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Posted by alexandra_k on March 3, 2020, at 2:56:37
So apparently in Baltimore there are squeegie people. Black people who try and make a living washing car windscreens at intersections.
Some people really don't like them doing that.
If it is anything like here some of them are okay. Others don't pay attention to motorists not wanting them to wash and threaten violence when motorists don't hand over money.
Apparently there aren't enough immigrant workers to take the flesh off crabs.
Of course immigrant workers need to take the flesh off crabs. Without immigrant seasonal workers the whole thing would grind to a halt.
You could get black people taking flesh off crabs. That would disturb the natural order or something. Clearly. Every person must know their place.
So the ideology of the whole high-tech industry thing associated with research universities particularly medical schools is about the development of start ups...
To become publically traded.
To alter the skyline.
Everybody wants to manage some of that.
That's what medical management is about.
The money.
And about everybody knowing their place.
Sigh.
Not particularly motivational or inspirational.
Sigh.
The games they play...
Posted by sigismund on March 3, 2020, at 20:40:52
In reply to management, posted by alexandra_k on March 3, 2020, at 2:56:37
In the neoliberal style. I came across this problem. A leg wound is nothing.
Thomas Friedman and Steve Bannon are both stuck five feet apart in the middle of a busy street with an out of control bus bearing down on them. You have been ordered by a man with a gun to run out and save just one of them by knocking the one you choose out of the buss way (hopefully keeping yourself clear from the bus). The man with the gun will shoot you in your left leg if you dont try to save one and just one of them. So do you: (a) let them both die and take the bullet; (b) save Friedman and let Bannon go under the bus; (c) save Bannon and let Friedman go under the bus?
My answer is (a): just shoot me
Posted by alexandra_k on March 4, 2020, at 15:00:08
In reply to Re: management, posted by sigismund on March 3, 2020, at 20:40:52
i don't know who either of those people are -- but the man with the gun threatening to shoot you in the leg seems like a biggest problem of all.
'that's not for me to decide' was what i always thought.
people here seem to want to be judge, jury, and exectutioner.
to apply for legal aid you supply the case you want legal aid for and to apply for legal aid you need a lawyer to say whether they think they will win the case.
wow.
so much for independence.
we don't have independence of anything.
i think that's why doctors (the legitimate amonst them) want to / feel they need to work for a large firm or whatever. billings. you need a competent billings department. you ideally want a large and competent billings department that plays a good job of being robin hood. so you can get on with delivering the best treatment you can for your patients trusting / genuinely believing that they are doing everything they can to fairly distribute the costs.
so... hitler gets the same treatment as everybody else.
because... who died and made you god? and... who would want to be god? and the cost of getting things wrong... people with conscience wouldn't be able to live with themself. so why not just stop playing god and do the f*ck*ng job already.
i remember being blackmailed when i was, like, 7 or something. i had this secret about throwin sandwiches away at lunch time and one girl found out. used it to make me play with her, make me play the games she wanted to play. so on. then she told another girl. then they would blackmail me in opposing ways. and so on.
that's perhaps unrealated...
to the situation where there are 2 people and 1 of them says 'choose which of us you like the most'. in that situation i always choose 'not you becuase i resent you putting me in that position'.
i guess i'm not naturally diplomatic. i don't naturally see what's going on behind the request (they are feeling undervalued - disliked').
but then there's a fine line between being forced, then, to be at their beck and call providing reassurance to them 24/7.
sigh.
i'ts a lot... nicer? to not have much unstructured interaction with people.
Posted by alexandra_k on March 4, 2020, at 15:04:05
In reply to Re: management, posted by alexandra_k on March 4, 2020, at 15:00:08
control. people are very controlling. need for you to respond in very particular ways only. so the people around them are not free.
i see many super super super controlling people.
they need for the people around them to be sheeples. indistinguishable from one another. replaceable. nobody stands out in any way at all.
herds of sheeple brownnosing...
to be picked for whatever the sheep equivalent is of the calf at calf club day.
not to be led to the slaughter (GPA dicated by God) every winter...
the screaming...
the screaming of the lambs.
Posted by Beckett2 on March 4, 2020, at 15:54:48
In reply to Re: management, posted by sigismund on March 3, 2020, at 20:40:52
> In the neoliberal style. I came across this problem. A leg wound is nothing.
