In my effort to be a good adult, I finally took one of those retirement webinars your employers is always pushing you to attend. Let me tell you something, this is some WILD content. Have you ever attended a financial-banking type webinar?
Maybe its because I just finished reading "Cultish" but holy moly the lingo, Batman. You get why so many white upper middle class Americans are constantly terrified. A dude with a British accent just casually predicted "world domination" and "peak globalization" finance trends
What, exactly, is a 401k holder supposed to do to *checks notes* respond to peak globalization and world domination conflict??? WUT lol
I tapped out on the "future of work" segment. It's all automation, your kids aren't ready, OMG.
"bespoke securitized markets" is written in my notebook next to rolling eyes.
Hi everybody sending me weblinks, I am very familiar with the future of work literature. Some might even say I work in it from time to time. So, the joke is that I could not sit through a high level uncritical 2 minute talk on it in a retirement webinar. Thank you.
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Now there are two middle aged white women doing COVID denial that is WORD FOR WORD THE SCRIPT I AM READING IN A BOOK AT THE SAME TIME. She just said “my body, my choice” and said “the vaccine is leading us all to slaughter.”
My mouth is on the floor
Maybe I have just been inside a long time and forgot how very pitiful a lot of people are. But it *seems* like everyone got measurably…uh…more ignorant over the past 14 months.
I am watching the most intense yet quiet concerted cultivation happen at a table next me and I AM IN HOG HEAVEN
Y’all are gonna get these notes. Sorry. We have a nuclear family. Minority mixed race but not Black. Dressed in color coordinated outfits and dinner formal. The father is seated AT THE HEAD OF THE TABLE.
Honest to god, they have one daughter and one son. They’re quietly teaching them how to order and empowering them to do so. Classic.
I already like what the curly hair with bangs is communicating
They already cast the “hot guy” right. He is exactly like a guy who is only hot in the academia context where we are both desperate and deeply removed from reality.
I had the most edifying chat this morning with a writer working on a book about whiteness and country music and y’all really should call me more often to talk about fun smart stuff. All anyone calls me with usually is car warranties and bills.
If you want to talk about: 1. the post job hustle economy 2. Beauty and racial capitalism 3. Race, gender, class and pop culture
AND you’re weird but not weird-weird and don’t mind cussing, hit me up 😂😂
Sure, I’m an only child and that may matter to context but I still cannot believe no one shows up to congratulate you when you have WORKED ALL DAY.
I overcame inertia, self-interest, opportunity costs and BIOLOGICAL IMPERATIVES to produce a product for capitalism and the least a mofo could do is say thank you with a fucking cake.
My actual reward is EXERCISE that I do for MYSELF and if you ever sit and really think about it, this is all bullshit.