Right, I understand what you are saying. What I’m saying is - that’s dumb. I’m then explaining why I think it’s dumb, and giving you the opportunity to contradict me.
Don’t answer, it’s a rhetorical question.
This is how someone says they know they’re wrong but don’t want to admit it.
Your premise seems to be that these things can only be accomplished via large corporate firms, and that everything should be accounted for according to their ledgers. But a sufficiently industrious individual could endeavor to build a house all on their own, and then sell it. Should this individual not make a profit on their labor, given that they are the owner of the firm that constructed the house?
Similarly, should doctors not be able to open private practices?
Or are you saying that the laborors should be paid, but that money lending should be banned? That investors should be unable to profit from housing or healthcare? I will say, I suppose that makes you a good christian - but a bad economist. Suppose our theoretical independent home builder wants to build handcrafted whimsical log homes in the woods. He has the skills, the market is there and untapped, it is clear his plan will work - but he needs money now to buy the land, tools, and materials to build the homes that people want to live in. I have a stack of cash sitting around, and could front him that money - but its my money, and I want to be paid for its use. Just like the independent home builder would fairly expect to pay a fee to rent a tractor to level the land, he can equally expect to pay a fee to rent my money. And if he refuses to pay such a fee (or is banned via a law against it), then I won’t lend it and he will not have the funds to build the homes, so he is deprived of a job and potential buyers are deprived of their whimsical log homes.
So who exactly should not be profiting here?
If you’re getting paid, that is a profit. You are, by definition, creating housing for profit.
I mean, I like land value taxes. Don’t let people speculate on the value of land.
But creating housing isnt like creating, say, a certain grade of steel. Housing has innumerable factors which determine if it is preferrable to some other housing for any given person. Location, size, architectural style, etc. It is not a commodity, and is exactly the sort of good that markets are well-equipped to provide to people. One person wants to live in an ornate, whimsical log house in the forest, while another wants to live in a luxury studio apartment downtown. And the architects, engineers, project managers, general contractors, foundation pourers, framers, roofers, electricians, plumbers, hvac technicians, etc, all need to get paid for their work. And presuming the person who will live in the home isnt the one building it (which is almost always, and is almost inevitable when it comes to multifamily housing), then someone needs to front the cash to get it built, and they need to get paid back for the risk they took with that cash. And if it is an apartment, where people rent rather than own (which many people want to do for a variety of very valid reasons), then this requires maintenance and property management, which is also labor deserving of pay. All these people are providing goods and services of value to others and they should be paid for those goods and services, ie, they should make a profit.
Now, if you are saying “the government should provide free housing to anyone who wants it” - well, I have some questions about the implemetation, but it’s a fair enough stance to take.
But if you’re saying “no one should be allowed to make money on creating or maintaining housing”, then I suggest you start hunting for a cave to live in
Same vein as Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers feels to me like the defining WW2 peice of cinema. But its less about killing nazis (which is kind of incidental) and more about bros loving bros.
A while ago, just after Trump’s second election, I attended a rally in my city where Sanders was speaking, along with AOC. The streets were packed. Busses were packed. People from all walks of life had gathered to hear a message of resistance to a dangerous asshole, and the potential better future they could build together. Old people. Young families with children. College students and young professionals and blue collar workers. And among these reasonable, good hearted people, there was this one guy, clearly obese, neckbeard and ponytail, dressed head to toe in tacticool gear.
I think about that guy anytime I read comments like these.
A good doctor takes your existing lab results as data to use to generate a hypothesis about your condition in order to think of other tests to run or other things to try or other specialists to refer you to. Again, the appropriate response to “your lab results look normal” is “I don’t fucking care, I still feel like shit, do your damn job - no wonder everyone is flocking to alternative medicine and chatgpt if you don’t understand that what I want is results, not a shrug.”
