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There are how many people on that list, and you’re picking one of them? What about Gates, who was the top four a long time? Dell? Buffet?
You have a preconceived notion, and you’re sticking to it, regardless of data.
Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023
There are how many people on that list, and you’re picking one of them? What about Gates, who was the top four a long time? Dell? Buffet?
You have a preconceived notion, and you’re sticking to it, regardless of data.
It’s not a good comparison. You can also say that a PhD doesn’t help you at all to be a fast food worker.
For a given profession, if you’re looking to hire an entry level person at an entry level salary, and someone applies who has decades of experience in that profession, it makes a difficult situation for the organization. When it’s time for raises, how do you fairly compare that person to the actual entry level people? If the person could legitimately get double their salary, are they going to stay on your team for the lower salary? Stuff like that makes it problematic.
That’s what it is at my work. I had a req opened for an early/mid career position (say a BS plus 6 to 10 years of experience). I had a number of applicants who had 30+ years of experience. They’d qualify for two or three job codes higher than the position I had, with significantly higher salary. It just doesn’t make sense to hire like that.
Does that animation make anyone else motion sick?
You’re going to take a single counter example and throw out everything else? I also mentioned there are different types, and some are like Christy Walton, who haven’t worked at all. But neither of those examples means that there aren’t a bunch of workaholics on the list.
Look, at least most of us agree that the wealth inequality is grotesque, but I’m not sure why you have a hard time with the concept that a lot of people get rich by focusing on making money and working very hard at it. I have a hard time with the concept of a CEO making orders of magnitude more than the average worker’s salary, but that doesn’t mean they don’t work a lot.
Two things:
You’re an ally if you respect other peoples’ gender identity and support their rights.
Whatever you choose for yourself isn’t disrespectful to anyone else. The whole point is to be able to be your true self, whatever that is. And it’s okay if you don’t know: pick whatever you’re comfortable with (or least uncomfortable with) today.
Oh, wait, I see: some of your numbers appear to have a space between the number and the period, so they aren’t counting as a numbered list. At least, vi think that’s it. Or no space between the period and the next word.
What is there between the “Grisham” at the end of line 63 and the beginning of 64?
If you start a line with an asterisk and a space, it will make a bullet. If you put a word or words between asterisks, it will make them italics. If you put them between pairs of asterisks (no space) it will make them bold.
So these people were not only depraved, they were idiots, too? Did they decide that their home Internet was too slow for their illegal content, so they’d do it at work? Crazy.
Apparently the people who have to review flagged items on social media, including law enforcement, really do suffer emotional issues. Like having to watch horrific child porn or torture videos. I get that someone has to do it, but I just couldn’t subject myself to that.
Oh, okay, that makes sense. I’ve seen security guards reading, but always wonder if the bosses are okay with that.
By the way, Lemmy is trying to make your asterisks into italics formatting and it’s messing up your number formatting halfway down.
It was on Kindle with pictures. In fact, part of my reason for reading it was to see how that was. It was actually good - I was on a tablet, so not too tiny.
I’ve read the second, which I liked tremendously, but haven’t gotten to the third yet.
Wow, that’s neat! Do you mind me asking what kind of work you do that let’s you read?
No, she/we didn’t eat it all at once, but none of the rest of it made it into the oven, either.
Thanks for sharing that. I was repeating things trans people in my personal life have said, but as you point out, there’s no single universal experience.
Really glad to hear you’re happier now. It very much sucks that society (and individuals in society) made you feel badly for being who you are.
Mastadon is to Twitter as Lemmy is to Reddit. So you don’t really follow topics, but you can follow people if you want (I never have) and you can join communities on the topics you’re interested in. Some of the things you’ve mentioned, like Linux, are very popular/prolific here.
My advice is to set your browsing by All (and whichever of the other one makes sense to you; I usually do New, but sometimes one of the Top ones), then when you see something posted in a community that you’re interested in, instead of clicking on the post, click on the community name. In the sidebar, you can subscribe to the community. After you’ve been doing that a while, if you want you can change your browsing to Subscribed.
There’s also a Lemmy Explorer, and you can set it to Communities at the top and find the ones that are the most active or are on the subjects you’re looking for.
Having your posts seen is mostly a matter of posting to active communities with engaging topics.
Welcome and good luck!