dtcwee: The Value of Nothing

Good help is apparently hard to find. Family peers now in manager-class roles occasionally humblebrag about recruiting staff. Moans about finding a 'good fit for the culture' or the paradoxical 'autonomous team player' are in essence a rehash of, "It's so hard to find good help these days." In Japan, good help finds you! As an aside, practising the lingo is vital to materialise upper-class aspirations. It's called 'affirmation'. In case you haven't heard, ' fake it till you make it ' is now complimentary. Leaving aside the views of managerial wanna-bes, how much should the business itself care about ill-suited recruits, or in fact turnover as a whole?

The moralisation of semaglutide weight loss is nothing new. As of writing, these drugs (Wegovy, Ozempic, Mounjaro) still need refinement. They do not yet come in oral form and must be injected. Yet, I am surprised by how short the lag has been between their introduction and the emergence of moralistic concerns. i.e.: They constitute an ' easy way out ' of healthy lifestyle choices. They exemplify, perpetuate, and exacerbate economic inequality. (Post-2020,  everything is apparently about economic inequality.) I have good reason to think this tiresome chatter will pass. via GIPHY Why?

Is ending a financially draining relationship worth the hit to assets? Some tools to price staying vs going. via GIPHY

Is having children to care for you in old age a good strategy? The social contract, particularly in Confucian societies, is that adults are expected to care for their elderly, reciprocating the care received as children. But how well is this expectation played out in fact?