It’s amazing that certain rich people just don’t appreciate how they came to be in their position

Followed! How hard is it to get a job at an office? Why did you decide solo private practice?

Romantic and Party are complete outliers to everything else mentioned. Even hentai is within the ‘normal’ bounds of sexual fantasies nowadays but Romantic and Party? ‘Sensual’ as the watchword for romance is out just like subtly in general

How is private practice/the job market for therapists?

I’ve considered switching careers but it would require going back to school

Thank God for mainline Protestantism and liberal Methodists in particular. We shall miss thee when you are gone

I tend to think there’s a kernel of truth to the idea but also: no one’s clamoring to go work in a metal refinery, mining.

It’s ‘farming’

So I’m with you that knowledge work can result in valuable outputs, but I would say it’s not as satisfying.

I think there’s a lot of people experiencing anomie who fantasize about ‘working with their hands’ bcuz they naively think they’ll be satisfied by it, regardless of output.

Anyway, it was fascinating to learn that politicians have the same ownership relationship to their campaign as a small business owner does their business. A whole raft of socio-political implications in a single entity!

Read a book instead of posting and maybe you’ll learn something

The mayor of Indianapolis is hanging on to office for his pension, but otherwise is totally absent lol

God I wish I had access to

Yes true but I already view Americans evangelicals as having replaced God with Mammon, so maybe I’m not expecting much of a change after all!

The latter. I think there’s bound to be a tech backlash which reasserts the primacy of the soul

Immediate first thought: Seth Rogen looks with Jonah Hill politics

I think charismatic forms of Christianity have been ascendant for awhile because of the incentives of digital culture, but I think a transcendental revision is on the horizon, which ushers in a progressive turn

Imagine if moderate dems formed a coalition to rule with republicans against progressive democrats.

That’s generational damage to a party brand. And what lib-dems did under David Cameron