Comments by "Jeremy" (@josiah5776) on "How Money Works" channel.

  1. In the mid-1970s, I read a science fiction book where the plot was that humans were able to conquer a technologically superior alien race, because all that race did all day was "sit around and look at screens." I remember thinking back then, as a teenager, "That's the stupidest plot I've ever heard. It's not even remotely believable." Little did I know, the author was a prophet.
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  2. One of my favorite YouTube finance channels pushed FTX quite a bit. I'm glad I never listened to that part. Makes me wonder if I should stop listening to all the rest of it.
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  3.  @thomaseasley2938  It was a German pulp science-fiction series called "Perry Rhodan."
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  4. PIN: It was a pulp science fiction series from Germany called "Perry Rhodan."
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  5. The same people who are complaining about their financial future being destroyed are enthusiastically supporting and electing the people who enable and do the destroying.
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  6. @gypsylips1950  I think sea cucumbers is far too charitable
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  7. @Fantasylover12248  It's old as hell. It was a weekly "magazine." The Germans cranked out thousands of stories in the 70s.
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  8. Demolition Man (193) - everything is Taco Bell
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  9. @SpaceSpiffin43  Perry Rhodan ... but, I get your point.
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  10. That's a pretty nice tax code. When I lived in the Dallas suburbs, it was common for the tax assessor to just increase the appraised value of your home by 40% and collect more taxes that way. When I left a few years ago, I was paying over $10K a year in taxes on a 2700 sq.ft. 4 BR/2Bath home in a middle class neighborhood. 😂
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  11. I loathe and despise McKinsey. Just a bunch of grifters.
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  12. Could it possibly be because American society, government and legal system have crapped all over young men ... and these young men have decided not to participate anymore? No, couldn't possibly be that.
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  13. Most people who seek to be in charge have some level of narcissism or other aggressive personality disorders. That is what makes them want to be in charge.
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  14.  @Banky33764  Right? Truth is stranger than fiction.
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  15. @ Forever War is also a great social commentary. Love that one.
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  16. @Fantasylover12248  You can probably find them. Good reads. I liked them.
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  17. @SpaceSpiffin43  Perry Rhodan.
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  18. It is because most work places are like cults, with managers being the cult leaders. You have to have people physically present to more effectively control and manipulate them. It's not about the job, it's about the corporate cult. Cult leaders don't do what makes sense, they do what get them the most attention and veneration. "Professional office culture is a powerful tool senior managers use to extract the most out of their subordinates" --> CULT! So glad I'm retired. Management can go pound sand.
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  19. TLDR: Greed, arrogance, and incompetence.
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  20. Workers flee the country. Make them work longer hours. Yeah, that's gonna keep workers there. The mentality of the slave owner.
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  21. "Culture is what keeps people around." Wrong. This inane, high-schoolish rah-rah BS is what drove me to early retirement. So glad to be away from all that stupidity. May corporations exhibit strong cult traits. Just Google "corporate cults father, coder, soldier, spy" to see how they do it. And about language control in corporations: "corporate cults corporate psychopathy loading the language"
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  22. Modern free range feudal serfdom
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  23. McKinsey are just a bunch of shills for corporate progressive wokeism.
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  24. Cutting people off from friends and family is a classic cult move used by narcissists and psychopaths.
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  25. Gawd ... what a rogue's gallery of hubris and corruption.
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  26.  @EF-wy3di  I believe you are correct in all you stated.
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