even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

“We just want to get ahead” is antisocial and depraved thinking, Ms. Silverstein

Rich people (and all MBAs and finance bros ever) lying about the amount of hours they work is my most hated thing

Capitalists feigning labor is the ultimate insult to actual labor

Rich people (and all MBAs and finance bros ever) lying about the amount of hours they work

Let's see about that. there are 168 hours in a week. If you work 100 of those hours and sleep exactly 6 hours every night, that leaves exactly 26 hours a week or 3.75 hours a day to do everything else in one's life, including eating, shitting, peeing, paying bills, buying groceries, staring at the wall, and somehow maintain one's sanity.

However, if you take one day a week off from work, that leaves exactly 2 hours distributed evenly through the other 6 days in which to cram all the rest of your non-working life. Hmmm. Seems kinda unlikely to me.

I was gonna say.

I’ve worked some seventy hour weeks before, and they nearly pushed me to the point of exhaustion.

For the six months after I graduated from high school, I worked 60 hours a week waiting tables - I lost 45 pounds and have no real memories of the six months.

They are counting the time they spend checking and responding to their work from wherever.

I simply hate the valorization of 'always working'. People who talk about how they're always on the job, married to their work, never want to retire etc. Really bums me out! Possibly related to why I'm currently unemployed...

I really enjoy being very busy at work, working weekends. I’m not going to work any more than 50 hours a week most weeks, though. Nor do I consider it a badge of honor, it’s just like an addiction.

We had a lot of 70, 80+ yr old men at my old job. They were completely useless but had the years, money and status to still make people do their bidding. Basically they were just wheeled out for clients but like, couldn't use a computer. All their admins had all their passwords. TO get them to retire they got super nice sunset retirement agreements where they could still get paid from their past clients even though they were no longer employed.

ironic, considering the source, but nevertheless

@felixsalmon
30-year-old buys a $750k place in the East Village, has a bad experience renovating it, then finds it cramped, so she sells it for $1m and buys a $2.4m place in Williamsburg instead. Your weekend hate-read: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/realestate/for-house-flippers-reality-meets-reality-tv.html

750 in the east village almost sounds reasonable.

so this whole ali watkins situation

Tech Elites Recreate Burning Man Inside Their Living Rooms

Like a modern version of a medieval minstrel, a singer named Jess Magic is helping A-list entrepreneurs get in touch with their inner child in private “songversations.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/style/what-is-a-soul-salon.html

I felt such a sense of deep embarrassment at just the headline, photo and caption that I couldn't read any further.

it gets worse

The Caligula stage of late capitalism is so fucking dull.

guyz she's buddies with julia allison and they co-emcee events together its 2006 all over again

do you think glenn thrush got a mentor pic.twitter.com/Mv60QaRkie

— chris hooks (@cd_hooks) July 3, 2018

NYC is the most obliviously and proudly parochial place in the world pic.twitter.com/79hB4uDwp6

— Daniel Kay Hertz (@DanielKayHertz) July 14, 2018

Last Sunday they ran a one-page Your Five-Year Plan Before Retirement.

A key paragraph began, roughly, "Let's say you have $1.5 million in your 401k..."

the response to the quinn norton debacle has been kind of encouraging:

http://fortune.com/2018/07/23/susan-fowler-new-york-times/
https://www.nytco.com/sarah-jeong-joins-the-timess-editorial-board/

Our statement in response to criticism of the hiring of Sarah Jeong. pic.twitter.com/WryIgbaoqg

— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) August 2, 2018

jfc this newspaper is a lost cause

god forbid the Times actually do the right thing, which would be issue a statement that said, in full: "It's not possible to be racist against white people, you absolute chucklefucks."

I mean, white men are bullshit. wtf.

The cursor in the statement really adds to the earnest tone.

I thought the statement was fine

me too tbh

Especially since people land in fb jail for saying men/white people are trash but it's fine to threaten, dox or use slurs against minorities and women there. Was it cernovich and his minions enraging people about this?

I agree w/ evol that the statement is dumb. SJ did absolutely nothing wrong from what I can tell.

lmao I forgot she was the one who was involved with the Matt Bruenig/Demos fracas from whenever that happened

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/2/17644878/the-verge-new-york-times-sarah-jeong

What tone policing bullshit. Instead, the Times should have said gfy this is our hire, you can't shame us by accusing us of caring about equity because we refuse to consider it shameful and will say so, repeatedly, using all our communication skillsets. Instead of "We told this person who you hate and are sending death-threats to that she has been a very very bad girl, and will have to go to the time-out corner if she continues to tell the teachers that you threw rocks at her during recess. She knows better now, and you can throw all the rocks you want. You're welcome. Please read our newspaper please please please please"

^^^

the tweets were stupid (though obviously not 'racist'), the times statement is fine, and the verge article is otm. the times is doing the right thing by standing by her and everything is going to be ok

everything will be "ok" but the times doesn't get it, and that's a problem.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Djn6gRvU0AArgws.jpg

few do

in orbit otm

The BBC News can fuck off with that Fox News headline.

ffs bbc

also ffs anyone who caves to trolls on this crap. also her tweets were funny and need no defense qed fuiud.

and yerac ohm if this entire sad little episode proves anything it's that white men are bullshit

lol thank u autocorrect. yerac OTM

k3vin otm

liberals really need to stop falling for this racism-baiting. 90% of the people yelling about this are not concerned about "racism," they are angry that they or people like them get called out for racism and are jumping at the chance to call "hypocrisy."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Djwt_FLUwAACPJV.jpg

Excuse me what

Wait actually I do not care what

Every sentence in that is a mess.

writing an opinion column week after week for years isn't easy, but so many of ours seem so fucking dumb