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Snake Diggity

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  1. Working for the benefit of others is for suckers. Getting taken advantage of by your employer is for suckers. Prioritizing the employer who can (and will, the minute it benefits them) cut you loose at any time over your family and hobbies is for suckers.
  2. No. Information available to acquire white collar skills has bridged the gap between blue/white collar, especially when factoring in that automation has continued to eliminate lower skilled blue collar jobs. White collar jobs like Accountants, financial analysts, etc are being increasingly outsourced and will largely be replaced by AI in short order. We are already seeing wages for blue collar work like trades and manual labor outpace wages for those types of white collar work. Burger flippers are making double, triple what they were just a few years ago; wages for those basic white collar jobs have not and will not keep pace. Of course all that is generalizing but my overarching point is that workers of all kinds will have leverage over their employers like never before and the gap between “unskilled” and “skilled” is closing rapidly.
  3. Wanting the common person to have the leverage to be able to demand dignity and respect, and to not feel guilty about prioritizing his family and passions over his work is a sad worldview? Whatever dude. Immigration is a wildcard that might turn the tables back, but the people who want to return to the old ways are generally anti-immigrant. We will certainly continue to see outsourcing and automation replace the American worker, but I still expect the worker supply/demand equation to heavily favor the worker. And your comment denigrating burger flippers says plenty. Why should the burger flipper not have dignity? In the new way, the “skill” is the willingness to work. The actual task doesn’t matter, because information is available such that the gap between white collar and blue collar has narrowed to almost nothing.
  4. Give me a fucking break. Sure, it’s not “unheard of” for visiting execs to invite employees out. But it sure as shit shouldn’t be expected that all employees attend, especially if that expectation wasn’t set before the employee was hired. You are operating under the old way, where employers made the rules and we were all “lucky to have a job”. Where kissing ass was required for survival, because the boomers ahead of you did it and set that expectation. In most workplaces, THOSE DAYS ARE OVER. There are more jobs than workers and the workers that are available don’t give one runny fuck what corporate wants; they’re out for themselves because they’ve realized companies don’t really give a fuck about them. So shove your ad hoc happy hour up your ass, I’m going to my kids game. In fact, fuck you for even insinuating this is required. Don’t like it? Kiss my fucking ass and good luck finding my replacement without overpaying. The tables are turning and I am all here for it.
  5. Edit to add: there are some professionals (teachers, doctors, social workers, etc.) who are available 24/7 out of devotion to a higher cause. I would not label them rubes/suckers. But I would also encourage them to unite against the forces taking advantage of them even if means temporarily sacrificing those they truly serve.
  6. I assume you work in an industry mostly full of rubes/conservatives working in rural areas #nocr. Employees across all industries have more leverage than ever and it is not going away. The vast majority of young people are being raised with an entirely different view of work compared to previous generations and they are not gonna put up with the bullshit (good for them). Being available to your job 24/7 these days is reserved for suckers or executives. I hope you’re the latter.
  7. The point is, there should be no after-hours or business trips that aren’t explicitly discussed during the hiring/contracting process. And if there are, the expectation from the company should be that they are completely voluntary with no guilt/pushback whatsoever.
  8. Y’all overreacting. There’s going to be concerns every day about Altuve, Gurriel, and Brantley falling off a cliff because they are on the wrong side of the aging curve. But seeing what Pena and McCormick/Siri are doing mitigates that risk a TON. Tucker has had nothing but bad luck. Bregman looks like he’s going to be fine. Alvarez is a fucking monster. There are also going to be concerns about Framber/Garcia/Urquidy because they have not shown the ability to consistently perform like playoff-caliber SP, but that is also mitigated by the Astros pitching depth; Hunter Brown and Peter Solomon have looked extremely good in the early going, and Lance should be back in July. Odorizzi and Baez both have HIV but the bullpen otherwise has looked very good. Javier, Montero, Neris, and Maton have been elite so far. Of course it’d be better if they’d won 2-3 more games to this point. But they still project to win the division as-is, and they should have significant financial flexibility to add at the deadline. (That said, at this point this team is overly dependent on Verlander. If he gets hurt they’re fucked.)
