That’s still selling your labor though.

Star Trek economy.

An idealized form of capitalism where there is no wealth inequality, no exploitation of labor, and everyone’s basic needs are provided for.

Who decides what’s on the test?

What’s the alternative then?

Start homesteading. When you provide everything for yourself, you won’t have to sell your labor to anyone.

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“Looking for a new opportunity”, “want to challenge myself more”, “looking for something that aligns better with my interests” etc. Those are some of the usual lines you give in corporate America when you want out.

But in your case, you could just tell the truth. That you’re in a temp position and you’re looking for something permanent. That’s a perfectly valid reason for interviewing.

Why are you censoring “Google”?

This is what gets me about the sentiment of “humans lived for hundreds of thousands of years without toothpaste/sunscreen/antibiotics/vaccines/etc and we were just fine!”

My dude, we were most definitely not fine. A lot of people died painful and preventable deaths, many of them children, and we’re around today because existing that way was just good enough to keep us going as a species.

It’s not propaganda, it’s a basic logical conclusion. If you and a group of people decide to follow a set of rules together, i.e. create a society, you are surrendering a little of your freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want in exchange for some protection from others from doing the same.

Yes, that’s the entire basis for the idea of the social contract. That you give up a little bit of freedom in exchange for security from living in a society.

I always feel so reassured when you get to that one tricky step and Chef John says “But if you didn’t, that’s ok! It’s still gonna taste really, really good!”

Shran is best Coombs.

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Food Wishes with Chef John. Very fun, laid back, and dare I even say informative if you’re into cooking.

Check your local laws and ordinances, your landlords may be required to provide itemized expenses to you within a certain time frame. Where I am, it’s within 30 days.

Sure, they’re allowed to, and we’re allowed to comment that it’s weird when he brings it up unprompted. Which it is. So much so that I wonder if this is just bait that we all fell for.

Some catty wampas, likely.