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"my wits & your tits, we

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 02:57:52 +0000

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"my wits & your tits, we could go places..." Yeah, it's all gaming a system. We used to think black athletes especially were funneled into a bad gamble (an unlikely shot at the pros, and a much more likely injury or just cut from the team with a short career and no other prospects). But now we have a semi-skilled educational system that in many cases trains for a McJob as much as a profession - while charging top dollar. So let's go for NFTs and Bitcoin and my life on Instagram - our modern version of Herbalife or Tupperware parties, but a much more lucrative upside if you do manage since social media makes the # of rubes and the total pot much greater. And those 30 years on the line at the Pittsburgh steel mill look much more glamorous than 30 years in front of a computer screen filling out orders, much less cold calling or a fast-food line. Even doctoring has been unglamourized - dealing u thankfully with Covid, 5 mins "quality time" with patients, and more time pushing insurance papers than thinking. Tons of lawyers. And "tech" has become computer software, forget all those other biosystems and construction of sewage and cbuildings, it's just an infosystem with the poor saps who have to do the lifting ...

p.s. whole long thread

artappraiser — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 20:15:50 +0000

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p.s. whole long thread reminder: http://dagblog.com/link/why-matthew-yglesias-left-vox-33025

oh look

artappraiser — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 20:12:48 +0000

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oh look

....Many sources—especially older members of the industry—said what’s happening in publishing is part of a wider generational clash between baby boomers and Gen X on one side, and millennials and Gen Y and Gen Z on the other. They see it as a case of exasperated managers colliding with a faction of outspoken and idealistic assistants who are unrealistic about the nature of work in general....

from

The Publishing Industry Is Broken:https://t.co/bf4qSTXKEB #arts #artsnews

While complaints from junior staffers about crushing workloads and low pay have begun to creep into some industry reporting, publishing veterans are also unhappy. Some say that decades of corporate... pic.twitter.com/QIxPPrIPoa
— ArtsJournal (@ArtsJournalNews) September 7, 2022

part of the syndrome

artappraiser — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 17:04:34 +0000

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part of the syndrome exhibited right here as soon as I return to Twitter:

My multi-specialty medical clinic’s hold message—“Hold times may be longer than usual right now due to possible higher call volumes.” My god, did they hire a consultant to write that nonsense? How about, “We can’t hire enough people at the wage we offer, so stick around, sucker.”
— Glenn Fleishman (@GlennF) September 7, 2022

who wants to do that? nobody with experience, only temps! It's "automated", that's our future. everyone human would rather be more like him type historian, Jeopardy champ, tech journalist (isn't everyone basically a 'Jeopardy champ' these days?)

Seems like to me sometimes

artappraiser — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 16:21:22 +0000

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Seems like to me sometimes that what older generations might call a Ponzi scheme is younger generation's get rich quick and if you are a loser this time, you'll win the next. You do "gigs" inbetween trying, at which you expect to be paid decently and treated well. Even an amazing amount of "socialists" seem this cynical. "Labor" has a lot less value than it used to, everyone wants to "take this job and shove it', it's just something you have to do from time to time to eat. Could largely be a pandemic effect (Nations did, after all, come up with cash subsidies to make nearly everyone stay at home, when they used to say that was impossible) And everyone is smarter than the other guy...to wit, for one example, criminal gangs taking advantage of shopkeepers being at home...while nobody wants to be a cop or a nurse...

How much is a Ponzi scheme or

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 21:48:51 +0000

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How much is a Ponzi scheme or just an unlikely raffle - sure, 1 out of 100,000 becomes a millionaire, which makes it an extremely unlikely path to wealth and retirement vs. the unpleasant "work a real job for 30-40 years" options. What's the chance a Zoomer can work for say 5 employers max from age 25 to 65? or work in max 3 different fields over that time? Where's the continuity, the focus, vs. "just be prepared for whatever chaotic shit you find in the work world"?

Biden did a lot of strong pro

artappraiser — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 21:00:38 +0000

In reply to Young workers are organizing. Can their fervor save unions?

Biden did a lot of strong pro-labor tweets for Labor Day, including this one:

Our vision for this country involves building an economy that rewards work, not wealth.

It finally stops billionaires from paying a lower tax rate than a teacher or a firefighter.
— President Biden (@POTUS) September 5, 2022

and this one

Support for unions in this country is higher today than it has been in nearly 60 years.

It’s a key way we’re rebuilding the economy – to grow from the bottom up and the middle out.
— President Biden (@POTUS) September 5, 2022

It's just that I'm not so sure that millennials and Gen Z popularily think that way! First, most of them don't want to work even 40 hours right now at an essential worker job, even if it pays well, and second, capitalist investing and even gambling is extremely popular ESPECIALLY, it seems to me among lot of P.O.C. They wanna make money and build wealth in things like real estate and cryptocurrency and stocks and NFT's, that is CAPITALISM, boys and girls, not earned income, NOT labor. Seems to me like this: they seem to want theirs now that everyone else got some and are going to be mightily pissed if Dems change the taxing game rules right when they start playing.