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by **aedens** » Sun Sep 20, 2026 9:22 am

Pay is $170,000 per year.
The Work is real and committed 20 hours per week only.
The position is available full Time.
One can do the work and it is based on results.
No one can but those few who want to.
The other work is Licensed.
The root issue and fact is this.
If you make over $46,000 per year you are the Planetary Global One Percent.
They will not agree since facts are irrelevant to Leftist who refuse to work.
The work is real they are not. Rule Four applies. Stupid refuses to fathom what they actually are.
Non-stupid people always underestimate the harmful potential of stupid people.
Second place first loser.
Talk to a Farmer or a trucker right now.
As you know I also build Soil since to 2019.
We will replant this Spring for we understood His Cycle.

For someone at 55 holding $1.2 million in a traditional 401(k) and expecting a 24% marginal rate in retirement,
building a separate Roth layer now creates meaningful optionality.
Withdrawals can be structured to stay below the thresholds that trigger Medicare premium surcharges,
and taxable income in any given year becomes a planning lever rather than a fixed ceiling.

Rule Five:
All human beings are included in four fundamental categories: the naive, the intelligent, the evil and the stupid […] The intelligent person knows that he’s intelligent. The evil one is aware to be evil. The naive is painfully imbued with the sense of his own candor. Unlike all these characters, the stupid doesn’t know to be stupid. This contributes to give greater strength, incidence and effectiveness to his devastating action. The stupid is not inhibited by self-consciousness”, wrote Cipolla

by **Higgenbotham** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 8:10 pm

Why does every large company believe it needs an HR department when equally large companies didn't need one in 1960?

AI Overview

Large companies rely on Human Resources departments today because complex employment laws, massive compliance risks, and specialized talent management did not exist or were far less regulated in 1960.

Most users on Quora agree that the shift toward modern HR is driven by legal mandates and operational scale.

Why 1960 Was Different

Fewer Federal Laws: In 1960, federal employment regulations regarding discrimination, safety, and family leave were minimal. Landmark legislation like the Civil Rights Act (Title VII) passed later in the 1960s, drastically changing legal liabilities.

Simpler Benefits: Pensions and health benefits were standard and uniform, requiring far less individualized administration than today's complex 401(k) plans, health savings accounts, and multi-tiered insurance options.

Command-and-Control Culture: Workplaces in 1960 often relied on strict hierarchies where grievances were handled informally by line managers without formalized legal protections or dispute processes.

Why Companies Need HR Today

Massive Regulatory Risk: Crossing employee thresholds triggers complex federal and state laws covering discrimination, wages, workplace safety, and medical leave. A single compliance failure or wrongful termination lawsuit can cost millions.

Global and Remote Workforces: Managing employees across multiple states or countries introduces complex tax, legal, and payroll variations that require dedicated expertise.

Talent Acquisition and Retention: Sourcing specialized knowledge workers requires active recruitment, competitive benchmarking, and structured onboarding that line managers cannot handle alone.

Employee Well-being and Culture: Modern organizations use industrial psychology and specialized engagement strategies to reduce turnover and foster productivity.

This isn't so complicated in my mind that it's necessary to get down in the weeds regarding this specific reasoning. I would just put it this way (and did many years ago):

Higgenbotham wrote: Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:24 pm "Life organized legalistically has thus shown its inability to defend itself against the corrosion of evil." --Solzhenitsyn

I've read a lot of Solzhenitsyn and, if I interpret him correctly, he would be looking at what kinds of social and political arrangements allow the balance to be shifted toward excessive use of law and inappropriate use of the law. In Gulag, Volume I, he has 3 successive chapters - "The Law as a Child", "The Law Becomes a Man", and "The Law Matures".

It would be interesting to go back and review those chapters through the lens of the current discussion.

"Life organized legalistically has thus shown its inability to defend itself against the corrosion of evil."

This famous quote is from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian novelist and dissident, spoken during his commencement address at Harvard University on June 8, 1978. In this speech, titled "A World Split Apart," Solzhenitsyn criticized Western society's heavy reliance on legal frameworks to regulate human behavior. His core argument was that a society built entirely on the letter of the law, rather than a moral code, loses its spiritual strength. When people only do what is legally permissible, they stop striving for what is morally right, making society vulnerable to moral decay ("the corrosion of evil").

by **Higgenbotham** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 2:00 pm

aedens wrote: Sat Sep 19, 2026 8:30 am Even with the video proving his innocence He was fired.
The DEI brain dead cannibals have assured collapse as HR drills more holes in the rotted hull.
They cannot handle questions or accountability.