>
> Thomas Friedman and Steve Bannon are both stuck five feet apart in the middle of a busy street with an out of control bus bearing down on them. You have been ordered by a man with a gun to run out and save just one of them by knocking the one you choose out of the buss way (hopefully keeping yourself clear from the bus). The man with the gun will shoot you in your left leg if you dont try to save one and just one of them. So do you: (a) let them both die and take the bullet; (b) save Friedman and let Bannon go under the bus; (c) save Bannon and let Friedman go under the bus?
>
> My answer is (a): just shoot me:)
Posted by Beckett2 on March 4, 2020, at 16:01:36
In reply to management, posted by alexandra_k on March 3, 2020, at 2:56:37
> So apparently in Baltimore there are squeegie people. Black people who try and make a living washing car windscreens at intersections.
>
> Some people really don't like them doing that.
>
> If it is anything like here some of them are okay. Others don't pay attention to motorists not wanting them to wash and threaten violence when motorists don't hand over money.
>
> Apparently there aren't enough immigrant workers to take the flesh off crabs.
>
> Of course immigrant workers need to take the flesh off crabs. Without immigrant seasonal workers the whole thing would grind to a halt.
>
> You could get black people taking flesh off crabs. That would disturb the natural order or something. Clearly. Every person must know their place.
>
> So the ideology of the whole high-tech industry thing associated with research universities particularly medical schools is about the development of start ups...
>
> To become publically traded.
>
> To alter the skyline.
>
> Everybody wants to manage some of that.
>
> That's what medical management is about.
>
> The money.
>
> And about everybody knowing their place.
>
> Sigh.
>
> Not particularly motivational or inspirational.
>
> Sigh.
>
> The games they play...Yeah, its weird. I live in a startup economy, and its draining our state. Then theres the snow job of a rising tide lifts all boats, meanwhile people live in their cars.
Posted by alexandra_k on March 4, 2020, at 18:22:29
In reply to Re: management, posted by Beckett2 on March 4, 2020, at 16:01:36
> Yeah, its weird. I live in a startup economy, and its draining our state. Then theres the snow job of a rising tide lifts all boats, meanwhile people live in their cars.
Yeah. The high Tech. Silicon valley. Did you watch the TV series? I only saw some of it.
I used to watch Critical Role. On YouTube. I liked the first season / game. The second turned extremely weird as the whole thing blew up. Blew up and out of proportion. As they struck it extremely big.
I watch CohhCarnage a lot because I like his play-style and he seems to be an intelligent and decent guy, mostly. He annoys me little. And that's pretty impressive given how many hours he streams in good or ill health.
I watch some of the other people he streams with sometimes, as well, and follow some of the politics around streaming. Around how people start streaming how they make it 'big' on the streaming platform. Become partners. Get multi-million dollar offers to take it to Mixer...
Esports...
Houses with however many kids kept in them. Streaming. Coding. Whatever whatever whatever. The next big idea. The next successful start-up.
I don't like it.
It's like...
Fresh meat.
Burning through.
Dispensible. Disposable.
High risk - high reward.
I think at some point Cohh said he doesn't know that he would make it up if he had to start over. Things have changed.
I see the line becoming thinner and thinner and... Eventually non-existent.
Gifting subscriptions. How that can be how can that be financially lucrative.
Things are turning strange.
He does well to keep on keeping on. But as things gain in popularity it's fighting against the tide...
Posted by alexandra_k on March 4, 2020, at 18:26:16
In reply to Re: management, posted by alexandra_k on March 4, 2020, at 18:22:29
High Risk - High Reward
That was something that Trump didn't seem fond of. In Season 1 and in the part of Season 2 of ''The Apprentice'' That I saw.
He did not convey that that was what he wanted to see more of. Because, of course, that kind of strategy is unsustainable long term.
House wins is the constant in casinos. Some people want to own / run casinos because it seems like a sure-win. Those people are choosing to invest in, predict, tie their future to, ensuring that, a level of depravity remains.
Other people won't get involved in the business of casinos.
Trump wanted to change the skyline building buildings that people *wanted* to live in.
That seemed to be what he was wanting or choosing to convey.
Not trying to manufacture slums slums slums slums slums everywhere. Not trying to invest in the proliferation of poor people with no options.
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