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Post by Reactionary Rage on Sept 7, 2020 16:39:10 GMT
"sophistication"
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2020 16:45:16 GMT
Not a word I expected to see in a thread about America.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Sept 7, 2020 16:47:21 GMT
Local convention center was losing too many conventions because the work crews were too willing to haul off and punch the client if they disagreed with the demands. So they hired a a business school to come in and teach the riggers, electricians, carpenters, etc., how to have a civilized disagreement, how to negotiate, how to follow up, etc.,
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Post by sloopjohnc on Sept 7, 2020 17:27:22 GMT
The organization that studies productivity rates, among other stats. Brits are pikers. You can count on an article or so every other week in business sections of American newspapers on work/life balance. Early in my career, I used to regularly go into the office Sunday mornings to noon to catch up on work. I stopped because it really didn't decrease the pile of paper on my desk. Not anymore, but I had a bad tendency of putting work first. oecdecoscope.blog/2019/01/21/statistical-insights-are-international-productivity-gaps-as-large-as-we-thought/
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Sept 7, 2020 17:32:47 GMT
there is a willingness to work longer and harder too I think, maybe rooted in the immigrant factor perhaps but also a competitive "American" can-do attitude and belief that effort will be rewarded (there is also a calvinist element in there too). That's what I've found. The idea that hard work is its own reward. Something like that. And perhaps a particularly male outlook that looks down on those who are afraid of getting their hands dirty.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Sept 7, 2020 17:33:06 GMT
When American is rough it's really fucking rough. There is so much less of a safety net. I used to refer to the tramps in Las Vegas as "proper tramps", in the sense that they looked really down and out. It's extreme in a way the UK just isn't. There is no safety net except for miniscule social security. It depend totally on how much you save and where you work. I wish I had stayed in my county government job - the retirement plan was great. Civil service in America used to mean job security and an okay pension, but now they get really good salaries and excellent pensions - police and firefighters especially. I have a good friend who worked for the Reno Fire Dept. He was the third highest paid person in dept. He will collect 100% of his salary. He quit five years ago and has worked for Tacoma Fire Dept. since and is retiring this year. He will get another pension from them. He will collect over $250,000 every year for the rest of his life. When I was growing up, firefighters always had side jobs because they worked four days on/three days off. I used to help paint houses for one friend's dad's side business. And he was a captain.
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Post by tory on Sept 7, 2020 17:33:41 GMT
I love the paypal donation address at the bottom - that's truly America
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Post by sloopjohnc on Sept 7, 2020 17:39:45 GMT
There's this TV commercial going on where they show three separate overweight people going through a Burger King drive-thru promoting two Whopper hamburgers for $5.
I can't figure out if they're selling burgers or diabetes.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2020 9:57:34 GMT
Some call the America " the great experiment" and leaders in most things. To use a computer/coding analogy, i see America as a development/stage environment. Any social change etc that the US comes up with, other countries kinda watch and see it implode or work. Then the rest of the world kinda take the best parts and lessons on what not to do. Then move it in to production, to finish the computer/coding analogy.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2020 10:49:55 GMT
Some call the America " the great experiment" and leaders in most things. To use a computer/coding analogy, i see America as a development/stage environment. Any social change etc that the US comes up with, other countries kinda watch and see it implode or work. Then the rest of the world kinda take the best parts and lessons on what not to do. Then move it in to production, to finish the computer/coding analogy. Do you have any examples of this happening.
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Post by tory on Sept 8, 2020 11:02:13 GMT
America's cultural imperialism is coming home to roost here sadly. The result of Anglophone connections means that American protest and deluded American academic thinking (see womxn) takes off here sadly.
BLM protests are indicative of this. There was no direct connection between American police brutality and the death of George Floyd and UK protests.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Sept 8, 2020 11:14:19 GMT
Not important. They sensed that change was in the air, took the opportunity.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2020 11:17:09 GMT
Some call the America " the great experiment" and leaders in most things. To use a computer/coding analogy, i see America as a development/stage environment. Any social change etc that the US comes up with, other countries kinda watch and see it implode or work. Then the rest of the world kinda take the best parts and lessons on what not to do. Then move it in to production, to finish the computer/coding analogy. Do you have any examples of this happening. Guns, BLM, the attempted use of womxn, ways to run business, laws concerning everything from medicine to treatment of food, policing, governing.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2020 14:03:13 GMT
I wouldn't take the womxn thing too seriously. Toby trawls twitter looking for this stuff, it's a kind of hobby for him. Take it seriously if it ever becomes a widespread thing...which I strongly suspect it won't. Of course what happens in America is often very influential on other countries, I'm not challenging that at all. It was more the idea of other countries deliberately using the US as a sort of research laboratory that was, and still is, rather unclear to me.
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Post by Sneelock on Sept 8, 2020 16:04:03 GMT
There's this TV commercial going on where they show three separate overweight people going through a Burger King drive-thru promoting two Whopper hamburgers for $5. I can't figure out if they're selling burgers or diabetes. the two aren't mutually exclusive.
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