" Talking about Africans’ economic conditions, Wade also wondered whether “variations in their nature, such as their time preference, work ethic and propensity to violence, have some bearing on the economic decisions they make.”
The C-levels where I work can't go a single day without saying shit like "If you're not early, you're late" and schedule meetings to start Monday at 8 am on the dot... and then wonder why everybody in attendance is a zombie that barely contributes.
Man, don't blanket Europe like that. Spanish, Italian, French? Most definitely. Belgium? It depends, some people are more one, some more the other. Germany? Hahahahah. My then-girlfriend didn't understand why I was rushing her when we were going to a concert in a church in Germany. "Oh but it'll start at like 10 past anyway, we've still got time..." The first note rang out at exactly 20:00:00. Yes, I was the kind of pedant who kept his wristwatch to within 1 ssecond of the atomic clock, I'm old and an idiot.
Can confirm
I get to work at 7:30 so an 8am meeting is fine with me, but I don’t even tell customers I’m available from 7:30-8. The only exception I’ll make is for Australians since time zone issues.
Oh no! What a tragedy & completely unforeseeable consequence of his actions.
So let's review:
Let me simplify it for the kids at home:
I'll do you one better - NOT beating the shit out of your autistic child with a stick is child abuse.
Mask mandates were officially lifted throughout Taiwan this week, and as I predicted, I estimate around 70% to 80% of people are still masking up when they're out in public. No doubt this is just force of habit for some people, and this number will drop as time goes by, but it looks like overall there's been a strong cultural shift to masking up when outdoors in Taiwan.
Sadly here the instant it was dropped 95% of people stopped wearing them. I now regularly see people coughing and sneezing and wheezing in public transportation and I can't help but think... I don't care if it's corona, a cold, the flu,... I don't want your damn germs, if you're sick how much of a sacrifice is it to wear a flippin' mask?!
Wearing a mask isn’t hard. Convincing them to care about other people, though. There’s the hard part.
And said people will say "If you wear the mask, it'll just lock the germs in and make it worse!" ignoring that it's then about not infecting others and not yourself.
Having less social obligations to feel pressured into was nice.
These people generally consider a store flyer to be heavy reading.
It's easy to blame this on stupidity, and god know stupidity plays a significant part, but I still maintain that a lot of the pushback came from being the least-suffering generations in human history on a mass scale. Even the earliest of Boomers were born after the Great Depression and WW2. We haven't had war on our home turf, or had to make major sacrifices for the good of the many. Sure, we had Vietnam, but Americans didn't have to give up daily luxuries or necessities for the troops like we did in previous wars. We've never had food scarcity like we did on the same level as the Dust Bowls. There were barely Americans alive who remembered life before things like the polio vaccine. We have been living in a time of unprecedented health and comfort compared to the rest of human history. So when asked to make sacrifices, even though most were small or fairly adaptable, a large chunk of people who have never to truly sacrifice, lost their damn minds. That's how spoiled and selfish we've become. And funny enough, it tended to be the most newly immigrated groups among us who adapted to the changes early on. People who came from countries that knew how much worse things could get, and they did their part to prevent it.
To me, there's not much difference, I guess. Provincialism and spoiled self-centeredness are sparkling, homebrewed stupidity.
