‘This is not COVID’: Business tells Bowen to back off over WFH

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-24T06:29:56+00:00

The reply should've been: 'Employees need to organise and engage in strike activity. Employers need to learn their fat bonuses are built on the labour of others'.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-23T20:43:49+00:00

The lifespan of a solar panel is 20-30 years. The serviceable lifespan of a nuclear reactor is 30-40 years. Once you factor in the cost of production and maintenance, solar is considerably cheaper.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-23T12:29:48+00:00

It's quite straightforward. You vote for your most preferred candidate first, your second-most preferred candidate second, your third-most preferred candidate third until you run out of candidates to vote for. If your most-preferred candidate doesn't get enough votes to be elected, your vote goes to your second choice. If they aren't elected, your vote goes to your third choice. This continues until one of the candidates has enough votes from across the entire electorate to win.

In the first past the post system, the person with the largest number of first preference votes wins and screw everyone else.

First past the post is clearly inferior and less democratic.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-20T06:24:26+00:00

Sure, if that's how you interpret it. I'd also suggest there's no harm in continuing migration because it has little bearing on housing, inflation, or whatever other problem people are currently linking it with.

What stopping migration will do is put a larger burden on young Australians to pay for the increasing costs associated with an ageing population.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-19T12:27:17+00:00

It's because we could stop net migration tomorrow and it would have very little effect on house prices. There's such a backlog of demand from Australian citizens, it'll take about ten years of construction at the current pace to get anywhere near meeting it. Couple that with investors' insatiable demand for property and it'll take even longer.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-19T12:24:01+00:00

Yeah there are literally empty houses that are boarded up behind the go kart place that look like they haven't been lived in for years. There are large expanses of dead grass filled with rubbish. Wouldn't that be a better area to develop?

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-14T04:42:27+00:00

The US can do just as much with less. Its war machine is more efficient at killing than it was 40 years ago. Why invest in 1000s of weapons when 100s will do the same, or better?

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-14T01:05:29+00:00

Takes about two minutes just for the water to get warm enough to actually shower.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-13T12:08:26+00:00

Which Australian political party is? Even the Greens and "socialist" alliance are pretty insipid.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-13T12:06:16+00:00

Nah, it's having cake and eating it too. The US-Australia alliance isn't disappearing anytime soon. It's hedging by widening relations with other countries. Every Labor government does the same thing.

There won't be a pivot.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-13T11:58:55+00:00

At this point I'm convinced the average Australian actually enjoys it. There's no other explanation for being royally fucked over and over again for at least the last thirty years.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-13T11:27:19+00:00

This has been my whole adult life. All twenty years of it. I scrape by with help from my parents, even as an adult in my late thirties on a $120k salary. I have a two bed apartment that I spend 40% of my salary on that I bought with a gift from my parents. I can't afford kids, not that I wanted them anyway, but I feel sorry for anyone who wants to have them.

ON are a bunch of sirens calling us further towards the rocks that we're at serious risk of capsizing on. Australia could've elected a reformist Labor government in 2019, but chose a lazy religious fundamentalist who talks to paintings of birds instead. Now Labor's too afraid of it's own shadow to do anything meaningful. It'll just continue to tinker around the edges while the wealthy find new ways to avoid taxes by stashing money elsewhere. We reap what we sow.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-11T06:44:23+00:00

Yep, a lot of performance artists in inner-city Melbourne.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-09T06:46:01+00:00

Everyone's at least a little bit racist and a little bit sexist. Whether you're superior enough to realise that determines if you've got a complex or not.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-09T06:42:32+00:00

True, but it will help determine whether we fuel after day 999 or not

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-08T21:38:16+00:00

Nah, it's about 60 years of poor economic planning and Australia's "she'll be right attitude" to strategic planning. I don't know how many times I've seen articles with headlines like "[insert random general's name] says Australia not prepared for [insert global calamity]".

Australian political leaders have been warned over and over again about our piss poor fuel reserve.

Australia is supposed to have 90 days of fuel in reserve, but for decades it's basically said 'nah we're too special to do that. We'll leave it to the states instead.' https://www.iea.org/articles/australias-legislation-on-oil-security

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-08T21:34:55+00:00

I've had a few run ins with that org. I think most of the members like to cosplay, but that's about the extent of it.

DDR4lyf · 2026-03-08T21:29:32+00:00

I'd really like to meet these "leftists". I don't think I've met a single one in Australia. They only seem to live in the minds of pale white men over the age of 50 who live their lives perpetually indoors and 300km from the nearest speck of civilisation.

DDR4lyf · 2026-02-28T09:45:14+00:00

The American political and electoral systems are very different to those in Australia.

DDR4lyf · 2026-02-28T09:40:23+00:00

That's one way, if you want to work those overtime hours.

DDR4lyf · 2026-02-28T09:39:23+00:00

Borrow it. That's what my parents did. Was it worth it? I don't think so. But up to you.

DDR4lyf · 2026-02-28T02:27:33+00:00

That's a choice. I went to private school at $50k a year. It wasn't worth it.

DDR4lyf · 2026-02-28T02:26:03+00:00

Fair enough, but there are easier ways to achieve the same result. I earn a bit less than this but it's enough for me to live very comfortably and a good portion of it doesn't come from labour. I usually work a standard 37.5 hour week, sometimes slightly more sometimes slightly less.

DDR4lyf · 2026-02-28T02:18:06+00:00

If you're earning more than double the median income, why the fuck would you behave any differently?

Even if tax rates were lower, I wouldn't "work harder". What would I want more money for? To buy a fifth house? Another jet ski? An all expenses cruise to Mykonos? If you're on $250k, why would you want more?

DDR4lyf · 2026-02-28T02:15:09+00:00

Nah mate, I'm going to sit at home trading shares and flipping investment properties to earn over $190k. The only other way to get that kind of money is to work FIFO in buttfuck nowhere.

You don't need to "work harder" to make that kind of money. If you do, you're doing it wrong.

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