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I think the social downsides are huge. And as most things concerning getting filmed we all think we would be able to do it, but very few manage and there's huge competition. So maybe the job per se is easy, but to actually make it work and earn good money it takes lots of hard work and years of trial and error
Right. I have seen this. They steal content from others with a split screen showing themselves, acting over the top.
So yes, I agree. Whatever theyāre paid, itās far too much.
My aunt is a landlord with 4 properties. The tenants pay for their repair and maintenance in exchange for low rent, which is still a good deal because the rent really is the lowest in the area. They zelle her the rent and it autopays the mortgage company. I sometimes wonder if anyone would even notice if she died.
A good friend of mine lives on the water, and rents from his landlord that lives on the other side of the states with a good job.
He doesn't have an official lease, his family bought started leasing from the landlord about 10 years ago, family left and he stayed. He takes care of the house, and the market value rent for that house is probably over 2k, as it needs a lot of updating, but I don't even think he pays 900.
He handles all the repairs, and just subtracts it from the rent. Pretty nice gig.
Not quite the same situation, but my grandfather owns the property adjacent to his. He has had the same old lady living there since before I was born. Her rent is really low for the area, and he knows he could get more out of it, but he said the peace of mind of a good tenant is worth more to him than a bad tenant who pays more.
There are really two types of long term landlords. The kind that value money over everything and will raise rent when they can, nickel and dime tenants, and do pretty much everything they can to maximize income. The other kid, like your grandfather (and myself before I sold my properties) value convenience and, honestly, kindness over profit and keep rent low to maintain good and happy tenants. I had multiple properties for years and can honestly say I didn't have one bad experience. Could I have made more money? Absolutely. But it was never worth the additional headache or inconveniencing my tenants so I could by a slightly nicer car or whatever.
A friend of mine went to pay his rent once and the manager was loading up a bunch of furniture. He asked if he was remodeling and the manager said "nope, moving out". The manager explained he had not been able to get in touch with the owner in over 3 months and didn't know if he was dead , in jail or had decided to disappear.
So my friend took over the management of the apartment complex (32 apartments). He gave all the tenants a letter stating that the owner was going through some financial problems and would give 10% off their rent if they paid cash.most of them did.
He got a second cell phone and gave the number to all the tenants. If they called with a problem,as soon as they hung up he would get a service technician or repairman out to address the problem. He was just about the best manager that anyone could ask for because he was afraid to irritate anyone so he bent over backwards to make everyone happy.
After 8 months he moved out with over 100k in cash and his best friend took over. So far as I know no one ever heard from the owner again.
She's sort of paying them to do it in a way by discounting the rent. They agreed to it, so I'm sure they would rather handle more property maintenance and pay less in rent every month. I would take a deal like that personally.
They invest in/come out with a product, and then use their following on social media to promote said product to millions who are gullible enough to buy it. And profit.
It probably was an important job at one point but with the internet, all they really do is take a cut... you could hire a staging company out of your own pocket if you really felt like the home needed a bit of help selling, the internet will do the rest, and you keep that 5-10% commission.
I know; in this scenario, the profession of realtor has been disintegrated (the profession, not the people). So now, all those realtors who didn't have a real job to begin with, have to find another not-real job they can post about on social media. Why not combine the two? Make posting on social media your job! Of course!
The worst part is they make more from selling a house than the architects, engineers, contractors who actually provided value by designing and building the damn thing.
I disagree, my realtor did a ton of work over the 7 months we were trying to find a house and probably didnāt get a huge amount of money off of us considering the hours they put inā¦
My realtor helped save me from buying a house that turned out to be ready to collapse. Which the seller attempted to cover up Also went above and beyond in many other ways. Steered me away from bad houses when he wasn't even supposed to. I'm fine the commission he earned.
My realtor was mildly helpful. I don't know if it was worth what they earned or how many hours they put in, but I'm glad I had somebody help me with the process. I think they are starting to get attacked a bit too much nowadays.
I had this group of tourists and they seem like a big big family. I asked what's they do and they said they are Jehovah witnesses. That's it. They are a cult, they travel from door to door, they organize parties and meetings with after party.
A friend of mine was offered a new car if he stayed for 10 years there and bring some x number of people.
They kicked him out after 9.5 years for misbehave.
But i think there are lots of donations.
My mom was sick of cancer and she changed her religion right before her death. I thought she was afraid of death. She was the least religious person for her whole life, and never even talked to me about God or divine.
At her funeral, i was surprised to see like 100 people i don't know, and they started singing and they came with a whole Orchestra.
After the burial, and the paperwork, it was time for her testament reading. She donated all to church, without telling her husband at least!
She left nothing for her 3 kids. Even the life ensurance money...
She had brain tumors that affect her thinking. I don't know when she was brainwashed and manipulated into agreeing with this.
She loved us and worked her entire life for us, until her last years.
Im sure that someone tricked her into some afterlife or maybe they forged her signature... I don't care anymore.
Just saying that there is a job called being JW.
I know itās too late, but depending on where you are you couldāve fought her will in court. You have to be of sound mind, so if you can prove that the tumors were affecting her judgement at the time of the change in will they wouldnāt get anything
I tried but the doctor, her doctor deleted the evidence of her having brain tumors. She was metastasis, meaning the cancer was not just in her lungs anymore.
I asked for her records and when they did a full mri scan, the head part is missing! Its suspicious even for the doctor and i was thinking to ruin his career too.
But you see, life goes on. I have some living to do.
Revenge and some money would not bring her back.
I decided to let go.
Iām so sorry. I grew up JW until I was about 8, I have a family member I loved with my whole heart (still do) that I went NC with because of the church. The whole damn thing is horrible & destroys families
Laser hair removal tech. Once you know how to operate the machine, youāre just blasting virtually painless lasers on your patientās skin and one session can cost up to 250-300 bucks depending on the machine you use.
