With 3 million dollars in liquid assets (ie: not a house), you can bring in about $120k from the safest of investments. Just a high yield savings account. Fully insured.

With an index fund, you can bring in $300k.

That’s enough to live on, given how many people live on that much or less from their job.

So some millionaires may work, but they’re not really the same.

It’s not a double standard. They have one standard: hierarchy. People higher on the hierarchy can do what they want. Everyone lower has to obey. But they can shit on the people under them.

That’s it. That explains it all.

Trump can do what he wants because he’s the king. Men can abuse women because men are above women. White women can abuse black anyone, because whites are above blacks.

That’s the only rule.

This also explains why they don’t want nationalized health care, public transit, or other things that benefit everyone: because then lower tier people would get the same stuff. They would rather die so long as their “lessers” are worse off.

Do not listen to their explanations. They are lying.

We’d be working 12 hour days 7 days a week, being paid in company scrip.

There was a lot of violence in the 19th and early 20th century just to get the scraps we have now. Capital is your enemy.

If work paid me a fair wage, provided decent health care, paid for holidays, and didn’t reward AI usage as its own isolated metric, maybe I would work more. Maybe. It’s not like I get paid more for working more. No matter how much I produce, I get paid the same. The owners keep any excess profits.

I’d love to see reductions in car usage because I very much dislike cars and car culture. I don’t personally mind inconvenience - I wait for mass transit when friends are like “just take an Uber lol” (not even touching the labor dimension there). I also always say electric cars and self driving cars are solving the wrong problems.

I’m just pessimistic that we’ll make much progress voluntarily. A lot of people are stupid and selfish, and the rich have power to keep things shitty for their personal benefit.

That sounds right. There’s a chunk of the population that just have broken brains and souls. They’ll follow their king to the grave.

Conservatives believe in hierarchy. That’s it. They’ll do whatever their leader says. They’re spineless disgraces.

Humans are emotional creatures. We’re stupid that way. It’s faster to just go with feelings and accurate enough that it must have been a pro survival trait.

But it’s stupid. It’s destroying the world because people follow their emotions into conservative policies.

Conservatives don’t care about facts. They care about feelings. Specifically, the high of in-group solidarity and the thrill of hurting the out-group. They’re stupid. You can’t engage with them on facts because they aren’t there. You need to change their in-group, somehow get their in-group to change beliefs, or traumatize them. Those are the only things that change minds.

Yeah, but unfortunately a lot of people are lazy shitheads who are so out of shape they can’t ride a bike. That’s ignoring the horrifying infrastructure that puts you in the middle of cars driven by angry idiots.

It’s a good fact, but I don’t think we’ll get there without the left taking power and forcing the issue, or somehow playing to the emotions of reactionary fuckheads. Facts don’t convince them so it has to be emotions.

I’m surprised this hell administration allows them at all

Lots of people don’t understand that it isnt a deli counter where you take a number and are called in order.

Conservatives tend to be stupid and ignorant, yes.

They don’t care about lying. What’re you going to do about it? Nothing. And that’s why they persist.

I hope he’s never heard from again.

It sucks for everyone but the people in charge are too stupid or apathetic to change anything.

I applied to an internal role like 2 months ago and they’re just ghosting me. Like, I see them on teams. I send them follow up messages. Nothing. Bunch of AI brained assholes.

They’re not trying to make a good product. They’re trying to get their short term gains.

Normal capitalist bullshit where a handful of people (who probably don’t even do any work) make decisions and keep almost all the profits.

Occasionally. It’s frustrating that most free porn sites are kind of bad at search and filter. You’d think a tagging system would be easy to implement but most sites seem to just have a barely functional search.

The majority of the time you just click play in steam, heroic, or whatever. It’s no worse than windows.

I don’t do any tinkering on my desktop.

I didn’t say they were a Nazi. And I thought you might be trolling because " A lot of people display swastikas with no intention of referring to Nazis." sounds risible.