Well damn, people aren't the same, yet he thinks they are. I would be suicidal if I thought I was like gweiher, that's the really sad part.

I've been delusional for over 40 years now, and the only virtue I signal is my bank account, angry person.

We are not all the same.

You are in deep with a blatantly racist troll my friend. So someone might as well rise to your defense.

Diversity - Hiring a person by their skin color and origin is by any definition of racism, very racist.

Hiring a person by the equipment between their legs is the very definition of sexism.

Equality? Sounds like Orwell's Animal farm where some are more equal than others. The E in DEI is like North Korea calling itself a democracy/

Inclusion - again, something out of uno reverse.

And it doesn't work. If you ignore the merit, and hire a person because of her sex, or a person because of what is called race. You are not necessarily getting the best person for the job, even if it makes the quota people happy.

In a meritocracy, the best person for the job gets the job.

I've worked for men, I've worked for women. This was pre DEI. Two of the best top people I ever worked for were women. Competent, and allowed me to do my best, if they had a fault, it was that they became very protective of me - I mainly found it kind of endearing. It was nice to have people in high places looking out for ya. They gave out good raises to me as well.

Even in HR, the ladies I worked with were great. An older woman - she was a hockey fan and I played Ice Hockey, so a natural bond. After she retired, a younger HR woman took be under her wing. Both beautiful and competent, she handled my retirement and emergency recall with aplomb. Now fast forwarding to today. I don't really have a command path, just people I communicate with as needed. Two women that get things ready for me, one of them signs my checks. Both competent, I do see the protective nature starting again. Oh well. Women seem to like me, even if many here think they would not. The wife says it is because I treat everyone equally.

Before them, the woman who was in that position was a diversity hire. I liked her a lot. She was very pleasant, easy to get along with, and strikingly beautiful. But not qualified to handle the job. And the stress was killing her. She ended up leaving to be a full time wife, and is flourishing now.

And that is the problem with hiring people based on their skin color or sex rather than their merit. It really doesn't help them if they are put in over their heads because the ability to do the work was not as important as peripheral things.

And people who want to frame it as a "white man" problem are missing the proverbial boat. They are demonstrating as well, that they are among the most racist people on earth - just a different race they want to cast as bad. Race is the ultimate social construct. We are Homo sapiens sapiens with tiny genetic differences, usually based on coping with environmental conditions. Might as well call people with different hair color different races, because the genetic differences are just about the same level

His system has been the greatest thing that ever happened. The best leaders and heroes of the Revolution, Josef Stalin, Chairman Mao, Pol Pot, and Little Kim.

"But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you aint gonna make it with anyone anyhow" That's what you consider the path forward? Gonna be a lot of us dead - At least they won't be working long hours, eh comrade? After you seize the means of production, you can make the workweek 10 hours if you like,

And the tools don't understand that at this time, it is helping Cheeto more than harming him.

At least they have their pronouns. And think voting against their husbands is the path to power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Nothing says 2024 Democrats gestalt than a woman whose personal worth is heading toward half a billion, bellyaching about how bad women have it.

I agree - Those articles are bullshit.

Yes, you'll need a lot of saved money if you retire carrying a mortgage. Especially if you were foolish enough to keep refinancing it.

And I've always told people that if you are carrying a mortgage, you can't afford to retire. Not completely accurate, but it is a great way to be poor in retirement.

I saved a lot of money while working, just because I do. Several retirement accounts. Some I haven't touched yet. I guess I'll have to when I hit that age where I'm contractually required start removing it. But the point is if you have a mortgage free existence, you don't need anywhere near several million in the bank.

When is the long run though? I'm 71 now - can I get an okay boomer? ;^) People in here consider me pathological. Doesn't seem to have damaged me yet. I've even been called back to the workforce post retirement part time, and I'm loving it. Some sort of Stockholm syndrome?

One of the strange things about this is how does a person "date" if they are always at work. I can see the texting already. Him" "I can free up 30 minutes 6 months from now" Her: Umm, that won't work, I don't have any free time until next year." Him: "Why don't we just sneak off to the basement tonight?"

It is different for different people. Too many of these studies seem to make the base assumption that all humans are identical. They aren't. Some can work much more than the 32 hours considered the maximum production rate, and some cannot work at all.

As noted elsewhere in here, I tend to top out at a month of 100 hour weeks. I don't want to work that number of hours, for that length of time, but I have no issues at all with regular 60 hour weeks. And before we get to the idea that my work was suffering - a lot of the time, that was fixing other's mistakes - those for whom a 40 hour week was 20 hours too long.

For many people, that is very true. But not everyone. The 40 hour work week was determined by studying people. I think it is an aggregate of a spectrum. I've never been constrained by that number. And some people lose productivity at many fewer less hours. I can do 100 hour weeks in a sort of afterburner mode. It does take a few days to recover after a month of that. OTOH many people simply aren't psychologically built for that grind.