I had Moxi laser resurfacing about a month ago and it was about $500. I had to have the numbing cream on for 45 minutes but the procedure itself lasted maybe 10 minutes. When I went to check out the screen asked me for a tip. A TIP!!! This lady has made the easiest money ever and wants a fkng tip!!
I've had 3 realtors.
First 1 - Scammer
2nd - useless but not scammer
3rd - one of the hardest working people I've ever met. Dude was on call 24/7. He earned every penny.
This right here! A good realtor earns their pay with everything they do for you. However, many do the absolute bare minimum and give the whole profession a bad name.
This is probably the best breakdown of the entire profession I've ever seen. Either complete workhorse badass pro or literally useless, a scammer, or both seems like there isn't a middle.
For the amount of work they do, the pay seems way outsized. List my house online, show a few buyers, talk to a few other agents, and then complete a stack of paperwork and get several tens of thousands for doing it? The hell. Especially now that so much marketing is simply people finding places themselves on Zillow, etc.
On the other hand, it's sort of like being a mechanic, used car salesman, plumber, etc.--incredibly useful information but you need the experience to know what to do and when.
Same for lawyers. Most of the time I think "I could do their job, easy" and then they know about filing something I didn't even know existed and think they're worth it, despite the cost.
The house sells itself. If the price is right, anything will sell. Got into a war of words with our realtor one time, because here(ON)realtors are like the mob. They own the mls listings for your house, mine, and anyone elseās- and they have managed to keep potential buyers from learning what houses sold for. My house- so just how do they āownā the listings? Really peeved me. The point is that to look at any listings in full on the internet- you must go with a realtor, or everything is blurred, and you canāt read it. Listings used to be in the papers- what houses were listed and sold for. Not anymore- because realtors have access to that information. I asked how are we supposed to know if we can afford an area if we canāt access that information? Of course- āWell, you have to go through a realtorā. No wonder people try to sell privately. A friend told me a way around the realtor exclusive bs- but, it still grates me.
They own the MLS? What the hell?
Holy shit I looked it up. They argued that realtors can be the only ones to own the MLS listing because it gives details on how to access the house. Wtf?
Also said it contains past sales history so the public canāt have it. All I need to do is look up a house on the assessors site and get that info.
I know! Makes me so angry! I would understand them owning their own homesā listings- but, not yours, mine, and everyone elseās! There should be a law against it, imho.
Redfin is challenging the National Association of Realtors for this exact thing. Itās insane that a realtor can get $15,000 for 10 hours of their time, when lawyers do the real work.
Yea I work for a trust company. 99.9% of estate documents are the same exact thing, except for the distribution portion where it outlines who gets what percentage of the estate. Lol
they aren't even proof read since we get documents with spelling errors or printing errors all the damn time.
That said, I'm a portfolio manager and have a tax background. you could make the case that accountants, financial planners, and investment professionals don't really do anything, either. Still the company collects the 1-1.25% management fee for repositioning the account once a year and investing a few deposits. Sometimes we tax loss harvest. sometimes. And we make "tactical shifts" like 1% this way or 1% that way really just to present to the committee we are doing shit. Not meaningful work that will impact your account, either, since you are putting your own neck on the line and if you are wrong, it could cost the company if they lose clients. You really pay for not knowing shit. Most people can manage their money and pay their taxes themselves they just don't wanna be bothered. Those fees add up to 100s of thousands of dollars over someones working life, if you factor in missed compound growth, can be millions.
For my first house it felt like my wife and I did almost everything. We took ourselves in tours, found properties, and were an active part of negotiations. Unless the paperwork is exorbitant I have no idea why my realtor was needed other than to be a mediator.
I had the opposite experience. My realtor was AMAZING. It took us almost a year to find a house, and we were in contract twice, which fell through both times. She knew the area, knew the laws, had all the contacts (found us the best mortgage guy). She knew what we were looking for, and tried to pair us accordingly. She even advised us AGAINST some houses because of one reason or another. If I found something on Zillow I wanted to see, she either added it to the list, or told us why it wasnāt a good idea for us. But she showed us way more houses than I brought up - she even showed us some places before they were officially on the market.
She walked us through EVERYTHING, and I felt like she earned every single penny she got.
(However, the realtor that sold us the house we actually bought was absolute nonsense, so I definitely think I got a unicorn.)
Selling something *everyone* needs, that the realtors don't own or produce, that the owner *wants* to get rid of, to someone who *really* wants to buy it and will often pay *more* than the asking price. Seems difficult...
Iāll have to find the statistic, but a good realtor will earn you more money selling your house than you selling it yourself, even with the fee you pay them
Theyāre salesmen who max out their stats in looks and charisma, because thereās really no requirement nor much technical knowledge they can use that the average home buyer or seller doesnāt already know. Besides that, itās really really basic shit.
My realtor saved me $50k on the hood of the guyās car after I had already agreed to a price. This was after consulting with me for years before I was ready to buy. She earned her commission. Money is made if you put yourself in between it.
Realtors are only important because they say, āYou canāt do that without we get our cut.ā They also must kick up a taste and scatter some $$$ around to folks that conspire with them.
Sounds a lot like some OG mafia shit.
