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Also true in the UK, I could get an extra +£10k just by leaving for a senior position elsewhere.

But I don't want to for two reasons:

1. I don't feel I have enough experience to actually be a senior in my job and want to stay where I am currently to learn some more before I leave.
2. I really like my current company because they treat me very very well and are the complete opposite of my previous company who gave me workplace PTSD, anxiety, and made me suicidally depressed. On top of that my company commits to inflation matching yearly wage adjustments, so I'm not loosing money by staying here.

As much as I hate that this child will have to suffer, I hope that parent watches that sweet little innocent life be squeezed out by all of the horrific and completely preventable diseases that the unfeeling and indifferent natural world has to offer as it shrieks into the night with a scream of pain, agony, and suffering that cuts so deep into the lizard brain of a mammal when it's young is in distress.

And I hope those screams echo in that parent's psyche for the rest of their miserable existence until they're on their own death bed and as they draw their last death rattle where no post-rationalisation can save them from the death-throw lucid state that they killed their own child and will suffer for eternity in whatever hell their religion has told them they've booked the express pass to.

Where I will be greeting them with a wicked grin and a fresh welcoming hot poker.

Or someone sees the obvious medical neglect and gets that child appropriately innoculated and it grows up for a happy and fulfilled life away from these evolutionary dead-ends.

At this point I'm happy with either outcome.

An extremely cute ruthless killing machine?

That sounds familiar...

Congratulations to you both, I too hope to find a partner like that.

I have no idea what is going on but it was hilarious, thank you for sharing this, it's been a long week with car issues, me being in hospital for a throat infection, and my mother needing an operation, and the power being out all day, so thank you this has really lufted mine spirits.

I really want a translation, where's Liam Carpenter when you need him?

There can always be more shittification if the shareholders demand it.

From what I've seen most German humour comes in two flavours: intentionally very dry puns and unintentionally hilarious dry attitude to everything else in life.

They really do think the consumer is that dumb or maybe they want them to be that dumb?

Babification using AI Enshitification?

Ship GPS, Transponders, Sonar, weather information from a data feed, and the large scale deployment of sea monitoring bouys allowing us to observe and measure storms and rogue waves.

So within the same comment you go from

The why is not important

To then say

And the bigger point is that this is not an AI problem, this is societal problem.

You clearly present the hypothesis that the the "why" is because these happen to be the best paid jobs and therefore people take them which is a societal problem.

Please can you explain why the "why" isn't important and you then go onto give the "why" as "societal problem"?

Perhaps it might be useful to ask "why are these the better paid jobs in these regions?" because that adds additional context which might, as you indicate the need for, start pointing in the direction of solutions to this problem other than just broadly gesturing to everything going "society".

Ok so how do you square that with your original comment of "so... don't do it"?

Isn't reducing a nuanced situation down to "money" going to lose sight of a lot of factors?

If any job was just about money then why, for example, do people choose to remain in teaching when they know they're being poorly paid, overworked, and undervalued in society when they could leave and get more money in a less stressful job?

Context is king and if you want to understand more deeply why people are willing to work jobs because of or lack of financial incentives you need to also understand the wider context such as the time period it's taking place in, the economic state of the region, the social constructs of the society, the technology being used, or any other lens you could look at it through.

Looking at the past, present, and possible futures get far more interesting when you do that.

If you wish to understand why people in these countries feel compelled to undertake this mentally damaging a d unsafe work then you should read up on the first industrial revolution and why people who were originally farm hands and hand spinners in the North of England felt compelled to move into the cities to take on the physically damaging and unsafe work on the cotton machines.

One observer at the time, Dr Andrew Ure, said this:

"In my recent tour, through the manufacturing districts, I have seen tens of thousands of old, young and middle-aged of both sexes, many of them too feeble to get their daily bread by any of the former modes of industry, earning abundant food, raiment, and domestic accommodation, without perspiring at a single pore, screened meanwhile from the summer's sun and the winter's frost, in apartments more airy and salubrious than those of the metropolis in which our legislative and fashionable aristocracies assemble. In those spacious halls the benignant power of steam summons around him his myriads of willing menials, and assigns to each the regulated task, substituting for painful muscular effort on their part, the energies of his own gigantic arm, and demanding in return only attention and dexterity to correct such little aberrations as casually occur in his workmanship."

