I did retirement home training and used to think it was a sweet job. Then I got in the business and underestimated how demoralizing it was as they give you the easy elders in training while the others make you, or at least me, really think of the fact the job just amounts to an unkarmic freebie.

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Private equity/venture capitalists - they acquire unique brands and then extract all the value and enshitify them into the ground

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One of the reasons Boeing sucks is this. First reason is McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeings money, hallowed out the soul that built the world’s greatest aircraft, then sold what was left off to the big investment funds. Then the investment funds were like “look at all this money Boeing is spending on safety and suppliers” so they cut out the safety and bought out the suppliers. The horror stories of quality control at some of the suppliers is just as bad if not worse than some of the horror stories of quality control at Boeing. What if I told you Boeing fought to have ECS (environmental control systems) software that was written by third world “programmers” that didn’t speak English to remain on their aircraft illegally, claiming it didn’t pose a threat to safety, you know those systems that determine if there is enough oxygen to breath at altitude and whether the temperature inside the plane is survivable…

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Vulture capitalists.

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Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

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I’m morbidly curious at how that happens/works

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Ctrl + F Landlord

Yall disappoint me.

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Landlord isn’t an occupation, any more than ‘white collar criminal’

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There’s another comment that mentioned a landlord that was published exactly 30 seconds before yours. :P

 

 

(Please keep in mind that I’m just teasing you. Obviously, there’s no way you could have known.)

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I’m staying in a city temporarily for about 6 months, whers would I live if I couldn’t rent?

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The lack of a land lord does not mean the house disappeared off the planet.

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Yes but I’m not going to buy a house for 6 months just to sell it, it’s not very feasible.

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Hotels used to be the standard temporary housing.

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Lobbyists

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Well, lobbyists work not only for evil corpos, but also for NGOs and movements… Lobbyism is the process to sway politics to a direction through interpersonal meetings, and is necessarily in a democracy.

However, one thing that would benefit the US is transparency around lobbyists; who they are, how they are funded, their agenda etc. The EU has a database on registered lobbyists and the transparency helps with parts of the problem.

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Lobbying is a good concept corrupted by greed, as are many things in the US.

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This needs higher up. Lobbyists are a cancer

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Software Patent Attorney

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Literally anyone who works in health insurance.

Currently work in biotech, and have worked in medtech; I have had to integrate systems with insurers (payors is the industry term). I know exactly how fucked it is on a statistical level.

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I used to work for an insurer. Our entire health system is just a steaming pile of crap. Providers will double or triple bill. Hospitals raise their rates through the absolute roof so they have room for negotiations. The uninsured people more often than not get billed at the unnegotiated rate which is many times what it should be. If the insurers are short on money or profit margins are down and their stockholders are angry they end up turning down shitloads of procedures looking at the statistics for what’s least likely to cause lawsuits and death. Medicare requires you to go and recertify every patient every year, Mr Johnson’s an amputee, well you better get him back in to make sure he still is or you’re not going to pay for DME. Half the big insurers are still running on Big iron of one form or another, FTP over SSL coming hot off of mainframe.

It’s not a good look.

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I design big iron. The hardware is great, don’t blame us.

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I googled big iron. I still don’t understand what you two are talking about, don’t blame me.

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Found Texas Red.

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