But to these tools at Sonatic, good luck finding the people you are looking for. Those type are fairly rare, and most know their worth. Trying to force the "Always on work mode" on normies just won't work.

Probably for some. I always put in the hours I needed to put in to do a professional job. Never bothered me other than a surprising number of less productive employees hated me because I "made them look bad". That wasn't the intent

It is a continuum ranging between people who won't work, to regular people who feel strain if they work more than 20 hours a week, or 40 hours a week, to people like me, who a lot of people consider pathological. I put in a complete career, raised a family, spent a lot of time with them too. My extra work came in late or early. I don't expect people who cannot handle the work to work to my standards.

I now work with like minded people, and I have to say, I like it. We all respect each other, highly professional (although the people we work for call us "elites" which is kind of embarrassing.) And oh yeah, about that pay. Money isn't everything, but all in all, it's a nice thing to have laying around the house. 8^) Watch the angry responses to what I wrote. Claiming I'm going to die early (that moment has passed) or other issues. But for some reason, my attitude seems to threaten them I guess. But - no one who doesn't want to do what I do is forced to do that. People need to find their fit.

And yet Europe invented and distributed Perdition (AKA methamphetamine) for both its military and civilian use.

And it wasn't for entertainment - it was to get more work out of them.

Mod me down - but check the truth of what I wrote first.

U mad bro? Don't work for them. Don't work at all. I support you never working another day in your life.

No , it's just that people shouldn't eat gaddammed Doritos! This should be obvious, people!

Something needs to be done about the mentally addicted. Because like all actual addictions, they end up damaging the person with the problems. Just a couple examples.

I went on a ferry ride a few weeks back. I enjoyed watching porpoises playing in the water alongside the boat, walked around the deck, even the seagulls were entertaining, they love to fly around the propeller was behind the ship for goodies that might have been churned up.

About 80 percent of the passengers were staring at their smartphones.

Just last night in a grocery store, some adipose addled woman ran me into a freezer while walking hunched over her phone while she was shopping. She glared at me, quite angry that I was in her vicinity, and she had to look up. And it wasn't a momentary thing, I watched incredulously as she continued down the aisle, never looking up. Must have taken a long time to shop if looking away from the phone is a bad thing.

The Gen Z stare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... They touch on it, but don't go into depth. These kids are addicted to social media - the actual physical world is not their world, that smartphone is.

Frankly, being around methheads is better. At least they are in the moment.

Another part of the social media addiction follows, some of the biggest victims - so hear me out.

Validation. I have seen this especially with women. As social bulwarks like the #metoo ( itself an example of addiction as it morphed from actual sexual assault victims to women metooing men because of having a date they didn't enjoy) women permanently changed the way that men interact with them, many of who have branded all men as the enemy. Women still want validation (not a criticism, it is something most women want by nature) In a world where I can't tell a woman I think her dress is nice, or I like her earrings, guess where the validation comes from. Online, in social media.

Except now, it is just plain weird to read women giving other women validation about their new dress or earrings, offering sometimes highly sexualized comments to each other as validation. Men in the same groups make no comment at all. Which is what they have been tacitly ordered not to do. Meanwhile the women then go on to speak of how stupid their husband or male friends on in a sort of "can you top this"? contest. The men stay silent and only speak of "guy things" like having to mow the lawn or rake leaves. Sometimes with a "joke" insult reply by the women, that the men ignore.

This is an exceptionally unhealthy dynamic, fueled by mental validation addiction they are no longer getting. A really weird positive feedback loop, as good young women who are not womanists, who would love to have a good man, yet have been raised with social media and womanist adjacent, if not womanist, are getting quite upset that men don't approach them any more.

Men. In my continuing research, places like Youtube have been an interesting waterhole for men. Men who have been damaged in divorce or workplace accusations have found an outlet in Youtube. RedPill content is widely watched and commented on, and RedPill's younger brother MGTOW is really creating some waves, as video after video of women shaming or heaping hatred on men are shown, as reaction videos fair use. Every case found of false accusation are shown. Increasing numbers of young - even older - men have checked out of the relationship arena.

They don't run out of content either. In irony, the shaming has stopped working, every "Looks like the incel has shown up." comment has zero effect. Manshaming as it is known, has been used so often and for so many trivial things, it has no power any more.

Same thing for mansplaining. As many women today complain about a lack of mentoring in the workplace, we have to remember that telling a woman how something should be done, is textbook mansplaining. So men just keep their mouths shut. To the workplace gestalt, women see men conversing, joking, interacting with each other positively, then silence when she approaches. That has to be incredibly uncomfortable for them.

Yet I know so many good women who would make a great partner. Pleasant, cooperative, attractive and well presented. But no guy approaches them. Social media is turning out to be a great way to disrupt society in a really bad way.

I certainly could never figure out having money and not doing anything with it. Money all by itself is boring.