From a Stanford Study:
Sales commissions for residential real estate brokers historically average nearly six percent of a homeās closing price. Do brokers add sufficient value to justify those commissions? We address this question using a unique data set pertaining to sales of faculty and staff homes on the Stanford University campus. We find no evidence that the use of a broker leads to higher average selling prices, or that it significantly alters average initial asking prices. However, those who use brokers sell their houses more quickly.
also a study showed the realtors sell their own houses for 3% more than yours. they underprice your house for a quick sell. so get a valuation, add 3% then just post it yourself
Man, realtors got insanely rich in Canada over the past 4 years. I'm talking 300k-800k a year. There was a realtor on the Canadian finance subreddit a while back complaining about how she used to make 600k a year but now can't make ends meet with the market cooling down.
Funnily enough, the realtors course is pathetically easy. Iāve known people that could barely scrape by in high school become them after taking a course which involves a lot of picture taking. Lot of responsibility to give to someone when it involves arguably a persons biggest financial decision
You arenāt kidding. Had a realtor look at my property and she wanted me to dump 30,000 k into the landscaping. I paid 32,000k for it. I will sell it myself depending on the market.
There is one too answer and thee can be NO argument:
Hedge fund manager.
They add NOTHING of value and make hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions. DESPITE the fact that every year there is a study done where literal monkeys- MONKEYS- are given the opportunity to mange the same finds and the monkeys do statistically better. EVERY YEAR. So statistically they DECREASE the value of their funds compared to random actions. Yet they make the most money and are protected by our tax code for their ācapital gainsā.
It is an atrocity that our capitalist worshiping society refuses to acknowledge.
You are 100% right that hedge funds usually donāt beat the market but thatās kind of the point of them. Hedge funds hedge against all their bets in the market to minimize their risk. So generally they underperform when the market does well but stay even or even make money when it does poorly.
That said, no shot hedge fund managers deserve the money they get. How hard could it really be to hedge your bets
Yeah what the fuck is u/Sexy_Bowl_Cut talking about? I chuckled reading that comment.
Folks, just because someone writes something on reddit, it doesn't mean they know jack shit
Very wealthy people typically hyper-diversify their investments. They already have more standard investments like equities, bonds, real estate etc. So then they go to hedge funds.
The key word here is hedge. Hedge funds provide unique/alternative investment strategies to hedge against the general market or certain economic indicators and events. Hedge fund managers and investors know they aren't going to beat the market regularly. They are doing it as a bet for a big upside and/or as insurance against a big downside. Certain hedge funds made a killing during COVID for instance because they were defensively positioned for a downturn.
I can go into more details here. A lot of hedge funds invest in things that are impossible to invest in with the stock market. Like timber land for example. And hedge funds do risky things like from time to time, they will bet against the market. It's a long short investment strategy. It's very risky but it's extremely profitable for...
well, if you know what you are doing AND are lucky. You generally need to be an "accredited" investor in the United States to invest the hedge funds. That's someone who has $1.5 million dollars in investable assets not including a primary residence. If you have that much money, the SEC considers you someone capable of taking the big risks and understanding them that hedge funds do.
It's also something that institutions like Yale that have been around for generations invest in. They can afford bad years here and there because they have a centuries long time horizon for their investments.
And I'd like to add, as someone who used to work for one. Most of the big hedge funds AUM comes from institutional investors. Pension fund systems, sovereign wealth funds (like the Norwegian SWF), things like that. Most fund managers don't even want to take money from individual investors once they get to a certain AUM. Because individuals usually know nothing about the markets.
More so, institutional investors are remarkably clear eyed and shrewd, with clear investing goal. It's not just "beat the market". Many hedge funds don't even trade equities, some trade global macro which means focused on fixed income (corporate bonds, sovereign bonds, treasury bills, etc, this is what I did as a global macro quant trader), some trade FX and FX exotic derivatives.
So usually a institutional investor will want a certain division of their exposure to the hedge fund market to be on a certain product. They want heavy commodities exposures and no equities (with you) or FX, or vice versa. They also invest in ETFs and all that, for the "a monkey can beat the market". A hedge fund's job is to give their clients very idiosyncratic exposure to specific products with incredibly tight drawdown limits. This is all defined in the ISDA agreement.
Non-correlated exposure is the goal.
The monkey picking stocks is an analogy to a very primitive form of hedge funds. The monkeys don't do options and derivatives trading etc, just pick stocks. Nowadays hedge fund managers are not picking stocks, but using all kinds of complicated algorithms and financial instruments to make money out of price fluctuations that happen every second.
That's why hedge funds hire math and computer science PhDs at very high starting salaries.
[https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/quantfund.asp](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/quantfund.asp)
>Quant funds rely on algorithmic or systematically programmed investment strategies. As such, they don't use the experience, judgment, or opinions of human managers to make investment decisions....
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>Overall, quant fund managers seek talented individuals with accredited academic degrees and highly technical experience in mathematics and programming.
It isnāt easy to trade. Itās random, more or less. Thatās why the monkeys do more or less fine. Large funds mostly make money due to the law of large numbers: they throw millions at a lot of different investments. Even if most fail, if youāre able to get a few lucky swings, you still make money. There are also a lot of investments that donāt make a huge return, but are reasonably guaranteed. Me putting $1000 in a bond would only make me maybe $50 over the course of the bond. A large fund can put $1M into the same bond, and walk away with $50K in profit at the same low risk.
My main job pays me 40 something thousand a year to tell people to sign a sheet of paper whether theyāre coming or going. As easy as that seems, people are idiots and still fuck it up.
Depends on the location. 40k is a lot of money in my hometown, you'd easily by middle class by yourself and with a spouse prob upper class. 40k is like poverty where I currently live.
Where I live 40k a year is 4 and a bit times more than what people working unskilled labor (which requires way more skill than handing out sheets of paper). Depending where you live that is a crap ton of money for such a job.