Whether on purpose or not, you've nailed part of the reason why a middle class lifestyle now requires about 120 hours per week. As far as dealing with HR, most of the people I've known as the breakdown has gained momentum were either seeing a therapist, on high blood pressure or other medication, maintaining documentation to cover their asses, consulting an employment attorney, or maybe several of these things if it had gone on long enough. Those all have to be tacked on as maintenance costs in a declining civilization. There was even one coworker who did several hours of what he called "sanity maintenance" each week as he got ready for the next battle with management and HR, which can be thought of as management's front line attack dogs in his case. That type of thing was rare in the early 1970s, but, yes, it did happen. We even knew of one individual in my father's workplace who had a sex change operation; well, I think that was mid 1970s and it was a big workplace with thousands of employees. It created quite a stir. I heard a lot about it. Management sent memos out telling people to be respectful. People would talk about how "she" should be crossing her legs instead of sitting in the chair like a man. I was maybe 14 at the time. The way I understood it was people weren't building aeroplanes or whatever their job was if they were talking about that.

U.S. lawyers 1900 - 2024 Source: ABA National Lawyer Population Survey

https://www.americanbar.org/news/profil ... ographics/

Now more than 320,000 members strong, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) began in 1948 with a handful of dreamers—and a twist of fate.

https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/news/ ... on-shrm-hr

Growth of Lawyers and Human Resource Managers has gone hand in hand as the US entered the maintenance phase of a declining civilization circa 1971 or so. If you have a Human Resource Manager in your workplace who is taking an interest in you, you may need a Lawyer, and that time and cost needs to be tacked on.

by **Higgenbotham** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 1:53 pm

Higgenbotham wrote: Thu Feb 02, 2023 9:49 pm Also, during the early stages of this breakdown, there were economic losers and beneficiaries. The beneficiaries were the corporations who could cookie cutter their outlets across a previously interesting and varied landscape, producing the forlorn, bland, and ugly architectural landscape that now exists across America. McDonalds perhaps being one of the first and best examples.

To capture this concept correctly, I would have needed to get the McDonald's, a tattoo parlor, a hole in the wall church, a dollar store and a billboard for a personal injury lawyer all in one photo. It wouldn't have been too difficult except that traffic was moving (slowly).

by **aedens** » Sat Sep 19, 2026 8:30 am

Even with the video proving his innocence He was fired.
The DEI brain dead cannibals have assured collapse as HR drills more holes in the rotted hull.
They cannot handle questions or accountability.

by **Higgenbotham** » Fri Sep 18, 2026 2:29 pm

Higgenbotham wrote: Wed Sep 09, 2026 12:09 pm For example, the middle class only needed one job at 40 hours per week to support a family in 1971. During the maintenance phase, the hours required to support a middle class family at the same level as in 1971 were increased to approximately 120.

I realized when posting this that it is debatable. If it's just the number of hours per week to be considered middle class in 2026, that is probably more like 70.

But if it's the number of hours to be on an equivalent middle class standard to 1971, that is more like 120. To be on an equivalent middle class standard to 1971, a family might either need to live in an upper class neighborhood to get the equivalent of a middle class public school education in 1971 or pay private school tuition. As far as food goes, a lot of it might have to be organic or biodynamic to be equivalent to 1971 standards. That entails extra money and time in sourcing. Or maybe take the time to grow it yourself. Anyway, that was the reason for that number.

Edit: When I wrote this, I thought North Dakota was the most efficient state for public education (outcomes per dollar). It seems some of the most efficient states are Virginia, Florida, Wisconsin, and Nebraska.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked ... n-dollars/

by **Higgenbotham** » Thu Sep 17, 2026 5:24 pm

Getting back to Anthropic, there's one thing I've learned from being on the inside of an organization that people on the outside looking in had a big stake in knowing what was going on "in there". That is that it's impossible to know what is really going on "in there". I watched them guess and they couldn't do it, despite their best efforts.

