If i had to guess they contract work out or just redirect that money

I meant executives in general, not specifically at my workplace. There is only 1 person with the title "Executive" and shes generally pretty decent.

My immediate boss is the Youth (After School) Program Director and they don't have true executive powers, they just have basic supervisory powers.

I will say, before the Youth Director was hired though, we all generally operated fairly autonomously and without issue, things went smoothly. Since my boss was hired, two separate youth counselors quit, one because her hours were cut (One of the few decisions I found pretty dumb by the executive director) and another specifically because she found my immediate bosses decision making actively hampered the quality of our program and she wasn't working there for the money.

I was once told I should apply for my bosses position and at the time I found the idea completely unattractive. I now regret not applying given who has ended up there.

Most people quite literally think they are above admin assistants.

Imagine the cleaning lady rolls up and fixes the bug you spent hours on in a few seconds.

What's this gap in your resume? Oh, that's the two years I was a jeweler. What about this one? That time I managed a retail store. But you're applying for a manufacturing position sir. Yes, that's why I only left the relevant bits on the resume, otherwise it would be 7 pages long and you wouldn't be seeing me now.

You sound like Adam Savage

I've done this but staying roughly in the same field while changing roles. So it looks like I had a career!

Hey can you come over and install smart switches in my house, figure out what 6 light switches that control nothing are connected to, and find out where the 24 cut ethernet cables in my garage go? I'll pay you in setting up a home server, playing video games with you, or letting you pet my cat.

So the capitalist masters can keep me contained‽

Pretty standard where I live, for my job

he would be forging steel already, if not for the need to get out of the woods to make money

Love that kids videos, I am trying his wood ash into portland cement method here as soon as it is warm enough. Mix ash with water, roll into balls, fire until glowing, then drop in water while hot, the fast temp change calcifies something and makes a product identical to portland cement. At which point you mix with aggregate like broken ceramics or gravel. I do maple ayrup, and have a woodstove I just put in so I have a ton of woodash.

That's a surprisingly complicated question! If you post the playback info, that might help. Also, what are you hosting Jellyfin on, what OS, environment, gpu? Do the same videos pay back clean in VLC? Does the computer posting back the media have scaling, or a weird OS? I have my Jellyfin in a Proxmox container and had all kinds of issues when passing a (very old) GPU through, but without it I can't get 4k. I have more than a few movies where I manually re-encoded them before putting them on Jellyfin and kept the source file zipped up for storage.

Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude Biomass you call a Temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you.

It’s one of those things I’d love to see done as an experiment

I believe you've got a fantastic idea here, not only to see how this one idea pans out, but to learn how we might build a better society. There's little reason we couldn't simultaneously have multiple test centres, each using a different system. Scientific method 101.

China famously began its modern transformation in the 80s by creating Special Economic Zones. These were cities where many of the economic rules for the rest of the country wouldn't apply, and where new theories could be tested. There's no need to agree with the goals China was pursuing, and for-better-or-for-worse have subsequently achieved, to acknowledge the method is brutally effective.

Yes. If someone has a million times the median wealth, there's something wrong with the system.

But how is that relevant here?

Yes, it definitely has to be recalculated frequently. If it doesn't, it will be about as useful as the US minimum wage after some time.

But as I said, most people wouldn't have significantly more or less money than they do today. At least I carefully calculated those numbers so that most people would have pretty much the same, for Germany in 2019. So I don't really expect prices to go up drastically.

It's not that people suddenly have 1000€ extra. Either their unemployment benefits get replaced by that UBI, or they now have to pay an extra 1000€ in taxes.

Exactly. What's to keep the sellers from just jacking everything up?

College was expensive, but affordable, until the government made it easier to get student loans. Colleges responded by wildly jacking up their prices, and now you literally have to voluntarily take on a lifetime of debt to get a college degree for a job that probably won't cover the cost of your loan. And what did the government do? They went right along with it, and demand repayment before anything else.

They recently started a benefit program with Medicare that gives you some money each month to buy health related items in drugstores and such, and they responded by jacking up the prices in Walgreens and CVS.

I'm all for UBI as well, but it has to comes with price controls so the corporate parasites don't just take it all. UBI Gouging has to be a harshly enforced crime.

Which is why UBI should be coupled with UBS (universal basic services). In this context, at the very least there would exist also a rental board (like Quebec's existing Regie du Logement). If you're more ambitious, housing would be a universal service and taken out of the market altogether. And don't forget that that 1600E income of the landlord would be also taxed.

More generally: https://ubiadvocates.org/inflation-and-ubi-separating-fact-from-fiction/

If UBI is financed through measures that inject new money into the economy, such as deficit spending or monetary expansion, the risk of inflation may be heightened. This is because the increase in the money supply outpaces the economy’s capacity to produce goods and services, leading to a general rise in prices.

Conversely, if UBI is funded through redistributive measures, such as progressive taxation or cuts in inefficient spending, the inflationary pressures can be mitigated. By targeting resources from high-income individuals or unproductive sectors of the economy, such funding mechanisms redistribute existing wealth rather than injecting new money into circulation.

This ensures that the overall level of demand remains relatively stable, thereby limiting the potential for inflationary spirals.

Public cheap housing, public cheap supermarkets, public free universal health system and public free universal education system.

Free as in payed by taxes.

Just to put my 2 cents on the plate, it seems like a lot of people are stuck in living arrangements they don't actually want to be in, purely for economic reasons. Lots of personality mismatch in close quarters, work is an escape. UBI would probably break apart lots of lives, but hopefully people will build back better.

In respect to being paid to work on hobbies, a lot of the tech sector was furloughed as well. FOSS projects massively improved, seemingly overnight. I've dabbled with Linux on and off during the 2010s, 2021 felt like the year where everything finally clicked together, now I run Linux and FOSS on everything where possible. I'm not sure how to find data to dispute or support that link tho, might just be me.

Many people also go crazy like that right after they retire. At least for a while. Structure is important for humans, and many find it difficult to create structure themselves.

But an UBI wouldn't mean that people would suddenly be out of work. They 'd still have to work to keep their lifestyle

we need time to collectively un-domesticate our thinking, and to basically recover enough of our lost human identity to even have bandwidth to imagine some way of life other than wage-slavery. It won't be easy or quick to undo generations worth of programming, but the disruption is coming either way, AI and the looming collapse demand it.

Covid also woke lots of people up. Suddenly families had time to spend together (including dysfunctional ones), suddenly normies realised that maybe giant pharmaceutical companies actually don't care about the population's health so much. It showed people that governments can and will drastically intervene in their lives (including by making money rain from the sky) when there is some threat of elite interests actually being effected. It was a huge, scary and unprecedented event, so it makes sense that people would freak the fuck out. You'll notice i didn't even get into mandates or the insane mania our media pushed during the period.

IDK there was more going on than just 'people suddenly had free time again'. But you're right lots of people are already so conditioned that the thought of having the ability to spend their own limited earthly time however they wish literally scares them. These people have been separated from their own humanity, and even if the work is painful they deserve to be recovered as anyone else.

sorry but this is kind of insane logic, it's almost literally "if i free my slaves they wouldn't be able to feed themselves"

I don't think it's an argument worth even thinking about, if it's an actual problem it's something that can be dealt with. Talking about it just gives fuel for people who want to prevent anything from ever changing for the better.