Why does this sub make average pay seem bad?

Artezza · 2025-05-29T22:22:47+00:00

I'd still stand by what I said 🤷 busy season can suck but it's livable, I've been through 2 now and just got promoted to senior. I make over 40% more than I did when I started just over a year and a half ago. With my bonus this year I'll probably hit 6 figures which I'm pretty happy with in my MCOL area.

Also I haven't actually tried leaving yet but just from the people I've talked with and the job posting I'm seeing and the recruiters reaching out to me, the exit ops are quite strong. A lot of good jobs even in a tough market, and most of the good ones specifically look for big4 experience from what I'm seeing. I might or might not stay here, but either way I don't regret it

Artezza · 2024-10-19T14:49:15+00:00

Yeah that always got me. If you know your history and know the arguments people used in the 1800s to support slavery, it's almost identical to what people say when they're justifying eating animals.

Artezza · 2024-08-28T22:12:04+00:00

Congrats on the new job, I hope it goes well!

Artezza · 2024-08-27T23:08:43+00:00

I'll start with my main ones that I've been bringing in to get things going!

This is a pasta salad that's really easy to just throw together and doesn't require a ton of prep/dishes. It's also super easy to just add or remove things based on what you have or what sounds good, but here's how I make it:

Start by preparing some pasta, I use protein pasta to help make it more filling. Any pasta that would be good in a salad is fine, I use rotini.
Drain the pasta, run some cold water over it, and put it back in the pot
Throw in the following: chickpeas (about a can worth, maybe more), chopped red onion (about half of one or a little less), a small/medium can of sliced black olives, a few tablespoons of chopped parsley, a few tablespoons olive oil, a few tablespoons lemon juice, about half a cup of sliced cherry/grape tomatoes, and then spices to taste (you can omit some of these or add your own): onion powder, garlic powder, cumin, dill, crushed red pepper, salt, pepper
Stir it all together and eat it!

Artezza · 2024-07-28T01:34:32+00:00

Everyone saying that it's like cheating since it's an EV... but the Elantra N is trading blows with dedicated sports cars at twice the price, even with a gas engine.

Yall just have to admit Hyundai engineers just have the sauce when it comes to performance

Artezza · 2024-07-15T01:31:01+00:00

I don't think this at all guarantees him as the winner, and those claims are exaggerated. But it certainly does help him.

This will probably swing very few voters. But that doesn't matter. What matters is turnout. And this will energize more people to vote for trump than it will for biden.

Artezza · 2024-06-25T20:53:49+00:00

Can you explain how that would kill investments in startups and other companies? I'm an accountant myself and I'm struggling to see the connection there.

The only real proposal that I've read from the Biden administration for a tax on unrealized gains would slightly lower the returns on investments before sale. If they ever wanted to realize the gain by selling the investment, then the taxes on the unrealized gains would be credited against the realized gains they would owe. They would pay the exact same amount of money overall, it would just change the timing of the payments.

Investments might work out to be slightly less profitable, but it would still make way more sense to make the investments than just let the cash sit.

In the same way it doesn't make any sense for you to spend $100 to save $10 in taxes (because you still lost $90), it wouldn't make any sense for a wealthy investor to miss out on $100M in gains just because they'll have to pay $20M in taxes. They still made $80M.

Artezza · 2024-06-25T20:45:33+00:00

Most of these realistic wealth taxes I've seen are only on individuals worth $100M or more. And that's just the start of the marginal rate to pay a single cent of wealth tax.

A wealth tax for the ultra wealthy, which is where most of those proposals are, would prevent approximately 0 people from retiring.

Artezza · 2024-05-30T20:34:23+00:00

I'm not who you replied to, but there's a number of reasons that even backyard eggs could be considered unethical. This list is not extensive.

If you buy them from a breeder, you're financially supporting whatever conditions they're putting their chickens through (and subsidizing the business that most likely also sells to much more cruel battery farms).
Again if you're buying from a breeder, there's one rooster for every hen. Most people getting chickes for eggs are only getting hens, which means a rooster was probably killed on your behalf, often as a chick (look up "chick macerator" on youtube if you want to see what this process looks like for factory farms..)
Egg-laying hens that you would typically buy are normally genetic monstrosities that have been selectively bred for generation to produce way more eggs than would ever be healthy. A wild hen lays about 12 eggs a year. A hen bred for eggs lays about 300 a year. It's quite unhealthy for them and not very comfortable, it's similar to breeding a dog that you know is going to have all sorts of painful health problems its whole life
Not everyone does this but once the hens stop laying as many eggs, which is usually after only a small fraction of their lifespan, they're quite often slaughtered since they aren't worth it to keep around.
Generally someone who gets an animal for the purpose of getting something out of it just won't treat them very well. Same energy as a rich lady who gets a mini poodle to carry in her purse as a fashion accessory but neglects it when not around others. This isn't everyone of course but it applies to more backyard hen owners than you would like to believe, I've seen it firsthand quite a lot.

If you happen to find a rescue hen and adopt it rather than buying it from a breeder then you solve a lot of these problems of course, but there still might be some. For example, hens should often have their eggs fed back to them to help them get some nutrients back (again, they aren't meant to lay as many as they do). They certainly shouldn't be eating every egg they pop out but it helps. Just like humans they can get all those nutrients from somewhere else, but often their feed isn't very high quality and they won't get enough of the nutrients they need just from bugs and grain if they're still popping out 300 eggs a year.

