Price-Fixing. The media's coverage of rampant price-fixing and manipulation is laughable. The largest energy company in the country is Exxon.
I have nothing good to say about Exxon, but since the article we're discussing is about electrical power cost and demand, Exxon really isn't a major player (although in the future they could be.
You do not understand the verb "simulate"
Do tell.
I know you think you just burned gweihir, but that's incredibly fucking sad.
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.
See other answer above. You are delusional and virtue-signaling.
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.
No, people who are not render insanely sexist and racist by their wokeness want a return to hiring on merit.
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
Marx predicted that Capitalism would eventually turn into fascist authoritarianism. The billionaires do not need liberal capitalism any more in order to gain wealth and power, especially in the U.S.
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,
The correct work life balance is: 1 person, working 37.5 hours per week spread over either 5 x 7.5 hour days or 35 hours via 4 x 9 hour days. And this can be averaged over the 4 weeks in a month. And all humans are exactly identical. No, they aren't. There's a whole spectrum of abilities, and too many people seem to believe human's are cookie cutter identical.
Problem is, and it always has been that people like me, who can work a lot more without your drastic falloff in productivity, tend to mop the floor with y'all.
I'm one of those - and here is what seems to happen.
I'm much more productive. I get much bigger raises.Then when an economic downturn happens, guess who gets terminated? In 30+ years, I've weathered a lot of downturns. It was always the least productive. They couldn't keep up.
Because if we know the media is one thing, it's pro-Trump.
Do you people even listen to yourselves? 92% overwhelmingly negative coverage. And it's just not enough.
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.
Let's not forget the articles that say you need X million dollars saved before you can retire.
I will say that there's an argument for "paying your dues" early in a career, but that's not a long-term proposition.
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.
Living for work sacrifices your mental well-being in the long run.
When is the long run though? I'm 71 now - can I get an okay boomer?
No this is just tech bros bring tech bros. They don't want to enslave anyone, they just want to squeeze more productivity out by paying for their employees' dating app.
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?"
*Of course* it's idiotic, and there is tons of evidence that more hours reduces productivity
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.
This is not capitalism. Capitalism want to exploit workers the most efficient way. It has been well-established (by Henry Ford and others) that absolute peak performance (per week) for mental workers is around 36h/week with 6h per day. You can add about 2h/day of simple administrative work, but that is it.
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.
This trend is nothing but unhealthy burnout bullshit.
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.
"Flattery is all right -- if you don't inhale." -- Adlai Stevenson
