Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "How History Works" channel.

Ever-increasing automation does make it more difficult to just walk in to a hire-to-retire career without some unique selling points of postsecondary education and experiences.
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The biggest “utopia” being the promise of lower taxes and regulation especially on corporations, where that new wealth would supposedly “trickle down” to the average worker instead of getting squirreled into havens by the owners.
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I think the short commute is key. Some physical separation from private life is important especially with pets and little kids who will inevitability screw around with vital work material. It's really those lengthy drives that are often always by yourself, demanding your constant alertness, which you're not specifically compensated for that is truly soul-crushing.
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The expectations of profits simply from enjoying a permissive government indicates a growing bubble.
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Government is so lucrative because continuity is their fundamental interest, and will be around as long as the people it serves continue to demand services from it that they can't provide as individuals or even as for-profit multinational corporations.
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Depends more on the cubicle wall materials and layout. I've been in some places with cubicles that nearly reach the ceiling to give people "offices", but it feels especially unfriendly there because the small floor space to wall height ratio makes the place look more like a prison.
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If all those other taxes weren't so easy to avoid through deductions, accounting contortions, smuggling, etc, funding services for our society wouldn't have to rely on income taxes.
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We’re already post-scarcity in production, it’s the distribution part that’s still lopsided.
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Potentially good scripts are dismissed by conservative movie producers who aren’t so willing to experiment outside the few plotlines they know get returns.
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Thing is everyone pays into that pot of money through the effects of tax-funded infrastructure, policies, and common benefits, but not everyone gets to spin the wheel because there's an additional ticket to buy just for that.
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I fly regularly enough that I just wait til I’m in the air with an entertainment system that’s already included with the seat to watch most movies nowadays 💺🍿 Even then it’s a surprisingly often flight that I still don’t find anything interesting to watch 😕
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@thelight3112 First class brings tons of baggage though, like compared to our one checked bag they have enough gear to set up a live rock concert. We could serve more regular people if we had them let go of the excess amount of stuff that they demand to take with them.
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The United States of America originated as a protest against taxation without representation in the British Parliament. We now have a Congress and state legislatures whom we elect representatives into -- if you don't like the taxes the government charges us now, blame your representation.
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Face-time is crucial when you're not simply maintaining your current level of social and professional skills. There's a reason among that the first to drop fully remote arrangements was schools for children.
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Yet at the same time it seems we have a lot more retirees than expected living well into their 80s and 90s, drawing SS checks the whole time. Hence why the recent considerations to raise the retirement age.
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You'd need a gym everyone likes going to. The only exercise I personally enjoy enough indoors are rock climbing and martial arts, everything else I have to be under the open sky.
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"Lazy union government workers" protect especially direct access to extremely sensitive data and materials. Entire communities can experience immediate lifelong damage if those processing it were instead compelled through low pay or professional policies to monetize it like in the self-serving private sector.
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It's the dilemma of IT systems administrators who are often targeted for cuts and contracting out because they're visibly seen as "doing nothing". That "nothing" is usually being the help desk during the day (so a lot of waiting), and doing vital maintenance and upgrades during lulls and after-hours (asking for overtime and/or more staffing to stagger the hours). Ironically they're the ones goalkeeping the organization's most critical information, and enabling everyone else to WFH. There's not a lot of remote capability to physically replace a server's busted power supply or storage array drive.
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@tomlxyz More like places with high religiosity and childhood mortality, particularly Africa and South Asia. Lack of state elder welfare doesn’t explain China and Korea where birth rates are cratering the fastest.
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@Aldroid151 But it salvages your mental health, especially when you're younger and are still developing your personal and professional life. WFH is best when you're no longer trying to move up in responsibilities and opportunities, including the less-awkward random chance of finding people to befriend if not share your life with during detours in your commute.
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"My job involves security"?
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Only for those who saw a need for a room nobody sleeps in and could afford it. Historically people didn't have so many places to hide away from the rest of the household.
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My job: "keep emails flowing" 🧑‍💻 Not a whole lot of WFH capabilities for anyone when a work server's storage drive, power supply, or VPN link randomly goes belly-up.
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"Can" is the key word. I also work in an office, but my job involves making sure everyone else is able to WFH. There's not really any remote capabilities that can resolve a random physical problem like a power supply or server's hard drive gone bad.
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 @tomlxyz Also the increased demand for space in homes as people demand extra rooms (ideally with more costly soundproofing) as work studios.
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The Spiderverse style has been artistically influential, but Avatar is just Dances With Wolves in space.
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