I have a personal current account, a shared current account with my wife, and several savings accounts. It is frequently necessary to move money between these accounts. Also, here in the UK we don't really use Venmo or…
In Britain we have quite strong employment laws and a bit less of a ruthless corporate culture, so in many sectors it's fairly uncommon for people to be terminated for poor performance, so I suspect "misconduct" is a…
"Firing" is becoming a bit more common in Britain, but still sounds like an Americanism to my British ears. I would use "sacking" for performance related termination, and "losing ones job" in all other cases. I suspect…
Unlocking trolleys with a coin is normal in Britain too. I'd never considered that this might be unusual. Is this not a thing in other countries? How do they get people to return their trolleys to the bays?
I think the argument is less that inequality has increased overall, and more that the country is increasingly stratified by geography - with greater concentrations of wealth in the South East relative to the rest of the…
> quite possibly the most spirit-crushingly tedious town in Kent. This is an extremely high bar to hit in a county that also contains Ashford.
They have something to give away because they have power, which is the only thing that matters in the final analysis. It doesn't matter who created the value - it's who controls it.
That's only because a capitalist economy uses the circulation of currency and goods as a way to multiply wealth, while motivating the people who generate the wealth. Sufficiently advanced AI offers the potential for…
> He’s the most successful player in the most competitive position in the most competitive league in one of the most competitive sports on Earth Isn't it exactly the point of the article though that this doesn't…
I don't think Orwell was ever a "man of ideas" and I don't think he would have seen himself as such either. His writing is partly journalistic, partly literary.He's never really trying to assemble a coherent ideological…
I don't think it's funny because it's "strange". It's funny because it reminds people that they can have very different inner worlds to people they share their life with.
Did you also guess what the article was about based on just the title?
But in all of those cases presumably someone needed to figure out what needed doing? (In your case maybe you're savvy enough that you knew what the issue was and just needed a certified person to do the work, but most…
I see the plumber/electrician thing a lot. But talking to my friends who do these jobs it always seems like it would be even more vulnerable to AI than programming. Experienced electricians get paid decent wages because…
This isn't really true. The article talks about apprenticeships. While traditionally apprenticeships in the UK were mostly for blue collar work, these days you can do apprenticeships in almost anything: software…
Do you have any evidence to support the statement that this is "the rule in the UK"? Anecdotally (in the UK) I've only ever known managers of technical teams to have risen from technical roles, and have never heard of…
"Regarding the complaint of not moving decisions forward with a disengaged manager, if you plan to be absentee you must delegate" I took the OPs point on this to be that, at a certain level of seniority, delegation…
A word count is also a signal to the student of what level of depth the teacher is hoping for. For most interesting questions you could write anything between a few sentences and a full book, depending on how much you…
Word counts in essays in my experience are maximums not minimums. For an advanced student writing about sufficiently complex topic, the challenge is to develop an argument in less than 5000 words, rather than to reach…
Perhaps we should credit OP with enough intelligence to assume that their debate with the sex worker didn't happen in a context where OP was their client. Also the fact that sex work can be linked with human trafficking…
I don't understand the point you're making here. Please could you elaborate.
I guess I'm arguing that a conscious choice not to find a tribe just leads to unconsciously finding a tribe instead. Maybe the real answer is both, though - try to consciously avoid tribal thinking, but also acknowledge…
My view is that having a "small identity" is basically impossible in any practical sense. Many issues are inherently subjective, and even for issues that are (philosophically speaking) objective, actual human…
I didn't mean generation in terms of age. Maybe "current cohort" would have been better phrasing. Many people will have already decided before they are 26 that they aren't cut out for leadership because they don't fit…
This is an interesting viewpoint and as an advocate of wfh, a good one for me to read. However I would say that a lot of your argument seems to be based on the fact that senior leaders / top performers like to meet in…
I have a personal current account, a shared current account with my wife, and several savings accounts. It is frequently necessary to move money between these accounts. Also, here in the UK we don't really use Venmo or…
In Britain we have quite strong employment laws and a bit less of a ruthless corporate culture, so in many sectors it's fairly uncommon for people to be terminated for poor performance, so I suspect "misconduct" is a…
"Firing" is becoming a bit more common in Britain, but still sounds like an Americanism to my British ears. I would use "sacking" for performance related termination, and "losing ones job" in all other cases. I suspect…
Unlocking trolleys with a coin is normal in Britain too. I'd never considered that this might be unusual. Is this not a thing in other countries? How do they get people to return their trolleys to the bays?
I think the argument is less that inequality has increased overall, and more that the country is increasingly stratified by geography - with greater concentrations of wealth in the South East relative to the rest of the…
> quite possibly the most spirit-crushingly tedious town in Kent. This is an extremely high bar to hit in a county that also contains Ashford.
They have something to give away because they have power, which is the only thing that matters in the final analysis. It doesn't matter who created the value - it's who controls it.
That's only because a capitalist economy uses the circulation of currency and goods as a way to multiply wealth, while motivating the people who generate the wealth. Sufficiently advanced AI offers the potential for…
> He’s the most successful player in the most competitive position in the most competitive league in one of the most competitive sports on Earth Isn't it exactly the point of the article though that this doesn't…
I don't think Orwell was ever a "man of ideas" and I don't think he would have seen himself as such either. His writing is partly journalistic, partly literary.He's never really trying to assemble a coherent ideological…
I don't think it's funny because it's "strange". It's funny because it reminds people that they can have very different inner worlds to people they share their life with.
Did you also guess what the article was about based on just the title?
But in all of those cases presumably someone needed to figure out what needed doing? (In your case maybe you're savvy enough that you knew what the issue was and just needed a certified person to do the work, but most…
I see the plumber/electrician thing a lot. But talking to my friends who do these jobs it always seems like it would be even more vulnerable to AI than programming. Experienced electricians get paid decent wages because…
This isn't really true. The article talks about apprenticeships. While traditionally apprenticeships in the UK were mostly for blue collar work, these days you can do apprenticeships in almost anything: software…
Do you have any evidence to support the statement that this is "the rule in the UK"? Anecdotally (in the UK) I've only ever known managers of technical teams to have risen from technical roles, and have never heard of…
"Regarding the complaint of not moving decisions forward with a disengaged manager, if you plan to be absentee you must delegate" I took the OPs point on this to be that, at a certain level of seniority, delegation…
A word count is also a signal to the student of what level of depth the teacher is hoping for. For most interesting questions you could write anything between a few sentences and a full book, depending on how much you…
Word counts in essays in my experience are maximums not minimums. For an advanced student writing about sufficiently complex topic, the challenge is to develop an argument in less than 5000 words, rather than to reach…
Perhaps we should credit OP with enough intelligence to assume that their debate with the sex worker didn't happen in a context where OP was their client. Also the fact that sex work can be linked with human trafficking…
I don't understand the point you're making here. Please could you elaborate.
I guess I'm arguing that a conscious choice not to find a tribe just leads to unconsciously finding a tribe instead. Maybe the real answer is both, though - try to consciously avoid tribal thinking, but also acknowledge…
My view is that having a "small identity" is basically impossible in any practical sense. Many issues are inherently subjective, and even for issues that are (philosophically speaking) objective, actual human…
I didn't mean generation in terms of age. Maybe "current cohort" would have been better phrasing. Many people will have already decided before they are 26 that they aren't cut out for leadership because they don't fit…
This is an interesting viewpoint and as an advocate of wfh, a good one for me to read. However I would say that a lot of your argument seems to be based on the fact that senior leaders / top performers like to meet in…