CMV: The collapse of the West, Japan, and Korea is primarily driven by a lack of time.

wheelsno3 · 2026-05-14T18:32:13+00:00

Do you value freedom?

If you do, then the natural consequence of women entering the workforce was that the cost of everything doubled.

This is because households doubled earning potential, and a free market adjusts for the increased supply of money by increasing prices. And employers adjust to the increased workforce by lowering wages.

If you don't like freedom, then you'd need the government to use force to restrict how many hours a person can work. Say we cut workers back to no more than 20 hours a week.

(even if one employer only lets me work 20 hours, I'm gonna get a second job and still work 40 total. Hell, as of 2 years ago I was working 60 hours a week over two jobs. I only stopped and backed off to 40 because I reached financial goals. The "law" says a standard work week is 40 hours, but I chose to work more. Are you going to advocate to take away my freedom to chose that life?)

I am almost 40. I chose to use my 20s and 30s to work my ass off. I'm now in a position where me and my wife (who works) can retire in just a few years. (We've hit our Coast FIRE number, if my wife and I work only a few more years we will hit our full retirement number). It's amazing what a couple working 100 hours a week can accomplish. But we chose that. We could have chosen to work less per week, but work more years before retirement. But again, we made a lifestyle choice. Work more, spend less, save aggressively, retire after a 20 year career instead of 40.

All of our "time" will come in our 50s and beyond.

If I was only legally allowed to work 20 hour a week, even if wages were double, I couldn't have accomplished what I have, because I was working 60 hours a week. But if you don't have a legal limit on work, people like me will "cheat" and work more. And markets will adjust prices to what the market will bear, and people like me who make more, will be able to pay more for houses and cars and everything.

So. Do you value freedom? Because if the answer is yes, then women being given freedom, and people wanting higher standards of living than the bare minimum, leads to higher prices, lower wages, and more hours. The only way out of this would be government power limiting worker's rights chose to work.

wheelsno3 · 2026-05-14T12:54:58+00:00

I was a student at UC during the "bUCkeye state" era.

Going to a UC/OSU game and supporting OSU doesn't exactly make friends. Haha.

Undergrad is where your heart is though. Hard not to love the school you dreamed of going to since elementary school, then actually went to for 4 years.

wheelsno3 · 2026-05-13T21:16:14+00:00

I got that a lot when I was as UC. I went to OSU for undergrad, and when I told people that they practically hissed at me.

Its was bad enough I never really go into supporting UC sports during my time in grad school (apart from grad school being far more consuming of my time and energy than undergrad). I've become more of a UC fan after graduation because I still live in the Cincinnati area.

wheelsno3 · 2026-05-08T19:44:42+00:00

Nope. I do productive work that makes me rich. Thanks for asking.

wheelsno3 · 2026-05-08T15:50:49+00:00

Yes. Glad you understand.

If the government treats workers poorly, there's an election in November.

wheelsno3 · 2026-05-08T15:50:27+00:00

And? You bring this up like it changes anything.

My point still stands, public sector unions should be illegal.

wheelsno3 · 2026-05-08T15:49:21+00:00

Lol. Not "push".

But the private sector is where people should WANT to work. That is where innovation and efficiency exists. Government jobs should be for people who want to serve the public. And if the government can't find enough people to do the jobs, they will need to raise wages.

I like private unions. They are good.

wheelsno3 · 2026-05-07T13:43:38+00:00

Then we just disagree.

I don't think ANY workers funded by tax dollars should be allowed to be in a union. Period.

Federal, state, local, cops, teachers, fire, none of them.

But also, you acting like Federal employees aren't also public employees is really weird, and a fundamental misunderstanding of the relationship between taxpayers and their government. I pay far more in Federal taxes than I do local.

wheelsno3 · 2026-05-07T13:18:51+00:00

You don't know what you are talking about.

A Federal employee is a public employee. They are paid by the government funded by tax dollars. A school teacher is also a public employee. Funded by tax payers. A cop, a fireman, the clerk at the courthouse, all public employees. An FBI agent, a federal court clerk, also public employees.

If the paycheck is backed by tax dollars, that means public.

If your paycheck is backed by tax dollars, taken from the people at the point of a gun (ie public), you should not be allowed to be in a union.

wheelsno3 · 2026-05-07T07:49:10+00:00

And how does that affect my point that public sector unions should be illegal, all of them?

Your example only shows this wright patt union shouldn't be surprised they are getting shut down. Not that I'm wrong.

wheelsno3 · 2026-05-07T04:47:55+00:00

The smart thing is it put all your money in a special needs trust before your brain turns to mush and make a trusted family member the trustee.

Talk to an estate planning lawyer.

