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  • A+ TED Talk.

    Exactly. In the past the elites and wealthy would build libraries and temples and infrastructure for all to have to leave a lasting legacy.

    Now the legacy they leave is how big of a number can they get their high score up to. And behind them all the people they employee that are simultaneously on welfare because they aren’t paid a living wage and all the people working and dying for them to get a big high score. And those poor people have no choice but to because every job is the same and so your choice is, slave for the system or be homeless and starve.



  • What job are you doing that isn’t having most of the value you made taken from you?

    I’m a highly skilled person, I’ve been in corporate America for 2 decades and have a long list of skills and abilities and work hard.

    I’ve literally generated multiple millions of profit for companies I’ve been at. Did I ever see an extra penny? A bonus? A % raise? Anything beyond the normal bare-bones standard “cost of living raise” (which never ACTUALLY goes up as much as CoL does BTW) ? Nope. And that’s part of the issue we are talking about. I could be a STELLAR employee and generate the lion’s share of profit OR I could be a lazy unproductive idiot that costs the company money and you know what? Neither of those things changes pay for me. What does? How well liked I am, how much I brownnose, who I shake hands with, who I know, what shady deals I may do in secret, etc. But I have integrity and I refuse to lie, cheat, grift and schmooze my way up like most execs do.

    It is EXTREMELY common to work your ass off, earn some CEO and shareholders millions and billions, then they can lay you off or you die and no one cares. They milked every last drop of productivity from you and will happily discard you at any time.




  • Same. 5 full years WFH and honestly work was enjoyable AND I got so much more actual work done.

    But we gotta RTO now because uhhhh… Reasons!

    I get nothing done anymore and I’m just frustrated all day and all my time is utterly wasted. No time to get work done, no time to get home chores done, constantly exhausted from the pace of running back and forth to meetings and driving all over the place wasting time and gasoline.

    So glad I burned a gallon of gasoline into the air and wasted an hour to move my ass from a comfy chair at home on a teams call to a less comfy chair in a different building with a worse desk to join a teams call. Productivity!!!