the_fonz

Clickbait, contrived nonsense. If housing is taken care of, the real minimum-viable wage for San Francisco is $35k/year. Anything beyond that is either exorbitant discretional living beyond one's means and/or overpaying. Housing is insane in most of SF with rooms approaching $6k/month, which would necessitate an income of around $200k/year. There's no need to live in SF, and it maybe untenable and illogical to do so without commensurate income for the majority of people. Live elsewhere and save money, don't just bid into a bidding war because everyone else is.

Whale blubber and mammal livers are high in vitamin c and considering primates lost the function of the GULO (L-gulonolactone oxidase) gene, one could surmise from megafauna extinctions that hunting was essential to most nomadic hominids.

Also, GULO is one of many interesting genes to contemplate resurrecting.

There's no technical panacea to this undesirable behavior. Sanctions against party elites would be a start by preventing them from banking or traveling freely.

China is far, far worse with the sex ratio being incredibly imbalanced due to the past one child policy. There's a number of documentaries about the craziness and competitiveness of dating in China. People not having sex, not having families (if they so desire) and not making enough money to be comfortable anywhere is a national emergency.

American men of any sort can just go to Brazil, Mexico, Ukraine or the Czech Republic... where an endless supply of objectively-attractive women are willing to hookup with foreigners for very little or no relative cost. (Prague 10's for 60€/hour.) Rent a huge villa for cheap for a few weeks in Central and South America, the girls beat down your door like they're meeting a celebrity... they will bring their girlfriends if you ask them for a good old hellraising.

LDOW (older women) from the US visit Jamaica, Haiti, Costa Rica and parts of Africa for sex tourism, formally or informally, because of the abundance of fit men.

I think frustrated dudes need a shift in attitude, a more open-mind and make an effort for their own sake. A more pleasing personality, better social adroitness and improved awareness goes a long ways to many things in life.

Hedges mentioned that when capitalism is in doubt, the panacea "answer" that often turns into a wedge-issue is whether to replace the previous socioeconomic order with more fascism or more socialism. Anomie and angst get channeled into convulsions leading towards yet another civil war along these lines; dividing-and-conquering on the similar issues and concerns as almost a century prior. Paraphrasing what someone once said: history is doomed to repeat itself about every 90 years. I feel like we're repeating the late 1920's, to a degree, with growing nationalism and hate directed at minorities.. which inevitably leads to World War if not civil war.

This doesn't go far enough. As reported by Al Jazeera in 2010, critical structural elements of the 737 NG that were supposed to be CNC'ed were handmade and grossly out-of-spec, leading to at least three deaths when 737 NG's broke apart in several sections on runway overruns, while in the past airframes held together intact in such events, protecting passengers. Boeing then covered up and scuttled its own investigation panel after management didn't like its conclusions.

tl;dr: 737 NG and MAX aircraft are fundamentally unsafe because of systemic lapses in regulatory oversight. These aircraft cannot be made safe economically due to Boeing's regulatory capture of the FAA, so it's best to never fly on them.

In my mind, Boeing as a passenger transport company is, or should be, finished. How they acted regarding the 737 NG and MAX are criminally-unforgivable.

People don't seem to get: the world isn't anywhere close to this lie of meritocracy they've been sold. There's a small fraction of society with the right pedigree who don't have to work hard and have everything handed to them because of who their parents are. This fraction is the predominant constituent of Ivy League universities, whereas merit students who worked hard are a tiny minority.

Regardless of acquisition price point, this is almost always what happens when employees take these third-rate shares.

The solution is employees need to insist on the exact same class of shares as founders. Furthermore, more startup workplaces need to closer to co-ops than these pseudo-meritocratic corporations out to exploit labor with impunity. Maybe it wouldn't have helped in this instance, but that's not the point... the point is being treated fairly regardless of exit outcome.