gishglish's comments

Oh man, was it implemented as an ISAPI extension? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in the wild.

> But I want out, and this is coming from someone with a ton of FAANG experience.

But where do you go? Retraining is too expensive for decent paying fields to be worth it and there a very few careers otherwise that won’t be a steep lifestyle regression.

> On steam you have to go out of your way for such games to be recommended for you.

Go on steam, not signed in and go to new releases. I promise you there are porn games right there on the first page of results. Often of a very degenerate nature. I don’t even need to be authenticated to see that. But I do need to go out of my way to verify my age, if I click on a call of duty game or something.

> Did you read the post I wrote initially? I give the breakdown of how much of the money I pay to the union goes to the worker on his paycheck (55%) with the rest going to insurance, taxes, union dues, pension, etc (fringe benefits, which are 45%)

I misread that intitially.

At the end of the day, anytime this topic comes up, there’s an oddly large discrepancy between the anecdotes and the BLS data.

Even half of that $100 puts these electricians in the 90th quartile for hourly wages in that MSA. So they’re either sending there most expensive guys or I’m misreading misinterpreting the BLS data.

Well sure, my questions is why is the Union charging over double what seems to be 90th quartile for electricians in small to mid sized MSAs and only a bit more than the 90th quartile on high COL cities.

I suspect the electrician they send over isn’t just pocketing $100/h on wages.

They’re also nearly untouchable often disconnected from anything the mainstream would experience and experience things the mainstream never will.

> Then it's called "mainstream" music for a reason, most people are OK with listening to it in the first place :)

I think there’s bewilderment is mostly from these not being “mainstream” people.

> Why would I work on building websites in my local community if google is going to at least 3x the salary to build and cancel several products? We need to flatten the capital distribution curve and many of these problems will work themselves out.

It’s all good. The local community doesn’t need you to build out sites anymore.

I quit doing that when small business owners started expressing that they didn’t need a website, it wasn’t very valuable to them. What they wanted was a nice Facebook page. If they did need a website, it seems Squarespace, Shopify, etc. provides a sufficient offering for them. Cheaper too.

Bread and circuses

> Coinbase, Uber, DoorDash, and Stripe during the Great Recession. Now that the barrier to building products and companies is much lower than it has been for years, we will see the next generations of rocket ships.

Oh great! I can’t wait for the next generation of unnecessary luxury apps that just provide another lazier way to be a good consoomer.

All while the few necessities that matter, housing, food, etc. become increasingly more expensive and less accessible.

Reminds me of when I lived in a shit meth town. Dead economy, propped up entirely by a single military base. Lots of drugs and violence. Most people I knew there worked a shitty low skilled job and sold meth.

One guy I knew had it in his head he could just go back to school for welding and make 6 figures. Of course that didn’t work out. Turns out the local CC doesn’t have anything for underwater welding. Welding programs for sure, but mostly designed to funnel workers into local, lower paying positions that need filled.

I have a suspicion this push towards blue collars jobs is just another learn to code grift.

> I pay $100/hr for a union journeyworker electrician in a metro area of ~3 million, $106 for a foreman, and $112 for a general foreman.

Genuine question: Why?

I picked the Cincinnati MSA, as an example, as it’s both bigger than yours and is likely to have unionized work.

BLS says the 90th quartile is still only ~90k which while certainly not bad, is only the top 10%.

> I'm curious what hiring managers are now looking for to cut through the noise.

A referral.

At least, in my experience a year or two ago. It was impossible to get past initial screenings for jobs I was perfect for on paper.

None of my skills, experience, etc. even mattered. In the end what mattered was getting a nepo referral for a job I wasn’t even qualified for on paper.

Tbh, even if they are paying for it, they’re probably still the product. Unless maybe they’re an enterprise customer who can afford magnitudes more to obtain relative privacy.

> How can I be free to do my gardening whenever I want when the landlord is asking for $11K rent in my SF flat?

You can work his fields in exchange for most of the harvest of course!

Interesting how much of it is just radio schlock. I guess I underestimate how much people really listen to that stuff.

Of course, not sure why I didn’t see what’s plainly in front of me

The people it affects the most aren’t engaging those sort of thoughts day to day.

The architects of it don’t care, as they will have secured their own feudal power .by the point things get nasty

> Imagine doing what all your competitors are doing while being one of the least desirable big tech companies to work for.

Good thing you have very few of them because your industry is way too capital intensive to start a competitor now.

I am generally curious what capitalisms proposed solution to this problem is.

Don’t forget, the promise of an utterly schizophrenic utopian future coming soon (tm) if we all just submit to their desires.