Syecon

🇯🇵 A bar in Osaka is letting female servers spit milk into customers' coffee as a "special service." You can get that for free just by insulting the waitress at most U.S diners

🇺🇸 White collar jobs are getting absolutely demolished S&P 500 companies just cut 400k positions in 2025. The first annual decline since 2016 after adding over 3 million in the last 8 years. Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Intel & co. slashing hard to pour everything into AI. 2026 layoffs already loading… this is getting ugly fast. Source: BofA, Bloomberg

Terrifying—a few ground shaking knocks by my seat at White House Correspondents Dinner, unclear if shooting. I am ok, we are trying to exit now.

9 of every 10 new American jobs since pre-COVID went to someone born outside the country. Triple checked the data. It's real. +4.3M foreign-born. +471K native-born. Meanwhile, 335,000+ American layoffs in 2026. HOW DO WE ALLOW THIS?

UBI advocacy stems from the naïveté and solipsism that because *I* am a deeply creative latent producer who is oppressed by my wagee job and would actualize my creative potential if only i could have my basic needs met, this must be true for everyone. Its not. First of all, it’s not even true for these “creatives”. If you aren’t creation maxxing while waging, you wont do it under luxury communism either. Creative work is extremely taxxing and your wage job isn’t actually that hard. The problem is your neuroticism and lack of discipline, not your job. All your necessities being provided for will only make you weaker and gayer such that you’ll make up some new bullshit to get overwhelmed by and then cope by playing video games all day. But worse because you won’t even have “at least i did *something* productive today”, which will magnify your depression. Second, luxury communism already exists for the bottom 20% of the population. All their food, housing, etc is completely covered by the state. Entire generations of people who haven’t worked a job in their lives. Do they go on to produce beautiful art and build companies? Or do they go on to get high and kill each other? The truth is that we are close enough to UBI today that most of the people who will ever become great artists and inventors are already going to do it, and as we get closer all that will happen is the people incapable of anything more than wage slavery (most people) will simply become dysfunctional parasites.