  9. I have wrestled with this. I have not done a 529 because I don’t want to intensify pressure on my kids to attend traditional college, and I am not at all sure that there won’t be massive shifts in the way post-high school education works/costs over the next 10-15 years. Aside from that there’s no obvious savings vehicles for middle class people (below the “trust fund” threshold, although I’m not sure where that threshold is). So my reaction has just been to save and invest as much as I can trying to grow my own wealth, figuring that by the time my kids are grown there’ll be enough to help them in whatever way I want. I’ve got traditional retirement accounts, brokerage accounts, and real estate investments. I think a lot of it boils down to what you feel your financial responsibility is to your adult children. A lot of subjectivity in that decision. For me, I plan to fully fund pretty much anything I consider positive for their personal development until they’re 25. By the time they’re in their late 20s they need to be fully independent. I don’t necessarily feel responsible for buying my kids their first house or leaving them a significant inheritance; in fact, a part of me thinks doing that would reduce their dignity.
  10. That’s bullshit. Any company that wants to openly voice that after-hours company events should take precedence over family time can rightly get fucked. The days of expecting anything more from employees that wasn’t explicitly outlined during the hiring/contracting process are over. Unemployment is under 4% and demographics point to the potential that it might never be double digits again. It’s great that NAC has the means to walk if he doesn’t like it, but really nobody should have to put up with that shit, and I don’t think people will moving forward; too many other jobs out there. Fuck the man.
  11. Mitchell and Morris are top tier recruits who project as future nba draft picks. So that’s 2 guys who should log 20+ minutes each and be productive. Assuming Carr and Disu come back, there’s a fivesome of 2nd tier guys on this roster who could start for most ranked teams: Carr, Disu, Allen, Rice, and Bishop. Brumbaugh (a national top 100 recruit) and Cunningham might not be guys you want as the focal point of the roster, but they bring enough to the table to be fine logging consistent minutes. Perryman and Bott are scrubs until proven otherwise, but nobody should be fretting guys that will be 12th or worse in terms of minutes. To me, this roster needs a shooter and somebody with size to be complete. I expect Beard to go get them, and if he does this roster easily profiles as a round of 16 team or better.
  12. And that chart for 2020-2022 is gonna be a LOT worse.
  13. While I would be in favor of those policies, I do not think they would have that much of an impact on population growth. Western culture is what it is and current and future generations are not that interested in children or large families regardless of how subsidized the cost is. Western Europe has those bennies and they’re still failing to maintain their population.
  14. Immigration will be a lever the Millenials and Gen Z can pull to solve that problem; in that way the US is uniquely well positioned to face the looming population decline.
  15. I think, maybe not specific to Austin but at least generally, the housing crisis is temporary. The 2 major factors (not enough new houses being built anywhere and not enough houses in cities as people migrate from rural to urban) are temporary. First, as boomers die off (or get too old to live on their own), millions of homes will become available regardless of what interest rates are doing. Second, the trend of urbanization will ebb as remote work becomes an established norm (short term) and as population decline sets in (long term). So we should really be talking about a patch solution for the next 10-15 years. By 2035 we may have the opposite problem (too many empty homes and rapidly falling property values decimating the wealth of the middle class). My 2 off the cuff patch solutions would be increasingly subsidized loans for 1st time buyers (like, each person gets one 0% loan for their first home, after that you’re on your own), and freezing primary residence property taxes for anyone over 65.
  16. 2024 Situation with Biden and Trump is the exact same: if they’re alive, they’re running.
  17. Losing Askew is a bummer; I thought he still had a good amount of upside. Oh well. If it means Carr coming back that’s a good trade.
  18. Certainly not everything will come down. A lot of prices will just settle and stay that way for a long time. If “non-transitory” inflation is really 3%, the remainder could take years to iron out.
  19. My understanding is that “transitory” means that it won’t represent a permanent change, and in that sense, I think the bulk of the inflation we’ve seen is transitory, although it may take awhile to iron out. I still think by the end of the summer things will have leveled off and prices will remain relatively flat for awhile (of course all caveats for various unexpected events apply). My opinion is that less than half the inflation we’ve seen will stick.
  20. Not interested in having everybody chip in to keep the price of dining out low.
  21. The usual ways major cities address this issue are underway: expansion/development of suburbs, development of multi-unit housing. Like people said upthread, Austin’s issue isn’t unique; other cities have been dealing with this a long time. I would probably be in favor of property tax credits and special financing for teachers and healthcare workers to ensure those workers can afford to live close to their work, and I’d at least listen on adding city/utility workers to that group.
  22. I feel like if there are 7 players on the roster better than Cunningham and Askew, that’s a pretty stacked team.
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