“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by JPKab on Saturday May 01, 2021 @12:00PM (#27007323)

The Jehovah's Witness comment was so on point.

I grew up with a single father, who was prone to religious fanaticism. Plenty of fundamentalist, culty churches.

When I was a teen, my father met a radical vegan animal rights activist, started dating, and suddenly swapped out religious fanaticism for radical left-wing activism.

The smells in my house changed, and the people looked different, but fundamentally they were the same: Awful, zero original thinking, dogmatic, controlling, self-righteous, and, yeah I'm going to say it, failures in life if measured financially or in career status.

The cars in my driveway shifted from rusty, beat up, old Ford's/Chevys to rusty, beat up Subarus/Civics.

I hate tribal thinking, and the aggressive conformists who flock to it.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by chillwaves on Saturday May 01, 2021 @05:47PM (#27010181)

I find it out that you choose to highlight their late model cars as symbols of their failures in life.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by JPKab on Sunday May 02, 2021 @12:37AM (#27012393)

Age or price of car aren't what I mean. Poorly maintained, allowed to fall into disrepair, bald tires often. Losers don't take care of things.

Conversely, I love seeing well maintained older vehicles.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by roguas on Sunday May 02, 2021 @07:45PM (#27020123)

That's a stretch. First of all calling someone a loser cause he seeks other values in life? Also I am a huge loser, cause my car has been in garage for a year(covid homeoffice) and it got very dusty. Is rusty car really a denominator for losers, as I have met plenty of smart people who don't particularly care about 'things'.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by antpol on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @09:33PM (#27058146)

you still need to consider that lots of people would judge you by how you upkeep things in any present moment. Sure, you can be a genius scientist in the stat of "flow", but recognition would come only later if that's the case

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