To clarify - I don't think its as straightforward as "she says X but believes Y". Y is buried in the subconscious somewhere, maybe
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It can be really subtle. Pay attention to conversations about jobs, marriage, kids... everything. Even the clarifying questions we ask
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I often think about this phrase in a techbro's interview with a tech CEO. What do you think he thinks about bus drivers?
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It's always the throwaway little details that really betray a person's true values&beliefs. But you can't take them to court on those things
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Replying to @visakanv
curious what belief you are reading into his remark about bus drivers. I can think of several but curious which first popped out for you
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I watched the actual video so I have a bit more context. It wasn't malicious, just sort of casually dismissive of the economic underclass
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I got a bit of that too but I had another thought, which is that the comment is about pension benefits, which is a relic of a past era
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an era where decades-long employment, union representation, and upheld social contracts was the norm. it isn't that way anymore.
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and I can't help but wonder how much of that shade thrown at the underclass is really resentment of the ground falling out beneath us
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getting decent pay in your 20s at the expense of sustainable living conditions for family and retirement seems like a bad tradeoff
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not that I'm advocating a return to a system that is dated and unworkable in the current era, but I think there's more to this than class
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Replying to @danlistensto
Yeah good/interesting point There's a sense of, "what are you, a dinosaur?"
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