I don’t open this app daily. 🙂

I don’t doubt this, but I also don’t remember when they tested it, do you? What kind of failed horny lady ads am I forgetting through the years?

Because the comment that kicked off this thread reads, “…or did he just hand her the package it was mailed in?”

Part of this is accountability. As you move up, you take on more responsibility for bigger and bigger things going right or wrong. This can mean a greater potential to do big things for the company, and it can also mean a higher risk of getting fired in disgrace and becoming unemployable. Most people demand more compensation to step into such a role. Agreeing to do so means you’re becoming a more deeply embedded part of the company, so the company cares more whether you’re happy, because it’s theoretically more vulnerable now if you should go rogue.

Leadership also means you’re more likely to be thinking about work (which is itself work) outside of standard office hours, which is only possible if your compensation allows you to outsource some aspects of your life, e.g. hiring a cleaner.

And if you’re in a position that’s visible within the company or beyond, they want you looking good. Nice things, clean clothes, a lifestyle for junior employees to aspire to, and an image that projects success on behalf of the company.

Also all the reasons everyone has already named. Lots of reasons. And yeah, it should be possible to move up to the same compensation level by being good at the actual work, but capitalism = scaling = constant need for leadership. Anyway, you won’t be there forever, so if you’re really that good, the company extracts more value out of you training those coming up behind you than just rewarding you for doing the same things for 30 years.

You seem like the right person to ask this question…where does “hiking up a mountain” end and “mountain climbing” begin? Is it scrabble-related? A specific incline? Mostly in your heart, maybe?

The first step is to want to get rid of the anger though, right? How does one in this state move past the idea that they are right, and therefore it’s right to be angry?

Is it? It looks the same to me when I flip my phone. Perhaps it looks off because it’s in a bolder or newer set, like the B and some other letters. Or maybe it’s AI and every detail is random.

Still in the box, sure. But it doesn’t need to be left in the warehouse-sealed shipping container. It’s 100% okay—even expected—for the gift giver to have opened the box to see that the item is as it should be.

It’s not a limitation but a matter of precision. The position of the minute hand tells you how far into that minute you are. You don’t need that information, of course. You can just say whatever mark it’s closest to. At 1:00:58, although a digital clock would still read 1:00, it is by all accounts much more accurate to round the minute to 1:01.

So if you just call the time by the minute your minute hand appears closest to, you’ll often be more accurate than a digital clock. It won’t matter. But you’ll know it’s true.

Yeah he looks stunning in blue

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I mean all seriousness aside, that photo is pretty fucking cool

In the context of the premise, absolutely not, because there is plenty of suffering to go around already.

Still ought to be discounted since it’s eliminating jobs.

I agree with everything you’re saying, except my john is just down the hall…so when we’re going, we don’t need roads

Oh man, I envy your opinion of other people. Hold onto that as long as you can.

Internationally, most people mean the pro-corporate anti-regulation right when they say liberals. It’s exclusively a U.S. thing afaik to equate liberalism with anything left of center, which causes a lot of confusion.

You’re probably right, but you’d have to make it to court. Not everyone does…

Absorbent, because he’s a sponge. Absorbent and yellow and porous. Obnoxiousness is just bonus.

Depends on which American you’re speaking to. It’s a big country.