grocery to insurance is in the same spot by depending on magical labor.

Don’t be a wizard nor witch and take your time off.

Tim walz–level confession

Well captalists sleep easier when they have a “labor” president who broke the railroad strike last year. All they did was print some scary news stories for a month, get the public opinion whipped up and suddenly the Dems were happy to play Reagan.

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Hopefully the whole site!

But perhaps exactly what was (unfortunately) needed;

Don’t assume institutions and those in power or authority are anything more than fallible efforts. Ever.

Healthcare, education, transportation…it’s like the opposite of the Life of Brian scene about the Romans, talking about what they brought areas they took control of.