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I think the goal posts on what a good job is has moved so much it’s probably not even in the stadium parking lot. Single income families are largely non existent these days, even with the breadwinner making 6 figures. A worker used to be able to have a “good” job that paid enough to buy a house, raise multiple kids, and have a pension when they retired, all on one income. Multi income families can now barely cover the cost of living in many areas, and most have very little in the way of benefits and are expected to save on their own for retirement. Meanwhile, Bezos is using fuck around money to take joyrides into space after his wife took more money in a divorce than she can give away. There isn’t enough work ethic or hustle bullshit in the world to justify that kind of wealth.

Also one of the contradictions of the corner office guys. Company tanks, the executive takes his golden parachute and lands somewhere else with a massively inflated salary while the workers have to start over from scratch, regardless of their work ethic, hustle, etc. The game is definitely tilted to favor the wealthy, that’s not a hot take, but the tilt is getting worse and at some point the game breaks.

I think people have a bigger problem with the scaling for pay of people at the top versus people at the bottom. That guy isn’t anymore dedicated than the lady that cleans the floors for 8 hours and then goes to work her second job just to make ends meet. There’s certainly value that the executive brings to the company over the cleaning lady that deserves more compensation, but many aren’t worth anywhere near the pay they are receiving. Especially when that pay is coming at the expense of a living wage for the hundreds or thousands of workers that actually make the widgets for that company. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. There’s a lot of hogs coming out of the other side of covid.

Agreed, many people are also not capable of working that corner office job, be it lack of skills, cognitive ability, etc. The low wage stick for progression is a fallacy, which is all the more reason to pay lower level jobs a living wage. $3/hour wouldn’t be any more of an incentive than $9 is when you recognize that there are only x number of jobs that will pay that corner office money. At some point people have to work the jobs that are available, and if those jobs don’t pay a living wage, the system is broken. Im sure the trades in metro areas pay better, it doesn’t change the reality of this area, which I’m sure matches the reality of many smaller areas in the state. The local electrician can choose to go to a metro area to make more money, but wash all of that gain away in the cost of living or travel deltas. It also starves this smaller area of a skilled trade. The larger point is this goes well beyond your $9 sandwich maker. Skilled labor is facing many of the same issues and the notion that it’s all work effort, entitlement, etc is a lie.

I worked in the MIC for 20 years before shifting full time to my side hustle as a trade. Covid accelerated my timeline, but I’m amazed at how shitty construction trades pay their work. Almost every trade I see has their entire work force as 1099 contractors and then endlessly bitch about guys not showing up to work. You pay them like shit, cheat them out of benefits just so you can squeeze a little more money out of that pay, and then have the shocked face when guys either don’t give 2 shits about that shitty job, or more likely work multiple 1099 jobs and figure out their day based on whichever guy is paying the most that day/week. I’ve heard an electrician on the job tell his buddy that he was going to be out the next week because a guy hired him to cut firewood and it was paying more. Shit is broken. This is supposed to be skilled labor, many requiring licensing, but you can get better pay and benefits working as a fucking cashier at hobby lobby. We are at the point that we need to hire people, but we recognize that it’s extremely hard to get the appropriate labor out of builders to pay someone a livable wage as an employee, not a 1099. I know a plumber that was offering to pay $30/hour, no experience, and couldn’t find anyone to take it. Covid woke people up to the value of benefits, and so far I haven’t seen trades really shifting to meet the need. They just hire less qualified/shittier employees trying to maintain that same profit margin. Your posts back to back made me laugh. It’s very easy to tell people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps while refusing to recognize that there’s a finite limit on “good” jobs. You choose instead to display a textbook example of cognitive dissonance. You might think low wages are a stick that will force people to climb the ladder, but the reality is there’s only so much room at each rung, and that we need to pay living wages even to the people at the bottom.

I don’t see how this would shift things blue. The increasing brown population is predominantly catholic, so if anything this will increase that turn of Hispanics to vote R. Lots of priests are going to laud this decision and push their flocks to do the same.

Perspective.

Ticketmaster wasnt working on my laptop, had to order through my phone for anyone getting the "cant order on this device" error.

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The binary answers are the faith and atheism sides of the “is god real?” coin. Agnostics don’t have to provide a binary answer, because they don’t believe either way. Atheism requires the same belief without proof that faith does.

Guess I should have read the thread. That was absolutely the best fast food breakfast item out there. Someone deserves a strongly worded letter.

I don’t eat at whataburger often but I love the jalapeño cheddar breakfast biscuit. Came in this morning to get one and was told they have been discontinued. Major wtf.

Crab mentality is strong in America.

So that does nothing to impact the bot issue. That was the genesis of the discussion.

Sorry, fat fingered a word and got autocorrected apparently.

Tell me you follow fringe shit without telling me you follow fringe shit.

You she said this a couple of different ways and I still don’t get it. Fringe content and accounts are definitely part of the algorithm. They definitely drive traffic, they don’t suppress it. Fringe content gets amplified by bots, which gets amplified by the algorithm, which increases their reach, which generates more traffic, so the algorithm favors it. It’s the hot take model writ large. A random pic of a pie isn’t going to move the needle. Someone saying fuck politician X will, on both sides, which is ideal for the algorithm. They want people engaging for and against topics, because that spurs more and more engagement.

Fringe accounts being banned is good for avoiding government intervention, not business. Twitter and most social media companies do just enough to keep the government from stepping in.

Removing bots won’t kill it, but it’s going to leave a hell of a dent. Elon will have to overcome that loss of revenue and that’s not remotely a hot take. As far as your first point, I’m 100% sure those accounts were removed for violating TOS, and not because they were “legitimate but conservative”, whatever the fuck that means. The bot problem is a both sides issue. The algorithm driving followers and content to the fringes is a both sides issue. If you want to bitch about the political sides of this take it to the CR where it belongs.

Yea, you think people are bitching about shadow banning now, let Elon kill the algorithm’s force feeding of fringe shit and followers. A lot of fragile egos are going to pop when they find out how many of their follows were either fake or manipulated via the algorithm to get there.

Unless he likes throwing money away, bots are still a large part of Twitters ad revenue. He can certainly be truthful with ad buyers and explain why their metrics are down 30+%, but that truth is still going to cost them revenue. It will be interesting how Elon can simultaneously kill bots, nerf the algorithm and likely reduce traffic, and somehow grow Twitter’s revenue so he can get ROI.

You don’t think ad buyers will want verifiable metrics on their ad buys?

I would argue that landing a rocket on a floating platform is easier than the bot issue, because the rocket isn’t actively fighting against landing on that platform. Once you get your arms around enough variables landing that rocket is just a lot of math. Bot owners are going to actively fight against their extinction, and constantly change their behavior and capabilities to work around the filters. The other question is what is the tipping point for all of this money wise? How much is he willing to sink to fix the issue?