The number of tankies in this thread is just epic

Isn’t “Arbeitsnehmer” one who takes labor? I would think the worker gives his or her labor, and the industrialist takes it.

… and other fairy tales

I can’t stress how important this is: babysitting does not, in fact, involve sitting on baby.

For real. Once I retire in a decade or so, I’ll try to live off social security for as log as possible, but once I need to dip into my savings, I’m just tapping my kid’s inheritance. At that point, death is the only financially rational option.

I assume that anything in slang or music that I don’t understand is either about sex or drugs.

“Aside from people who [benefit from self-checkout], it’s hard to see who benefits from self-checkout.

I don’t think the step- relations are to hide incest. I think it’s a lazy way to create situations where two people are alone together. Otherwise you’d have to go to tired tropes like pizza delivery, or visiting plumber, etc.

What if we plugged the holes with the corpses of the workers we had to sacrifice to achieve a hole-free hull?

I agree with your friend, I’ve been in the same job. But I also return my cart.

A lot fewer people could move to Wyoming and give the Dems 2 more senators.

Their idea of a “tech worker” is an angel investor

Unfortunately, I think they do look upon us as boomers.

I just want to add that OP goes straight from Boomers to Millenials, ignoring Gen X as usual.