Antecedent

I worked for a company that regularly does half in person and half remote employees. You could choose either or. The problem with being the remote worker on a partially in-person team is that you miss all the face-time and exposure to new opportunities simply because you are not a person but a task completing widget.

You are never the presenter at company events. Nobody outside your team can recognize you. Nobody talks to you except to get something or clarify information. People can casually take credit for your work as you aren’t there to defend it. You lose out on all the background information like conference funding availability or the cool new job in Innovation.

You miss all the little opportunities for going the extra mile as you never look over your colleagues shoulder to see how they do their job and nobody looks over yours.

So much of success is being in the right place at the right time to meet the right person and that can’t happen as much remotely.

Doesn’t the personal tax code pretty strongly incentivize saving for individuals? 401ks and IRAs have preferential tax treatment.

They should cut all the ‘coordinators’ and ‘advisors’.

Happy I studied engineering in university at times like this.

A draft would do wonders for the unskilled unemployment rate.

Isn’t this inevitable? The number of new things to take photos of is not going to increase that much year over year and digital photos last forever.

The squeeze is going to come simply because at some point there is far more content than buyers.

Change the font from Garamond and that will eliminate 50% of the style complaints.

I’ve always found Garamond text online hard on my eyes.

I attended an elite private high school ($30,000 a year). The school gamed everything for them. It wrote their essays, created leadership positions for everyone, and made sure to spread the applications around so that every student in the references could be “once in a generation.”

One guy who went to Princeton used a flagship story of “building a forest”. The school was redoing its grounds and hired a bunch of homeless people to do it as they worked for cheap cash. They let him “oversee” it as a social initiative.

Another kid got into Columbia by creating a “nationwide startup innovation movement.” His parents paid the school to book all these convention centres and they flew him out to chill at these fictional events. They claimed all the funds from the events went to startups. They claimed to find over 50 startups and sent each a small check for $30. They sent random startups $30 and used it as a claim to funding innovation.

With grades, they had an internal grade to allow for actually rigorous education, but then they would multiply the grade by 1.2 to get your “public school grade.” That’s the grade reported to universities.

Oh and the teacher left the room for AP tests and we were taught how to efficiently “come to group conclusions.”

The only thing that kept them from doing that kind of stuff for everyone was the SAT as plenty of AP National Scholars couldn’t crack 1800 on the damn thing.

We won over a million dollars in our 60 person class in scholarship money off these absurdities as most of them don’t ask about the SAT.

You have editorialized the title of the article. The expectation is generally that you use the original.

Most top level comments started that way then one mentioned UBI and down the rabbit hole we jumped.

There is very little real unemployment in America. Most people just think themselves too good to cut lawns, chop meat, pick fruit, fillet fish, or work on a factory line.

Why would we want to enable snobbery?

Let’s have UBI when there actually are no jobs. Not when there are just no fun jobs.