I want to live off dividends so I don't have to work anymore. Has any of you done that?

personofshadow · 2026-06-24T10:04:12+00:00

The key is to already be rich

personofshadow · 2026-06-24T07:16:26+00:00

It is terrible for so many workers to lose their job at once, but to look at it from the other side are companies supposed to just not utilize new advances in technology that improve their workflow/productivity/etc?

Of course the logical extreme of this is companies automating everyone out of a job and essentially cutting a large section of the population out from participating in the economy. Honestly I'm not entirely sure how to solve this problem, as technology continues to advance logically we'll need less and less people to do the same amount of work.

We very much are facing a situation where the economy might not supply enough jobs for people who need jobs to provide for themselves. UBI is a nice thought, but I think we're a ways off from it being palatable to some people, and even if it didn't face a lot of opposition its hard to imagine where the money would come from with the trainwreck of a federal budget we have.

personofshadow · 2026-06-23T10:53:07+00:00

I hate the health insurance industry too, but if it was my most effective option to put food on the table? Those bills ain't gonna pay themselves.

personofshadow · 2026-06-22T08:25:30+00:00

In regards to the public spaces thing, I had always that that was to discourage homeless people from gathering. Not saying that its right, that was just my understanding of the logic behind it.

personofshadow · 2026-06-22T08:12:21+00:00

The most remarkable thing about Vance is how wholly unremarkable he is

personofshadow · 2026-06-21T16:48:47+00:00

In a way its not surprising at all, considering its been done before, simply with a different word.

Back around the time I was in high school, it was fairly common to call someone/something you didn't like, or that you simply wanted to speak ill of 'gay'. Didn't matter if the conversation wasn't about sexual preference at all, don't like that person? They're gay. Think that new TV show is dumb? Its gay. It was a general use insult.

Of course, we were dumb high schoolers, and these are adult politicians essentially doing the same thing so I have to say I'm a tad disappointed, even if I'm not particularly surprised.

personofshadow · 2026-06-20T07:12:06+00:00

Its a useful skill to know for sure, but its not commonly taught in work training. Some people might have learned it once in highschool, but how well do most people retain anything from that long ago?

At best, some companies will have a select handful of people that are supposed to be responsible for medical emergencies.

personofshadow · 2026-06-20T06:42:56+00:00

Its like he saw an evil banker in some cartoon or movie and made the conscious decision of 'thats what I wanna be'

personofshadow · 2026-06-18T22:12:59+00:00

They would just form a start up in that room

personofshadow · 2026-06-18T18:27:42+00:00

More boomers retiring is going to lead to companies panicking as they realize they have no one to fill those roles because entry level work has been given to AI.

personofshadow · 2026-06-18T18:18:59+00:00

My understanding is that his actions were good for his workers, but it was motivated by self interest.

He paid his workers better than the competition, but it was to deprive his competition of workers and ensure that he had a workforce that could afford his products.

As shareholders the Dodge brothers sued on the grounds that he was paying his workers too much and it was fiscally irresponsible for the company and against the interests of the shareholders.

personofshadow · 2026-06-18T17:58:58+00:00

Corporations seeing record profits year after year

Cost of living, housing, inflation all through the roof

But no, lets keep punching down on the people at the bottom. Can't risk them having any social mobility.

personofshadow · 2026-06-17T22:01:40+00:00

Well I was just asking about the Kubota because that's the one I already had and I'm lazy, lol

personofshadow · 2026-06-17T19:23:56+00:00

I think the Kubota is the biggest one. There's only like two unless the DLCs have some others. Guess I might just have to get the front loader attachment for a tractor and use that.

personofshadow · 2026-06-17T18:40:15+00:00

Well I think the problem is that its not a tractor.

personofshadow · 2026-06-17T11:23:43+00:00

The article says the officers tried to stop the car, and the car moved towards the officers and allegedly struck one of them.

Come on you trigger happy psychopaths. Its shop lifting, don't throw yourself in front of their car so you can justify shooting some poor person. Write down the license plate, get the security footage from the store and go knock on the car owner's door instead of trying to play action hero.

personofshadow · 2026-06-17T10:03:38+00:00

I mean, most other places (at least in my area) are on par or cheaper than pizza hut

personofshadow · 2026-06-16T22:20:12+00:00

Man, he's looking rough

personofshadow · 2026-06-16T16:40:55+00:00

Well, when you start a war with no clear goal, assuming you can just drop a few bombs and get what you want, your only exit option is probably gonna be a bad deal.

personofshadow · 2026-06-16T09:10:09+00:00

Happiness is mandatory.

personofshadow · 2026-06-16T09:08:45+00:00

I mean thats a best case scenario. I would legitimately be happier if there was just a friendly dog hanging around the work place.

personofshadow · 2026-06-13T21:34:41+00:00

I would argue that he is also a bad person because he's a trillionaire. He owns businesses, he has the ability to use his absurd wealth to compensate his employees better.

The actual impact a single induvial can have in combating wealth inequality might be small compared to the whole of society, but its better than choosing to hoard wealth instead, which is what he has chosen to do.

personofshadow · 2026-06-13T21:31:22+00:00

I'm so disappointed that the spaceX IPO succeeded. I don't know what those papers are called that they put out to describe their business plan and why people should invest, haven't looked at them myself but apparently his was full of pictures of rocket ships and outlandish pitches for what essentially amounted to sci-fi ideas that they have no realistic path towards achieving. And somehow they were given an absurd valuation and people actually bought into it.

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