Incomprehensible nonsense posing as news.
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Found some interesting thoughts about the interactions of social and economic class in
The Vimes Boots Theory: Further Reflections
and the related
Class (American)
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Centrist Democrats say YES … but they say that about everybody 
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Except, of course, themselves.
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Netflix caves to Dr. Doom, removes access to Marvel movies and TV for Latverian streamers.
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Isn’t Latveria part of NATO now?
Dr. Doom should be one of our strongest allies against Putin at this point.
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When he pays off the jury award to the families of 9/11, maybe.
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What are these words things! And fie on that first year econ class I coasted through!
I don’t think Tibor realizes they sound like a bright twelve-year-old/dim-30-year-old.
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Nobody earns a billion dollars.
But…but…
Nobody earns a billion dollars.
But…but…
Nobody EARNS a billion dollars.
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Agreed.
For the sake of argument, let’s assume salaries are fairly negotiated based on the skill and knowledge required to do a job, the danger of the job, and its difficulty.
Anaesthesiologists earn about $112/hr, which is about as high as a salaried profession goes. These are people who need years of training and practice, in order to make sure that patients are rendered unable to either move or experience pain while being operated upon, and then wake up afterwards. If they get it wrong, the consequences are death, permanent disability, or severe mental and emotional trauma to their patients. That’s a pretty fair standard for a job that deserves to be at the upper end of the salary curve.
In order to earn a billion dollars, an anaesthesiologist would need to work 100-hour weeks for over 1,750 years. At a more reasonable, 40-hour work week, it would take them almost 4,300 years.
It is literally impossible for any person to do enough work, at a wage appropriate to the work being performed, to earn a billion dollars in a human lifetime.
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True.
I was simply mimicking the tone of the thread though. So much irrational justification from the trolls.
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Linked in that thread, by the same author:
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For reference.
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I have used grocery pickup services and they always pick the fresh veg and meat much better than I do.
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Ah, but only to one patient at a time!
CEO’s and their heirs are getting paid to harm thousands, millions, billions of people at once
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Hard centrism accepts hundred-year-old ideas of communitarian oppression and believes that oppression by the ignorant rich just needs to be bolstered by social obligation and humanized with “adjustments” to the taxes of skilled workers.
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The relationships between super-managers and “their” IP. And by “their” I mean something they neither possess nor can realistically use except to restrict others’ possession and use. And by their relationships I mean a deeply corrupt culture of theft.
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FTFY.
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