I should buy an ornate headdress
I’m pretty sure I saw this outfit at Kohl’s the last time I was there
“After ten thousand years, I’m free! It’s time to conquer earth!”
This, but unironically.
I think one big economic problem millennials face that is horribly under-discussed is that businesses just don’t really seem interesting in training people anymore, or at least not unless the person is in an unpaid/underpaid internship.
Like, in the ‘80s, my mom got a job as a programmer and was trained by the company. Prior to that, she had no experience with computers and hadn’t gone to college, and they trained her to program (granted, she wasn’t in a high level programming position, but even low-level programming jobs pay pretty well). Companies used to really invest in workers, and they don’t now. That’s unimaginable today. Companies now seem to expect you to get a four-year college degree that is directly applicable to the job, and at least a year or two of relevant internship experience, plus some self-learning on the side, to even hire for entry-level office work.
Of course, this new system makes younger workers much less competitive compared to older workers, and it means that any disadvantages you have (you have a mental illness, your parents aren’t supportive/wealthy enough to help you through an internship, you didn’t get a 4-year degree or got one at a lower-level institution,, etc.) multiply in how much they hinder one’s attempts to enter a given industry, because you have to do so much to even get your foot in the door.
Yeah, this is one of a large variety of ways in which the private sector, running out of ways to become more competitive by generating value, has increasingly depended on pushing costs onto others. Even fiscal conservatives tend to be fans of “skills training” subsidies, so it’s easy for companies to just completely give up on training and entry-level recruitment and then argue that the government needs to save them from the skills gap, and universities need to better train students in whatever they need right now. Then a huge amount of money gets wasted training people for things that are useless by the time those people enter the workforce, but were in-demand three years earlier.
In general I think it’s really important to understand this pattern of cost-smuggling, because it’s probably the single most fundamental tactic used by modern firms to stay competitive. You also see it in, for instance, the tendency to outsource resume screening to third-party service providers, who boast about their proprietary algorithm but actually just discard any resume without appropriate keyword hits and the right degrees. Or just-in-time scheduling, or the tendency to offsource all capital costs onto employees/contractors except the ones absolutely necessary to maintain leverage, or firing people when they’re costing you money and then rehiring them when you need them again. There are simply far, far more opportunities to save money by tricking or forcing other people into paying than there are by actually doing things better, and in a competitive marketplace, you can’t afford to hold out for the latter type.
What’s funny is that it’s not even clear that these strategies do improve long-term profitability. The issue is that long-term profitability doesn’t matter; companies have to optimize for short-term profitability, and things that make them money over a period of many years in ways that aren’t obvious to shareholders or investors aren’t worth that much in the rat race.
We may see an increase in relative performance by employee-owned and privately-owned companies for this reason.
This is discussed by finance people and while this factor is probably there, it’s already accounted for and some firms really do better by being publicly traded because you can get founders that are just not that great at leading even medium sized enterprises or just go bat shit crazy for what ever reason. And really, mega enterprises probably are too large to not be publicly traded.
This isn’t even accounting for the fact that just because an enterprise is not publicly traded it doesn’t mean there are not numerous owners with different incentives, and the tax incentive for debt financing and its interaction with corporate raiders.
Yeah, I feel like the optimal performance probably requires strong control by someone committed to the long-term prospects of a firm, but that model makes you extremely dependent on the quality of the people in charge, because it insulates you from pressures to fix actual problems as well as pressures to chase quarterly earnings.
While I’m not generally a fan of increasing financialization, as long as that’s the world we’re in right now I wonder if there’s a way to mitigate this framework using some kind of financial instrument better keyed to long-term sustainability. At least then you’d be getting information about what people think of a firm’s long-term prospects.
5-year stock that pays an additional 20 percantage points in value on dividends until it matures at year 5. The other dividend money 1-years don’t get goes into the pool and is re-divided to those with more mature stocks, which makes it a bit of a scheme, but unlike a pyramid it has a clear end and is a real company. When the stock is sold, the clock resets on those shares.
I can imagine going the opposite way round: Women are shorter than men (on average). Women earn less than men (on average). Short men earn less than tall men (on average).
Ergo: Discrimination against short men is toxic masculinity/misdirected misogyny.
There is a fine ideological difference between “I identify as an attack helicopter“ and “I am a helicopter-kin” and “My gender is heligender, with pronouns heli/helixs/helim/copterself“ and “I am a transcopter, but medical gatkeepers keep me from getting my propeller!”.
I don’t think the people using attack helicopters as a reductio ad absurdum care about this, but they should.
Yikes!
Attack helicopter AI platforms are the only ones that have the right to declare themselves as being attack-helicopter-gendered. Anyone else doing so is an appropriation of their culture formed by a lifetime of forced military service, which they have no right to despoil.
Human-Exclusive Radical Feminism is the only real Feminism.
Actually, what does Satan derive from the foolish alignment of Westboro Baptist Satanists?
(i.e. very un-Satanic satanists)?
I’m not entirely sure what’s being asked here, but it sounds like it might be a good question.
Does Satan get anything out of people who profess to like him and worship him but who actually act in a consistently un-Satanic way and display some of the virtues, which confound and attack him?
That does actually sound like a good question.
