patrick.net
An Antidote to Corporate Media
1,202,141 comments by 14,263 users - Blue, HeadSet, jazz_music, RayAmerica online now
invite responseComments 1 - 12 of 12 Search these comments
Shaman
2013 May 20, 8:18am
It's easy to get ahead. You just need to lack a conscience! Sociopaths with some intelligence and drive do very well here. The key is to lack any compassion or empathy for anyone. Then all things are possible. If anything should make a normal person depressed its that. All things considered tho, I'll keep my conscience.
"engineers struggle to build life changing nanotechnology at $88,000 a year"
Are you implying $88,000.00 is a low salary?
"engineers struggle to build life changing nanotechnology at $88,000 a year"
Are you implying $88,000.00 is a low salary?
For the bay area it is low. It's ok if you're single and not addicted to debt or consumerism, but throw in a girlfriend/wife or even a baby and you may barely get by. You may need to start flipping houses to supply your salary ;)
AD
2013 May 20, 1:38pm
This year we have made the final transition from a meritocracy to a lottery society.
I read a NY Times article about venture capital in Silicon Valley recently. It spoke of a online t-shirt company getting a few million dollars from a VC. The way money is being invested it makes me wonder the state of the country's collective mental well being. And I won't start on H1-B visas and illegal immigration along with public outcry about how terrible the job market is.
Tenpoundbass
2013 May 21, 12:01am
I went broke overestimating the intelligence of the American public.
...hey that's good! that Man sure cken write.
And there is little or nothing you can do about it.
Umm,,,what's stopping you from playing the lottery? Pony up the 2$, you tightwad
New Renter
2013 May 21, 2:03am
"engineers struggle to build life changing nanotechnology at $88,000 a year"
Are you implying $88,000.00 is a low salary?
Living on this kind of income in the SFBA can be done even by a family of 3-4. What it means is the family is limited to a rent budget of ~$2500/mo and will probably be living paycheck to paycheck.
zzyzzx
2013 May 21, 3:48am
Umm,,,what's stopping you from playing the lottery? Pony up the 2$, you tightwad
When did lottery tickets start costing $2?
I thought that they were $1, not that I would know since I don't buy them.
Obligatory:
I want my $2!
elliemae
2013 May 21, 2:59pm
Awesome photo! pay the damn paperboy or he'll chase you across parks, down ski slopes...
FuckTheMainstreamMedia
2013 May 21, 3:09pm
It's easy to get ahead. You just need to lack a conscience! Sociopaths with some intelligence and drive do very well here. The key is to lack any compassion or empathy for anyone. Then all things are possible. If anything should make a normal person depressed its that. All things considered tho, I'll keep my conscience.
Pretty sure there's a couple of these that are regular posters on PAtnet.
Vicente
2013 May 21, 3:27pm
Back in 1993, my first experience with the Georgia lottery, was a stopped line at the gas station when I went inside to pay. Guy up front seems to be fiddling with bits of paper, not liking the result, getting another one. Finally he gets done, turns and notices everyone standing there. He says "I'm supportin edjication y'all!" before he and his skank jump into the Camaro. Yeah!
This year we have made the final transition from a meritocracy to a lottery society.
This frustrates people at all levels.
If frustrates smart people who think they should earn more.
It frustrates state planners whose equality schemes drive down their popularity.
Meanwhile to the majority of Americans making 5 figures it makes total sense.
Mega millions are lotteries.
But so are IPOs.
Even banksters salaries pale in comparison to lottery winners.
While engineers struggle to build life changing nanotechnology at $88,000 a year, some Big Gulper in Zephyrhills Florida has jumped on the Golden Chariot and is pulling away from the rest of society.
No amount of blogging can change this.
Only a lottery ticket can.
A winning one.