NK is some sort of paradise

The bar for “paradise” is so low. Just living in a country where you don’t have chronic homelessness, endless war, and rampant medical bankruptcy seems to qualify.

No no no. Propaganda is inherently Russian.

There are no bots on Lemmy, bleep bloop.

They’ve been checked out on serious political fact checking for some time. Now its all just “Meme is a meme. False.”

OK what do you propose we call it when there is a job that literally requires prior experience or certifications vs a job that doesn’t?

Any job can be regulated.

In Texas, cosmetology students must complete a minimum of 1,000 hours of instruction at an accredited beauty school to become licensed.

In Oregon, no such license is required.

Does this mean a cosmetologist’s status as “skilled worker” evaporates upon stepping off a plane from Houston to Portland?

Because you cannot tell me that it’s OK to hire anyone and teach them brain surgery on the job.

That’s exactly what professional hospital surgeries do. They identify candidates for hire and train them with their veteran staff.

Nobody is born knowing brain surgery. Nobody is born with a number of successful surgeries under their belts. Everyone starts from square one.

What makes brain surgery different from HVAC repair isn’t skill, its liability. If you fuck up a unit then you’ve caused a few hundred dollars in damage. If you fuck up a brain, you kill someone.

But they both require skill and experience to do reliably and efficiently.

even with the puniest of interest rates, you’d still make more than enough just off the interest to live somewhat comfortably

I’d go one step further and assert that wealth compounds and borrowing rates fall with your aggregate wealth. Treasuries are the safest of safe bets, but there are much higher returns to be had with some minimal risk that become accessible when you have large cash reserves and access to cheap credit. Home ownership is a classic example. Save thousands of dollars a year on rent by owning an appreciating asset you get to live in.

You don’t need $100M to make this work. $100k can turn a handsome profit through compound returns on investment. In a stock market that yields 7%/year, you double your money in a decade.

Let me start borrowing at the Prime Rate and the sky is the limit. I can take out a loan for 4.3% and invest in an index fund like the S&P that has returned 12.9% APY over the last 10 years. When I’m cleaning up 8.6% on my borrowed money, what’s the right number of dollars to borrow? Every dollar I can get my hands on.

The average national savings account interest rate (and you’d get a much better one with 100 million) is 0.42 APY.

Treasury Notes are 10x that rate. This mostly just illustrates how scammy and cheap your average bank has grown.

Which is why so many day traders end up going bankrupt.

Bankruptcy is a tool for discharging debt, not a metric for business failure.

You don’t bother declaring bankruptcy unless you have creditors. If you’re an unsuccessful day trader, nobody is lending you much money to begin with.

If I’m a construction worker who spent decades perfecting my skills so I get promoted to management

Tell me you’ve never worked construction without telling me you’ve never worked construction.

Or management, for that matter. You’ll get managers straight out of college overseeing career specialists on the verge of retirement.

Disappointed in your lack of punctuation. It really speaks to your absence of moral character.

Unskilled work means you don’t need prior experience or specific education to apply.

It means whatever the employers want it to mean. But anyone who has worked anywhere for a significant length of time knows the value experience brings in a role.

Whether you’re packing boxes or picking fruit or doing brain surgery, the speed and accuracy of your work is predicated on experience. Not something you get through a crash course or a certificate. You have to do the work to learn the work in every field.

That’s what makes “unskilled” labor a myth.

Hey now, don’t buy management long

The loophole is largely in the matter of enforcement. It is comically easy to evade these regulation or outright ignore them.

Very easy to hit your police quotas in a city where everyone is constantly committing crimes through basic commerce.

Proof of the value of looking beyond the most base layer of news.

The base layer of news is what shows up in fly-in chyrons an pop-up ads. Great to get under the fold, but its worth acknowledging how much of modern media is now just the front page of the New York Post.

It just buy a gun third party or at a gun show in a state without background check requirements.

This isn’t rocket science.

We’ll see if that sticks, or if annoying rich car people get the reforms repealed. Hochul certainly seems pliable.

Luigi had no background to check.

This is pure flail.

Staring at some open source code in horror, like you just flipped to a random page of the Necronomicon.

Still stuck on FF15. So much time and energy invested in reinventing Unreal Engine… badly. Then they have to attack the corners of the actual story with a hacksaw to push a title seven years in development out the door half baked.