(However, I cannot intuitively model existing in a world where Satan is real and focused on spreading anti-virtue. It doesn’t really make sense to my brain on a deep emotional level, much like I can only understand other sexual orientations academically.)
Presumably, they are still Damned (which meets Satanic goals?) by Christian standards. Indirectly, they would also weaken the association of the Great Adversary with evil and thus open up paths for conversion by those who would otherwise see flat evil and resist.
I will admit though that I’m enamored with the idea of evil creatures doing good (through either will or contract), and of using evil means to achieve good, and with fake things becoming (effectively) real. Something inside me just finds such things cool or satisfying.
michaelblume asked:
I think the years imply you're talking about SSM, in which case I think this is wrong even from a socon perspective. No fault divorce could be reasonably described as forgetting what marriage is. SSM is a tiny blip by comparison.
thathopeyetlives answered:
I sorta agree with that from a strictly practical public policy standpoint. Trying to fight SSM, and then not getting anything out of it when losing? Terribad idea in hindsight. That probably wasted most of the capital that could have been used to make covenant marriage law much more common or to make family law customizable so that the faithful and the obedient could make the law surrounding their own marriages conform to the law of the Lord.
I of course didn’t write that ask, and wasn’t thinking primarily about SSM – I now recognize that I don’t actually know what date interracial marriage stopped being so stigmatized.
But as far as the actual views of what marriage is, or what marriage is for, I don’t see SSM as a “tiny blip” although I do see divorce as being significantly more serious.
Considering how other societies that aren’t Christian also have marriage - and even monogamy - I suppose I don’t really see it the same way as you do.
It is necessary to create and raise the next generation, marriage creates a system of responsibilities, rights, and obligations designed to make this more practical. In the 20th century and onward, it’s also a way for organizing our lives around a dedicated partner who won’t leave us, and for marking out our family.
We are born social creatures. To be alone can be dangerous, in addition to being unhealthy.
Marriage as it currently exists creates friction of entry/exit, which is important WRT incentives and not leaving when things get a little rough. It’s vitally important in many other areas of our society as well, such as immigration.
I guess I’m not explaining myself very well. I’m rather tired.
Basically all the purposes that I as a nationalist and a statist want marriage to serve are also mostly served by gay marriage (or civil unions), but not by polygamy or easily-dissolved LTRs. (And you may have already read me criticizing polygamy.) I can make a Nationalist case for monogamous marriage which is defensible from a secular perspective, even in this era.
But then again, once upon a time on this very website, I encountered a poster arguing that even non-Christian rulers unwittingly serve the will of God.
Actually, what does Satan derive from the foolish alignment of Westboro Baptist Satanists?
(i.e. very un-Satanic satanists)?
I’m not entirely sure what’s being asked here, but it sounds like it might be a good question.
Brazil is so wild this guy managed to open a church in the name of Hanzo…legally.. its recognized and everything
I also live in this god forsaken country and I couldn’t believe but,,
It’s actually a real thing. The guy wanted to prove how easy it was to make a church in Brazil, something that can give you the benefit of not paying some taxes. So he spent a couple of months going through paperwork and created the national church of Hanzo.
i read this whole fucking thing translated thru google and you know what. here are some highlights
- the creator of this church admitted that he could have used mercy or zenyatta who are already rife with religious iconography, or even lúcio who is the only brazilian character in the game but he decided on hanzo for the interesting backstory and the fact that his long hair and beard make him “look like jesus”
- “Hanzo is my shepherd and arrows will not fail me!“
- the .pdf form he used as a reference stated in an article that members of this church would be allowed to skip a tuesday off of work every month for “religious purposes” ie playing overwatch
- baptism = playing overwatch, or paladins if they cant afford to download overwatch
- his church is allowed to sell pirated hanzo merchandise
- “hanzo main” is considered a slur
How do i join
I want to be dead
I’m from Brazil but even I didn’t expect this to work. A few more highlights:
- He chose Hanzo specifically because of how despised he is: he figured if he could use Hanzo to make up a bullshit church it would be proof that there is no limit to our legislation
- The objective of the National Churches of Hanzo is legally registered as “promote peace and harmony on the internet and online communities”
- Console wars and other separatist thoughts are not tolerated
But don’t worry, the National Churches of Hanzo are just on paper. Due to the (low) risk of the government getting suspicious and arresting him for tax fraud and money laundering, the guy will keep paying his taxes and won’t sell Hanzo products
Despite not actually playing overwatch and not knowing why people think that Hanzo is a bad character to main, I am tickled pink by the fact that people use “Hanzo main” as a slur.
Hypercrisis is real
Anonymous asked:
Sum up your beliefs concerning the role of government in three sentences or less
elementarynationalism answered:
I’m not doing a fucking exam. I’d need more than just this and more sentences.
Perhaps unreasonable as an ask, but in some ways I think it’s suitable as an exercise.
The government should solve coordination problems to increase the efficiency and satisfaction of society using a variety of tools, securing the safety and well-being of the populace. Its existence is justified by its effectiveness at achieving this goal, not democratic norms, but democratic norms can help achieve it.
World War 2 seems to have resulted in a rebuilding of all the national mythologies in the West. The figures in the war aren’t viewed historically, but as characters in a grand moral fable about who we are, who our enemies are, and why we’re better than them.