Hum... Seeing people as disposable is a quite reasonable definition for that word.
No it’s not, you’re just seizing on a particular word to warp the social perception of what I said.
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test77777g commented on The Rust project has a burnout problem jyn.dev/2024/01/16/the-ru... · Posted by u/Philpax
The fact that you are in pain every day is obviously a tragedy, and I hope your situation improves. Mocking your peers for taking care of themselves is still not acceptable, and does nothing to improve the situation for anyone.
I accept that this is a spectrum, and that some level of discomfort in life is unavoidable—people stay up late and skip exercise from time to time. The unpleasant consequences of these actions doesn't justify not contributing to society, and there are no doubt freeloaders in any reasonably sized company.
However, no workplace, including yours, should expect their employees to sacrifice their health.
I guess I’m not allowed to mock people anymore.
"Psychopaths" seems to be a running theme in the various reminisces that people are sharing in comments here on Google stories.
I’ve noticed developers have a pretty low bar for being a “psychopath” I’ve found psychopaths to mostly be people that see programmers as disposable. This is pretty much true, hence the psychopaths everywhere.
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test77777g commented on Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer theguardian.com/inequalit... · Posted by u/ciconia
> It’s around $300,000 that’s when you can get your 9% return
If you stay in good health, never have to purchase real estate or car then perhaps... but then you'll still have to live somewhere, commute somehow, and the life quality will be... of a poor person.
Except you’ll likely be living in extreme luxury if you split any expenses with at least one other person.
test77777g commented on Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer theguardian.com/inequalit... · Posted by u/ciconia
9% return? What do you invest in?
Risk free?
Basically a normal 401k averages 9% historically closer to 10% these days.
test77777g commented on Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer theguardian.com/inequalit... · Posted by u/ciconia
$500k is nowhere near enough to be 'safe'. One 'unfortunate event', a couple of bad years in the market or a few years of high inflation and you'll have eaten into your capital to a point where you'll either have to drastically change your lifestyle or watch your capital dwindle away long before you die.
Okay if all those things happen no amount of money will change the situation. It’s just fear mongering.
test77777g commented on Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer theguardian.com/inequalit... · Posted by u/ciconia
Someone should introduce an economical concept equivalent to escape velocity in physics.
If you throw an object towards space from Earth, it will always fall back to Earth, unless you throw it with enough speed (IIRC something close to 11km/s), with which it will eventually "escape" Earth's gravity.
I have a feeling that money follow the same rule: If you have some money but below a certain level, and don't do anything, that amount of money will be eaten by you, taxes, and inflation. But if you have enough money, current rates mean that taxes & inflation will erode your capital slower than the interest you'll earn from that capital alone, and so money is inevitably growing on itself.
As a society, we should prevent "escape capital" to be a thing.
I totally fail to understand why this is a polarizing issue as 99.5% of people are on the same side of the threshold...
It’s around $300,000 that’s when you can get your 9% return and have roughly median income in the US. Maybe 500,000 to be safe.
“I know I should be saving money for a house but god spoke to me and I spent the downpayment on <fancy car that’ll get repo’d in a year>”