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Screaming Idiot posted:I work for a contractor who works for a contractor who works for a contractor. I provide information about Tricare insurance. My job mostly consists of varying ways of telling people why they will have to die from cancer. My job should not exist and it depresses me so much I have often considered taking my own life, but I know that it's the only job in town that pays over minimum wage and does not include back-breaking physical labor. doing what you have to do to survive doesn't make you bourgeoisie my friend.
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now, if you were an executive at one of those contractors. well, we have ways
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Larry Parrish posted:now, if you were an executive at one of those contractors. well, we have ways where exactly is the transition
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Here's one of the first examples in the book. It's all downhill from there.quote:The German military has a subcontractor that does their IT work. The IT firm has a subcontractor that does their logistics. The logistics firm has a subcontractor that does their personnel management, and I work for that company. Let's say soldier A moves to an office two rooms farther down the hall. Instead of just carrying his computer over there, he has to fill out a form. The IT subcontractor will get the form, people will read it, and forward it to the logistics firm. The logistics firm will then have to approve the moving down the hall and will request personnel from us. The office people in my company will then do whatever they do, and now I come in.
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SplitSoul posted:Here's one of the first examples in the book. It's all downhill from there. "we're going to contract out our IT to save the taxpayer money!" 
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SplitSoul posted:Here's one of the first examples in the book. It's all downhill from there. Wow they really learned from the Iraq war how to milk it
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Like I remember that story about the Trump administration hiring some firm with 5 people in Montana or whatever to help with disaster relief and it was real obvious they were just going to immediately subcontract it after skimming what they could The Bush administration did that like crazy; they were contracting construction firms that didn’t own any construction equipment, etc; the subcontracting would go like 3 or 4 levels deep They’d us US federal money to contract someone to install an AC, who would subcontract, who would also subcontract, etc until a fan was eventually installed with whatever money remained Arcteryx Anarchist has issued a correction as of 13:04 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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Memento posted:"we're going to contract out our IT to save the taxpayer money!" In Australia, public servants are paid out of the federal budget, but contractors are paid out of a separate fund. Guess where that's taken us. Hint: "We've cut budget waste!"
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lancemantis posted:Like I remember that story about the Trump administration hiring some firm with 5 people in Montana or whatever to help with disaster relief and it was real obvious they were just going to immediately subcontract it after skimming what they could You'd think a simple law like "only 5% of Fed funds can be paid to subcontracts and only for these reasons" could be effective in combating this.
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SplitSoul posted:Here's one of the first examples in the book. It's all downhill from there. he's leaving out the part where for every step, you tack on an additional 15% to the bill for "overhead costs" mycomancy posted:You'd think a simple law like "only 5% of Fed funds can be paid to subcontracts and only for these reasons" could be effective in combating this. it could but why would a politician vote against the interests of their close friends/business partners in the subcontracting industry little munchkin has issued a correction as of 13:27 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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mycomancy posted:You'd think a simple law like "only 5% of Fed funds can be paid to subcontracts and only for these reasons" could be effective in combating this. this assumes an ideological premise which no right-winger can accept, and which even very few liberals will countenance, namely that market solutions have significant friction attached to them which will tend to outweigh the coordination benefits involved. just saying it would get even relatively sane conservatives to start raving about communism
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Teachers & the gig economy https://finance.yahoo.com/news/teac...gn=yahoofinance quote:Nolah used to serve weeknights at Red Lobster — a third job she took in addition to tutoring to supplement her teaching salary. Now, thanks to the "sugar daddy" dating website SeekingArrangement.com, she's the one getting served. "I can go on a date, I can have steak and lobster, be gone for three hours after my kids are already asleep and come home with $500," she tells Yahoo Lifestyle.
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Financial advice for millennials: just whore yourself out.
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razorrozar posted:doing what you have to do to survive doesn't make you bourgeoisie my friend. I work for a company that makes software for department store cash registers, on a scale from Marx to Koch how bad am I? Before you answer know that I am also very lazy which can be interpreted as a work slow down if you kinda squint.
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The Nastier Nate posted:Teachers & the gig economy quote:While it might not seem like the most acceptable side hustle for an educator, it’s likely among the most lucrative. The average sugar baby makes an estimated $2800 monthly from their “daddies,” SeekingArrangement reported at the organization’s 2018 summit They have a summit lmao Who's going to DaddyCon this year
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V. Illych L. posted:this assumes an ideological premise which no right-winger can accept, and which even very few liberals will countenance, namely that market solutions have significant friction attached to them which will tend to outweigh the coordination benefits involved. just saying it would get even relatively sane conservatives to start raving about communism gently caress em.
