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Work is for suckers
By: Phil Potts Date: July 16, 2021, 5:25 pm
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Clickbait title. I think most people want to work, the problem
is whether it's worth it for 500/week in the gig economy. Trying
to get qualifications that take a few years and then experience,
chasing a well paid full time job after 40 is probably pointless
too.
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Re: Work is for suckers
By: Eddie Date: July 16, 2021, 7:05 pm
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[quote author=Phil Potts link=topic=42.msg602#msg602
date=1626474354]
Clickbait title. I think most people want to work, the problem
is whether it's worth it for 500/week in the gig economy. Trying
to get qualifications that take a few years and then experience,
chasing a well paid full time job after 40 is probably pointless
too.
HTML https://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
[/quote]
Until about the time I started, doctors almost never took
disability. And they could get cheap, good disability insurance,
and most of them did, just in case. When medicine went corporate
in the 90’s, I can’t tell you how many docs I know suddenly
became unable to work (for less money, anyway).
I paid the premiums for more than 30 years. My one good policy
ended when I turned 65. Apparently after that age, you’re just
supposed to effin retire, according to the actuaries...so you
don’t need coverage. Worked out well for the insurance company,
in my case. I still have a sh*tty policy called “disability
overhead” that (after 90 days) would possibly be enough keep the
office doors open if I let all my help go. Long enough to sell
my charts to somebody. I have maybe 10K active patients.
I have a bad back. I have high blood pressure. I am borderline
diabetic. My feet have neuropathy. But I’d rather work if I can,
and I’m glad I can. In four more years I’ll get 25% more SS
than I would if I (a) were disabled or (b)took retirement at my
“full retirement age.” which is next March. What is that, seven
more months?
Where does the effin time go?
I anticipate working for 5 to 7 more years. I might not make it,
but so what? It’s a worthwhile goal. I’d like to be debt free,
except for investment leverage, when I retire. I figure I might
live (going by the actuarials) 15 more years after that. Men who
live to be my age generally make it to around 86, and every year
I live from now on increases the odds of living even longer than
that..by at least a few more years. That’s enough time to be out
of work.
The only thing I regret is not having a few more big adventures.
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Re: Work is for suckers
By: RE Date: July 16, 2021, 11:50 pm
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All the low paid service economy jobs have trouble finding
people these days because goobermint assistance pays about as
much as a job as a barrista or home health aide etc. It's the
same issue the UK has had for years with people staying on the
dole permanently. The only way to solve this is to raise the
salaries of the bottom level of workers, but this screws up the
economics of say a typical restaurant. They would then have to
raise prices to pay the workers, thus driving an inflationary
spiral. It's basically an insoluble problem unless you take
away the dole, in which case you will get the bigger problem of
more homeless people and riots. A Communist solution would be
to assign mandated work to everyone and pay everyone the same
regardless of what work they do. In this system doctors and
sanitation engineers (garbagemen) are all paid the same. The
only advantage of being a doctor is your work environment is
generally less smelly. Given that a good supply of garbagemen
is more important to the health of the society than doctors,
this is a reasonable solution.
RE
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Re: Work is for suckers
By: Phil Potts Date: July 17, 2021, 4:53 pm
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[quote author=RE link=topic=42.msg608#msg608 date=1626497445]
All the low paid service economy jobs have trouble finding
people these days because goobermint assistance pays about as
much as a job as a barrista or home health aide etc. It's the
same issue the UK has had for years with people staying on the
dole permanently. The only way to solve this is to raise the
salaries of the bottom level of workers, but this screws up the
economics of say a typical restaurant. They would then have to
raise prices to pay the workers, thus driving an inflationary
spiral. It's basically an insoluble problem unless you take
away the dole, in which case you will get the bigger problem of
more homeless people and riots. A Communist solution would be
to assign mandated work to everyone and pay everyone the same
regardless of what work they do. In this system doctors and
sanitation engineers (garbagemen) are all paid the same. The
only advantage of being a doctor is your work environment is
generally less smelly. Given that a good supply of garbagemen
is more important to the health of the society than doctors,
this is a reasonable solution.
RE
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Restaurant looks to me like also classic case of
underemployment. Because it's variable by season, day of week,
or just random bookings, the hours of a lot of the staff are up
and down, sometimes a good week but other times not enough. They
never get up to full time hours, only part time.
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