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Fixating on a specific of job is wrong. Jobs change as the market change. I sit with my laptop at home doing emails and paid amply for it. This job wouldnt have been available to someone like me decades ago, and this job might be worth nothing decades from now. But there might be another job for my abilities providing my lifestyle If you are concerned about the poorer ranks, look at the poorer ranks, instead of the job. So serious Q: how large is this poorer rank, supposedly? how has that size changed over the years? how does it compare to other admirable places in the world?

positive price discovery in the labor market, triggered by the individual workers initiative/prerogative. its beautiful. just as yahweh would have wanted.

Brisket works in law, i think. In that occupation, nonunion employees significantly outearn union (“or similar employee association”) employees. As is the case in industry of computers, finance, professional services, etc. Unions are most prevalent in the lower-skilled industries or occupation like utilities, warehousing, etc. It works where it’s needed 🤷‍♂️. I dont think brisket would want it for himself.

What exactly did you think my point was? vs Briskets or Hayden?

Why dont other greedy companies come in and scoop up this undervalued labor then? Does the unemployment rate show an employers market or a workers market?

BSD guy sounds like he wears cargos. fyi i meant what plans are offered the employees, which is what was surveyed, and which dont discriminate based on class of employees Swathes of them affecting…all of 2.2% of workers*? Can the moose show us that science? *“Involuntary part-time workers want full-time work but work part time because of slack business conditions or because they only found part-time jobs.” -from the Current Population Survey

do the tesla for easiest access to public charging (even if the other cars slowly gain access to supercharger, they still have functional hurdles) +ultra safe +way fewer moving parts in the drivetrain so no worries about warming up, transmission shock, oil changes, and all the other stuff that teens neglect very pretty car, because henrik fisker is a good designer, but looks like this company is very soon to croak. their investor relations announcement as of yesterday:

median age in software publishing is 41, computer systems 41, scientific and technical consulting services 44, data processing 39. superclass of industries called 'information' is 42. median age of ALL workers everywhere is 42. in a single tech company, im guessing the 40 year old secretary gets the same healthcare plan as the 25 year old SWE and the 55 year old sysadmin?

you can infer the coverage of a plan based on the cost of the plan. (its not as if aetna isnt competing against humana competing against centene competing against kaiser...) the govt use averages and other statistical measures to understand representation of large populations and make decisions. if they had to digest your individual plan from A to Z and do that for 300 million other people, i dont think they'd get anywhere.

theres no discussing grown ass adult stuff with a mental adolescent. 108 million of the 133 working people over age of 25 work 35+ hours weekly. Of the remaining 19%, 17% work part-time by choice. Only 2.2% of them work under 35 hours for "economic reasons", meaning they seek full-time employment.

If you wanna say that there's no John Hopkins educated Cardiac surgeon working in the city of Seguin, sure... but what is the representative medical plan and cost for the SMB employee thats inequal to the one for the Dell employees?

The 50-75th wage percentile employee has total premium contribution of $1245 from employer and $640 OOP = $1885 The 90-100th wage percentile employee has total premium contribution of $1350 from employer and $600 OOP = $1950 That doesn't assure me that one party is getting the Platinum Coverage and the other a Barebones Special. Not if they cost basically the same. The larger employer may have leverage to get a better discount for the $, but that's something you gotta prove.

that was last's year govt conducted survey, sampling 13,000 establishments, sampling frame 7 million, representing 125m workers...

88% of full time workers in private industry have employer-provided healthcare. average employee-paid premium for single coverage is $150, or $600 for family. price is similar across all wage categories. growing up we were covered by my dads bluecross blueshield program, and thats from his extremely pedestrian blue collar job. not exactly affluent.

when comparing globally on (spending/outcome) basis the outcome part gets distorted because of exogenous factors. for example, the maternal mortality rate in the US is above EU’s level. and guess what the major contributing factor is to that….is it sepsis? bleeding? blood clots? and other medical ailments due to US health inability to deal with? drumroll: (WHO and CDC include all-causes of death in the methodology for their official stats) theres other fascinating discoveries when you dive into the medical data… anyway i agree with you on what the is the big bugbear in the US system. ive spent half my life abroad in different high-HDI countries and the access/availability and quality of care in the US is the best. the administration and billing…the worst. long time ago i followed cigna’s guideline and used cigna in-network provider for a minor surgery to make everything easy. i expected single-interface, single-payment to get it all done. 2 years later, out of the blue, started receiving random chunky-sized bills from various unrecognized entities. turns out, they were providers affiliated with the surgery. because i have a pulse and know how to read, i eventually got that billing mixup resolved. but for other people its probably a gigantic lingering pain the ass.

You gotta talk sweet to her

Siri is bad if you judge it by standards of general AI, eg asking it all sorts of questions on unconstrained topics. As a voice utility supporting the company products, like dictating timers in the clock app or streaming music, works fine enough ive found.

Since that post, NVDA stayed flat while AMD gained 11% (pretty much off todays 9%). But it was a smol position, so will keep holding to see if nvda can crash back to sensible levels

Yup. Having to pay for things turns out to be good. Both the gas station bathrooms, and the public/park bathrooms, tend to be clean. I’ve already suggested previously…make people pay for shopping carts, too. Magically they get returned back to the corrals instead of strewn across the parking lot!

The largest distinction in fertility rate is college-educated vs non-college educated. The difference between bachelors and doctorates is small. The difference between bachelors and HS/dropout is 2x Yes theres lots to suss out on this topic in terms of correlation v causation. The age of first child may be constant across education levels (i dont have the data), but is absolutely not constant across time. Question guy asked was why is it in times past, fewer mothers were working. Is it because the husband was already earning sufficiently? Dont think so - the *real* household disposable income was far less back then. I’d suggest because simultaneously culture was not there and the economic opportunity was not there to entice women to work. You’re 23 years old with a toddler but no education. Are you going to finally enroll in college? Its the economics that draw moms to the workforce. My mother in law is an uneducated lifelong homemaker. I earn enough that my spouse could quit and take care of our kid. Would she? Hell naw she makes too much and would never want her mothers ‘QOL’.

Women have the tin of Royal Dansk biscuits filled with sewing accessories and dudes have a cardbox box full of Monster optical cables from 2002

have you considered discussing these concerns with your therapist?

firstly someone needs to share that actual dataset for the family w/ children. all the stuff i post are available directly from bls, bea, census, etc, and aggregated through FRED. that said, i have a hunch: its a cultural decision made by the mother/family early on. CDC reports average age of 1st birth in 1970 was ~22. average age of 1st birth in 2000 was 25. Today, it's closer to 30. Less educated families also have more children than educated ones. So it was a cultural norm that women don't go to college (only 10% had a degree) but stay home and raise babies. Today, having a kid at 25-30 means you will already have a college degree, and can enter/return the workforce with good income. If you already have multiple children with only a high school education, the math doesnt work out to get a minimum wage job and leave the rearing to someone else.

i use auto, which in theory has an optical sensor that detects when things are clean based on the outgoing water. although i think sometimes the long cycle still leaves caked on coffee stains and such

bought appletv units when they were slightly discounted over christmas. 5 billion times better than the xiaomi box i had. no problems with built-in app on my TV because it's recent model so the performance is fast.... but the appleTV is just absolutely blazing, has way more services and functionality, and integration with apple devices is just a peach. for example i could put my headphones on and the aTV will detect and ask me to switch it to it instantly. no clunky pairing needed.