Hot tip boomer, commuting is a waste of time and money and in most jobs doing away with this has no bearing on performance outcomes.
Another hot tip, just because someone is in the office doesn’t mean they aren’t wasting time. Don’t assume for one minute that the office days are somehow the glory days . Believe me I see the time wasting and shit talking every time I go into the office.
Arguably the distractions of an office 9 times out of 10 are actually counter productive.
Ok well that was a bit of a detour but it’s naive to think that even if people took up arms those who eventually step into power would somehow be benevolent. You only have to look at the history of Russia, Germany and many South East Asian countries as an example.
There’s a certain irony that Trump has become a victim of the political violence that he himself has stirred up.
While political violence is unacceptable, I can’t help but think there’s a bit of karma here.
Honestly the same thoughts crossed my mind, apart from the injuries to the crowd.
Edit: apparently the shooter was a registered Republican voter. Interesting.
Lol ba boom! ching!
If nuclear was so brilliant the private sector would have done it already. They haven’t because the cost far outweighs the benefit.
And as far taxpayer intervention goes to prop it up I just don’t see any compelling evidence to suggest investment in nuclear will give you better bang for your buck than renewables.
In some countries without much wind, sun and waves nuclear might make sense provided they could cheaply get uranium and dispose waste cheaply. That’s not Australia and we have options.
Super is not the short term relief you are looking for though… More people floating around with more money would just push up the prices even more, offsetting any benefit from withdrawing super.
Now if we started talking about increasing supply perhaps, that would be a different story.
I think the point is if you are trying to fix housing early withdrawal of super is not the answer for all the reasons given.
There are other solutions and it would take multiple policies working in tandom.
Silence peasant! We need more slaves!
In any case, the RBA tut tutting will change precisely nothing.
With all of these streaming services upping prices piracy will become more rampant than ever.
The bigger question is how free to air still survives.
Ok. But if you’re ideological believe is that all can be reformed without a shadow of a doubt and you turn out to be wrong, that has some devastating consequences for many potential victims.
My point of view is, you can try reform some of the less severe cases, but when it comes to people like the one in the article, you need to lock them up and throw away key for the good of society.
Well going back to your question, you asked whether people are born evil. The question was framed incorrectly. Which is why I responded with some people really are born with certain disposition.
You believe this can be overridden in all circumstances. I do not. You can try but it’s very dangerous to believe without a doubt this is true.
I don’t mean to sound disrespectful, I just think it’s naive to think that early intervention is the magic bullet in all cases.
It’s like saying all paedophiles can be reformed.
If you can point to concrete empirical evidence that proves this, I would like to see it. I’ve not seen or heard of any myself.
Evil is a subjective term, but I believe traits of a psychopath are heritable and studies do support this.
I haven’t made one. My point still stands. This level of premeditated violence that was not done under duress (i.e. literal or metaphorical gun point) was an act of complete free will and are the actions of a psychopath.
Short of a lobotomy or extremely strong psychiatric drugs some people are beyond reform.
It’s amusing that you come across as directing your hostility to me on the Internet, which I’m sure you will deny. I’m not the one burning people here while their kids watch.
I know what they meant. I just disagree. Some people are just inherently fucked and intervention won’t always work. There are bad seeds out there unfortunately and ignoring this fact with wishful thinking won’t make it to away.
Uh huh. You know absolutely nothing about my life and what I’ve been through so if I were you I’d be very careful about making assumptions.
And we are entitled to critique his silly backwards and out dated attitudes. He’ll be dead soon just like a lot of other dinosaurs and the world is going to move on whether he likes it or not. But instead he chooses to resist. Its really quite stupid.
He can add all the so called office perks he likes but it doesn’t compensate for the expense and time wasting that is commuting.
And people wonder why couples are deciding not to have children when megalomaniacs like this clown seem to think life revolves around work, so much so he wants you to drop your kids off at childcare so someone else can raise them. This guy is by no means an outlier in his attitudes but he is certainly bold enough to speak very plainly on it.
For the avoidance of all doubt I don’t advocate for employee laziness (unless you are being paid shit, in which case you put in proportionate to pay), but flexible working arrangements make a lot of sense.