2 life pro tips in one meme! : memes

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That duck is looking pretty tasty right about now.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago

"Also, do you really NEED to sleep?"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I can buy oats and flour on the cheap around here, but chickpeas and dried beans? That's very quickly sounding like $10 a day.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Bruh how? You can get kilograms of dried beans for $10.

It's more expensive for canned beans but for $10 are you eating 5 cans of organic beans a day?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Both are good advice

[+] [email protected] -16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

There's a caveat:

Don't unions really restrict your salary growth in fields where there's actual potential for it?

I'm in software engineering and I reckon a whole bunch of people would be unhappy if their salary was in a direct relationship with their years of experience.

Though if the gravy train ever ends, I'll be the first to advocate for an union.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No. In Germany the big companies all have unions. You can always try to negotiate for better conditions, but it always has to be at least the union Tarif. If you can show that you are worth more you can get it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Okay, that's actually a good thing. I've heard unions in the US apparently often restrict individual bargaining, as that would undermine the collective bargaining of the union. So in that case, your coworker who's been working for 20 years, will make twice as much as you do at your 2 years, despite the fact that all he does all day is scratch his balls, while you bust your ass off. And you have no way of earning more than them.

Either way it doesn't affect me because I'm in Estonia and in a field where we generally get paid well enough even without unions. But I also know this won't last forever, because right now there's way too many unemployed software engineers.

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[+] [email protected] -6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I hate billionaires, but I like steak... I guess they aren't my enemy after all? I guess I'll rethink my life... Maybe they aren't so bad, eh?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

If you hate billionaires but like steak, have you tried eating the rich?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The meme only says "if ... then ...". It does not imply the reverse relationship of "if not ... then not ...".

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

It's not about what you like, it's about what you can afford.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

I have a union and still just scraping by. But if I didn't have the union I'd have drowned by now

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