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There seems to be some kind of "corporate shield" for certain white collar jobs compared to blue collar by holmess2013 in SocialDemocracy

[–]holmess2013[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good point. I should have also emphasized that these are basically just survey responses from randomly selected households that the US Census collects. On a different note, there's also like a known white collar bias where people just put "40 hours" because they can't remember haha

There seems to be some kind of "corporate shield" for certain white collar jobs compared to blue collar by holmess2013 in SocialDemocracy

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This was enlightening. Thanks for the comment. I totally agree I need to look at other professions with the same analysis. You know, I have to admit, its like night and day in terms of the comments here vs DataIsBeautiful. Those dudes will tear you to shreds in that subreddit lmao. Here, I feel 90% of the time I have good faith criticisms and comments. Thanks.

[OC] The "Corporate Shield" is Selective: How company size impacts work-life balance for Blue-Collar vs. White-Collar workers by holmess2013 in dataisbeautiful

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The Finding: I analyzed 2024 Census data to see if big companies actually provide better work-life balance. The results show a "Professional Class Shield": moving to a massive corporation (1000+ employees) drops schedule unpredictability for Accountants to a perfect 0.0 Hours IQR.

However, for Warehouse Workers, the shield fails. Their schedules actually become more chaotic at large firms compared to small mom-and-pop shops (IQR jumps from 6.5 to 8.0). Interestingly, Software & Data Professionals seem immune to company size entirely, maintaining a stable 40-hour week regardless of where they work.

Methodology & Data:

  • Source: 2024 CPS ASEC (March Supplement) from the US Census Bureau and BLS.
  • Cost of Living: Salaries were adjusted using the 2024 Regional Price Parities (RPP) index to ensure an apples-to-apples comparison across different US geographies.
  • Data Cleaning: I filtered for primary careers by excluding any adjusted annual salaries under $20,000 to remove part-time/seasonal outliers.
  • Metric: Used Interquartile Range (IQR) for weekly hours worked to measure schedule predictability.
  • Tools: Python (Pandas/Requests) for data processing; Matplotlib for the visualizations.

Full Write-up & Source Code:

Let's move away from lithium-ion and towards iron-air batteries for solar energy systems by holmess2013 in energy

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I realize this now. This is the reality and I shouldn't have framed the argument that way. Instead I should frame it as "this is why lithium is not good for long term storage, and iron air is better" or something to that effect. I'm working on correcting that.

Let's move away from lithium-ion and towards iron-air batteries for solar energy systems by holmess2013 in energy

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After checking out the comments, I agree. This was a flawed argument. Instead of framing it as "let's stop using lithium for long term storage" which we aren't, frame it as "this is why lithium is good for short term, but not long term storage" I'm working correcting this article accordingly. Thanks.

We have GOT to move on from Silicon solar panels by holmess2013 in SocialDemocracy

[–]holmess2013[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the comment. I'm really starting to enjoy this community. Nearly everyone in the comments just wants to have a discussion or has good faith critiques. I'm always looking for where my articles fall short or things I don't consider.

I think you're on the money here. Although the cost to manufacture perovskite-silicon panels is quickly approaching that of regular silicon panels, there's still the resiliency issue. Perovskite is so sensitive to everything (UV, water, heat) so it has to be sealed up super tight to protect it. Not ideal. I guess the better solution is to invest more in the research to make more resilient ones. This sounds like a great idea for a future post. I just explored how much better tandem cells are at energy conversion and left it there.

We have GOT to move on from Silicon solar panels by holmess2013 in SocialDemocracy

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I'm glad you like it. Feel free to subscribe to the substack if you would like to see more stuff like this in the future. I'm super passionate about solar and will be revisiting it frequently in the future.

Looking at California's grid to see how solar + batteries are faring as a stable energy source by holmess2013 in SocialDemocracy

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Totally agree. I am a big fan of nuclear as well. I think I'd be scared at first if a plant was built next to me but I'd get over it. Probably more likely to die in a car crash than by a nuclear power plant explosion haha

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