From his perspective, for many the suffering was worth the wage. But others at the time were more, as they put it, horrified by what they saw such as Dr. John Kay:

"Whilst the engine runs the people must work - men, women and children are yoked together with iron and steam. The animal machine - breakable in the best case, subject to a thousand sources of suffering chained fast to the iron machine, which knows no suffering and no weariness."

This is why history is a vital part of education because by god am I seeing so much modern shit rhyming with a victorian tune!

My source for the quotes: The Peterloo Massacre - Robert Reid.

I agree that poorly implemented price controls would be a bad idea because without proper considerations you end up with bread queues for crops or what we have currently for the energy market where the government is forced to cover losses from unsellable wind power because the energy companies don't want to turn off the gas baseline so they can charge the highest electric rate possible.

Trying to wrangle market forces is nigh on impossible which is why the most effective ways to incentivise and deincentivise economic activity is through tax-breaks and raising taxes respectively.

An example would be a land tax and a brown-field rebate. You want to stop property developers from buying up land just to sit on it waiting for the value to increase so that more housing and infrastructure can be built so you implement a land tax to stop them from sitting on said land and do something useful with it. At the same time you don't want them to be paving over an easy to develop on green space when a brown-field site would be much more preferable so you give them some rebate money to cover additional clean up costs before development work can begin.

We already have effective economic tools before us to leverage the speed that a free market can move at by giving them a very clear preferred direction by influencing profitability indirectly.

So I don't see how opening a chain of stores that provides basic essentials that would compete on the open market is akin to price controls or the fall out from it.

Large chain supermarkets like Tesco, ASDA, and Aldi put enormous pressure on farmers to reduce the purchase price per tonne by leveraging their huge market share. If you don't want to agree to sell to Tesco at the price they negotiate, fine, but you'll struggle to shift that volume that Tesco would buy to other suppliers.

This is why owner-operator farmers, despite being wealthy in terms of land can see little income financially from the sale of their crops and produce. This is also why they're slowly selling off land for housing development or selling the whole farm to a larger international farming conglomerate who can compete on the same scale of supermarket chains like Tesco.

This is not good for food security, which is going to come under further strain from climate change as yield prediction will become increasingly harder.

So why not create a nationalised retainer that can buy these goods for a better price per tonne for the farmers and sell them at or slightly below market rate to the consumer because they're not beholden to increasing supermarket shareholder value quarter on quarter?

With that massive financial pressure gone all they have to do is price goods to cover the costs of buying produce, distribution, and all the usual overheads (wages, etc.).

This way the corporately operated supermarkets either have to compete on price and offer better deals to farmers or find a different way to add value.

It's the same logic behind Great British Energy just with food security rather than energy security.

• Supermarket bosses and shareholder greed.

I'm with Zack who wants to do what Mandini is proposing: start a Nationally owned supermarket chain.

British farmers get paid fairly and consumers get lower prices.

Anyone else have that one friend that you can talk for hours with?

And when I say hours I mean HOURS, like started at 9pm and finished at 5am full 8 hours with a few breaks in for snacks and drinks.

Not chatting whilst playing a game, like talking and sharing links and pictures back and forth on discord, debating, speculating, etc.

You go on one tangent and then when you've exhausted that tangent, you backtrack and backtrack to continue the conversation until the next tangent, rinse and repeat until you realise you've been chatting the equivalent of a full work day and you both should probably get some sleep.

Is it just me and him?

Having interacted with the British public on a regular basis, I can confirm: they don't know owt!

Sign me the fuck up as well, Solarpunks unite!

Oh boy, just wait until you hear about zero-crossings and phase-lock loops.

You must be a practitioner of the age-old Lancastrian martial art of Ecky-Thump

Sorry to quibble but that line was delivered by Goldfinger not Dr. No.