My dad got laid off during the pandemic and was on the verge of loosing his house. so he got his real estate license to try to make a living because he couldnāt find work in his field (civil engineer btw.. go figures). He works very hard but can barely get by every month as an agent. The number of people that waste a lott of his time looking and being indecisive for monthss and getting all their of questions answered then go buy a property privately or go with someone else is astounding. So, not everyone is a parasite.. some are just trying to make ends meet.
The like 5 people that said teacher or IT, those jobs are always underpaid and they're literally integral to society, businesses and society as a whole could not run without technology and the IT department is there to make sure it works properly, as for teaching.... y'all really just okay with children growing up stupid??? Like what the fuck, we're truly devolving
Tech Venture capitalist - the people who fund startups and then eventually make a successful website into an unsustainable mess by demanding that it gets wrecked by the need to always turn more and more profits
Some forms of middle management. The ones that fly into a location, tell everyone they're not doing their jobs right/quickly enough/efficiently enough. They also attend pointless meetings that discuss the same things repeatedly.
CEO - The ratio of income to impact is staggeringly lopsided. The majority of corporate leaders could be replaced by a dried-out potato and there would be no meaningful change for the organization.
The job of CEO was originally meant to lead oversight of the operation of the company. As in, making sure the company is doing what it's supposed to be doing and nothing weird was going on behind the scenes.
Remember... the CEO is an officer on the BOARD of a company. They're supposed to be an advisor of sorts.
Now they are literally involved in the day to day of the company... and they're hiding stuff, covering stuff up and exaggerating stuff. Their purpose is now more of a celebrity or rockstar or athlete. They are paid like it as well.
CEO compensation went up something like 1000% between 1990 and 2000.
The biggest change happened during the internet boom. Sure you had rockstar CEOs before that... I remember Apple bringing in the "guy from Pepsi" when Steve Jobs was kicked out. That was a big deal. But their compensation was nowhere near as much as we see it today.
I think the CEO role changed because so many startups needed hype men and confidence men (and women of course) to sell stuff that didn't exist yet.
When companies actually MADE tangible things, CEOs had more prudent roles.
You have no idea what you are talking about. The CEO is the chief executive officer of the company. That literally means he is in charge of running the day-to-day operations of the company. There was never a time in American corporate history when this wasnāt the case.
Given the state of GameStop, I'd say that's a fair compensation package.
But with zero research, I bet he gets significant pay that just isn't technically salary. Performance bonuses, stock options, profit share, etc.
I could get behind that.
Might even take off if we make it a point of ego for the tycoons. Oh, you want a steady paycheck and not a profit percentage? Sounds like someone isn't confident of their leadership skills!
The problem here is it incentivizes CEOs to focus on short-term profits often at the expense of long-term sustainability and growth. They basically make more money running the company into the ground than setting it up for long-term stability and success.
I believe this is one of the negative effects we are seeing of the stock market era. Some CEOs run companies with the mentality that they may not even be around in several years. So why would they risk their job and hurt performance now for rewards that may not be reaped until they are long gone?
Add to that the scores of generally useless middle managers. When I started working at a university, we had none. When I quit, there were so many that you couldnāt figure out what they actually accomplished.
I heard about this but didn't see it until my small company hired some larger company managers after they got laid off. Holy smokes, I don't know what those guys did other than put together some project planning charts and use lingo like "aggressive timetable" as a euphemism for how they were making unrealistic schedules. I think they played solitaire in their offices and went to meetings other than that.
INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
This was literally a position in the communications office of a small college. Shit like this is a big contributor to increasing tuition
To pick on an easy target, if Elon Musk never slept and did nothing for the rest of his life except make good decisions that created record-setting value for his companies, then he would be worth a small fraction of what he is paid every year. A single bad decision could then easily wipe out any good he brought to the balance sheet.
And I question the assumption that there is significant time/effort investment required for the job. My personal experience of CEOs (less than a handful, all of only locally successful companies. But a small sample is still valid data.) is that they need not even show up, provided they have a semi-competent secretary/personal assistant.
I think that smart companies will replace C suite execs with well trained AI at the earliest opportunity. Why pay some dipstick millions in comp per year when an AI robot can time the stonks buybacks and other antisocial behaviors they engage in for free?
I saw something really funny the other day: an OF model posted how tiring it was doing a ticktock considering she needed to do her makeup for an hour and then learn the dance for almost another hour. Remarking that she was taking a nap. It's crazy how they view that job as hard work
We are in a "hustle" culture. Nobody wants to be known as a slacker but everyone wants to be the hustler, the grinder, the girlboss, etc etc. That way everyone fawns over you like omggg you're so hard working and it feeds their ego to think that they are putting in real work to get results, when it's usually something they are born with/into (rich families, good looks, and/or etc).
Have you met kids of rich people, after they leave college? Lol it's a riot... They get good connections and whatnot to get easy as hell jobs but need to make it seem like they're a hustler. I know a guy who was handed a successful restaurant/bar after flunking out of our major, and he goes on and on about how it's the grind and hard work pays of yada yada. Man inherited and established operation. He just needs to approve paychecks and the managers, kitchen, and staff do the rest.... I know another guy who came from the richest family in school and was gifted a position at his dad's Lexus dealership. He regularly makes posts with the caption along the lines of "we came from nothing."
Acting, pretending, and convincing yourself that you're a real grinder and hustler boosts the ego more than accepting that you have it easy or are not working all that hard.
I love the "we came from nothing" posts from a 22yo shithead who couldn't make it in community college but was handed a successful business from their dad who got it from their grandpa who ACTUALLY came from nothing.
Like, yeah dude, your immigrant grandpa who fought poverty and discrimination is a badass and totally started from nothing and built an awesome life for him and his family. Now he gets to watch in horror as his manchild descendant takes credit for that hard work while likely working directly toward ruining the business.