So I'll just say I don't know why the CEO of Anthropic is going on shows like Face the Nation and saying the things he is saying at this time, or, as Alexander Haig used to say, "at this juncture of maturation," which seems appropriate in this case. A list of guesses is the best I'd be able to do. I suppose there'll be a whole social media sub-industry of people springing up to offer the surefire explanation.

About the only thing I can say is that their secretive program to obtain pre-2022 books, cut the spines off, and scan and shred them shows they've got a problem. I would suspect all of the AI model developers have a similar problem, which could be why Altmann and Musk so quickly and readily agreed with what Mr Amodei proposed. But that's just a guess too.

Given all the foregoing, I'll give a slight edge to Door Number Three...

However, some observers suggested that Amodei's post was less about safety than about consolidating control over AI technology.

"Dario makes the case to stop open source and concentrate enormous technological and economic power with Anthropic," wrote Chamath Palihapitiya, an investor and co-host of the tech podcast "All-In".

Notions of slowing down or even pausing AI development have long been met with cynicism in certain corners of Silicon Valley, with critics accusing leading AI developers of hyping their technology as a marketing ploy.

Anthropic and OpenAI are both reportedly preparing for potentially record-setting initial public offerings.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c14dpgm0rg4o

...even though I think Chamath is a used car salesman (too).

Then there was Trumps' response, which is consistent with Door Number Three.

by **Higgenbotham** » Thu Sep 17, 2026 5:11 pm

Limited image curation has always been necessary for social cohesion. For example, if someone in a small town or village has done something found to be slightly irritating and well under the threshold of intolerance, it's usually been best to smile and say good morning than to say we had a mildly shitty day yesterday because of you. As stated previously, I think the point at which image curation became excessive was when people were uprooted from their small towns and villages and began to move from place to place for economic advantages.

Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Dec 25, 2022 6:28 pm I said there are two opposite modes of living in the United States. The first is an expectation that you will spend your entire life in one area with other people who will spend their entire lives in that area. The second is an expectation that you will go to high school in one place, college in another place, then career in several places (no longer at one company) with sole focus on that. Everything else is something in between. The first mode engenders real connections while the second mode engenders transactional relationships. An example of a transactional relationship would be something like, "I have a buddy who is also 420 friendly. He finds me really good dope cheap and I fix all his computers." The best example of a transactional encounter I can think of is prostitution. Also, in a big city, encounters are briefer. That's not to say there isn't some overlap.

I told her in the second mode of living, people are taught from an early age to look to the next step in their progression and to primarily engage in transactional relationships as a means to get to that next step. A high school kid might be told to be friendly to the teachers because they will be writing college recommendations or whatever. They would not be encouraged to be friendly to teachers they genuinely like and not be friendly to teachers they genuinely do not like. And so on when the kid gets to college.

With the advent of social media, it was taken to an ugly extreme.

Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Aug 09, 2026 11:35 am People had a strong sense of meaning in their lives. But then something happened. The
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percentage of the population, especially young adults, saying my life feels meaningless. It started to creep up and
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then and then explode. Something happened very recently, really only in
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the past 15 years, that made life feel meaningless. And meaninglessness, the
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lack of meaning in life, lies behind the explosion of depression and anxiety.
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So some people find meaning more easily than other people do. The number one
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predictor of your life feeling meaningful is is living your life in
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real life. It's relationships. It's living kind of in the old way. As a matter of fact, it wasn't that long ago
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that almost nobody said, "My life feels meaningless." But having distance between you and other people, or having
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technological mediation between you and other people, for example, having a screen between you and your friends, you
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and your loved ones, you and your family. Well, that changes life. It takes it from in real life to something
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more like, I don't know, a simulation of real life, which is exactly what a lot of young people say today. When I
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interview them, they'll say, "My life feels fake. It feels like something's missing. It feels like I'm living in a
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simulation."

