Marx Financial Freedom Steps

1. Buy a gun and ammo
2. Revolt against your oppressors
3. Don’t profit because profit is bad

The solution is to stop bailing out mismanaged companies. Crony capitalism/corporate socialism are scams.

You’re describing the median, not the average.

I wouldn’t have even gone to college if I didn’t have access to a privately subsidized university. That said, $40k of debt for four years of education doesn’t actually seem so bad, considering living expenses. Being able to live on $10k a year (or less) is impressive.

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This kind of “checking that I’m still orthodox” post makes my skin crawl. Who is “we”?

Social good more than for economic reasons, since we know definitively that more education isn’t required to do work that currently is high-paying.

Now there is one fewer reason to work in California if you’re in the tech industry.

My jaw dropped when I heard this self-identified business owner say that suppressing wages is a bad thing.

We need more business owners like him.

My last job they really didn’t like us doing nothing during down time, they really wanted us to be sweeping the floor or some other busy-work. There was a lot of work to be done like that, so it got boring, fast.

Now I have a job with tons of downtime and my boss is explicitly fine with us reading books, playing video games, watching Netflix, etc. as long as we are responsive when customers come in. It’s a great gig (although low-paying), especially for a college student.

Now if I get bored it’s my own fault.

I like the ten hour shifts. More money for me.

I love my 4-day workweek. My company still gets 40 hours of work out of me each week (minus mandatory breaks) and I get a bit of overtime on some of those hours. Better still, two people can cover an entire day, whereas three were needed back when we worked 8 hour shifts.

From what I’ve seen unpaid internships aren’t nearly as common as they used to be, but are still concentrated in certain white-collar fields such as law and finance.

I don’t think I saw a single unpaid internship when I was searching for my senior internship in college.

It depends on your agreement with your employer. Unless your employment contract specifically states hours for you to work during, there is no limit on when your boss can expect you to reply to your emails.

Of course, hourly non-salaried workers get paid by the hour, even though some hourly workers can still be expected to work ridiculous hours by their employers.

“Ops” means “Operations” and is far from technobabble. Ops could be everything from maintenance and security personnel to IT workers who keep business-critical systems running.

Salaried workers have no specific hours. Their employers own them.

EDIT: Meaning to say that they aren’t paid for hours worked, so there is nothing to lose and everything to gain from a money perspective for employers to get them to work long hours and call whenever.

When I interned in a NOC I referred to bandwidth in GiB/s once or twice. The looks on the senior engineers’ faces were priceless.

I had to do a write-up on the Deepwater Horizon disaster for my organizational leadership class a couple weeks ago. Same thing, a corporate culture that downplayed safety and emphasized profit led to poor maintenance, woefully inadequate equipment inspections, and choosing the worst options because they were cheaper.

It’s past time for these corps to learn.

Seems like this sort of anti-safety corporate culture is behind the majority of industrial accidents.

Id point out that the crazy right-wingers likely have more guns and ammo but less actual training than ordinary conservatives.