Also not joining the rat race, and buying new shiny shit for the sake of it.
I still don't 100% get the mentality here. Otherwise intelligent people will sink huge money into luxury shit; it doesn't seem to bother them at all if you point out that someone else made up the whole concept of diamonds or whatever to get their money.
Underrated answer. Meritocracy is a lie, folks, even within the West. If you do everything perfectly you will climb a little bit, and only on average. All the counterexamples you're thinking of are people who won a lottery of some kind. And of course, birth is also a lottery.
Pretty much the same. Bought some Bitcoin in high school in the early 10's. It was just a novelty and I was a kid, so I didn't buy much, but if someone was kidnapped or something it would be worth it to go through my old drives.
You must have caught that schmuck on a really bad day. I'm not upset by it, because we are really hard to tell apart. Some people do take mild offence, but it's a pretty unfair thing to expect someone to guess.
Often, it's good to point out you're Canadian abroad, because we're just less hated globally. Occasionally being "American" can be handy, especially in America.
Tearful? Jesus Christ, somebody's lost all sense of proportion.
... Unless they're standing in the wrong building, or their parents don't have enough money to buy food under the near-total blockade, or they get cholera from open sewerage or...
Whataboutisms are useless to everyone. Atrocities have been committed on both sides. The question is, how do we make them stop? Neither Hamas nor Otzma Yehudit are likely to be part of that picture.
I mean, probably but:
foxnews.com
Really?
I'm going to skim through, because I'm really wondering how they decided which things are exposed and how. The abstract makes it sound like they just went by sector, and while that's a good simple option, I think it would miss a lot of important nuance. LLMs are set to totally wreck advertising copy writers, but only feed electrical engineering jobs. Both just look like a college education at the very coarse level.
Edit: So, they've broken down jobs into low-exposure, high-exposure low-complementarity and high-exposure high-complementarity, which includes all the prestige-y occupations. Then they actually do look at the fine-grained occupations level.
The one thing I find suspect is the complementarity, which I'm still looking for the sources on. It seems to me a lawyer is just as likely to be laid off as their assistant, if not more, since most of them just sit behind paperwork all day anyway, while the assistant has a name and a personality. They offer some alternate scenarios in the appendix because I guess I wasn't the only skeptic.
In the model with no complementarity, inequality actually collapses because capital income doesn't increase as fast as it decreases for the fancy occupations. It has problems too though - overall income goes down, which doesn't really make sense.
Edit 2: Here's their source. Basically, they consider which occupations are likely to be protected by legal and social factors, and then just literally adjust for prestige ("job zone") because they figure more prestigious people will have better opportunity to adapt. Personally, I suspect they underestimate the market's tendency to cut all corners, and overestimate their own adaptability. Thank you to anyone that actually read this far, haha.
Lemmy doesn't really have the traffic to support ultra-niche communities in general yet, sadly.
I mean, they would point out that you have a ton of hydro power potential that we don't. I would counter that we were drawing from the battery storage plants we have during that period, which were themselves charged up by the solar plants (since there's no reason to charge a battery off of a gas plant).
How to cheaply store renewables is kind of a trillion-dollar question right now, but I'm sure it will be answered. At the very least, we're good at drilling into things and could make some nice pumped air plants.
Well, pendingly subscribed. I'm not sure what the exact difference is, as it usually works the same, but if it is broken that might be an important detail.
I've never thought about it like that, but it makes good sense.