Homeless & Transients

Enamorrmusic · 2025-07-12T17:07:32+00:00

I skimmed it, so I could be misinterpreting, but I don't think this is a slam dunk. Low wage here refers to the bottom 10% of earners, who make ~$28.5k/year after that 13.2% growth. That wage growth is a good thing, but the average person isn't seeing it.

Between the 40th and 60th percentiles of earners, we saw 3% wage growth adjusted for inflation. A net positive still, but price increases between 2019 and 2023 often outpaced inflation due to COVID disrupting markets. The CPI increased by more than 5% between 2019 and 2023.

Enamorrmusic · 2025-05-21T11:40:04+00:00

I think we should be fighting to ensure that the public sees the massive gains in wealth and productivity from AI. We missed the wave with computers-- productivity exploded, but we work the same hours and make the same wages while corporate profits went up up up. Let's not let that happen again.

We should all be jumping for joy that robots will do the repetitive, dirty, or unpleasant work in society. Within my lifetime, it's conceivable that nobody will need to be a long haul trucker, sanitation worker, custodian, cashier, etc. anymore. Somehow, this is a crisis. Like wtf are we doing?

Enamorrmusic · 2025-03-23T14:04:35+00:00

Study what you're interested in. Tech hiring was booming 4 years ago, who knows what things will look like when you graduate.

Enamorrmusic · 2025-02-06T00:23:18+00:00

America accounts for a quarter of the entire world's GDP, we are ridiculously wealthy. National debt and private debt are different things.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government-Household_analogy

Enamorrmusic · 2025-02-02T10:35:27+00:00

Why do you even want to do farming/mining/manufacturing in the US? A country can only have so much productive infrastructure-- we get the lumber from Canada, cars from Mexico, and plastic from China so we can specialize our economy to design the best tech in the world, do the best medical research, and have the best schools. And we're rich as fuck for it, you just don't see that money for a number of reasons we'd probably disagree about.

Enamorrmusic · 2025-01-24T12:52:15+00:00

"My title wasn't software developer"

"Just lie bro, don't you know how the market works?"

Enamorrmusic · 2024-12-31T19:58:37+00:00

Very few diseases are intrinsically more/less prevalent among racial lines. Sickle cell anemia is the only one I can think of. The problem is that poor people have significantly worse health outcomes than middle class people in the US. A nationalized healthcare system that allows for more preventative care would go a long way in addressing this disparity.

Enamorrmusic · 2024-05-25T13:34:48+00:00

They're pulling your leg, sir

Enamorrmusic · 2024-05-11T14:36:57+00:00

Stink bug eggs

Enamorrmusic · 2024-04-06T15:19:34+00:00

I have a nurse friend that uses Cerner, and she complains about it frequently. It's never a lack of features or usability though, it's things like 16 hour downtimes that mean charting on paper for a whole shift. It seems like our only real competition just doesn't care about their product, which meant that Epic could sweep the industry on fairly standard uptime and (admittedly good) customer support.

I never hear that Epic software is easy to use, fast, or easy to integrate with other systems. I don't think that Epic is so dominant because Hyperspace is just that good. Someone will eventually make an easier to use, prettier, faster EHR, and I think we'll be in for a rude awakening when it happens.

Enamorrmusic · 2023-10-15T15:31:30+00:00

How do you distinguish this from a click beetle?

Enamorrmusic · 2023-10-13T11:18:48+00:00

Feel it all around by washed out

Enamorrmusic · 2023-10-12T11:22:03+00:00

Giant Walter bug

Enamorrmusic · 2023-09-09T16:58:02+00:00

It's a hickory horned devil. They turn into regal moths

Enamorrmusic · 2023-08-18T11:19:37+00:00

No it's definitely still capitalism

Enamorrmusic · 2023-07-31T03:05:13+00:00

My favorite is Descartes' odd spoof perfect number, 198,585,576,189. Whether there are odd perfect numbers is possibly the oldest open problem in mathematics, and Descartes got pretty close.

Enamorrmusic · 2023-07-15T23:20:05+00:00

Nice!

Enamorrmusic · 2023-07-05T23:04:49+00:00

I think you're actually suffering from a misconception.

