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Cake day: September 30th, 2024

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  • If you visit the communism museum in Prague, you’ll learn all about the horrors of being under the thumb of the USSR. And then at the end you’ll see a photograph of the cottage in the countryside where Vaclav Havel and others plotted the revolution with a text explaining that, like many Czech people, Havel owned a second home in the countryside where they would often spend weekends and holidays. For all the bad, the communists did a much better job on housing than the capitalists.




















  • If your employer is paying you the bare minimum, then you’re the sucker if you’re putting in more than the bare minimum of effort.

    Sure, if you work really hard you might get some recognition in the form of a thank you and perhaps a gift worth less than $50. If you do it for long enough you might get a promotion and a pay rise - but you’ll still be earning far less than the person they hired from outside to do the same job and you’ll have worked much harder for it.

    In most companies, 99% of the benefit from you working hard goes to the owners. They don’t give you any more than 1% because they don’t have to.