I did retirement home training and used to think it was a sweet job. Then I got in the business and underestimated how demoralizing it was as they give you the easy elders in training while the others make you, or at least me, really think of the fact the job just amounts to an unkarmic freebie.
Private equity/venture capitalists - they acquire unique brands and then extract all the value and enshitify them into the ground
One of the reasons Boeing sucks is this. First reason is McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeings money, hallowed out the soul that built the world’s greatest aircraft, then sold what was left off to the big investment funds. Then the investment funds were like “look at all this money Boeing is spending on safety and suppliers” so they cut out the safety and bought out the suppliers. The horror stories of quality control at some of the suppliers is just as bad if not worse than some of the horror stories of quality control at Boeing. What if I told you Boeing fought to have ECS (environmental control systems) software that was written by third world “programmers” that didn’t speak English to remain on their aircraft illegally, claiming it didn’t pose a threat to safety, you know those systems that determine if there is enough oxygen to breath at altitude and whether the temperature inside the plane is survivable…
Vulture capitalists.
Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
Mitt Romney says “Hi.”
Ctrl + F Landlord
Yall disappoint me.
Landlord is an occupation? Not familiar with any labor they do
Do you have any idea how hard it is to sit on your ass until the end of the month and then carry all those checks to the bank and sign them all? Think of the poor landlords and their signing hands! 😢
It did use to be when rent was low and tenants had stronger rights. When things broke, you’d have to fix it yourself or hire someone to do it. When a tenant was making everyone else in the building feel unsafe it was up to you to drag them out.
When rent went up and tenants rights were thrown out of the window, it became easy street. You hire someone to take care of it all, and sip your coffee in the morning.
It genuinely used to be a high risk, low reward venture. The shortage of housing skyrocketed it into an occupation for rich dullards to sit on their ass all day.
Landlord isn’t an occupation, any more than ‘white collar criminal’
There’s another comment that mentioned a landlord that was published exactly 30 seconds before yours. :P
(Please keep in mind that I’m just teasing you. Obviously, there’s no way you could have known. Haha.)
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I’m staying in a city temporarily for about 6 months, whers would I live if I couldn’t rent?
The lack of a land lord does not mean the house disappeared off the planet.
Yes but I’m not going to buy a house for 6 months just to sell it, it’s not very feasible.
The lack of a landlord also does not prevent you from temporarily using open housing either.
Wdym?
Imagine a world where housing was given on a per-need basis. People still need to travel for work and stay for months at a time, except it’s understood that the job getting done is more important than a landlord profiting off the fact you have to travel for it.
Hotels used to be the standard temporary housing.
Literally anyone who works in health insurance.
Currently work in biotech, and have worked in medtech; I have had to integrate systems with insurers (payors is the industry term). I know exactly how fucked it is on a statistical level.
I used to work for an insurer. Our entire health system is just a steaming pile of crap. Providers will double or triple bill. Hospitals raise their rates through the absolute roof so they have room for negotiations. The uninsured people more often than not get billed at the unnegotiated rate which is many times what it should be. If the insurers are short on money or profit margins are down and their stockholders are angry they end up turning down shitloads of procedures looking at the statistics for what’s least likely to cause lawsuits and death. Medicare requires you to go and recertify every patient every year, Mr Johnson’s an amputee, well you better get him back in to make sure he still is or you’re not going to pay for DME. Half the big insurers are still running on Big iron of one form or another, FTP over SSL coming hot off of mainframe.
It’s not a good look.
I design big iron. The hardware is great, don’t blame us.
I googled big iron. I still don’t understand what you two are talking about, don’t blame me.
Big iron means a mainframe. The Ferrari of servers.
Ferrari? More like the passenger train of computers.
Like I said, I help design them. I’m interested to know why you think that. You work with them? How old are the ones you work with?
Thank you!
Big iron on his hip
Found Texas Red.
What’s texas red?
Big Iron is a song by Marty Robbins, about a criminal named Texas Red, who wore a big iron on his hip.
Ha! That went right over my head. Thanks for explaining.
What is “big iron”?
Mainframe computers
Thanks.
I’m not sure I do, but one thing I haven’t seen mentioned here yet is consumer psychologists. I once read an argument that they could be improving people’s mental health, instead they are working on manipulating people into buying more.
Time for a rewatch of The Century Of Self.
