His advice is reminiscent of the advice in "The Millionaire Next Door", with was a best seller back in the day. The point of that book is that real millionaires usually do not have extravagant lifestyles, that these little savings do add up over time. Or maybe Sam Walton, who lived in a modest ranch house and drove a pickup while simultaneously producing some of the most selfish children to ever walk the earth. They probably feel that they were deprived.

My experience is similar. My coffee drips while I dress, and I don't wait in line or swipe a card. I make a pot, not just one cup, so I can refill my cup practically for free. I pick up fresh coffee beans or grounds when I buy the rest of my groceries, or I order online for home delivery. Going to a coffee shop costs time and money. So, why would someone go to a coffeeshop? Because they enjoy the experience somehow. They enjoy interacting with other customers and the "dirty hippie". Who know, the barista might be the present day equivalent of the taxi driver giving out stock market tips.

That is how capitalism is supposed to work. If you think that is sad, you don't understand capitalism. As long as there are plenty of people willing to work cheap, shareholders will do continue to do whatever it is that they do that makes our country great.

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not sure why this got modded down into the negative numbers, so I quoted the important part.

He got fired for going public with stuff the female engineers fear the guys are saying in private anyway. His first point, that his other points should be addressed in the open has some merit. But, his other points were presented in a long crazy sexist rant that did not help the debate. Men and women are different, but so are men and men and women and women. Much of what he says applied to some women and some men, but not all women and not all men. The bell curves of male traits and female traits overlap more than they don't. The bell curve of personality traits for women in traditionally male jobs is different than the curve for women in traditionally female jobs. Anyone who goes into a nontraditional job, whether male or female is a bit of a maverick who brings more to the table than this sexist pig. Canning him might stop a woman or two from quitting. Since he went public, his employer had to do something just as public to cancel him out. To do anything else would look like they were condoning his behavior.

Since when are IT employees hired for their looks?

It makes perfect sense that coders are paid by the character. A tab is only one character, not as much work.

The Radio Shack near me survived all the previous shrinkages. It will be sad to see it go. I liked the manager, even asked him for a job during the holidays. He said sure...... So, I went to the website, first thing they wanted was Social Security Number, could not enter career section without it. I was willing to give them my name and an email, but I couldn't see the jobs or create an account. This was a few years ago, when most websites let you wait until you found a job description you liked enough to apply before entering the SSN. I couldn't even sent a message.

You heard it here:

Art Depot will experience a run on these SKUS , they will be backordered, then when half the population is thumbless,the backorders will be cancelled. There will never be a true shortage.

should move to the dark-matter-web, a mesh of such complexity that not even God can find it.

What you want the next generation to be created by the rich who can afford them or the poor who seem to have the time. No wonder the middle class is dying out.

I saw that movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"A heroic service dog saved the day by dialing 911 and pulling her blind owner to safety after the home they shared in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia caught fire on Thursday morning. Yolanda, a golden retriever, called 911 on a specialized phone...."

normally, service dogs are trained to hit any button because they are all programmed to dial 911

Just saying, there is such a thing as disinformation