10/7/21

Thursday blend: eh-dition

10/7/21
It's already Thursday. I'm just going to phone it in today. Not sorry.

Democrats Put Out 'Help Wanted' Ad For Submissive, Obedient Woman To Replace Sinema

Local Man Prays That Wife's Text Message Of 'OK' Really Means OK

'I'm A Little Worried About What My Son Is Learning In School,' Says Dangerous Domestic Terrorist

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The great office refusal:
Driven partly by fear of infection, and by the liberating rise of remote work, Americans have been increasingly freed from locational constraints. Work continues apace in suburbs and particularly in sprawling exurbs that surround core cities, while the largest downtowns (central business districts, or CBDs) increasingly resemble ghost towns.

This shift has made it more practical for individuals and particularly families to migrate to locations where they can find more affordable rents, and perhaps even buy a house. But such a pattern may be countered by investors on Wall Street, who seem determined to turn the disruption to their own advantage by gearing up efforts to buy out increasingly expensive single-family homes, transforming potential homeowners into permanent rental serfs and much of the country into a latifundium dominated by large landlords. ...

The shift of work from the office to the home, or at least to less congested spaces, threatens the strict geographic hierarchy of many elite corporations. Some corporate executives, like Morgan Stanley’s Jamie Dimon, are determined to force employees back into Manhattan offices, like it or not. It’s now a common mantra among like-minded executives, especially those connected to downtown office development, that workers are “pining” to return to the office. Some have even threatened employees who do not come back in person with lower wages and decreased opportunities for promotion, while offering to reward those willing to take the personal hit of coming back on-site every day.

Haha. I'm not going back to the office, not without a massive (25%+) raise and more and better perks. That's how much working at home is worth, and I might be low-balling it. They can fire me and dozens of like-minded employees if they don't like it. We are in the position of strength. I'd be happy to remind them of that.

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Last but not least,

The list of major Biden administration failures

  • The Del Rio Haitian border crisis.
  • Don't forget Afghanistan.
  • TBA: I'm thinking about adding unity here. Yeah, every president fails on this, but maybe we should start holding them responsible. Especially when they explicitly promise it (even if they know they will fail miserably).

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