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Faux-objective journalism is such a soulless drag. Everyone has biases, attempting to hide them is just gutless.
Faux-objective journalism is such a soulless drag. Everyone has biases, attempting to hide them is just gutless. If doctors just prescribed whatever gave the bigger commission from drug companies, would you ever trust a doctor?
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I doubt it. Both because Amazon pay is decent, but more so because it’s more about class expectations than it is about pay. Lots of jobs make a lot of money, but are still not considered high status.
Jobs like what? The only ones I can think of are ones which suddenly started paying a lot due to some market quirk (e.g. miners in Australia in the 2010s). Class expectations just take a while to catch up (or never do if the market quirk doesn't persist).
We live in a bubble and respect good hackers but normies don't like nerds.
Hollywood portrays us between weirdo and pervert, while glorifying lawyers and doctors.
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Faux-objective journalism is such a soulless drag. Everyone has biases, attempting to hide them is just gutless.
The presence of bias in an individual jounalist as a human is expected. But being a professional means having some standards that boost trust in the profession overall. Clearly you wouldn't say that judges and police and prosecutors should just follow their biases and go after whoever they want or protect whoever they want. Journalists don't have any legal obligation to follow standards, but they do have a profession…
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> If we keep this up, in a few centuries we might get to a point similar as USA where your identity doesn’t depend on which country your grandma comes from. As a fellow European I don't think it's going to happen. Not in a hundred years. We speak different languages that alone prevents it from happening. We might get to the point where people will define themselves with dual nationalities, like Polish-German, but thi…
>We speak different languages that alone prevents it from happening.// I recall some people from Netherlands getting upset that English was becoming quite prolific to the point that University courses are sometimes held in English. I think this happens to some extent in other countries in EU too? Germany, Spain, and France seem highly unlikely to adopt English without a fight - not sure about other countries. But I w…
I know that many of us here don't like what labor unions have become in the 21st century. But they do need some labor representation that can ensure the trucks used by drivers have working lights, mirrors, and safe tires, and that the company negotiates use of restrooms around the city. Maybe just a "safety only" union that only deals with safety issues?
A forum mostly frequented by us overpaid workers doing little-more-than-if-any work that society actually needs is not the right place to discuss unions. Of course people in our industry, no matter devs or ops or founders or "founders", despise unions as they get in their way with demands of some basic workers rights. But there are industries where unions are desperately needed to keep workers sane, safe and overall…
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There would probably be more respect even if nothing else changed except they paid more.
This can’t be overstated. Dignity means having the financial stability required to comfortably live in a decent neighborhood, get married, and raise a family.
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The presence of bias in an individual jounalist as a human is expected. But being a professional means having some standards that boost trust in the profession overall. Clearly you wouldn't say that judges and police and prosecutors should just follow their biases and go after whoever they want or protect whoever they want. Journalists don't have any legal obligation to follow standards, but they do have a profession…
Do you know where I can find these agreed upon standards for journalists?
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This can’t be overstated. Dignity means having the financial stability required to comfortably live in a decent neighborhood, get married, and raise a family.
What if I don't want to get married and/or raise a family?
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Faux-objective journalism is such a soulless drag. Everyone has biases, attempting to hide them is just gutless. If doctors just prescribed whatever gave the bigger commission from drug companies, would you ever trust a doctor?
I wasn't aware that journalists prescribed medicine. Don't be disingenuous!
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I was actually thinking of underwater welders when I wrote that. Not all oil industry jobs pay well but that one really can, and it carries the cachet to boot. It's definitely manual labor royalty - dangerous, highly skilled and pays up to $300k. Truckers are not doing so well these days, and where they do make a lot it's typically because of backbreaking labor and/or taking on financial risks. This still only gets y…
"I was actually thinking of underwater welders when I wrote that. Not all oil industry jobs pay well but that one really can, and it carries the cachet to boot. It's definitely manual labor royalty - dangerous, highly skilled and pays up to $300k." A lot of the "well paying", low-status jobs mentioned in this thread are dangrous... long-haul truckers, construction workers, underwater welders, even electricians are jo…
This strikes me as just making up reasons why examples that disprove the status/pay point aren’t really disproving it.
If you can just make up reasons why your position is right anyway even in cases where it’s not, then it’s basically unfalsifiable.