Sometimes "think different" can kill you | 51 comments (51 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: The toffee-nosed elite (4.00 / 4)

"You pretend to pay us and we pretend to work" is applicable to any system of exploitation. US workers are not receiving the benefits of the wealth they produce from their workplace so they are grabbing what they can, as they can.

TPTB broke the underlying Social Consensus and now they are reaping the results.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

by ATinNM on Wed Oct 26th, 2011 at 02:28:38 PM EST
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Re: The toffee-nosed elite (none / 0)

I used to own a copy, but I lent it to someone and never got it back. perhaps I'm an employer and don't know it

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Oct 26th, 2011 at 02:44:49 PM EST
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Re: The toffee-nosed elite (none / 0)

Exactly why I don't lend books. People are welcome to come, sit in the house, and read in the library. They are not welcome to take my books out of the house.

Motto: If you don't ask to borrow a book I won't have to say, "no."

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

by ATinNM on Wed Oct 26th, 2011 at 03:00:13 PM EST
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Re: The toffee-nosed elite (none / 1)

it was 10 years ago. nowadays you have to sign in blood

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Oct 26th, 2011 at 03:04:15 PM EST
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Re: The toffee-nosed elite (4.00 / 2)

Same thing with money. I don't "lend" money or books to friends. If they need money or want to read a book, I just GIVE it to them. If it comes back to me, well, what a nice surprise. Saves a lot of bad blood being created.

'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher

by Wife of Bath (kareninaustin at g mail dot com) on Thu Oct 27th, 2011 at 04:43:52 AM EST
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Re: The toffee-nosed elite (none / 1)

During communism we had saying:
"you can never pay me as little as I can work as little" (bad translation, sorry).But you get it...

by vbo on Thu Oct 27th, 2011 at 07:07:54 AM EST
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Sometimes "think different" can kill you | 51 comments (51 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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