LOL.

As a Boomer I ask...How does the fact that I worked my whole life managed to buy a house and two nice old fully paid for cars constitute “Fuck You I Got Mine”?

You said you didn’t get why companies were against decoupling insurance from employment. They simply provided a reason. To then assume that means they agree with that reason personally and then attack them on that basis is arguing in bad faith. 

and waste tons of hours of staff and HR time trying to figure out whether to cover anal fissures or not.

1. Smart companies use good insurance to attract top talent. It is why its called a “benefit”.

Your assumption that it will be lower cost is wrong. No matter where the money comes from, medical costs are medical costs.  In fact, it will likely be MORE expensive as the system will be designed to cover people who are not currently insured.  I wouldn’t mind seeing everyone covered, but I am certainly not going to…

Because having health insurance tied to your employment is a powerful incentive to remain in your company’s employ.

The strike pay increase is an escalation, one of the first of which we will probably be seeing much more of.

Oh my, a V10 and many seats. My E60 M5 waves hello and reminds you that you can’t have her.

- Hiring manager telling me that every day was like “busy season” in public accounting (i.e. a constant 12+ hour days shit show, always on even when you’re at home, work weekends regularly). To her credit she was very nice and honest about everything with me.

My wife used to work for a very prestigious medical research institute and got a masters in bioengineering from Berkeley, graduated in 2015. When she was finishing up and re-entering the job market she got so many calls from Theranos trying to convince her to come work for them. So glad she didn’t and kept a level…

It probably is.  I went on a test drive earlier this year and the Performance Model 3 we were supposed to drive was apparently sold an hour before we arrived.  Then we asked if there’s any difference between the test drive models and the new ones from factory and the salesman said they’re all the same.  So in other…

Exactly what Uber is doing. “distrupting the taxi business” by basically being a taxi business, only making the drivers use their own cars, pay for their own insurance, earn less money, and with the ultimate plan of eliminating them anyway because they know their business model doesn’t support them.

So in this scenario, you have to

Musk’s ultimate business plan is that we will start buying cars the way he wants us to because that’s what he needs us to do in order to turn a profit. I can’t tell if this is more arrogance or delusion on his part. Buying a car is the 2nd biggest purchase that many people will make in their entire lives. They’re not…

The notion of making a car a sight-unseen purchase is complete absurd! The stock should have dropped into the basement from that announcement alone.

To your first point, I’ve actually heard rumblings that customer cars have been used for test drives while in for service.

But at the exact same time that they were “up ending the current dealer structure” they were paying their sales folks EXACTLY like the current dealer structure and then having them actively eliminate their position by duping them. Fuck this company so much.

Neither.

It very much sums up the approach to hardware in the region.

This kind of sums up silicon valley.

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