We cured boredom — and created a meaning crisis | Arthur Brooks: Full Interview
Big Think 53,388 views Aug 7, 2026

https://youtu.be/WP3wl1rsXjg?t=62

by **Higgenbotham** » Thu Sep 17, 2026 3:20 pm

Higgenbotham wrote: Mon Sep 14, 2026 7:08 pm
Higgenbotham wrote: Mon Sep 02, 2024 7:58 pm She asked me what I thought of AI. I said the first thing that comes to mind with regard to any new technology is whether you believe the civilization is on the ascent or the decline. If you believe the civilization is on the ascent, and you are right about that, then AI will probably on net be a positive and force for good. However, if you believe that the civilization is on the decline...at which point she interjected, "Oh, definitely!"...and then I finished my thought.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says U.S.-China AI race poses "toughest dilemma"
Face the Nation and CBS News

We begin with the stunning news from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Saturday that he is urging a slowdown when it comes to the development of artificial intelligence. It was a pronouncement that his chief competitor Open AI CEO Sam Altmann and Elon Musk quickly agreed with. Our Jo Ling Kent sat down with Dario Amodei yesterday. He explained the thinking behind his decision.

"What we're building is essentially intelligence. When something's very powerful, then of course it can be used well and it can also be used for ill and and so I am worried about what we've seen..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBoKkUQuNJ8

There are a multitude of ways to zoom out from this particular post to tie it in with dark age theory. Probably I am going to pick the wrong place to start.

By now, everybody from the aspiring Only Fans star who wants to make it big in America to the CEO of a powerful tech company who has already made it big and wants to keep it that way realizes you have to control the optics. The new technologies have made it more or in some cases all about the optics and that's not a good thing, especially in a declining civilization.

Definition of optics:

: the aspects of an action, policy, or decision (as in politics or business) that relate to public perceptions

… when a broken-down bailout recipient like Citigroup tries to pay its top executives gigantic bonuses or to acquire a new private jet, it has failed to reconsider the optics.
—Nick Paumgarten

Skilling said Baxter "was concerned about the optics of the conflict, but not about the ethics or propriety of the transactions," according to interview memos.
—Peter Behr and April Witt

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/optics

Webster has done very well making my point by example.

Let's say I have a 13 year old. I ask him or her, "Do you want to be employed in a good job when you grow up?" If the answer is yes, I would say then you need to start working on your optics now. Get some social media accounts and start posting a few things that will look favorable to employers 8 years from now. They won't think you planned that far ahead.

I may not like that idea at all. But in a declining civilization I may feel it is necessary for survival so I tell my kid that anyway, even knowing it sends the wrong message. Then maybe I tell my kid that I'm saying this not because I think this is good behavior but because we are in a declining civilization and this is what I think you should do to ensure your survival. And my kid says, oh, I didn't know we are in a declining civilization, what does that mean and what else should I be doing differently?

by **aedens** » Mon Sep 14, 2026 11:57 pm

Learned Helplessness.
Real or perceived absence of control.
Second place first loser.
They will tell them what they want to hear.
The study was clear.

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”

Antonio Gramsci and George Lukacs carried the torch and created a strategy for destroying both
Christian influence and the Western culture itself.

This development, and the chaos of modern politics, will only end when an intellectual aristocracy seizes the power resources of society:
ammunition, gold and ink, and uses them for the benefit of everyone. A decisive step towards this goal is Russian Bolshevism, where a
small group of communist intellectual aristocratic rulers governs a nation and deliberately breaks with the plutocratic democracy that
dominates the rest of the world today. The struggle between capitalism and communism for the inheritance of the defeated blood nobility is a civil war between the victorious mind nobility, a war between individualism and socialism, egoism and altruism, pagan and Christian spirit.
The general staff of both parties recruited from the mental ruling class of Europe: the Jews. Capitalism
and communism are both rational, both mechanical, both abstract, both urban. The nobility of the sword has finally out. The effect of the mind,
power of the mind, belief the in mind, and hope in the mind grows, and with it, a new nobility.
PRAKTISCHER IDEALISMUS ADEL - TECHNIK – PAZIFISMUS First edition in 1925 Kalergi

The current ruling board is one billion to get on it. They are still asleep to what is already here.
It have been adapted and is online.
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/fil ... uction.pdf
Any land will be seized and yes they are and have already even in the States.
The Priest told you the Keys to this Blood and its Construct.
No accidents exist in Politic.

Sir Tony purported to have a secretariat of up to 25 people and chair a seven-person board to oversee an executive body.
It answers to no one as your are wasting.

AI catastrophe → demand emergency regulation → make compliance impossibly expensive → crush smaller competitors → consolidate advanced AI into a handful of corporations.

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