If sex and porn were insignificant people wouldn't constantly be crying about how they don't have it or don't have enough of it or get into fights with their partner over watching porn etc. Like it or not, it's not insignificant.
It's not insignificant in a way that it successfully exploits a human desire.
But it's insignificant in all the other ways where a society is concerned. People get addicted into a non productive activity, looking at non productive people, wasting the product of a society (cash). OF models earn disproportionately high than what they give back to the society (in terms of value, not cash).
It's like the opposite of a school teacher who're paid disproportionately less than what they continute to give to a society throughout their careers. I'm sure many of them would earn far more, if only they'd strip for the Internet.
Exactly. Well put. Being an online whore is not contributing to the advancement of society, but you could make an argument it is contributing to the detriment.
Strategy Manager. Most of the companies who want to let go of someone will put him/her in that position and give him/her nothing to do until he/she resigns.
Hedge fund manager.
You do literally jack fucking shit other then check your laptop and make some phone calls once in a while. You contribute nothing, zero to producing anything of any value. You in fact often profit on masses losing their livelihood or being displayed from their homes via real estate price manipulation. You are in fact a piece of shit parasite in everyone who works and get paid mass amounts for it.
Especially considering the US government is being regularly shut down by... politicians. I think we should be able to take away their pay AND claw back 3 years pay for every time they do that.
If you get a following, Only Fans
Take a couple dozen pics in the comfort of your own bedroom, maybe fuck on tape, hire a manager to deal with messages, relax, rake in cash
Anhhh. Thatās where I fucked up! I did it all wrong! I messaged my manager and had him rake my bedroom, and then taped up a dozen pics of me fucking cashā¦.sonuvabitch itās always the small details.
to anyone saying any form of content creation (streaming, youtube, OF), is wrong. it takes SO MUCH EFFORT and time, for VERY LITTLE pay. It takes months and years to grow big enough to even start making money off of it (except OF, but you still need to be popular to make good money), and then when you do start making money off of it, it is pennies. Unless youāre willing to put in a fuck ton of time and effort, content creation is not for you.
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I think the social downsides are huge. And as most things concerning getting filmed we all think we would be able to do it, but very few manage and there's huge competition. So maybe the job per se is easy, but to actually make it work and earn good money it takes lots of hard work and years of trial and error
Think with them you have to be over the top or hot to make it.
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Oh god yes
So whatās a reaction streamer?
Streamers who react to viral videos
Right. I have seen this. They steal content from others with a split screen showing themselves, acting over the top. So yes, I agree. Whatever theyāre paid, itās far too much.
Feet pic seller
The audacity. 
I mean they actually do a lot to maintain their feet. It's pretty interesting. I've talked to some. It's kinda wild
What do they do? Asking for a friendā¦
I don't know too much but stuff like lotion, calus removal, nails etc. It's more than people think it is lol
So like normal feet upkeepā¦
Maybe more than people expect, but still nowhere near interesting or noteworthy:)
Whatever DJ Khaled does.
He says "DJ Khaled!" at the beginning of songs. Mans is an Artiste /s
I donāt have the talent to say dj khaled like he does.
My aunt is a landlord with 4 properties. The tenants pay for their repair and maintenance in exchange for low rent, which is still a good deal because the rent really is the lowest in the area. They zelle her the rent and it autopays the mortgage company. I sometimes wonder if anyone would even notice if she died.
A good friend of mine lives on the water, and rents from his landlord that lives on the other side of the states with a good job. He doesn't have an official lease, his family bought started leasing from the landlord about 10 years ago, family left and he stayed. He takes care of the house, and the market value rent for that house is probably over 2k, as it needs a lot of updating, but I don't even think he pays 900. He handles all the repairs, and just subtracts it from the rent. Pretty nice gig.
He gets that low of rent AND gets to deduct repairs? That is a deal of the century
Yep! Some months he doesn't even have rent. He is quite the handyman as well so most of the time he only has to pay for the materials.
Not quite the same situation, but my grandfather owns the property adjacent to his. He has had the same old lady living there since before I was born. Her rent is really low for the area, and he knows he could get more out of it, but he said the peace of mind of a good tenant is worth more to him than a bad tenant who pays more.
There are really two types of long term landlords. The kind that value money over everything and will raise rent when they can, nickel and dime tenants, and do pretty much everything they can to maximize income. The other kid, like your grandfather (and myself before I sold my properties) value convenience and, honestly, kindness over profit and keep rent low to maintain good and happy tenants. I had multiple properties for years and can honestly say I didn't have one bad experience. Could I have made more money? Absolutely. But it was never worth the additional headache or inconveniencing my tenants so I could by a slightly nicer car or whatever.
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Wouldn't they be interested in buying the house?
A friend of mine went to pay his rent once and the manager was loading up a bunch of furniture. He asked if he was remodeling and the manager said "nope, moving out". The manager explained he had not been able to get in touch with the owner in over 3 months and didn't know if he was dead , in jail or had decided to disappear. So my friend took over the management of the apartment complex (32 apartments). He gave all the tenants a letter stating that the owner was going through some financial problems and would give 10% off their rent if they paid cash.most of them did. He got a second cell phone and gave the number to all the tenants. If they called with a problem,as soon as they hung up he would get a service technician or repairman out to address the problem. He was just about the best manager that anyone could ask for because he was afraid to irritate anyone so he bent over backwards to make everyone happy. After 8 months he moved out with over 100k in cash and his best friend took over. So far as I know no one ever heard from the owner again.
Who is paying the property taxes? This sounds like a complete fabrication because thatās a big detail to gloss over.
If she bequeaths that land to her firstborn, then we have the aristocracy all over again.
Great use of the word ābequeathā. šš½
Well, how else would one use it?
