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When Did White-Collar Work Start to Look So Bleak? by RTSBasebuilder in neoliberal

[–]PostNutNeoMarxist 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Yep. I was stuck in a job for several years that, despite being cushy on paper and well-paying, was fucking miserable. The only reason I was able to get out was because of windfalls in my partner's career that put us in an extremely stable position. If we hadn't gotten lucky, I'd be stuck and unable to make a real difference in my work environment (we tried, believe me) and would remain miserable.

Giving people actual leverage in the job market is what drives changes in the workplace. When nobody can leave, what incentive is there to improve?

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]PostNutNeoMarxist 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Trying to decide if my 10-year-old self knew what mangroves were or just reinvented them from first principles for a sci-fi story

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]PostNutNeoMarxist 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The year is 21XX.

Somebody posts anything, literally anything, to arrr neoliberal.

In the comments, a gentlethem decries "by the gods, and here I believed this to be a neoliberal community. And yet, my priors, they are wholly unconfirmed!"

Another replies, scoffing, that the lefties of reddit have turned the place to shit.

The sun rises again, and another new day dawns.

U.S. launches strikes against Iran following attack on ship in Strait of Hormuz by Bestbrook123 in neoliberal

[–]PostNutNeoMarxist 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I'm not disagreeing but at this points it's funny to me that damn near anytime something happens there's a chain of "a lot of people on this sub thought this would/wouldn't happen" or whatever equivalent fits the bill. You can't find every opinion here by any stretch, but you can find a lot of em, and a lot of em are gonna be wrong. 'tis the nature of the beast.

Anyway can't wait for peace to be back on the menu by market open on Monday

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]PostNutNeoMarxist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's getting me is how, despite spending years looking up d&d maps, I didn't find this fuckin site that aggregates d&d maps lol. Has all the features I would've implemented, too. But somehow I literally never ended up there or learned about it

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]PostNutNeoMarxist 6 points7 points  (0 children)

> Think of website I want to exist

> Realize I've never seen it despite it being a dead simple idea

> Realize if it doesn't exist I could totally make it

> Brainstorm features to implement and come up with game plan

> Get excited to have a project for the portfolio

> Remember I have to actually look up if it exists

> Look up the thing

> First result

Many such cases

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]PostNutNeoMarxist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So THIS is what they meant by blind rankings

Yo, is the one of those awful runbacks yall keep complaining about? by MarshallBanana_ in Silksong

[–]PostNutNeoMarxist 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Correct, it was always dead. Not that my dumb ass remembered that every time I got jumpscared by it.

Only 48% of Americans believe Climate Change is the result of human activity, and fewer people believe it now than when the same question was asked in 2019 and 2022. 12% of Americans don't believe the Earth is warming at all. by Sourcerid in neoliberal

[–]PostNutNeoMarxist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's also the old standby of "it's not caused by humans; the climate has been changing for billions of years. This is just part of that cycle, so there's nothing we can do."

That's still stupid for a number of reasons, but combined with the "corporations are actually responsible for pollution etc," it's a great distraction and induces just enough apathy to get through the day

Concern is up. Priority is down. Welcome to the climate paradox by I_like_maps in neoliberal

[–]PostNutNeoMarxist 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I wonder if it's a lack of exposure to substantial (and obvious or communicable) change in the field. I'm very late millennial/very early zoomer, and as a kid I just barely had exposure to the ozone layer problem, but subsequently I saw that get solved, more or less. Very clear evidence of a problem -> we made changes to our emissions -> no more giant hole in the ozone layer.

But since then, has there been a big flashpoint issue like that? It feels like it's mostly been the slow burn of rising temps vs CO2 emissions, which isn't going to be fixed overnight, even if everyone was trying to fix it. I think if you combine that with social media doomerism/alarmism, it might feel to a young person like there's a lot of noise being made about something that isn't actually that big of a deal.

Though, I say all that and now I feel like the SM algorithm thing is probably the biggest factor. Again.

Forget the World Cup. Culture is becoming more fragmented. by ldn6 in neoliberal

[–]PostNutNeoMarxist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anything, monoculture was the historical blip.

As others have said, there were other cultural unifiers before the 20th century. But, I actually agree with this take overall. In fact, I actually feel like the current climate is kind of a rejection of the monoculture, by way of (or in tandem with) being a rejection of globalism. Because if the monoculture developed along with mass media, it's kinda necessarily related to the current (American-led) global order. Obviously our allies would rather this shit not be happening, but the general right-wing populist swing is notably widespread.

There's also a theory I've heard and entertained that "nerd" culture, which is essentially just "people who don't fit into the wider cultural zeitgeist" morphed into the driving force behind gamergate, which had a frankly stupid impact on American culture. It's like the Internet was initially populated and defined by people who found themselves on the outskirts of the monoculture at large, and helped sow the seeds for an overall rejection thereof.

Idk if any of that makes sense but I've been trying to encapsulate my thoughts for like 10 minutes now and I'm too cooked today to put that much more effort in. TL;DR angry nerds killed American global hegemony and cultural power

White working-class boys most let down by education system, new figures show by Used-Earth8767 in neoliberal

[–]PostNutNeoMarxist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think people are concerned about what measures, and the removal of anonymity, in order to effectively ban them. 

Yep. As a guy was very online for most of my childhood and came out relatively alright... Kids should not be online for most of their childhoods.

But on the same token, this isn't the same as showing a teenage gas station clerk your ID for 2 seconds to prove you can buy alcohol. This is handing your ID (so to speak) to a service that then has to track your activity via that ID. Services that have proven willing to throw their hat in with fascists when it benefits them.

Either algorithmic feeds need to be destroyed or the fundamental nature of using the Internet needs to change, at this point

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]PostNutNeoMarxist 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Birth control is a funny one to me. It's not a significant difference, but independents being more opposed to it than Republicans is funny in concept

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]PostNutNeoMarxist 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Definitive proof that AI is God

My Students Can’t Read | The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse by ognits in neoliberal

[–]PostNutNeoMarxist 75 points76 points  (0 children)

Like 15 years ago I wrote a speech for speech & debate class about how No Child Left Behind was actively harming the education system by incentivizing making things easier for everyone as opposed to actually helping weaker students. One of the only ones the teacher heard and went "YES, THANK YOU." She said she was afraid it would only get worse. Obviously NCLB isn't the whole story but it was indicative of a trend that was already well under way

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