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Cake day: December 27th, 2023
  • 0xtero@beehaw.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•2 years in, I just realized my job is a cult. Do I stay or go?
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    3 months ago

    Sounds like you’re not enjoying your work too much, so applying elsewhere, even if it’s just to test the market is not a bad idea. Should always be doing this anyway, every couple of years to know where you are compared to rest of your peers.

    You naturally do not say or mention this to your current colleagues. You leave your notice only after you’ve signed the new contract. You should always leave gracefully, without burning your bridges (no matter how tempting that might be), because you never know. Might need to use them for reference one day.

    Play the game.

  • 0xtero@beehaw.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•123
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    10 months ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensions_in_Germany

    I think you want to have all three pillars going, normally you save in some kind of stock market pension fund.

    I don’t live in Germany, but lot of countries in EU have similar system. Over here in Sweden, you can easily see an overview and your projected pension at retirement age by logging into one of government offered e-services, maybe Germany has something similar.

    What number you need to reach - is completely up to you of course.

  • 0xtero@beehaw.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you are boycotting "America", does that include "American culture"?
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    10 months ago

    Ok - so while I’m not ‘boycotting’ America, because I don’t really think that’s going to change anything, I’d much rather spend my energy focusing on my local community. But having said that, I don’t either understand or subscribe to certain U.S American cultural tropes such as:

    • Driving oversized gas guzzling cars everywhere and believing it’s freedom.
    • Nuclear family values.
    • Rampant exceptionalism (granted, I live in Sweden and we have our own flavor of it - hate it here as well)
    • Zealous Christianity. Religions should be abolished.
    • Out of control late-stage capitalism backed by military. But I’m a anarco-syndicalist so pretty much every country sucks.
    • The American Dream. Connected to the above. It’s not going to trickle down. Ever.
    • Shitty polyarchical political system designed for the ‘elite’ and ‘weath of the nation’ (but again, I’m an anarchist, so everywhere sucks)
    • Obesity and fast food culture.
    • Everyday racism. The U.S is supposed to be the New World melting pot of cultures, showing us old world Europeans how it’s done. Seems that didn’t work.
    • Enshittification of the Internet. Lack of anti-trust, lack of trade union power and lack of worker agency have all but destroyed the promise of early Internet. We have surveillance capitalism instead.

    There’s not much I can do about them though. Except to act in my local community, and to tell my kids and anyone listening: There are better ways to live and better ideals to aim for.

  • 0xtero@beehaw.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Will an anti advertisement movement ever materialize?
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    11 months ago

    I fail to see organized attempts to challenge advertisements.

    I think lot of that is embedded in the privacy communities/movement, so it gets easily overlooked as a separate part, even though most of the time it actually is the cause of the disease. Many times it’s just easier to treat the symptoms (“just install adblocker, bro”) because the real cure is to topple the entire system and challenge our late stage capitalism. That tends to be a bit too much for a “normie” who doesn’t necessarily even see the constant flow of ads as a problem and even if they do, installing a browser plugin tends to be “lol, too much work”