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neoflexon Boom in Dodgy Wall Street Deals Points to Market Trouble Ahead

So... what term put option would be best?

neoflexon South Korean students flock to Japan

>However, if you get smitten by a more western lifestyle in the US or Europe, it will be very hard to return home.

Anecdotal, but I can confirm. I work for a Japanese bank in NYC that has a lot of Japanese expats. A few weeks prior a new expat came over and he was in awe of being able to start work around 8:50 and leave at 6:00, and how easy it is to approach the managers. Meanwhile, the expats that have been in NYC for a while are dreading returning to Tokyo.

neoflexon First-class air travel is in decline

My company makes me fly coach. However, when booking business trips I tried to stick to one airline, and made sure to use my personal frequent flyer number I just kept raking up points until I hit platinum membership, then I can use the points to upgrade to business.

neoflexon The Dream Hoarders: How America's Top Percent Perpetuates Inequality

I personally view it as the Pareto principle at play.

If we were to equally distribute resources among the entire population, over time we would see those resources begin to bunch up into the top 20% of society due to superior abilities (intelligence, business instinct, skills, etc.)

As time continues, then resources continue to pile up at the top 20% of the initial 20, and so on, and so on...

neoflexon Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip

>I am 100% in favor of tipping, and all of you people calling to ban it don't understand service jobs.

I used to live in Japan where the service is quite better than in the US and tipping is frowned upon. You honestly don't know good service if you think tipping is necessary.

And to those saying to tip in cash, note that a lot of the times those that receive tips in cash typically don't report it as earnings on their income taxes. This is why I never tip cash.

Restaurants and such really just need to up their prices and do away with tipping. The practice itself is inherently discriminatory/racist in that better looking people typically receive higher tips, women typically receive higher tips than men, Whites receive higher tips than Blacks. It's really a disgusting practice.