Yeah that's gender. Also the awards in question are an outside judgement of their performance nothing to do with direct competing or agreeableness etc.

Yes it's obviously totally impartial without any cut-throat dealmaking in the background

And to be clear, the problem amongst all of this is that a competition isn't opening a backdoor for women to get in?

The artist pay people to manage this for them so what's between the artists legs probably doesn't matter.

We're all fighting over who we share a bathroom with, all the while the richest 1% bag two-thirds of $42 trillion in new wealth.

A US school district is under fire for withholding national academic awards from its high-achieving students because equity.

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/article...69ccfb584.html

I guess we've moved past "everybody gets a prize" to "prizes are racist".

You live in the western world, you are part of the 1%.

+1 Insightful

After many ales of a Friday evening, the old girl puts on *her* music and I wonder why the gentlemen in the Megan Trainor video aren't allowed to wear trousers. Then I get cancelled by the kids.

So even if that was true, are you trying to say that LS is not allowed to comment about the inequality there is?

Is that like saying if someone is catholic, they are not allowed to want those rapists priests to go to jail?

I wish you guys would just google it sometimes instead of making off the cuff comments that sound insightful but are actually inaccurate.

All figures are $USD.

From CNBC in 2018
Yes it'll have shifted slightly post-covid, but you're not automagically in the top 1% just by living in the western world, but it does drop off pretty sharply after that.

Nice

How do you look around this country and say everyone here lives in the 1%, right?

My guess is he conflated the idea that we're all rich in Western societies because we have fridges and toasters, which few had 100 years ago.

Or maybe it's an ego thing, he likes to imagine himself amongst the world's rich? We all have our fantasies that get us through the day.

I remember reading some mental stat back when the Auckland property boom was at its hottest, like if you'd owned a house in Auckland for more than 5 years that put in you in the global 1%.

Don't forget, though, the most important movements are at the bottom. In the past 20 years the number of people in the world living in extreme poverty has more than halved. That has changed the lives of a lot more people than the 1% growing richer.

I suspect that's in spite of the forces driving inequality. Formerly third world states modernising, that kind of thing.

I had my boomer neighbour (he comes stays in his Kohimarama home he inherited from his dad about one month a year, lives in Aus) tell me that it's as hard at the top as the bottom. He's not exactly wrong, but the reason why those at the top stress is because they know how far they have to fall, the awful struggle of poverty that awaits them.

That's just one driving force of inequality, a feedback loop that ultimately will fuck us if we don't attend to it.

Reducing poverty isn't dependent on rising inequality. There's really no need for the top heavy inefficiency.

Suing of course

https://apnews.com/article/colleges-...117d7f8394b3a4

Hehehehe

Pink Floyd fans are amused that the anti-woke mob are cancelling the band over the Dark Side Of The Moon 'rainbow'

::facepalm::

World's not ready for candy mascots:

https://twitter.com/mmschocolate/sta...18785686274052

Of course they chose a rich Jewish-black woman from Hollywood as their new spokesperson, that won't be problematic at all.

brb, buying some M&M'S

Nicola Sturgeon and the mental gymnastics is pretty entertaining to watch

https://twitter.com/Douglas4Moray/st...79593150418946

This is, you know, fine.


Blessed be the fruit

Consenting adults

That is fucking ghoulish.

Instantly made me think of Dune and Axlotl Tank's...

Literally half the plot of Death Stranding.

It's better than, you know, doing what we can so that having children is an attractive prospect for working couples.

What if people get lazy on the job? What if... employers can't treat their staff like cunts any more? *gasp!*

https://admin.tikatangata.org.nz/ass...Report_PDF.pdf

Time for whitey to leave NZ imo

What could go wrong?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64488678

This is a real “stop the world” week.

Roald Dahl's works have been given a woke overhaul

The owners of the works (Netflix) are within their rights to do so, but seriously? I've never given Netflix a cent, and I never will.

This article has a list at the end of what words/phrases have been changed https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...witches-twits/

In the 16th Century the Catholic Church engaged in art censorship by painting, or placing, fig leaves over genitalia in artworks around Italy. This included metal fig leaves over marbled statues like David of Michaelangelo.

Wait til they read some of the ancient Greek stories