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  1. I think the argument is that for some of these aggrieved white males, sure, they are lost to the other side making promisses, etc. But there are some who can be reasoned with and who can come around from the initial bloody nose with a little empathy and pep talk, who can be saved from the dark side. You seem to think there is not a messy middle ground where perhaps slighted people can feel safe in calling out a wound, maybe feeling sorry for themselves for a minute or two, but then taking a step back and weighing everything out on the balance and making a decision to move forward as non (or less) aggrieved. You seem to think all these white guys who carp about the changes they are facing are either all lost causes or actually have no right to those feelings. At least that's what it seems like based on your responses.
  2. That was unintentionally funny, too, but the main call out there was showing the author, in his own words, is trying to say he and his ilk are still liberals.
  3. I think the argument is, much like it does in your whole professional career, it helps people to get onboard with the new reality. Whereas if you were to take a more antagonstic tone of the just deal with it and glossing over the personal impact with a lack of implied care or empathy, it invites conflict. The point is to minimize conflict.
  4. Reminds me so much of this lol Preach.
  5. Have you never had to deliver tought news to someone, a child, an employee, a player, that was coming from above you? Maybe you didn't completely agree with it or maybe you could see from their perspective how it wasn't fair and there was some tough breaks and bad news, but that decisions and strategy was set and the direction was final? I think that's the posture he's saying to take. Acknowledge/address that the situation sucks for them and have some empathy but, like, there's not a lot we can do about it and it ain't going back the way it was. We can take 15 minutes to mourn it but we have to move on and build a bridge and get over it. Or as Bezos famously said, "disagree and commit".
  6. https://thisecommercelife.com/blogs/comics/the-story-of-ai
  7. Back to AI and the bubble, read this and though it appropriate and directionally correct:
  8. While not that extreme and I joke, but I have become definitely more progressive on certain things in my old age. Namely marijuana legalization is 100% a no-brainer and billionaires and late stage capitalism is a scourge. I'm an agrieved middle class guy who is seeing the light that we are being squeezed and wrung out. "bled of every dollar and left an empty husk" as you so eloquently stated. It's we (99%) who have the leverage and grievances. It's they (1%) who should be changing for us. Fitting that today is Festivus, I guess.
  9. Isn't this the screaming red flag of a capital K, K-shaped economy?
  10. Worse still because the team around him cannot shoot the 3 with any consistency when Max Christie and Naji Marshall go from ice in veins to ice cold.
  11. I'm morphing into a delusional progressive in my old age. Sue me!
  12. But it raises the question, when looking at wage and income and life inequality, why can we NOT use income-based or wealth-based relative pricing to help the poor and be more fair to the wealthy? It's the opposite of the day fine system in european countries where your speeding ticket is relative to your worth and ability to pay. It handicaps it to your wealth and makes it more fair. I get this is different but also has shades of the same idea but goes further in that it might actually help to subsidize good and healthy food for the poor based on the "overpay" of the "what can a banana cost, 10 dollars?" crowd.
  13. Taxation of the middle class, as it stands today, is thinly veiled theft. Leave the 98% alone. Tax the billionaires. Full stop.
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