Epic High Five posted:

boomer wealth is already being recaptured to ensure as little as possible passes down to their children lol

human garbage bag posted:

The black swan event will be the first 35C wet bulb heat wave in a populated area. Everyone will turn on their AC to the max and cause a brown/blackout. Those conditions are not compatible with human life, so we very well could see 1 million+ deaths in a single day.

uncurable mlady posted:

I think the point is that by the time you’re turning the NY Metro into a Ronco Human Rotisserie Cooker, you will have had much bigger problems to deal with over several years that will probably make most places incompatible with human life

Bar Ran Dun posted:

ahaha

some big credit unions and banks have paused offering conventional mortgages even to high credit scores (780 high) with greater than 20% down payments and secure jobs.

fuuuuuccccckkkkk.

lol that owns.

skooma512 posted:

Gotta lock out the normies so the elites can snap up all the property with cash.

Dixon Chisholm posted:

Centrist Committee posted:

really adds insights into historical events like “let them eat cake” doesn’t it?

triple sulk posted:

401ks wont exist in 20 years anyway so who cares

Terrifying Effigies posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1285701100138635265

Xaris posted:

probably not, but bitch mcconell REALLY REALLY REALLY wants that "businesses/universites cant be held liable for spreading covid" for some dumb poo poo reason even though I don't even think under current laws that they'd be liable for much, if any, damages caused by getting karens sick at applebees because they had a sick worker who couldn't afford to not work on a shift. mitchy mitch could probably wrangle enough people into the $400 amount if he gets that, and also some additional usps/public educatrion gutting in there for sweet measure which im sure dems would love to agree to anyway.

lets hope that he can't even get that through. accelerationism ftw lets speed run this poo poo and get 50+ million people rioting infront of the whitehouse

Nothus posted:

"tiny home" and "stealth camping" is being homeless but in denial.

I guess kids can look forward to moving into neo-trailer parks when their gigs pay off enough that they can move out of the techno flop house.

Penisaurus Sex posted:

Capitalism will commodify everything, including homelessness and destitution.

Father Wendigo posted:

https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1286019352018538500?s=19

It's just rent, how much can it be? Twenty dollars?

StrugglingHoneybun posted:

https://twitter.com/BrandonComedy/status/1286499092433117184?s=19

Uber eats decline will spiral out of control as more people realize this

UnknownTarget posted:

English?

Cold on a Cob posted:

hmmm

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/24/executives-are-selling-stock-as-the-market-experiences-its-epic-rebound.html

Cup Runneth Over posted:

best part of being a computer toucher tbh. give me a bonus bitch or I walk. I can get 5 offers yesterday

Cup Runneth Over posted:

Well back in the day aging correlated directly with amount of exposure to lead

For a more serious answer, the left-leaning people are poorer and die younger.

Spatial posted:

Tech companies really are incredibly dysfunctional and it's screamingly obvious from the inside, yet there are kool aid drinkers all over the place. I don't comprehend how they can miss it.

My work life is the never-ending story of 100 people failing to achieve in five years what 10 people can do in three, because of constant managerial sabotage. No amount of talent can overcome this level of organisational dysfunction. The sheer absurdity of some of the situations that arise has made me burst out laughing during meetings more than a few times, I do love a dark comedy.

Here's one small dysfunction: cancelling projects when they're at 99% completion. Why would you do this? Because there's a new VP and under the new organisational structure the project doesn't count towards their metrics but to some other VP. They need a success story before they move to their next posting, a success story not burdened by actually existing and having real problems found like the current one. The average project takes 24 months to complete. Reorgs happen every 12-18 months. (to improve efficiency)

Rational self interest baby. Sure that's 50 million dollars down the drain, but it doesn't matter because that was the other guy and he's gone. People will have worked years of their lives on this by the way, only to be told it has all been for nothing. Those 80 hour weeks near the end, the neglected families. As you can imagine this has a nuclear effect on motivation for anyone affected by it more than once. I know of at least one team that has had this happen three times in a row.

Two of the cancelled projects were for internal use by the company itself as parts of other projects, which led to multi-year delays for them. Wow, so efficient!

TheLemonOfIchabod posted:

is there a way to become a six-fig salary computer toucher with a stupid loving literature phd

asking for a friend

taqueso posted:

become friends with people that are close to 6-fig computer toucher jobs so you can be recommended by them

TheLemonOfIchabod posted:

yeah this is very true. asking for 6 years of experience for an entry level position in any industry then just giving it to the managers rich idiot nephew/niece with an associates degree

triple sulk posted:

there's a shitload of hiring freezes in tech right now. if you have a big name on your resume you might be okay but a lot of people are going to be competing for very few jobs, relatively speaking

it's going to be interesting and potentially pretty ugly because we now live in an era with hundreds if not thousands of coding bootcamps that cost upwards of 10k each with people hoping to bootstraps themselves into a high paying job

703 posted:

This, and the fact that more and more jobs will be remote which will increase competition even more

Dustcat posted:

when the stemlords finally become class aware is when the revolution happens

not because they're gonna lead it or anything, it's just the signal to look for imho

Penisaurus Sex posted:

if the S&P500 goes down so does neoliberal capitalism because of what that would mean for the greater economy and how it would be responded to.

doesn’t mean capitalism in general but it also doesn’t preclude that. we’re in very fragile, energetic times.

Dmitri-9 posted:

No Comey to put his thumb on the scale this time.

Mr Hootington posted:

For real though the dollar index does not look good. It is weakening