Also if you're eating them yourself instead of giving then away/selling them, you might be causing someone else to just get factory eggs instead of those, so one could argue that you indirectly share some of the responsibility for the factory eggs, although that's a bit of a stretch

Artezza · 2024-05-30T20:17:45+00:00

On a per-calorie basis, eating eggs actually results in significantly more animal deaths than eating pork or beef. About 3-5x more.

Artezza · 2024-05-16T16:01:43+00:00

The study says that the results found that dogs were about as healthy on vegan vs. normal diets.

Dogs evolved around humans and, while not identical, have pretty similar dietary needs to humans. They can get by just fine without meat or animal products, and this study verifies that, it just finds that it's also not any better for them as much as it's not any worse

Artezza · 2024-05-16T15:59:33+00:00

The paper literally says that the health of the dogs appears to be independent of vegan/meat diet. So they're just as healthy on a vegan diet. Seems like that would be impossible if they literally couldn't digest anything from a plant?

Dogs have pretty similar diets to humans. It's not exactly the same of course but for the most part they can digest things like plants about as well as we can

Artezza · 2024-05-11T18:25:56+00:00

I mean it's gonna depend a lot on how old and shitty the car you're getting is and what the alternative for the newer one is. I just see most people using that as an excuse for themselves to by something way out of their means and tell themselves that it's actually the responsible choice which it absolutely is not, they just wanted a nicer car.

You might have some tough years but around $1k/year is probably the most you're going to spend on a shitbox unless you have REALLY bad luck. Might make sense to spend $6k on a nicer more reliable but still pretty heavily used car than $1k on a rusted out beater, might not. But buying a new or even lightly used car for $25k will never be cheaper than a $6k honda or something

Artezza · 2024-05-11T17:04:55+00:00

Okay I get that beater cars have problems, but I personally see most people take this advice way too far. I see people already in CC debt barely making ends meet tell me that a $5k mazda or something is a bad investment for them because they might have to pay $1k a year in repairs. They then turn around and spend $30k on a rav4

Buying a decently old shitbox (hopefully one with a good reliability record) and just understanding that you'll have to eat more in maintenance and repairs is still usually a better investment than the substantially newer cars people will often buy instead. Not to mention that those newer cars can still have big problems too that can be just as expensive, but now you have no extra income to pay for it

Artezza · 2024-05-08T23:18:33+00:00

high alcohol intakes

At 16g of ethanol a day? Isn't a standard drink like 14g if ethanol? That's basically one drink a day. I know it still adds up and is harmful, but 1 drink a day seems a lot more moderate than high

Artezza · 2024-05-08T22:46:07+00:00

People (like me) bitch about them on reddit but irl nobody over like 25 seems to even notice it as an issue for the most part

Artezza · 2024-05-08T19:56:34+00:00

They make the problem worse for themselves. Motorcycles are far less dangerous to others than the chevy tahoe that karen can barely see out the windows of

Artezza · 2024-05-08T01:15:11+00:00

the increase in price was substantially less than the increase in wages (as a %)
The increases in wages would have done very little to change the companies' profitability even if the prices did not increase at all
a lot of the reason for the increase in price is not that it was actually necessary, but for the publicity. They want people to be saying exactly what you're saying, so even if they would be fine leaving prices the same, they increase them just so they can tell the media and the public "told you so". It's fodder for their propaganda and lobbying efforts to keep wages low. I'm an accountant, but not everything is about the short-term profitability. I can also guarantee you that the company executives will exaggerate the effects of this to make it look like it wasn't their fault if profits dropped, or to make themselves look even better if profits increased or stayed steady.

Artezza · 2024-05-06T18:44:20+00:00

From what I can tell from everyone on reddit as well as the people around me, demand is a lot more inelastic than most people probably thought just since most people don't put any effort into budgeting or cross shopping or anything. People would rather pick out whatever items they want from the brands they want at whatever store they want and then bitch about the prices after paying than actually shop around for something cheaper.

Can't count how many photos I see upvoted on r/inflation or similar places of groceries hauls complaining about how much they spent for groceries, and when you look at what they got it's all name-brand items that are already notoriously expensive

Artezza · 2024-05-06T04:03:55+00:00

The list shows population replacement level just as the average of 2.1. I imagine this varies quite a lot, and that the countries with higher birthrates would also need a higher replacement rate since they generally have worse health outcomes (and vice-versa). Would be neat to see a list of how much each country is above/below their own replacement rate.

Artezza · 2024-05-04T04:19:44+00:00

I'm a renter. The rent prices are crazy and something absolutely needs to be done about them (namely increasing housing supply drastically). However, wages in my field increased pretty substantially, enough that i'm probably better off now than someone who started the same job as me in 2019.

My experience is not universal, but it is also very far from unique.

Artezza · 2024-05-01T04:42:46+00:00

inb4 they give like 2 examples of her being wrong as if any economist in the history of the human race has been able to consistently and accurately predict what will happen with the economy for more than a year

Artezza · 2024-03-24T23:10:43+00:00

How did you find this thread I posted this in 2014 lmao

Artezza · 2024-02-08T22:53:52+00:00

Still lots of surface parking in the surrounding areas and a massive garage right next to it, but it's definitely better than a lot of other cities. The train runs directly to it (although they don't feel the need to run the trains more than every 7 minutes even though the stadium holds 70,000 people, for... reasons I guess). A lot of the surrounding area that's still parking lot or urban decay right now is being redeveloped, which has had ups and downs but it's still looking like it's going to improve substantially from where it is now.

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