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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36531574-bullshit-jobs

I was just having a go at your vocabulary use - which I don't object to in any way - just reminded me of his. I actually agree with your analysis of his viewpoint on the matter. There are some valid aspects to it but that ship has sailed.

Jordan Peterson, is that you? :D

I agree with you. Nuance is something you don't see acknowledged and used sufficiently. Everything is made to be black or white when it's mostly grey all of the time. At the same time, constantly staying in nuances prevents you from moving forward, so there's that.

I'm not aware of it being a theory, but I strongly recommend this read for anyone who entertains this "boredom" root cause idea, which seems bonkers. Also, regardless of that, it's a massively interesting read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wages_of_Destruction

Spoken like Gordon Gekko. That's sadly true though.

Why is there even a need to fall back onto something? Migrating to another platform he considered less fronting and superficial was his choice, but I don't see the need nor appeal in that, personally.

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I'm not sure I agree with this analysis.

I don't have a lack of self confidence and I consider the vast majority of Facebook posts to be fronting, even if the person actually posting is not actively aware of the fact that they are fronting. A lot of the time the awareness of "fronting" is absent, when it is in fact the main purpose driving the person to upload. Why else would people post very personal things about their lives to an audience they don't even want to reach out to on a regular basis? Even when they are in the same city, etc? Because those are not friends, and if they are not friends, the uploader is an actor presenting their daily demo real.

Of course there are exceptions to this, but I don't think that saying that a vast majority of people on Facebook are fronting is a reflection on our own personal lack of confidence, as much as it is barely a generalization.

Well said. As someone else said above, tying career success to off-call work is bonkers (both for the employers and the employees), yet sadly common.

Yet so common.

They don't have to persuade anymore. People mostly self convinced long ago that this was acceptable and expected.

This was an awesome read. I watched Pumping Iron some years back, but this makes me want to watch it once more!

I do agree with what you say. On the flip side of that, I also think Netflix has been greatly beneficial in offering the opportunity to both produce and distribute movies that would have had a hard time getting to market otherwise with the current studio oligarchy. Going away from the recommendation topic, this enhances the types of movies available, which is direly needed in the age of superhero dominance.

For example, its revenge porn policy and recently created software tool—which asks people to preemptively upload nude photos of themselves so that they can be used to block anyone from uploading that photo in the future—was widely mocked.

This is hilarious. I understand the logic, but to believe that users will willingly submit nudes as a preemptive measure seems to widely underestimate the ramification of the user's decision-making process, and the reliability of Facebook when it comes to user privacy protection. Hey, let me upload my nudes to a Facebook software, they've been handling privacy really well so far, said no one ever.

Isn't the problem you're mentioning pervasive across and regardless of genders though?

When a woman is networking with a man - akin to a man networking with a woman - the intent of "looking to sleep with" can and most probably will be derived from it in the same way, instinctively. When women are networking between each others, everyone is also clear what the purpose is, professional only, akin to when men are networking between each other.

There seems to be many other factors at play behind that "social understanding" for lack of a better term. I suppose one of them being the fact that the """norm""" in relationships being that of an heterosexual one, therefore leading to the unconscious acceptance that same gender people networking together is only professional, whereas two people of different gender might have another layer of intent behind it?

The only difference being that there are more men in high seniority position than women, therefore leading to a context where women need to network with men more than the reverse.

Only if you let it - with some exceptions of course.

This is definitely a plague - when it comes to time usage - in current society. The perception of busyness as opposed to actual productivity. We have all encountered some examples of that in all the offices we've worked in. I am baffled by: 1. How pervasive that problem is 2. How a large majority of people seem to agree but no one company has the guts to drive the behavioural change by implementing actual flexibility policies, which go beyond nice-sounding PR

Good point. To answer your question blatantly: by law. Not saying "you can't ever tip". But more to frame the employer/employee contract and prevent the employee relying on tips, and instead having a contractual/legal framework for his salary.

Let me be clear in saying however that I'm not a fan of shaping culture changes by legal requirements. So I'm second guessing myself a little too now, but I really think the culturally accepted tipping expectation is detrimental overall as per my original comment.

I like how you think. I especially think you're in the right with the opportunity for Californians to walk off the tip culture. This would set a great precedent to reproduce this on a national level, if done correctly.

There needs to be a ban and removal of the tipping requirement altogether. I know, easier said than done. I'm just saying, many European countries do not have tips embedded in their culture, and that's a good thing. If I go to a sit-down restaurant, I'm already being marked up for that - before tipping. If I have some food delivered, I'm paying for the delivery service, or I am being marked up on the item's price - before tipping. By doing that, we ensure that the salaries of employees are legally decent (rather than them counting on unpredictable extras to make ends meet). This forces the employer not to direct all of the margin into his own pocket while squeezing the employee's salary.

I personally have never tipped anyone unless I was excessively well catered for, or someone went out of their way to enhance the experience I was already paying for in the first place. That's what tipping must be, not forcing the customer to actually compensate for your employees being underpaid. I'm sorry for anyone who has a lower salary than normal because the boss expects that tips will bridge the gap. If needed, I'm much happier to pay a higher price (relatively). Indeed, I propose that most of the time, the prices are already including all costs and the margin, and that the owners direct the whole margin to them while squeezing the employees out of it and having them rely on tips to make a decent living. The solution to low salaries is not tipping and guilting people into paying extra cost for no reason whatsoever and for something that's already marked up to the appropriate level, it is better salaries framed by law or contract.

Agreed, this seems to be stemming from a fairly common compensation mechanism. I would be very interested in the results of the questions you bring up. I'd venture the result would be: 1. Yes 2. No

Maybe movie theatres will become extinct, and Disney will have to funnel their unoriginal, sterile, monotonous, CGI-based movies exclusively through their competitive streaming platform to Netflix, thus allowing people to choose to either watch an independent movie, or a blockbuster, or another type of movie, without forcing business owners to do anything.

Despite my love for movie theatres and the feel good sensation they used to provide me in the past, they have moved away from this and the experience has become less enjoyable than an actual home watch. The endless amount of brainwashing commercials prior to the actual movie when going to the theatre is only one of the problems. The lack of choice in movies is another.

One can hope that theatres will first become extinct because of streaming platforms coming up, then will get reborn as proper theatre with a renewed purpose of showing movies rather than brainwashing people with commercials, force-feeding them that Deutsche Bank is a great bank for their next mortgage, and having them waste their money on 10 EUR nachos/soda bundles, etc...

That may very well be true, but this point becomes moot IMO if you compare Netflix's range to typical studios' range. We can complain about the fact that it's not diverse and broad enough for all, but surely it's broader than superheroes and chick flicks all in English language, isn't it?