Isn’t the US government the #1 shareholder of Intel now? Perhaps he forgot which company he partially nationalized

What makes you feel that way?

Is making money the only thing that gives us purpose?

When I worked in tech, did that job give me more purpose than when I now work on side projects for free? I certainly feel the opposite way, anecdotally

How about when I go flying? Or scuba diving? Would I inherently have more purpose if I were a pilot for hire or working as a professional diver?

I’m performing the same actions whether or not I’m paid to do it. I derive joy from learning and building things. I don’t particularly derive any joy from making money, beyond meeting my basic needs

Each person is different. Where we find purpose depends on our own values, experiences, and beliefs

I just think too many people get to retirement without finding what gives them purpose outside of work

I should perhaps mention he was kidding, in a dark boomer type of humor. He does genuinely seem unable imagine a life without work though

If they all showed up and voted, the effort would have died in the senate instead. Minor change in the plot of the political theater, same outcome. In both cases Hegseth remains in his post

Do you just enjoy being contrarian, or did you think you had a point?

Doesn’t sound like it’d be a culture fit anyway

Companies have different cultures. No one is a fit for every company. Point is it would be a negative in plenty of cases

Hyphen is colloquially called a dash. I simply kept the naming convention being used in the thread

Definitely would be a great use of excess wealth

My dad is the same way. Into his 70s doing manual labor. He doesn’t even need to, but he just doesn’t know what else to do most of the time

He once said his retirement plan is when he can’t work anymore, he wants someone to wheel him out back and give him the Old Yeller treatment

Dude was playing the long game

Next we find out he slept with half the shareholders

The only fools are the ones not realizing the value of that access

They’re making a whole lot of money trading with that information. It’s blatant corruption and ignorant people are going around calling them “dumb” and “morons” making millions

It never was anything else.

Bullshit. If it “never was anything else”, why is he charging for early access to posts?

It is very clearly being used for corruption. Quit pretending is isn’t

Why is that article trying to hand waive corruption?

It does have one thing going for it: customers dumb enough to pay top dollar for slightly faster access to the president’s posts

The president’s posts move markets. Advance access to that information is worth a lot of money. Selling access is corruption. This article wants to convince us it isn’t

I’m semi-retired in my 30s, and I agree with you 100%

I currently have a half dozen or so hobbies I rotate through to fill my time (1 is a passion business that generates a small amount of money)

Sometimes I’ll spend a few months just focusing on scuba diving, or I’ll be flying all the time. Or I get really into a game and play it for a week straight

I worked in tech, so I still do tech as a hobby, but it’s nice to be able to do it for months at a time

Nurture your hobbies. You should at least have something to look forward to other than work

PS: Also do hobbies with friends. I’m almost never doing anything alone, because it’s more fun with others

Obviously. The time to spend doing your hobbies is

The fact people go through their whole lives, retire, then have nothing they enjoy is so depressing

They never developed any hobbies, never found what they actually enjoy in life, and have few, if any, friends

I’ve seen a fair number of boomer men like this. Don’t have anything in their life except work

A lot of people say that. Very few ever do it when they have sudden wealth

…Tell me more

The fact they bought a Trump pardon to avoid bribery charges is kind of funny

Blatantly corrupt, but it feels like a skit. Like, seriously, you can bribe your way out of a bribery charge now?

The em dash is the one associated with AI. The dash is a different symbol

Em dash: —

Dash: -

That’s about an entirely different symbol, the em dash

Em dash: —

Dash: ‐

The fact you don’t even know the difference is why it was such a hallmark of AI. It was previously used primarily in formal writing like published literature and academia

It’s actually become more common in layspeak though because of AI, but primarily because it’s automatically used when doing 2 dashes on many modern systems