Seems we have some different definitions as I try to ignore most of it.
To me cancel culture seems like the trend of a mob of whiners to start to whine about something until its cancelled, like the latest Dr Seuss book outrage. Now it seems Amazon is the target. Or men. It's kinda like witchburning in the middle ages, and equally ridiculous. And toxic.
The frequent downvoting on HN to censure opposed opinions also seems like cancel culture. HN often seems like an enforced echo chamber "safe place" for bleeding-heart sentiment.
My definition of safe space is a place where people are not allowed to express a different opinion or ridicule someone so maybe we are in agreement on that. People are whining for the need for safe places (like unions) and so I say ciao, go ahead and whine loser.
Edit: and in case you want to say I'm contradicting myself about safe place and unions, I mean you people are trying to create a "safe place" within some else's business where their views cannot be challenged eg right to fire. (instead of being independent and going their own way).
But I don't want to argue the details as I'm trying to ignore most of it.
"cancel culture that basically doesn't actually exist"
That's funny. My definition of it certainly does but then I'm just referring to bleeding-hearts like you. Most of the HN downvoter crowd fit the bill too, so petty.
Sure go ahead and whine about manspreading on buses, safe places, or whatever is the trending topic du jour. It's tyranny of the meek/weak on their internet soapbox.
I worked in harsh, cold and violent places for more than a decade and then quit to spend another decade pulling 16 hours days on my own start-up to achieve the life of leisure that I have today so I've got no pity for whiners.
Actually, come to think of it, I fired one today / he quit and gave the job to another who doesn't mind being able to make more on a piece-work contract instead of being limited to a fixed day-rate.
Whiners gotta whine. Toxic 'cancel culture' more like, which is a bigger problem these days.
Quiting a shitty job is pretty satisfying and it provides direct feedback that things need to be improved in order to retain talent. Or not, as it could just be good riddance.
Cliffhanger. His unfinished concept of comparing money to a chair leaves readers "confused, disoriented and exploitable" enough to pitch his newsletter signup at the end.
Gates is supporting many good solutions but this quote about trees is false. As outlined in the book The Treesolution, it's just "2 billion hectares of trees to disconnect all present and past CO2 what is produced through fossil fuels." [1]
and furthermore
"Pieter Hoff says that we can replant a hectare for approximately 2,500 USD. We need 2 billion hectares of trees to disconnect all present and past CO2 what is produced through fossil fuels. The total investment to clean the air from the CO2 pollution is therefore 5 trillion USD. This investment is smaller than the costs of saving the bank system since 2008. Both USA and Europe spent over 6 trillion USD to save their banks."
Note: it's an investment, not an expense. ie profitable.
Yes people need to pushback against the overly politically-correct.
I think the pressure to enforce covid lockdowns is as ridiculous as these people wanting to censure Dr Seuss. Where I'm at we're back to lockdowns on Sundays only, so stupid.
Basically we need to get on with life and ignore the overly-anxious who want to control/censure everyone.
Bueno. Thanks for sharing your perspective. You seem to be making relatively decent money there. If you want more, make some moves.
I should have been more clear in that while I'm against unions I'm all for paying workers twice the going rate. And firing them if they don't perform.
And my comments about working harder for more money was about pay based on performance. ie produce more, make more. Go hard or go home. Not sure how that can fit into retail and warehouse there exactly but it probably could be done.
Pensions, 401K. Not my cup of tea. I prefer to watch trees grow. And have you seen how easy it is to launch a product these days? Well, actually nothing's easy.
Ok. I once took a massive pay cut to go from piece-work to union hourly wages. The days were longer and overall crew production was around 1/3 of what it should be. Work availability was based on seniority within the union instead of performance.
Unions are all about receiving more for doing less, and are very detrimental to businesses.
In my experience union workers are a lazy bunch that talk more then they work, killing time is their main job description.
And union administrators are just parasites. It's all political. I've seen teachers unwillingly have to go on strike for months then be stuck with a worse deal afterwards.
Anyways I think if people aren't happy with their job they should go work somewhere else or better yet start their own business.
But I was certainly trained to buy peanut butter instead of putting peanuts in a blender.
When the only source of food are giant super markets 95% filled with aisles of packaged processed products (be they generic or otherwise) then yes people are trained from birth to buy them.
> Has anyone ever paid the individual price for an article?
For various business interests I have paid full price to read scientific studies quite a few times. And I felt foolish about it later once I learned about Sci-Hub. I'm sure there are many other entrepreneurs that could admit the same. Sci-hub is great and a very important service.