Reduce my relative comparison of a wide spectrum to an either-or choice between idealized, perfectly disciplined human beings and everyone else. Nice work, you win.
Oh, cultures and practices that are different to your own are strange to you, are they? You want a cookie for sharing that enlightening piece of information?
Us who don't like insincere "how are you"'s know that it's an idiom. We're not social retards. But even just going through the insincere, obligatory "fine/good" responses is a pain, because they can cause a dissonance and remind you of the mask that you have to maintain in "polite company".
You can't just turn off word's meanings and associations that conveniently.
That's what all the drama around OSS communities have been about lately, haven't it. People that say they want more diversity and inclusion in OSS communities, at the possible price of toning down or neutering certain elements of human culture and interaction. And in effect turning voluntary OSS projects into professional -- in an American sense -- gatherings. How diverse.
> The reason this is so important is that should this woman have a "slip" - which LOTS of alcoholics do - now the world, and needy alcoholics, have one more reason to dismiss AA.
> Try it before you judge it.
An organization that tries to inflate its own public success rate, and then asks people to keep an open mind towards it rather than dismiss it. Ok.
Hey, hey now. The ruling class doesn't disproportionately influence/control the market. It's the magic fairy dust of the Free Market that keeps the Just World as it is. /s
> Anyway, consider the following scenario. Bob makes $10 an hour, and produces $100 of value. Obviously, this is a great bargain for Bob's employer. So much so, that another employer should be perfectly willing to offer Bob $11 to lure him away. Another sweetens it to $12 and Bob moves again. Rinse, repeat until Bob is making $100 minus the opportunity cost.
Except if the companies in question are Google, Apple...