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Shame Boy posted:I work for a company that makes software for department store cash registers, on a scale from Marx to Koch how bad am I? Sounds like me, only I work for an IT company that builds media servers for schools to help them I'm not at the top of the list, but I'm on it somewhere.
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Shipon posted:that's exactly my point. i'm not saying the people in bangladesh or subsaharan africa are at fault because they absolutely aren't. our lifestyle is so monumentally wasteful that even though we have far fewer people, we are far more overpopulated than the global south in terms of resource usage That's adorable that you think any of this happens under capitalism.
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mycomancy posted:gently caress em. yeah i agree, just saying it's a core tenet of neoliberalism, there's a reason why it is the way it is
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Shame Boy posted:I work for a company that makes software for department store cash registers, on a scale from Marx to Koch how bad am I? So you're the goon who put all the Sonic the Hedgehog sound effects into the cash register so when I buy rear end cream the drowning music comes on after they scan the item
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Siljmonster posted:So you're the goon who put all the Sonic the Hedgehog sound effects into the cash register so when I buy rear end cream the drowning music comes on after they scan the item God no, I'm still trying to figure that one out too.
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Siljmonster posted:So you're the goon who put all the Sonic the Hedgehog sound effects into the cash register so when I buy rear end cream the drowning music comes on after they scan the item the sounds are there to remind you that there's no ethical consumption under capitalism
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The Nastier Nate posted:Teachers & the gig economy 
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No that's pretty standard sex work, no extra steps. Unless you're talking about teaching, in which case yes absolutely.
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Siljmonster posted:So you're the goon who put all the Sonic the Hedgehog sound effects into the cash register so when I buy rear end cream the drowning music comes on after they scan the item Wait is there actual sonic music on cash registers these days? all I ever hear is just the ring noise
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Chomp8645 posted:Financial advice for millennials: just whore yourself out. No one should be too proud for good, honest work at the dick sucking factory.
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Chomp8645 posted:Financial advice for millennials: just whore yourself out. i'm sure i've seen Bloomberg/Forbes/etc basically say that outright several times the last few years "attractive (enough) young with some form of a hole? stuff a rich baby bomber cock in it to pay off student loan debts! then save money not buying avocado toast and put it into index funds! retire early!"
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Ziv Zulander posted:Wait is there actual sonic music on cash registers these days? all I ever hear is just the ring noise Some places just have the ring sound effect when you buy something and the newer ones will start playing the drowning music if you take too long getting change out of your pocket if the line is really long. I looked into this and it's because Sega isn't doing so well financially so they sold some of their intellectual properties to a company called Sammy who then puts the sound effects into all the cheap made in china electronics that get shipped here.
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Xaris posted:i'm sure i've seen Bloomberg/Forbes/etc basically say that outright several times the last few years pimpr
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bag em and tag em posted:No one should be too proud for good, honest work at the dick sucking factory.
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Shame Boy posted:They have a summit lmao Free cummies if you pre-order now!
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I honestly deserve to be at least second in line to go up against the wall It causes me anxiety and guilt on the regular but I don’t know how to escape
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Xaris posted:i'm sure i've seen Bloomberg/Forbes/etc basically say that outright several times the last few years Entitled Boomers writing articles explaining that the young need to suck and gently caress them if they want to pay their bills is really just the logical progression to their narcissism.
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lancemantis posted:I honestly deserve to be at least second in line to go up against the wall Offset it with significant personal investment and action to directly help those less fortunate than you, at least that's what I do  Like I spend about as much money every month helping others as I spend on food, sometimes more. This can either be donations to charity or just helping someone pay rent this month so they don't get evicted or whatever. I'm not rich or anything but I make enough money to be reasonably comfortable and it just feels super wrong to shove all the extra in a money pile while people around me (let alone around the world) are on the brink of homelessness or starvation. It's not enough to counteract the fact that my whole life as a well-off white male has been built on the backs of exploited people or anything but I think it'd at least get me knocked back a few places in line 
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Koishi Komeiji posted:Some places just have the ring sound effect when you buy something and the newer ones will start playing the drowning music if you take too long getting change out of your pocket if the line is really long. I looked into this and it's because Sega isn't doing so well financially so they sold some of their intellectual properties to a company called Sammy who then puts the sound effects into all the cheap made in china electronics that get shipped here. Wait is this a real thing?
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While I'm much, much more in favour of complete nonviolence, before and after the gay agenda revolution, I think "has never ordered or partook war crimes" is a belt you can wear. If you're on the right side of that you'll be fine because we have a lot of people still around that aren't.
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What if it's just minor war crimes?
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Lambert posted:What if it's just minor war crimes? A little light treason?
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Committing treason is cool and good actually, it erases one (1) war crime
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Len posted:Wait is this a real thing? It's true except for the part about the drowning music playing if you take too long in line. I was just fuckin with ya'll on that one.
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