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fakedang commented on California teens are ditching office jobs – and making $100K before they turn 21 sfgate.com/bayarea/articl... · Posted by u/dragonbonheur

kubb · a day ago

It can take 16 hours to drive across California.

I can’t believe you’re trying to be sarcastically condescending with this kind of comment. It’s difficult to respect that.

fakedang · 12 hours ago

They're not going to take jobs across California. They could just move further inland and take jobs towards the coast. In fact, I met many blue collar folks who did precisely that. Stockton to SF is just a bit more than an hour.

Next time try rebutting in good faith.

fakedang commented on California teens are ditching office jobs – and making $100K before they turn 21 sfgate.com/bayarea/articl... · Posted by u/dragonbonheur

kubb · 2 days ago

Will they make the 100k in the lower income parts of Cali though?

fakedang · 2 days ago

There's this really innovative practice done called commuting.

fakedang commented on The AI Job Title Decoder Ring dbreunig.com/2025/08/21/a... · Posted by u/dbreunig

glitchc · 3 days ago

Yeah the term "engineer" has been diluted into oblivion, and we only have ourselves to blame for not protecting it.

fakedang · 3 days ago

In Dubai, the poor underpaid folks cleaning the roads and gutters late at night are called "Cleaning Engineers" and "Garden Engineers". It's honestly sad, almost a mockery.

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fakedang commented on CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the largest low-wage corporations ips-dc.org/report-executi... · Posted by u/hhs

01HNNWZ0MV43FF · 3 days ago

Brown collar? All I found for that is military https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designation_of_workers_by_coll...

fakedang · 3 days ago

Ahh, perhaps I was taught wrong. We used to be taught where I'm from that brown-collar meant dirty industries (including black-collar jobs in the above list such as oil-drilling, etc) and agriculture, while blue collar meant a step more technical but still did not require a college education (home technicians, factory jobs, delivery personnel, etc.).

fakedang commented on CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the largest low-wage corporations ips-dc.org/report-executi... · Posted by u/hhs

bruceb · 3 days ago

This from an advocacy group with a clear agenda. But if they wanted to raise wages they could just advocate for less immigration and robust enforcement. Restrict supply, wages will rise. But they don't.

fakedang · 3 days ago

Doesn't matter here. The examples cited here are Starbucks and Ulta Beauty, neither of which are big on hiring illegal or foreign workers.

fakedang commented on CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the largest low-wage corporations ips-dc.org/report-executi... · Posted by u/hhs

tyleo · 3 days ago

It’s interesting to me this doesn’t self correct. I’d love to know if someone can explain why.

E.g. presumably companies can pay people more if they capture less value themselves. Why can’t a company do that and just hire the best talent?

fakedang · 3 days ago

Because the "talent" in this case is a commodity. Most of the low-wage corporation's employees tend to be front-of-house customer facing staff or brown-collar labor, which in most cases does not require any special skill set, nor rewards exceptional talent in most companies. Jobs that are easily replaceable and does not require a degree holder.

Ironically, one of the few places I've seen that actually rewards employees for going above and beyond regularly is Walmart. Entry-level staff who can rise through the ranks with exceptional work can turn from low-wage line workers to store managers who are often paid close to $250k.

fakedang commented on Australia Post halts transit shipping to US as 'chaotic' tariff deadline looms abc.net.au/news/2025-08-2... · Posted by u/breve

rvnx · 4 days ago

The real question is why people buy such products, and the answer is because the quality for that specific price point is decent.

When you buy Anker for example, you are buying, pure China products, but still a very good choice.

Many US companies choose to manufacture in China because the tooling is more advanced than in other countries + scalability is high.

If you buy a 2 USD dress don’t expect it to be super high-quality but at the same time the price is reasonable for that.

fakedang · 4 days ago

Also the factory that produces the $2000 luxury dress is often the same one producing the $2 Temu version. The former has a specific yarn, strict QC, lifecycle audits, the works. The latter uses the cheapest available yarn, no QC and crappy packaging.

fakedang commented on The rising returns to R&D: Ideas are not getting harder to find papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pape... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

mensetmanusman · 5 days ago

The Chinese can’t vote…

fakedang · 5 days ago

Precisely.

fakedang commented on The Americans Following in the Footsteps of the Knights Templar smithsonianmag.com/histor... · Posted by u/Anon84

fakedang · 5 days ago

I don't see much protection of pilgrims en route to Jerusalem happening here. On the contrary, it seems to be mostly cutting birthday cakes and playing dress up. These guys might as well join a drag party for the same kind of fun.

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