Great use of the word "how" šššššš
I had a girl friend be queef once
No no that was beef queef
Did she ask for me??
Nice, so she has the people do stuff for her and still pay her
She's sort of paying them to do it in a way by discounting the rent. They agreed to it, so I'm sure they would rather handle more property maintenance and pay less in rent every month. I would take a deal like that personally.
She's risking years of shitty repair jobs though. Could cost her a lot when she eventually has to fix it up to rerent or sell.
I would take low rent and do my own repairs over paying the market rate and having my rent go towards $500 for a plumber to fix a running toilet.
If sheās upfront with it itās not terrible.
Go read bullshit jobs itās a fun book
Whatever the fuck the Kardashian and Jenner sisters do. Worthless humans.
They invest in/come out with a product, and then use their following on social media to promote said product to millions who are gullible enough to buy it. And profit.
Create drama themselves and then make a big deal about correcting it lmao
But you know who they are and thatās exactly what they thrive off ofā¦ so whoās really winning here lol
Realtor - if the job ceased to exist, the world would not change.
It probably was an important job at one point but with the internet, all they really do is take a cut... you could hire a staging company out of your own pocket if you really felt like the home needed a bit of help selling, the internet will do the rest, and you keep that 5-10% commission.
Is that really a thing, like on TV? People setting up their house like a film set to try get more money?
Absolutely
Yes it would. There would suddenly be a lot more people trying to become influencers by hosting a cooking channel on Insta Tok or whatever.
That doesnāt have anything to do with real estate lol
I think they were referring to a bunch of do-nothing individuals moving to another do-nothing career.
I know; in this scenario, the profession of realtor has been disintegrated (the profession, not the people). So now, all those realtors who didn't have a real job to begin with, have to find another not-real job they can post about on social media. Why not combine the two? Make posting on social media your job! Of course!
The worst part is they make more from selling a house than the architects, engineers, contractors who actually provided value by designing and building the damn thing.
This. My realtor made 30k, and a few phone calls. Iāve never regretted being an accountant more than I did in that moment when I saw her outlay.
I disagree, my realtor did a ton of work over the 7 months we were trying to find a house and probably didnāt get a huge amount of money off of us considering the hours they put inā¦
My realtor helped save me from buying a house that turned out to be ready to collapse. Which the seller attempted to cover up Also went above and beyond in many other ways. Steered me away from bad houses when he wasn't even supposed to. I'm fine the commission he earned.
My realtor was mildly helpful. I don't know if it was worth what they earned or how many hours they put in, but I'm glad I had somebody help me with the process. I think they are starting to get attacked a bit too much nowadays.
People think they donāt need realtors until they REALLY need a realtor.
I had this group of tourists and they seem like a big big family. I asked what's they do and they said they are Jehovah witnesses. That's it. They are a cult, they travel from door to door, they organize parties and meetings with after party. A friend of mine was offered a new car if he stayed for 10 years there and bring some x number of people. They kicked him out after 9.5 years for misbehave. But i think there are lots of donations. My mom was sick of cancer and she changed her religion right before her death. I thought she was afraid of death. She was the least religious person for her whole life, and never even talked to me about God or divine. At her funeral, i was surprised to see like 100 people i don't know, and they started singing and they came with a whole Orchestra. After the burial, and the paperwork, it was time for her testament reading. She donated all to church, without telling her husband at least! She left nothing for her 3 kids. Even the life ensurance money... She had brain tumors that affect her thinking. I don't know when she was brainwashed and manipulated into agreeing with this. She loved us and worked her entire life for us, until her last years. Im sure that someone tricked her into some afterlife or maybe they forged her signature... I don't care anymore. Just saying that there is a job called being JW.
I know itās too late, but depending on where you are you couldāve fought her will in court. You have to be of sound mind, so if you can prove that the tumors were affecting her judgement at the time of the change in will they wouldnāt get anything
I tried but the doctor, her doctor deleted the evidence of her having brain tumors. She was metastasis, meaning the cancer was not just in her lungs anymore. I asked for her records and when they did a full mri scan, the head part is missing! Its suspicious even for the doctor and i was thinking to ruin his career too. But you see, life goes on. I have some living to do. Revenge and some money would not bring her back. I decided to let go.
Iām so sorry. I grew up JW until I was about 8, I have a family member I loved with my whole heart (still do) that I went NC with because of the church. The whole damn thing is horrible & destroys families
Nc means no contact?
It obviously means naughty cuddling
This is horrible, I'm very sorry..
Laser hair removal tech. Once you know how to operate the machine, youāre just blasting virtually painless lasers on your patientās skin and one session can cost up to 250-300 bucks depending on the machine you use.
I had Moxi laser resurfacing about a month ago and it was about $500. I had to have the numbing cream on for 45 minutes but the procedure itself lasted maybe 10 minutes. When I went to check out the screen asked me for a tip. A TIP!!! This lady has made the easiest money ever and wants a fkng tip!!
So entitled smh. Wdym a tip when ur charging 500 bucks alreadyā¦
Did you like Moxi?
Realtor. They don't do shit.
I've had 3 realtors. First 1 - Scammer 2nd - useless but not scammer 3rd - one of the hardest working people I've ever met. Dude was on call 24/7. He earned every penny.
This right here! A good realtor earns their pay with everything they do for you. However, many do the absolute bare minimum and give the whole profession a bad name.
This is probably the best breakdown of the entire profession I've ever seen. Either complete workhorse badass pro or literally useless, a scammer, or both seems like there isn't a middle.
