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I could happily live out my days never eating another green pepper.

Sautéed red or yellow, love’em.

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I place my order. You deliver, right?

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Within a 1 block radius, shoot me your deets.

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This is correct.

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Cajun cooking recipes is exactly how I picked my 3 to be onions, peppers and celery. And I liked it so much, I started using that combination in my mom’s curry recipes too, and started combining the two.

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I almost only use red peppers in salads or stir frys so I haven’t burned out on greens. Greens in moderation go well with ground beef for a pizza topping or taco filling. I think they’re a poor choice for stews though, that green flavor is too permeating.

A dash of cinnamon with ground beef is my current secret ingredient. You’ve gotta be very careful with that dash though.

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I’m fairly certain that for the purposes of the job, most of those ‘junior bankers’ are 100% fungible with whoever came in #2 (and probably #3 and #4) during the interview they were selected in. And one of those people will be willing to put in the hours. I’m not going to lose much sleep over BoA or Wells Fargo being able to staff their corporate offices.

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Banks have been bleeding top talent to Tech and consulting since the 2008 crash - doesn’t surprise me that the situation is getting worse given that all that seems to have changed since then is similar hours for smaller bonuses relative to the other industries.

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Apologies for derailing the recipe discussion.

The British Poultry Council said increasing wages to attract domestic workers was not the answer. The industry’s experience in recent years had been that the “willingness and availability is just not there within the UK workforce”, Griffiths said.

Obviously, all those foreigners were very keen on working in the UK poultry industry because of their natural affinity to chickens, not because those minimum wages here were higher than what they could get in their own countries.

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That’s a pretty amazing quote from the British Poultry Council. It’s not every day that an industry lobby group manages to make new economic laws.

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American exceptionalism!

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What are the numbers for over 2x the median income?

I would guess it’s equally extreme compared to other advanced economies (but I could be wrong in my guess).

Edit, found it. So that’s 52% of households belonging to the middle class ($42k to $162k per household).

It’s actually better than I expected.

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I think something like 20% of US households earn more than 2x the median household income.

(Median household is ~$70k, 19% of households earn more than $150k)

$42k — $162 is a pretty wide band, it’s hard to argue the households at $42k are middle class in the way those at $162k are. Though perhaps when you consider location…

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I think it varies per region, but there’s such thing as a lower middle-class and an upper middle-class. Those households at the end of the bracket have indeed very different experiences.

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I am playing again No Man Sky, but this time is different. I am different. My savegame is different (way less things unlocked).

Is the third time I play No Man Sky semiseriusly.

On my second run my objective was to be rich.

Part of being rich is knowing the scale of how much money you can make. Also run up on scale. You are not gonna get rich with a process that generate 10.000 $ in one hour. You can’t be billionary if somebody give you 2 million $.
If you want to be billionary, then 2 million dollars is not wealth, is a tool to make more money.

Manual labor is hopeless. I doubt any sport or doctor or engineer can get billionary on his brain and hands alone. Whatever you do with your hands, don’t matter.

You must do some sort of industrial revolution, where you get whatever process that give you 10.000 in one hour, then multiply it, multiply it by 50, then you get 500.000 in one hour. Then you triple that to get. 1.5 millions / hour. For 36 millions / day. 13.140 millions a year. Now you are a millionary.

You are not gonna get there if your system need a lot of manual labor, soon you will work 18 hours a day and not attend all that need to be attended. So everything need to be automated / delegated.

The great thing about having millions is that now small expenses are very easy. If you need to have around cars, you can buy 30 of cars, then have them lying around ready to use. This make making more money easier. If you have to wait 2 years to buy 1 car, that slowdown 1 year, not having to wait for small expenses accelerate things.

Luxury is also meaningless, if you are making 25 millions a day, buying something for 4 millions will not set you back too much. Once you have billions, you can put 200 millions of some shit, it does not matter.

Being billionary in a game like NMS helped me enter the mindset of a billonary.