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@itzjaybonigga @OrevaZSN @ladielabrys2 Right, and even if they did, I think most decent people would get bored of the leisure within 6 months and find something productive to do. Still, if enough people tell you they're gonna do something, it's not unreasonable to believe they will if given the opportunity.

@respondibatillo @OrevaZSN @ladielabrys2 People dream of doing things all the time. That doesn’t mean those dreams come true.

It’s incredible how “if we meet people’s basic needs, they’ll stop working” and “billionaires are hard workers” coexist in people’s minds.

@uncledoomer @ScottMGreer Ironically, you only need a few seconds of this video to hear the one good song they ever wrote.

i dont think ive ever listened to a foo fighters song in my life for more than a few seconds. it always just seemed like music purpose built to play in a target commercial

@JoshuaHedley Girls liked them. That's enough.

You can tell when people absolutely weren’t there, cause this band was a joke when they were current lol. Like nickelback levels of hate.

@sourpatchlyds Daughter or wife is a toss up, depends on how much you still love your wife. Son or wife is a no-brainer, you save the wife.

I'd really like to hear the arguments for both. Your hypothetical: A married father is in a position to save EITHER the wife and mother OR the child/children. Which should it be, and why?

@HistoryBoomer Some people think that businesses which run on the labor of low-skilled workers should split their profits with those workers. It's a worldview that completely ignores the real or abstract machinery involved in making a low-skilled business possible, to say nothing of risk.

You start a burger joint: Boomer Burgers. You hire 10 people to run it, and it makes money. Ok? You branch out and build 2 more joints. You make more money. You keep building new BBs. Dozens. Hundreds. Thousands. At what point does the money you're making become "unearned"?

@Metal_Crow No one actually has a problem with nepotism. It's older than humanity and will be with us till the end of time. People just use it as a self-righteous way to rationalize their jealousy.

Me: "Are you someone who believes in meritocracy?" Someone: "Yeah, people should get what they earn. You create value and then get stuff on merit." Me: "So what about inheritance, or if your parents just leave you millions of dollars." S: "Well they earned that money, they can do what they want with it." Me: "But their kids didn't earn it... it... was just handed to them." S: "Kids are special. We want to leave everything to them. That's why we work hard!" Me: "But then you're saying people can get rich not by earning it, but by having rich parents." I've had some variation of this conversation many times. I'm convinced these people either have to abandon "meritocracy" and admit that they have no real problem with nepotism, or that they should join me in at least saying that unearned wealth transfers from parents presents a challenge to basic fairness that we don't have a great answer for.

@joeroganhq Taylor Swift will be a billionaire because people are willing to pay money to listen to her music. That is money she has earned. Would it be possible without modern logistics and distribution? No. But so what? People have freedom to give her money for her art and they choose to.

AOC: "You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You have to create a myth of earning it since you didn’t earn that."

@redditfartporn Although traditional schooling might only focus on a few domains, individual intelligence differences within any domain are very easy to spot. Some people just learn and process certain tasks much faster than others, and it makes sense to have labels for things that are obvious.

Why do ppl act like iq is a real thing & that intelligence is quantifiable at all

@sunnkssdseraph 1. This is obviously written by ChatGPT. 2. This sort of autohagiography is sickening to read. Keep trying to convince yourself that your shortcomings are superpowers, I guess, but maybe not in public.

Psychology says some people avoid socializing not because they hate people, but because they can read them too well. They walk into a room and immediately sense the fake laughs, the hidden agendas, the performances. Their nervous system doesn't misread the signal, it just refuses to ignore it. Small talk feels like a tax they didn't agree to pay. Forced smiles cost them energy that takes hours to recover. They're not broken. They're calibrated differently. They don't avoid people. They avoid emotional labor that leads nowhere. When they do connect, it's deep, intentional, real. No masks. No games. Fewer friends doesn't mean loneliness. It means higher standards. That's not antisocial behavior. That's emotional intelligence.

@1ssve @ladielabrys2 Life requires struggle. It could be argued that human progress has eliminated the need for such struggle, but this not only (grossly) overestimates global prosperity, it also ignores the fact that, for decent people, struggle is also a prerequisite for happiness.

Capitalism makes quitting your job feel like risking your life, because it ties your basic survival needs to staying employed. This system is predatory.

@james_xond The decline kicked into high gear with the rise of social media.

Can anyone pinpoint the exact moment when everything in society started getting noticeably worse?

@RaideroRacc Korn was an incredibly popular band in their day, and highly respected by run-of-the-mill alt rock kids. Slipknot the same. It was radio rock at the end of the day, but that's what the people liked.

Nu metal revisionism has the kids thinking Korn and Slipknot were always well liked and respected bands bro I'm losing my mind

@JoyceCarolOates Funny to ask this to a bunch of people who have time for twitter. I would suspect that everyone in the developed world has time for crossword puzzles, and that people do them because puzzles are fun.

truly I don't mean to be annoying but who on earth has time for crossword puzzles, & why? I did enjoy crossword puzzles in Playmate magazine long ago as a child but since then, no. however, it is probably flattering to be of value because of the vowels in my name; trying to see that perspective.

@mimizima_ Cancer incidence in people under 50 has been rising since the 90s, with some cancers, like colorectal, jumping up ~50% over that timeframe (i.e.: 1.5% growth per year). I didn't take the vaccine and have no interest in defending it, but there's something else going on here.

Are we THIS fucking dense

@SketchesbyBoze All of them. You people need to read some Dickens.

How many of these standard SAT vocabulary words do you know? Abnegation Anathema Antediluvian Apocryphal Bourgeois Capricious Circumlocution Deleterious Effulgent Impecunious Legerdemain Malediction Ostensible Pellucid Pulchritude Surreptitious Timorous Vociferous Zephyr

@frenbilt I'm in the 46th percentile of earners and had no problem buying a house a few years back, and am poised to buy a 2nd house in the next year or two. Location makes a huge difference, but priorities also play a part.

I’m almost 30, top 10% of American earners my age, I can’t afford a house - which means that the other 90% can’t either. Who are buying all of these houses?

@imfat Roommates, for one. At least if those bills are non-negotiable. That said, I live in a reasonably sized house and my water, electricity, phone, internet, and gas bills combined never exceed $250/month...

How do I pay: $1,600 rent $250 electricity $100 water $280 internet $140 car insurance EVERY MONTH on under $19/hr???

@catgirlprostate 90% of education coursework is reading about equity & writing essays about how you can best serve the dumbest kids in the room. Literally useless. The only hard part is classroom management. Removing the other 34 kids makes teaching incredibly easy.

My sister is doing a 3 year degree in early years education to become qualified to be a teacher for under 12s Obviously part of that is managing a class of dozens of kids, but it is years of actual work to be qualified and these parents sure as hell aren't doing it to homeschool

@TooWhiteToTweet Better dogs that are dependent on us than wolves that will tear us apart. Fake government jobs serve a similar purpose, elevating the incompetent to the middle class in an effort to keep them from victimizing their neighbors. All of it's insurance, and probably worth the cost.

What could be more important than identifying high IQ children and investing in their development for the betterment of society? Retards. We invest in retards, forsake the smart kids, and do our dystopian best to ensure continued societal decay.