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The author interviewed on the premise of the book, June 2018. The productivity benefits of automation have not led to a 15-hour workweek, as predicted by economist John Maynard Keynes in 1930, but instead to "bullshit jobs": "a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the ...
Pseudocertainty effect, the tendency to make risk-averse choices if the expected outcome is positive, but make risk-seeking choices to avoid negative outcomes. [74] Status quo bias, the tendency to prefer things to stay relatively the same. [75] [76] System justification, the tendency to defend and bolster the status quo. Existing social ...
These statements do not make themselves true, no matter how many times you say them. Empty assertions usually result in escalation of conflicts. When someone asks that another person do something but is unwilling to give you any reason why that person should do it, this is unconvincing, thus often unproductive.
Only half of full-time female employees earn a livable income compared to 62% of male staffers, according to the report. Working women earn on average $4.20 less per hour than men doing the same work.
Chomsky's "colorless green" inspired written works, which all try to create meaning from the semantically meaningless utterance through added context. In 1958, linguist and anthropologist Dell Hymes presented his work to show that nonsense words can develop into something meaningful when in the right sequence. [5] [6]
I just don't like it, its inverse, I just like it, and their variants, are not arguments to use in talk page discussions. In their book, Business Negotiation , Paul Steele and Tom Beasor recommend a tactic in business negotiation, which they characterize as a "trick of the trade", called "emotion trumps logic", thusly:
And ultimately, if pickup lines are an example of your sense of humor, and it doesn’t land with that particular match, then maybe that person just didn’t get it and it wouldn’t have been a ...
The individual words make sense and are arranged according to proper grammatical rules, yet the result is nonsense. The inspiration for this attempt at creating verbal nonsense came from the idea of contradiction and seemingly irrelevant and/or incompatible characteristics, which conspire to make the phrase meaningless, but are open to ...