Every HR department ever says that exact same thing. Even while the company is burning down and past bankruptcy.

Edit: For example, the fortune 50 I worked for insisted the same thing. Even when faced with industry data…they’d insist the Glassdoor and Indeed numbers were fake.

I left and got a 90% raise. That’s not a joke number.

You’re actually getting applicants at 80k? That’s nuts. Last I checked fresh outs were clearing 100k.

I guess, if this were a thing, your appendix would come back, but it wouldn’t be infected.

If it gets infected, you chug healing potions until you can cure disease or remove curse depending on the DM’s ruling.

How does that work? Vaginal dentatta?

once currency has no meaning.

You really think those bunkers are filled with cash Scrooge McDuck style? They’ll have food, guns, and likely lots of gold. They’ll also very likely be sustainable.

Keeping the mercs fed and happy is a trivial thing.

Unfortunately their house of cards is built on a foundation of wealth…and not just fuck you money, but literal centuries of fuck you money.

The fortune 50 I worked for could literally stop doing all business and maintain their current spend for a century and still be solvent.

This isn’t unstable at all…it’s built to last for 100s of years…the current leaders to their grandkids will be safe.

To further that…the 1% have private armies and well stocked bunkers to ride out any social uprising. That’s the really scary stuff.

We are all fucked though. Enjoy the hunger games.

It’s the natural end for a free market. The big players take over and squeeze every drop of blood they can from the consumer class until the inevitable collapse or B&L buys the government.

I’ll take the average immigrant’s reading level over the average conservative’s reading level.

Top hit on google: https://www.crossrivertherapy.com/research/literacy-statistics#:~:text=Top 10 U.S. Literacy Rate,literacy below sixth-grade level.

Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/09/09/low-literacy-levels-among-us-adults-could-be-costing-the-economy-22-trillion-a-year/?sh=223357864c90

Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/08/02/us-literacy-rate/

There’s a bunch of other studies out there that back that number…It’s always generally 20% can’t read at all…50% can’t do critical analysis of text.

It’s really ugly…Those people all vote, and I think it helps explain how the most vile ridiculous demons the R’s put out there get 30%+ of the vote. It’s extremely hard to refute lies when the person consuming and believing the lie can’t read.

It’s only going to get worse. 20% of the US is illiterate. 50% can’t read above a 6th grade level.

Read that again.

1 in 2 people can not read above a 6th grade level.

That is a fucking insane statistic.

Threads has 100m phantom accounts. A lot of them are bots. Who knows how many of those are real users.

It’s not that so much as Howard Stern theory. The people that like that stuff, click on it and move on.

The people that hate that stuff hate it enough to interact with it… That means more time on the site, more ads, more revenue.

It’s just the hate algorithms… They’re lucrative.

Picking a server is complicated… And I still don’t get how to get content from other servers into my main feed.

But the other thing is monitization. If you build up a decent filling on TikTock for example, they pay you. My kids friends are all chasing that.

Trying. But the experience isn’t all there yet.