Yeah most of the city names aren't even legible.

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I find there's way, way, way too many people who think they can get a "job" that involves them staying home and getting mailed cheques direct deposit, sight unseen. In the past 12 months, I've rejected half a dozen candidates who figured they could Work From Home (tm) all the time.

The silly thing is that most of the work is, in fact, WFH available, but there is a component that requires on-site work (literally, it's not "management wants to see you", it deals with sensitive information handling).

I kind of wish people who want the sit-home-get-cheques job would put that right at the top of the CV so they're easier to weed out and not waste my time or theirs.

*EXACTLY*

Once I hit a pay level where my life was comfortable, I stopped looking at the money so much as "how much crap do I have to put up with to get this money?"

And with each passing year, the amount of crap I'm willing to put up with declines :)

When I was young, money swayed me a lot more than it did by the time I was in my mid-30's.

Most jobs I've turned away were because the place looked like some kind of toxic slave pit. We're talking big red flags like "The work week here is 40 hours, but realistically most people put in 50+" "oh, so you pay, like time and a half for overtime?" "No, we are looking for people motivated by more than money." "Ah, I see, so you want free work. Gotcha." One could argue that's a case of low wage, but to me it's more "we expect you to be completely subservient to the company" - basically any time they mention some thing like "sweat equity" you know they mean "we expect you'll be donating a lot of free work to the company and we don't care about anything in your personal life."

I've seen managers mistreat (IMO) employees during an interview, that's a huge red flag.

No, I think they could cut military spending by a 1/4 to 1/3 if congress got rid of the ridiculous rules governing procurement. I manage a sizable budget of govt money and the way I have to go about contracting to get things done adds 15-30% based on what it is.

If they got rid of stupid rules and let us do our procurement like a normal business (at the unit level at least) we could save billions easy.

It’s hard to have nuanced conversations with someone who has opinions but zero knowledge, can’t have a real talk if it’s all nuts broad strokes don’t you think?

When I see people posting this I want to facepalm. The tax rate is far higher than that!Income is taxed, not the revenue.

Woah. The west side is so bumpy

I find it funny how people on Reddit love to attack business and want to govt to regulate them, but they do the exact same thing.

My red herring points out the govt you think should protect people actually predates on them the exact same way business do. They won’t help because they don’t want to.

But pick apart what you think I mean instead of what I actually mean, you can win that argument. Too bad it’s not the one I am making.

If “Other” is the second largest reason, they’ve used that category incorrectly

Sure, but the right price might be insane. For example, I had numerous offers intended to entice me away from being able to go fishing before breakfast, play hooky on a nice afternoon for snowshoeing or sailing, and sleep in my own bed every night. It was never going to happen, because the only price I would accept would mean that I'd have just retired independently wealthy after a year. Two at the most. Big as my ego is, even I know I'm not worth that much!

5% tax rate! Don’t try this at home.

I know Apple used to have a massive mountain of cash, but that seems to be way behind them now as now they have bowed to the market and accumulated $300B in debt..

Can someone explain this puzzling aspect as to why having a mountain of cash ($200B in cash and short term investments) is so bad, but having massive liabilities is considered to be a good idea?

AAPL -
Cash and short-term investments = 48.30B
Total assets = 352.76B
Total liabilities = 302.08B
Total equity = 50.67B

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Source: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/AAPL:NASDAQ

Idk the roads make it a bit too difficult to appreciate the topography. It's just a bit busy.

The truth that London isn't the whole world, is kind of irrelevant talking regarding that the conversation focused specifically on London, taking its specific situation into consideration.

My assumption is that people really don't see your point.

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the follow-up question is how make China, US, and EU change direction and reduce emissions. It's clear to me that we need to rethink the way we live currently

it's exactly that!

I didn't mean that. I compare this guy to regular CEO passing all their career jumping from one company to another on CEO positions. Those guys don't take any risk and ear a lot of money. Compared to them, a founder of a new company that build something new and useful definitively deserves more

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It’s for communities to determine and parents to decide whether to expose their children or not. There used to be a sense of community, but for for those most rural areas, it really no longer exists; the cost of connecting the globe, imo

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My guess is those got rolled into “Other reasons”, “personal reasons”, or even “long commute”.

Eh, I disagree. I've been approached for jobs that pay $200k+ but turned them down due to many of the other factors listed.

My comfort and job satisfaction is worth more to me than a higher salary. Money doesn't buy happiness, and a bit of extra money in the bank doesn't make up for all of the other stress.

Smart glasses will fail for the same reason they failed 10 years ago. Anyone wearing them looks like a smug douche.