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Re: Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer

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Post by PeterTMayer »

preordained wrote: post #46
PeterTMayer wrote: post #24

You might get better organized daily and find a good hobby but vacations are important, especially if you spend it with some traveling. A good hobby I recommend everyone that will help you totally tune out from your work is jiu jitsu.

>A good hobby I recommend everyone that will help you totally tune out from your work is jiu jitsu Yes! If people only knew the type of escape that was possible, both mental and physical. American blackbelt Chris Haueter once recalled how he would eagerly drive hours to the gym in his shitty car, from his shitty job and shitty relationship, because he knew it would all roll off him when he hit the mat.

Learning to escape is part of the mental chess, what jiu jitsu is. Many people bring a bunch of sacrifices for the love the gentle art. :)

Re: Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer

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Post by Retric »

refurb wrote: post #171
Retric wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Income is income, Adjustment is where the lie comes from. Sure, you can pretend it's meaningful number, but ex: charitable donations are not deductible from payroll taxes so they are clearly not going to reduce income. Or for a more obvious example, donate 1 million in appreciated and you get to deduct the full 1 million from income. (see if you can spot the problem with that.) PS: Hypothetically, if they said AGI wa…

I have no idea why you are calling it a lie. The AGI is clearly "adjusted" and the formula is public. This might be more interesting... In 2011, households in the top, middle, and bottom quintiles received 52, 14, and 5 percent of the nation's before-tax income, respectively; the shares of federal taxes paid by those households were 69, 9, and 1 percent.[1] So the top quintile earns 52% of the before-tax income and p…

Again with the biased (and federal only) numbers.

Market income consists of labor income, business income, capital gains (profits realized from the sale of assets), capital income excluding capita l gains, income received in retirement for past services, and other sources of income.

That 30 billion Gates donated would could for 0 on that scale making it BS. Use of a company jet for 1 year, 0.

PS: Of course it's also pretending the top 0.01% is the same as the top 1%.

Re: Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer

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Post by nibs »

aninhumer wrote: post #137
6t6t6 wrote: post #29

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So, you took the red pill?

Just so you know, while it's a complete misappropriation of the reference, "the red pill" is a term associated with a particular group with strong opinions on gender politics: https://www.reddit.com/r/theredpill

Also can be appropriately used to describe a counter-cultural enlightenment of any variety. Red pill = painful truth, blue pill = comfortable falsehood.

Re: Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer

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Post by aninhumer »

simplemath wrote: post #176
aninhumer wrote: post #137

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Just so you know, while it's a complete misappropriation of the reference, "the red pill" is a term associated with a particular group with strong opinions on gender politics: https://www.reddit.com/r/theredpill

>TRP... "strong opinions" You spelled misogyny weird. TRP is a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

I tend to find TRP more pitiful than anything else.

Re: Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer

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Post by sokoloff »

chimprich wrote: post #177
balfirevic wrote: post #150

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That's because their relationship with employer is voluntary.

Only up to a point; unless you are rich you are in effect required to take a job in most countries, and there is often not any choice available in employment. Compare that to the state where the relationship is not optional but you do get a vote in how it is run. Plus you potentially have the option of moving to another country.

You have a choice of many different employers and you have the choice to form your own venture (be it software development, business consulting, running a restaurant, doing landscaping, driving Uber, or even walking dogs and doing general errands).

I'm not aware of countries where your choice is "do this one specific job for this one specific employer or else starve".

Re: Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer

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Post by 6t6t6 »

aninhumer wrote: post #137
6t6t6 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, you took the red pill?

Just so you know, while it's a complete misappropriation of the reference, "the red pill" is a term associated with a particular group with strong opinions on gender politics: https://www.reddit.com/r/theredpill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pill_and_blue_pill

In this context, I thought it was obvious that I was talking about this red pill.

Re: Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer

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Post by austinjp »

undersuit wrote: post #178
austinjp wrote: post #129

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I don't quite follow this. I'm inclined to believe we are experiencing scarcity. Sure, I can buy just about anything I desire and can afford. Any food item, cheap clothing, cheap travel. But I think that's an illusion. Let's say I'm prepared to pay £50-£100 for an item of clothing. Shoes, jacket, whatever. It's likely to be made by impoverished people on the other side of the world who are paid peanuts. I could even…

You say were experiencing scarcity then you start listing off luxuries! A mechanically constructed, mechanically harvested cotton blanket and mechanically harvested diet of beans and potatoes sounds more feasible. Maybe even too basic. An efficient entry-level post-scarcity world is not going to overproduce pairs of jeans or transport coconut water across the world. That world would make just enough clothing to cover…

> You say were experiencing scarcity then you start listing off luxuries!

Yup, I'm pointing out that my well-shod, well-fed, well-clothed society is an illusion, and that scarcity is just under the surface.

> An efficient entry-level post-scarcity world is not going to overproduce pairs of jeans

I don't disagree.

Re: Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer

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Post by eli_gottlieb »

shaftoe wrote: post #145
eli_gottlieb wrote: post #73

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> I believe that an employer should make a substantial margin on an employee's labor. That provides a stable situation, covers for the employer's risk (if an employee's project/work fails to create value, they still get paid), and covers the overhead. A workers' cooperative can do the same job. What justifies the privatization of the cooperative's profits to a single individual?

The profits go to the owner, whatever that is. The employees chose the company (and implicitly the ownership structure) when they began employment. It's not like citizenship where one is born into the situation and the contract is mythical; they had to sign one. Do you not believe in the sanctity of property rights?

>Do you not believe in the sanctity of property rights?

Well of course not. Property is theft, and all that[1].

[1] -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Property%3F

Re: Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer

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Post by vlehto »

drjesusphd wrote: post #148
vlehto wrote: post #135

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While pretty hideous sweashops do exist, there is still good chance that the person who sowed your jeans chose to do it. Because the alternative was even worse.

And to what extent are we responsible for those alternatives? How much are the companies we patronize invested in making sure their employees have no choice?

Well given that large parts of south Asia and Africa are still medieval poor, I'm not going to assume much responsibility. You don't need to beat people into desperation in many places of the world.

My great-great-great-great-great grandfather might have had something to do with colonialism. But if we start judging sons by their fathers, we get nowhere. And at the same time people remain poor in Africa.

Buying only domestic goods would help to ensure that they remain poor.

The one instance that really has incentive to keep people poor are the foreign development organizations. They don't need people "poor enough to be willing to work" they need people "starving, so we get good footage".

Re: Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer

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Post by chimprich »

sokoloff wrote: post #185
chimprich wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only up to a point; unless you are rich you are in effect required to take a job in most countries, and there is often not any choice available in employment. Compare that to the state where the relationship is not optional but you do get a vote in how it is run. Plus you potentially have the option of moving to another country.

You have a choice of many different employers and you have the choice to form your own venture (be it software development, business consulting, running a restaurant, doing landscaping, driving Uber, or even walking dogs and doing general errands). I'm not aware of countries where your choice is "do this one specific job for this one specific employer or else starve".

You may in theory have a choice of employers but in practice you may not. I'm an experienced programmer and have a fairly wide choice of jobs I might take up but in the past I have literally had to take whatever job was available.

Starting your own venture may be possible but is dependent on aptitude, access to capital and the state of the economy (it's unlikely that we could all start our own businesses for example; the market wouldn't support it).

The recent rise in economic migrants suggest that it many cases it really is easier to switch countries than switch jobs in one's own country.

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