Basically all healthcare systems function like this - most doctors, most of the time, are phoning it in. They have tons of other patients to see, and a tee time to get to, and the default assumption is that if the standard tests don’t bring anything up then the patient is fine, and the condition will resolve itself, or else the patient is simply a hypochondriac. The way you get them to take you seriously is by being annoying as fuck and telling them to do their damn job, and often, doing their job for them by looking into things that could be causing your condition yourself. You could look into getting a healthcare advocate, someone who knows the system and can ask for the right things to get you to the person you need; or a concierge doctor, a doctor you pay directly to actually be a fucking doctor and either solve your problem or help you manage it. Or you could reach out in your social network to see if you have any connections in the medical field who could point you in the right direction for appropriate treatment or referrals.
And I will note the distinct possibility that the doctors you are seeing and who are dismissing you might be right in their implicit assumption that you are simply a hypochondriac - in which case you still have a problem, and you need to see a mental health care professional.
But when trying to figure out any health issue, it is categorically true that the more you investigate, the more possibilities you find, and the longer your list of things to try becomes. The struggle of someone actually working to solve their health problem is that they have too many things to do, too many disappointments to face, and an endless array of treatments and protocols they need to try to prioritize. If your complaint is that there is nothing to be done, then you aren’t actually trying, which is why no one wants to listen to your complaints.
Of course your family has told you to stop complaining. Hearing someone moan about their poor health is annoying and boring. We don’t want to hear about it either, hence all the comments you are getting here telling you to stop making posts trying to normalize your clearly abnormal condition. We don’t know what is wrong with you and can’t help you. You need to see a doctor. If the doctor tells you everything is normal, tell the doctor that they suck big fat donkey dick at doing their job and tell them to refer you to a doctor who isn’t phoning it in.
I already read what you just copy and pasted. I’m not a doctor. I don’t know what is wrong with you. But if they run tests and tell you everything is normal, then the appropriate response is to say “I don’t care if the tests say everything is normal, I still feel like shit.”
The fact that you have these symptoms indicates something is going on. If the tests say everything is normal, then they are missing something
I think that advocates are right in that, once the kinks are worked out, they will be far safer than human drivers.
At the same time, I think the implications lead to a lot of dystopian implications for cities. Like, a properly tuned self driving car will never hit a pedestrian. So pedestrians in cities will learn they can safely step out into the street even in oncoming traffic. But this will cause the car to swerve and slam to a halt, which us a bad UX for the passenger. Enter: automatically reported jaywalking offenses powered by car cameras and facial recognition technology.
My take - based on everything you are saying in this thread, it sounds like you aren’t happy, but that you are balancing that unhappiness with potential unhappiness you are worried about facing if you were to try for another job.
You talk about pay and creature comforts - but you seem to be avoiding talking about meaning. What is your purpose in life? Because if this job facilitates that purpose, then by all means, keep it. But if it undermines it, then you should ditch it.
Like, imagine you are on your deathbed, and a young highschool boy comes to interview you about your life for a school project. He asks - what did you accomplish? What are you most proud of? What did you learn? What is a story you’d like to tell my class? What are your regrets? If you could do it all over again, what would you do differently?
What do you want your answers to be?
Second button down on either side of the screen mutes the ads. I keep a sharpie in my car and write it on the button.
Iirc, Maverick is/was its own chain. Maybe they got acquired. The name change seems like a good move.
Also, not to hail corporate too much, but the Maverick burritos are legitimately the best value meal for food to go in my area. About $7 for a big burrito that doesnt make me feel like shit, and that I can walk in the door and grab from under the heat lamp myself.
I mean, I am re-reading your post, and it doesnt look like you are asking for advice, but rather seeking a discussion of an observed phenomenon. You use phrases like “whats up with X?” and “is it always the fate of Y?” Then at the end you ask for suggestions of other communities to avoid, which seems, at least in my reading, to be the only time you are asking for advice. So in a post which seems, for the bulk of it, to want general discussion, it seems reasonable to want to see specific examples of what we are discussing.
I will join the chorus asking for examples of what you are talking about. Any actually misogynistic content I see is typically massively downvoted.
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The fact that not every hot person wants to fuck me. It is truly the great tragedy of my life.
You can just skip that if you want. No one is making you do it.
Just get a slice next time you go through. Its $2, and you get a snack + qa. Imo, better than a lot of dedicated pizza shops, and cheaper