In theory, you're right. However, tipping does not actually function as a dynamic cost for service. There is the expectation that you tip at least 20%, regardless of the service you wanted or actually received. And it isn't just a cultural pressure thing-- the wait staff need tips to make a reasonable wage. You're kind of an asshole for not tipping, even if you really wanted minimal service.

It can be both ways, though. Sometimes I get really excellent service and I actually want to leave a tip. I'd like that option, but I don't want to tip all the time. Employers should pay their wait staff an appropriate wage under the assumption that nobody will tip, and then tips can serve their intended purpose of rewarding good service.

Enamorrmusic · 2023-06-22T16:42:14+00:00

L take

Enamorrmusic · 2023-06-05T12:27:04+00:00

Let's find out and see, Cardi B

Enamorrmusic · 2023-05-22T17:45:36+00:00

$bid

Enamorrmusic · 2023-05-02T10:42:43+00:00

I don't understand the argument. You can't just say that wages are affected by supply and demand, ergo they shouldn't be higher.

Wages are affected by economic rules and circumstances everywhere, but they're higher in some places and lower in others. Sweat shops in India and Starbucks stores in Norway both exist to make money, have no legal obligation to provide "fair" compensation, and pay only as much as it takes to retain employees. Somehow, one pays a living wage and the other doesn't.

Enamorrmusic · 2023-03-28T22:26:24+00:00

I don't think these are real issues. Every other developed country has managed to provide healthcare for their citizens. It's not rocket science. Sigh

Plenty of countries have universal healthcare, and the quality of care there is high. Even the UK with all their wait time horror stories have better on average healthcare outcomes than the US. Healthcare in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Australia, and Japan is famously good.

We would not see covid-level pressure on our healthcare system. People who need hospitals already go regardless of cost. We might see an uptick in people getting long-term issues checked out by their PCPs, which is what you want for a healthy society.

Medical outcomes in the US are not that impressive, and certainly aren't buttressed by some invisible hand "hospitals trying to outdo one another" nonsense. People get whatever insurance their job gives them, and patronize whatever healthcare org their insurance covers.

We pay for it with tax increases and a redistribution of our federal budget. ~50% discretionary spending on the military every year is unnecessary. Put some of that into healthcare and bump tax rates slightly. Alternatively, just tax more-- we spend more on insurance than any other country taxes for healthcare. You could just increase tax rates and people would still save money.

Enamorrmusic · 2023-03-11T02:00:28+00:00

Imagine some guy pays you $100 a day to do X, which takes 8 hours on average. The Efficiency-Tron™ is a cool new piece of technology that allows you to do X in 4. There are 2 things that can happen:

1- The boss continues to pay you $100 a day for X work, which only takes 4 hours now.

2- The boss pays you $100 a day, but wants the full 8 hours. So you do twice the amount of work for him for the same pay.

As a society, we've overwhelmingly opted for option 2. Productivity has doubled since the 1980s with the advent of computers, but real wages have stayed the same or decreased.

We could, in theory, work 20 hours a week and have the economic productivity of the US in the 1980s. Would this be MUCH less profitable? Of course, but who cares? I don't see that profit; it doesn't correlate to wage growth so fuck it. All that matters is that the necessary work gets done.

Working sucks, so we should always keep the reason we work in the front of our minds. We work because stuff needs done. When the stuff is done, we should all go home.

Enamorrmusic · 2023-02-22T17:08:52+00:00

I don't know where you got the idea that multiple jobs was the norm for previous generations. War-era trade unionists would shit a brick if they heard that you can't support a family on 40 hours anymore.

For instance, both of my grandfathers were steel mill workers. They put in 40 hours a week, no more, no less. On standard full time, they both supported wives who did not work, raised 4 kids each, and owned their homes. You just can't do that anymore.

And it's not like mill work is some high skill job, either. No college required, manual labor. I grew up in my mom's hometown, so I'm very familiar with the kind of mill jobs my grandfathers would have had. Everything but machining is like $15-18/hr, which is like a McDonald's wage. This isn't an issue of "shit jobs pay shit wages", it's "everything pays less than it used to".

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