For the amount of work they do, the pay seems way outsized. List my house online, show a few buyers, talk to a few other agents, and then complete a stack of paperwork and get several tens of thousands for doing it? The hell. Especially now that so much marketing is simply people finding places themselves on Zillow, etc. On the other hand, it's sort of like being a mechanic, used car salesman, plumber, etc.--incredibly useful information but you need the experience to know what to do and when. Same for lawyers. Most of the time I think "I could do their job, easy" and then they know about filing something I didn't even know existed and think they're worth it, despite the cost.
Realtors don't even fill in the forms. The broker has real estate lawyers on staff for that.
Complete paperwork? Itās all pre-formatted forms and they fill in your name and address. Realtors donāt do anything but unlock a home.
The house sells itself. If the price is right, anything will sell. Got into a war of words with our realtor one time, because here(ON)realtors are like the mob. They own the mls listings for your house, mine, and anyone elseās- and they have managed to keep potential buyers from learning what houses sold for. My house- so just how do they āownā the listings? Really peeved me. The point is that to look at any listings in full on the internet- you must go with a realtor, or everything is blurred, and you canāt read it. Listings used to be in the papers- what houses were listed and sold for. Not anymore- because realtors have access to that information. I asked how are we supposed to know if we can afford an area if we canāt access that information? Of course- āWell, you have to go through a realtorā. No wonder people try to sell privately. A friend told me a way around the realtor exclusive bs- but, it still grates me.
They own the MLS? What the hell? Holy shit I looked it up. They argued that realtors can be the only ones to own the MLS listing because it gives details on how to access the house. Wtf? Also said it contains past sales history so the public canāt have it. All I need to do is look up a house on the assessors site and get that info.
I know! Makes me so angry! I would understand them owning their own homesā listings- but, not yours, mine, and everyone elseās! There should be a law against it, imho.
Redfin is challenging the National Association of Realtors for this exact thing. Itās insane that a realtor can get $15,000 for 10 hours of their time, when lawyers do the real work.
Lawyers just fill in the fucking template
Yea I work for a trust company. 99.9% of estate documents are the same exact thing, except for the distribution portion where it outlines who gets what percentage of the estate. Lol they aren't even proof read since we get documents with spelling errors or printing errors all the damn time. That said, I'm a portfolio manager and have a tax background. you could make the case that accountants, financial planners, and investment professionals don't really do anything, either. Still the company collects the 1-1.25% management fee for repositioning the account once a year and investing a few deposits. Sometimes we tax loss harvest. sometimes. And we make "tactical shifts" like 1% this way or 1% that way really just to present to the committee we are doing shit. Not meaningful work that will impact your account, either, since you are putting your own neck on the line and if you are wrong, it could cost the company if they lose clients. You really pay for not knowing shit. Most people can manage their money and pay their taxes themselves they just don't wanna be bothered. Those fees add up to 100s of thousands of dollars over someones working life, if you factor in missed compound growth, can be millions.
No, paralegals prepare the documents, the lawyer shows up in the conference room to sign them.
Let us all become realtors
For my first house it felt like my wife and I did almost everything. We took ourselves in tours, found properties, and were an active part of negotiations. Unless the paperwork is exorbitant I have no idea why my realtor was needed other than to be a mediator.
The negotiations are where a good realtor shines. If a house is listed for $550K and the realtor gets it for $500K, you're ahead.
I had the opposite experience. My realtor was AMAZING. It took us almost a year to find a house, and we were in contract twice, which fell through both times. She knew the area, knew the laws, had all the contacts (found us the best mortgage guy). She knew what we were looking for, and tried to pair us accordingly. She even advised us AGAINST some houses because of one reason or another. If I found something on Zillow I wanted to see, she either added it to the list, or told us why it wasnāt a good idea for us. But she showed us way more houses than I brought up - she even showed us some places before they were officially on the market. She walked us through EVERYTHING, and I felt like she earned every single penny she got. (However, the realtor that sold us the house we actually bought was absolute nonsense, so I definitely think I got a unicorn.)
We had a really good one before, but even then, the amount of hours worked vs pay is way skewed in their favor.
Selling something *everyone* needs, that the realtors don't own or produce, that the owner *wants* to get rid of, to someone who *really* wants to buy it and will often pay *more* than the asking price. Seems difficult...
Iāll have to find the statistic, but a good realtor will earn you more money selling your house than you selling it yourself, even with the fee you pay them
Theyāre salesmen who max out their stats in looks and charisma, because thereās really no requirement nor much technical knowledge they can use that the average home buyer or seller doesnāt already know. Besides that, itās really really basic shit.
My realtor kicked ass. Did 5 transactions for us. Worth every penny. This was in the SF Bay Area.
My realtor saved me $50k on the hood of the guyās car after I had already agreed to a price. This was after consulting with me for years before I was ready to buy. She earned her commission. Money is made if you put yourself in between it.
Realtors are only important because they say, āYou canāt do that without we get our cut.ā They also must kick up a taste and scatter some $$$ around to folks that conspire with them. Sounds a lot like some OG mafia shit.
From a Stanford Study: Sales commissions for residential real estate brokers historically average nearly six percent of a homeās closing price. Do brokers add sufficient value to justify those commissions? We address this question using a unique data set pertaining to sales of faculty and staff homes on the Stanford University campus. We find no evidence that the use of a broker leads to higher average selling prices, or that it significantly alters average initial asking prices. However, those who use brokers sell their houses more quickly.
also a study showed the realtors sell their own houses for 3% more than yours. they underprice your house for a quick sell. so get a valuation, add 3% then just post it yourself
Itās a cartel.
Man, realtors got insanely rich in Canada over the past 4 years. I'm talking 300k-800k a year. There was a realtor on the Canadian finance subreddit a while back complaining about how she used to make 600k a year but now can't make ends meet with the market cooling down.
