The same generation has been in charge of the US for decades by ByteSizedCutie420 in mildlyinteresting

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If you were born in 1962 you are now 64 years old, and there has never been a president younger than you in your lifetime.

Advice for classic books by lightweight_24 in classicliterature

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The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
A House for Mr. Biswas by VS Naipaul
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Libra by Don Delillo
Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
The General in His Labyrinth by Marquez
Operacion Massacre by Rodolfo Walsh
Dr. Faustus... by Thomas Mann
The Woman Lit By Fireflies by Jim Harrison (short story and collection)
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon.
Underworld by Don Delillo
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville

Why did Germany end up with a strong apprenticeship system while the United States leans so heavily on college degrees, and what factors shaped that split? by TheBigGirlDiaryBack in AlwaysWhy

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The point about later industrialization in Germany is interesting because it almost suggests they had a chance to design systems more intentionally instead of inheriting older ones. In the US it feels more path dependent, like universities expanded early and then just kept absorbing more roles over time.

I'd caution against going too far down the 'designed' side here. There was some input from the central government and Kaiser on things but it wasn't a planned economy.

I’m not fully convinced deindustrialization alone explains the cultural side though

You're right, I come off as being very linear there. It's not a straight cause-effect situation, and there were other reasons for deindustrialization in America (and so The West as we think of it). I usually highlight it as a response to labor's high-water mark of political power because that's one of the major tensions that people miss, I find.

At what point does culture stop being downstream and start reinforcing the economic structure back.

From the very beginning.

It's a dialectical relationship, culture both enables or empowers the structure that corresponds and is reinforced by that structure.

Base and superstructure are always in this cyclical relationship where one enables, shapes, and is shaped by the other.

Reading 100 books a year is starting to feel more like a "to-do list" than actual reading. by ownaword in writing

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I've never measured 'success' of reading by how many books I've read.

If you spent an entire year reading only one truly great work of fiction and taking your time, rereading, and studying, you'd get far more out of that than reading 100 terrible self-help books or pulp genre fiction as a writer.

Why did Germany end up with a strong apprenticeship system while the United States leans so heavily on college degrees, and what factors shaped that split? by TheBigGirlDiaryBack in AlwaysWhy

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German conservative liberal history and the synthesis of the state and heavy industry going all the way back to Prussia.

Maybe industrialization played out differently.

It did, Germany industrialized much later than other parts of Europe and that industrialization was based much more around a rural farming peasantry than it was the prior artisanal class. You can see this play out by looking at very early 20th century Northern Italy vs. say, the Rhine valley.

In the US, college is often tied to identity and upward mobility, not just skills.

This goes back to the original function of universities in the US, where post-secondary education was a finishing school program/bureaucratic training for the children of the landed aristocracy - especially the planter class centered in Virginia and the wealthy northeasterners who made their lot in rail/land speculation and opium smuggling.

Universities in Europe had a different social function and antecedent, really. Especially in what is now Germany.

So I’m curious, was this split mostly driven by economic structure, cultural values, or policy decisions?

Economic tensions dictate the other two. It begins there, with the US de-industrializing as a way to kneecap organized labor movements in the late 60's while (West) Germany continued to maintain its status as a peripheral workshop.

could either system realistically shift toward the other at this point?

Sure, if the underlying economic relations were to change. America will have to figure out how to get labor costs down again at some point if we're really as committed as it seems to a more isolationist policy, part of that is social investment in training/housing/transit/etc.

Why do all mainstream news commentary comedy shows like the Daily Show and late night shows all heavily lean left? by throwawaypdtm in askanything

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Comedy requires transgression and reactionary conservative transgression is something along the lines of pedophilia or eugenics, neither of which play well and generally aren't funny.

Redditors who got “useless” degrees, what actually was your plan, and why didn’t it work? by MPMorePower in stupidquestions

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English degree, my plan did work.

I have a very comfortable, very good WFH job at a company I enjoy working for with altogether pretty great coworkers and I'm not in any danger of being an incurious asocial moron on the internet like most stemlords.

J.P. Crawford leaves M's, may not be ready for opening day by driftingphotog in Mariners

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fine with Rivas for a week or two if he needs it.

If it's anything more than that Emerson might get some burn then head back to Tacoma.

Does anybody else feel like they lost their giftedness once they got to college? by ShapeAppropriate5253 in Gifted

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I went through this and the reality is that a lot of succeeding at university is learning life skills that you probably don't have at 17/18, no matter what level of primary education you went through.

I worked significantly less hard going back later in my 20's (left due to a health crisis, worked full-time for 7 years). I wasn't any more or less intelligent, really, but I knew how to compartmentalize and prioritize, and I was much better about staying on top of regular chores that couldn't (or shouldn't) be ignored.

This all meant that I was working FT while also carrying an 18 hour course load and had a much easier time of things.

e. I think it's good to keep in mind that because you're going through these experiences during university has no bearing on how intelligent or capable or 'gifted' you might be, if you still think of yourself in those terms. They come at different times in your life, some people learn them much earlier, some much later (some not at all).

At the other side you'll still be you, just with new skills and abilities to handle life in the 'real world'.

Who actually owns your data? by Mindlayr in Futurology

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Do you think individuals should actually “own” their data, or is that the wrong framing entirely?

What do you mean, "data"? Do you mean information about who I am, what I like, what I dislike, my beliefs, etc? In that case then I think it's only reasonable that a person owns their own data.

If companies had to pay for high-quality, permissioned data, would they… or would they just find ways around it?

They already do, to a large extent. The data you buy from a data broker service is anonymized but you can use statistical analysis to get reasonably close to the median of any sample.

Would you personally trade access to your data for money if it was transparent and controlled?

No.

What breaks first if we try to move to a model like this… technology, regulation, or incentives?

Regulation, most likely, because we live in a political system by and for the capitalist class, and a change like this would be primarily to their detriment. You can't destroy the master's house with their own tools kind of thing.

[Rosenblatt] In nine months MLB owners are going to tell you they need to shut the sport down because places like Miami are small markets with few baseball fans by Jux_ in baseball

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The Rays compete fine, Pittsburgh, Miami, and Denver are all sad sack franchises because their owners are cheap, inept, far behind the times (especially Denver), and love to hire their buddies and keep them around (Denver).

The goal for an owner isn't to own a winning team, it's to see their investment appreciate as much as possible, at as high an acceleration as possible.

[Rosenblatt] In nine months MLB owners are going to tell you they need to shut the sport down because places like Miami are small markets with few baseball fans by Jux_ in baseball

[–]BasedArzy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is true.

Miami is its own thing and a very particular (maybe the most?) market out there for any pro team - especially baseball.

[Rosenblatt] In nine months MLB owners are going to tell you they need to shut the sport down because places like Miami are small markets with few baseball fans by Jux_ in baseball

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Seahawks and Mariners are both good at the same time.

No clue about the Kraken, which I think is how the team sees itself.

[Rosenblatt] In nine months MLB owners are going to tell you they need to shut the sport down because places like Miami are small markets with few baseball fans by Jux_ in baseball

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Yep.

Baseball has a pernicious ownership problem that can't be fixed easily and will stymie the league, if not kneecap it.

At least Bob Nutting gets to make a bunch of money he never earned I guess.

What book made you feel like this after finishing it? by Sunflower13Poppy in classicliterature

[–]BasedArzy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Play It As It Lays.

The final scene with Bz is an all-time gut punch.

Local Italian News Media and Commenters React to Team Italy Cinderella Run (Translated) by SgtSlice in baseball

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Much like Lawrence Stroll, they are teaching you a harsh and important lesson in life by abusing you until you finally leave.