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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…

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 …

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 y…

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 absolut…

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…

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 exist…

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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…

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 exper…

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…

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 t…

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 pro…

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 s…

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 t…

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…

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 s…

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.