Naturopaths.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure there’s folks doing sane, evidence-based care in this area. But I’ve seen so much bullshit from practitioners, ranging from the grossly unethical to the blatantly dangerous, that I find them hard to trust about anything as a group.
Besides, we already have health professionals that can provide good, evidence-based care (issues like ego v. evidence/new findings to improve care notwithstanding - but there’s crappy people in all fields) - we call them doctors and nurse practitioners. And we need more of those.
Local natural food store sells Homeopathic medicines. We’re talking water selling at the same price as ink jet printer ink.
Let’s throw our morals away and sell homeopathic meals. Like “this is a cheeseburger diluted 10c” and slap a picture of a burger on a water bottle.
Lobbyists
Well, lobbyists work not only for evil corpos, but also for NGOs and movements… Lobbyism is the process to sway politics to a direction through interpersonal meetings, and is necessarily in a democracy.
However, one thing that would benefit the US is transparency around lobbyists; who they are, how they are funded, their agenda etc. The EU has a database on registered lobbyists and the transparency helps with parts of the problem.
This needs higher up. Lobbyists are a cancer
Software Patent Attorney
Any sort of high pressure sales sucks.
How much do you hate them?
Name a number!
How about if I drop that hatred by 22% with a 2.1% financing? And throw in a free coupon to Chili’s if you verify within the next 45 minutes! Hurry act now we’re running low on coupons. And you don’t want to go home empty handed, do you?
Telemarketers
Advertiser
This. “Marketing” is just a euphemism for “propaganda” – it is inherently manipulative and therefore evil.
That shit should be illegal, with, like, a living whitelist so you can still put out a sandwich board in front of your restaurant.
Yes, I know that will implode entire sectors. They deserve it.
There’s a city in France - Toulouse, IIRC - where the mayor ran on a promise that “if you elect me, I’ll remove all the billboards.” Turns out that was really popular, so now that city does not have any billboards.
Dope.
There’s a good next pet issue for me once over-restrictive zoning is gone and dead. I guess public transit is a perennial bee to put in my bonnet, too.
I once saw a video report on bullshit jobs, where they also interviewed a researcher into how much value is gained or destroyed by various professions.
They said that for every £1 (the researchers worked in the UK) given to marketing executives, that society suffered £11 in lost value.
Mad Men was hard for me to keep up with because I just hated everyone and it made me angry
private equity investment firms
And vulture hedge funds.
Read up on the shit people like Eric Hermann has done buying up debt from distressed countries, then siphoning off their aid money to cover those debts. Zero humanity.
“Influencers”
This. They were the first thing I thought of when thinking of useless.
I have ad-blockers to filter out crap. Now I need influence-blockers.
infuencers are just rebranded shills
What gets me is how transparent the term is, and people still act like its a good thing.
Human Cannonball
Hear me out: Many circus performers are multi disciplined, or put on an incredible display of training and talent. The last big top I went to had a knife throwing couple who also did a fantastic roller skating routine, a few very talented clowns/jugglers, and a bike troupe in a ball of death. Just to name a few. These people have devoted days or years of their lives to their craft. Do you know how hard it is to ride a bicycle across a tight rope with someone on your shoulders?
The Human Cannonball? He got launched out of the cannon and did one flip before getting caught by the net. That’s all he did that night, yet he came out and bowed with the rest of the performers like he was an equal contributor.
The Human Cannonball? He got launched out of the cannon and did one flip before getting caught by the net.
That’s what it looks like to the untrained eye. But they’re not really going to fire a person out of a cannon. That’s not safe. So he just huddles in the cannon, they light a decoy fuse, it makes a bang (with no projectile), and he spring out and jumps that distance by himself. Requires a lot of core and leg strength.
This is equal parts so silly and so possible that I have no idea if this comment is a joke (I’ve never been to a circus)
Really, there’s no launching mechanism at all?
There is a launch pad thing using springs or compressed air to give them a boost or they wouldn’t go as far.
The explosion is just for sound, and it is funny if the timing is off.
I…can’t tell if you’re serious or making a joke. Lol.
Chiropractors. It’s pseudoscience. Maybe it’s not the most unique opposition from me as I know some others dislike chiropractors, but I think it’s backwards that medical aids or health insurance will literally pay for their client’s appointments with these modern day charlatans, while denying payment of scientifically proven treatment options.
Wall Street. Shorts, bulls, bears, options, it is all euphemisms for gambling and everyone else suffers for it.
