Earnings by Age — Men

Soo… how’s the old earning power?

I perused a couple of websites to validate the average annual salaries by age, then applied a deflator to adjust the results by age.  This is because a person like me who should nominally earn $50K in 2018 would never ever had made $22K 35 years ago, like the chart implies.

So in the table below, the far left column indicates a person’s age in 2018.  The second column indicates that person’s earnings in 2018.  But to make the chart a bit more relevant, I crudely applied a deflator so that you can see how this ought to track in your own life.  Find your own age from the age groups across the top, in columns 3-9, and then the salaries below … Continue reading

Approaching Omega — Where the Knowledge Is in 2019

Just a quick post here — examples abound.

Never has it been more true than now that those who can do so, and those who cannot teach instead.  And one of the problems we face in Western Culture these days is an undeserved elevation of the teaching types to positions of power.  Professorial sorts should almost always be denied positions of power, and that includes power over educational institutions.

The amount of information available on YouTube, WikiPedia, and all around this great big web (and the internet in general for non-web assets) puts academia to shame.  The fact that you have to wade through a lot of nonsense to get to the good sense makes it more an asset than the University.  In University, students are not taught … Continue reading

The Problem with Yes-Means-Yes Laws

Even granting every good intent in the world to authors and proponents of yes-means-yes laws, there is a fundamental problem, which is that these are unenforcable contracts, which are on their face, not valid.

Let us take yes-means-yes to a probably absurd end, and say that “yes” means a signed contract, drawn up by a lawyer, for certain acts upon a certain evening, between two adults (the undersigned), with no purpose of deception or evasion.

After that evening, contention arises about what was done and not done and why.  In the first case, a party alleging that a particular contracted act was left undone will have no place to stand, as contracting in the positive for these sorts of things is not by and large legal.  Well, this … Continue reading

Common Enemies

This is not about two parties who find that they have a single enemy in common.  It is about a besieged single party who finds that his many enemies are actually only one.

It is a stroke of genius of the modern anticulture to appear on multiple fronts, so that normal society is forced into multiple losing engagements.  The anticulture only appears to divide its forces while forcing the culture to actually divide in response.  That’s smart stuff right there

Much of the anticulture, labelled the left, is concerned with what it calls intersectional politics, which is the buzzword 2.0 version of identity politics.  At any rate, it divides the population as a whole into stripes, which can then be pitted against each other (the identity focus), or … Continue reading

Un-Spamming WordPress

Something old, and something new. First the new thing, which like many new things is trivial.  This blog currently has 3,664 comments, all but perhaps 100 are guaranteed to be spam.  Well I had put up a “sticky” post some months ago, which means that it stays at the top of the blog no matter what.  Guess what?  Of the 3,664 posts, 3,231 of them are attached to the sticky post.  A-ha.  Most of these spam-bots simply attack the first post listed on the blog.  So new anti-spam measure #1: create a spam magnet post and make it sticky.  Tell people not to comment on this post.  Periodically, dump all of the comments. The old thing is profound.  Obvious, but profound.  WordPress is not the friendliest environment in … Continue reading