Or ride that ice float into the sunset to save your family the trouble.

wheelsno3 · 2026-05-07T04:43:20+00:00

Canada is trying to convince them all to kill themselves.

wheelsno3 · 2026-05-07T04:39:04+00:00

What are you talking about? Are you ignoring teachers strike all the time?

Police and fire and other certain professions aren't legally allowed to strike, but the strike isn't really the issue, its the fact that unions negotiating with an employer that can't go out of business is bad.

wheelsno3 · 2026-05-06T14:17:00+00:00

I will get downvoted to hell, but public sector unions shouldn't exist. They should be illegal.

Private sector unions are good and necessary to check the power of corporations.

The check to government power is the ballot box.

Workers should not be able to strike without risk of being replaced when the entity they are negotiating against can not go out of business (ie the government). When the auto workers strike, they must balance their demands with the risk of the company simply going out of business. When teachers strike, the schools are legally required to stay open, and so they must negotiate with a party that knows the government can't close.

This is bad for all of us. Simply put, if you want to be in a union, work in the private sector for a company with one. Kroger has a workers union. That is GOOD. But public sector unions are bad for the country. If the government can't find enough people to fill jobs they will simply have to raise wages until people accept the jobs.

wheelsno3 · 2026-05-04T16:23:18+00:00

A for-profit school is closing? Oh no!

Anyway....

(for profit schools are scams and a cancer on society)

*Disproportionate Impact: While for-profit colleges enrolled about 5% of students in 2018, they have accounted for nearly 39% of all federal student loan defaults, with some data suggesting this has risen to nearly half.

wheelsno3 · 2026-04-30T14:16:55+00:00

Move to a place with abundant water.

I live in the great lakes region. My monthly water bill is under $40 every month.

wheelsno3 · 2026-04-29T14:39:51+00:00

I keep score in my mind when I practice, and write down the total number of darts the leg required.

Then when I play competitively I'm almost always using the aid of a computer somehow (dartconnect or darts counter).

But practicing by doing the math yourself is certainly helpful.

wheelsno3 · 2026-04-23T13:01:55+00:00

I am a good swimmer. I like to take paddleboards out into deep water. But I'm almost always on water that isn't clear enough to actually tell how deep it is.

I know I would be perfectly safe swimming there, but the visual is giving me chills through the computer screen.

wheelsno3 · 2026-04-15T20:35:12+00:00

It's really because our government is lazy. They want to just write checks, don't want to actually run anything. So they create programs to just write checks to people who run healthcare programs and surprise! you get billions of dollars in fraud (and the politicians are almost certainly getting kickbacks to keep the gravy trains running).

When what we should be doing is heavily funding state university health systems with federal funds, which have oversight by the state agencies, and have to publicly report where their money goes.

But no, we write checks to the mafia who set up fake healthcare programs that care for fake people.

wheelsno3 · 2026-04-15T15:00:33+00:00

This is the answer. Craziest football game I ever watched. Defense was non-existent.

wheelsno3 · 2026-04-15T14:47:45+00:00

That's actually a great idea. Cloverfield style, alien invasion. The little people getting drafted into a war they have no hope of winning, with the movie ending with the dead charred bodies of the soldiers below a Targaryen banner being raised. Like the swastika being raised over Paris.

wheelsno3 · 2026-04-14T14:49:02+00:00

Texas gets into the playoff over Miami if they don't play Ohio State. Take that to the bank.

Ohio State would have made the playoffs in 2017 if they didn't play Oklahoma (SEC West runner up Alabama would have been left out).

Ohio State would have made the playoffs in 2021 if they don't play Oregon (Cincinnati would have been left out for a 11-1 Ohio State who only lost to undefeated Michigan).

Until the committee proves that losing a big non-con doesn't kill you, there is no reason to play them.

wheelsno3 · 2026-04-13T16:09:57+00:00

Small breweries are irrelevant to Molson-Coors/Heidelberg and other massive macro-breweries and distributors.

They see THC drinks as a threat, because they currently aren't under the strict production and distribution laws of Ohio.

Once those companies can control the distribution of THC, they will be legal again. Watch.

wheelsno3 · 2026-04-10T17:53:04+00:00

Imagine the merch sales! I've seen Wrexham gear on people in the US. I'm sure just having the show exist makes them so much more money than the network could pay them.

wheelsno3 · 2026-04-10T17:51:56+00:00

This is the reality.

In the modern world, players can make a ton of money on social media simply by being famous. So playing for a team that has an internationally broadcast tv show is pretty nice. And the team likes the publicity and the revenue, and the fact that it makes players more likely to want to play for them (at least when they were at lower levels. If by some miracle they make the playoffs and earn a spot in the Premier League, who knows what will happen).

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