ltfey

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by ltfey 5y ago
It actually doesn't much matter. My point is that these people fail on their own terms. Fascism runs on a certain archaic masculine presence, and that is true whether we're talking about Mussolini's centralized variety, or th
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by ltfey 5y ago
I agree with what you're saying. However, I disagree on one bit: But there, most of the people will the ability to "save the day" will usually be in upper management. The big tech companies may be an exception this: Google h
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by ltfey 5y ago
In school, you get multiple noisy grades per year but the noise cancels out. That's what averaging does. You might get a B or even a C when you deserved an A, and vice versa, but your grade-point average will, in the long term, approxi
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by ltfey 5y ago
I agree. I don't know what's "natural" because I don't think human nature is well-defined or stable; most humans seem to reflect the context they are in. Otherwise, you are absolutely correct, and this problem is no
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by ltfey 5y ago
To be technical, I never said anything about size. I said "inadequate". Also, one can be opposed to patriarchy while, at the same time, pointing out that the men who run capitalism fail on their own archaic and patriarchal terms.
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by ltfey 5y ago
School is a flawed meritocracy, but it actually makes efforts to be one. Corporate is a deliberate non-meritocracy whose purpose is to ratify the inadequate descendants of an existing oligarchy as meritocrats. Mussolini didn't make t
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by ltfey 5y ago
I don't know anything about Peloton or its management, but the main takeaway from this deck is something I already knew: (1) private equity guys are assholes, (2) who are obviously compensating for something inadequate three feet below
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by ltfey 5y ago
Also, travel tends to give a context to unpleasant or difficult experiences that make them tolerable. They led to something. They weren't mindless petty humiliations like one experiences in an office job (a recurring eight-hour economy
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by ltfey 5y ago
I despise Donald Trump but I think this was a mistake. The failure of January 6 removed any short-term danger Trump presented, so there was no immediate need to ban the guy. At the same time, the use of a dodgy ban to censor an unpopular, f
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by ltfey 5y ago
As bad as Twitter is, blogging is essentially dead. Wordpress's free product is garbage that now runs block ads, breaking the flow of content, and Substack is Y Combinator, which to a lot of people is a turn-off given the incubator&#x2
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by ltfey 5y ago
What has happened is that the "old generation" of programmers is dying out / retiring. And they aren't passing on their knowledge to the new generation. The "old generation" of programmers were high-math, abst
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by ltfey 5y ago
The true (actual, Marxist red pill) answer: work is exploitation of laborers by capital and "not good enough to be worth employing" isn't really a thing. The bosses make off with so much money, who cares. Maybe there are a fe
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by ltfey 5y ago
Performance reviews are garbage. They are not needed. They exist as a way for the capital-owning class to remind workers that they are seen as subhuman and will be thrown back on the streets the minute they are no longer seen by their maste
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by ltfey 5y ago
The Office was utopian compared to real-life Corporate America. The kind of mean-spirited pettiness that drives actual post-2000 capitalism, and it gets worse the higher you go, is so depressing and repugnant that it can't be put on
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by ltfey 5y ago
It continues because we live under capitalism and the upper class wants to divide working people amongst themselves at all levels, because it keeps them on top. It really is that simple.
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by ltfey 5y ago
Stack rank the board of directors too for good measure The only time stack ranking was a force for good was when the French applied it to their ruling elite in the 1790s.