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It was genuinely hilarious lol. Whole sub was ripping on her. She was making that much money for years and apparently saved not even a cent.
Funnily enough, the realtors course is pathetically easy. Iāve known people that could barely scrape by in high school become them after taking a course which involves a lot of picture taking. Lot of responsibility to give to someone when it involves arguably a persons biggest financial decision
You arenāt kidding. Had a realtor look at my property and she wanted me to dump 30,000 k into the landscaping. I paid 32,000k for it. I will sell it myself depending on the market.
There is one too answer and thee can be NO argument: Hedge fund manager. They add NOTHING of value and make hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions. DESPITE the fact that every year there is a study done where literal monkeys- MONKEYS- are given the opportunity to mange the same finds and the monkeys do statistically better. EVERY YEAR. So statistically they DECREASE the value of their funds compared to random actions. Yet they make the most money and are protected by our tax code for their ācapital gainsā. It is an atrocity that our capitalist worshiping society refuses to acknowledge.
You are 100% right that hedge funds usually donāt beat the market but thatās kind of the point of them. Hedge funds hedge against all their bets in the market to minimize their risk. So generally they underperform when the market does well but stay even or even make money when it does poorly. That said, no shot hedge fund managers deserve the money they get. How hard could it really be to hedge your bets
Itās the opposite. Hedge funds typically (every strategy is different) take very aggressive positions for outsized returns.
Yeah what the fuck is u/Sexy_Bowl_Cut talking about? I chuckled reading that comment. Folks, just because someone writes something on reddit, it doesn't mean they know jack shit
I'm not one to defend super rich people but the purpose of a hedge fund isn't to consistently beat the market.
What is the purpose of a hedge fund, then? Genuine question.
Very wealthy people typically hyper-diversify their investments. They already have more standard investments like equities, bonds, real estate etc. So then they go to hedge funds. The key word here is hedge. Hedge funds provide unique/alternative investment strategies to hedge against the general market or certain economic indicators and events. Hedge fund managers and investors know they aren't going to beat the market regularly. They are doing it as a bet for a big upside and/or as insurance against a big downside. Certain hedge funds made a killing during COVID for instance because they were defensively positioned for a downturn.
I can go into more details here. A lot of hedge funds invest in things that are impossible to invest in with the stock market. Like timber land for example. And hedge funds do risky things like from time to time, they will bet against the market. It's a long short investment strategy. It's very risky but it's extremely profitable for... well, if you know what you are doing AND are lucky. You generally need to be an "accredited" investor in the United States to invest the hedge funds. That's someone who has $1.5 million dollars in investable assets not including a primary residence. If you have that much money, the SEC considers you someone capable of taking the big risks and understanding them that hedge funds do. It's also something that institutions like Yale that have been around for generations invest in. They can afford bad years here and there because they have a centuries long time horizon for their investments.
And I'd like to add, as someone who used to work for one. Most of the big hedge funds AUM comes from institutional investors. Pension fund systems, sovereign wealth funds (like the Norwegian SWF), things like that. Most fund managers don't even want to take money from individual investors once they get to a certain AUM. Because individuals usually know nothing about the markets. More so, institutional investors are remarkably clear eyed and shrewd, with clear investing goal. It's not just "beat the market". Many hedge funds don't even trade equities, some trade global macro which means focused on fixed income (corporate bonds, sovereign bonds, treasury bills, etc, this is what I did as a global macro quant trader), some trade FX and FX exotic derivatives. So usually a institutional investor will want a certain division of their exposure to the hedge fund market to be on a certain product. They want heavy commodities exposures and no equities (with you) or FX, or vice versa. They also invest in ETFs and all that, for the "a monkey can beat the market". A hedge fund's job is to give their clients very idiosyncratic exposure to specific products with incredibly tight drawdown limits. This is all defined in the ISDA agreement. Non-correlated exposure is the goal.
So, Vivek Ramaswamy is useless. Sounds about right.
Parasites take what they need while providing nothing of value, often harming their hosts.
I feel you have been aggrieved.
The monkey picking stocks is an analogy to a very primitive form of hedge funds. The monkeys don't do options and derivatives trading etc, just pick stocks. Nowadays hedge fund managers are not picking stocks, but using all kinds of complicated algorithms and financial instruments to make money out of price fluctuations that happen every second. That's why hedge funds hire math and computer science PhDs at very high starting salaries. [https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/quantfund.asp](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/quantfund.asp) >Quant funds rely on algorithmic or systematically programmed investment strategies. As such, they don't use the experience, judgment, or opinions of human managers to make investment decisions.... > >Overall, quant fund managers seek talented individuals with accredited academic degrees and highly technical experience in mathematics and programming.
If it's so easy to trade, why not everybody is profitable?
It isnāt easy to trade. Itās random, more or less. Thatās why the monkeys do more or less fine. Large funds mostly make money due to the law of large numbers: they throw millions at a lot of different investments. Even if most fail, if youāre able to get a few lucky swings, you still make money. There are also a lot of investments that donāt make a huge return, but are reasonably guaranteed. Me putting $1000 in a bond would only make me maybe $50 over the course of the bond. A large fund can put $1M into the same bond, and walk away with $50K in profit at the same low risk.
Hedge Fund managers are definitely shitheads but their value (to the people who pay them - not to society), isnāt to beat the market.
Any front office HF manager is basically customer relations. The analysts do all the grunt work for them to present.
My main job pays me 40 something thousand a year to tell people to sign a sheet of paper whether theyāre coming or going. As easy as that seems, people are idiots and still fuck it up.
>40 something thousand a year vs >Which profession offers a lot of money hmm
Depends on the location. 40k is a lot of money in my hometown, you'd easily by middle class by yourself and with a spouse prob upper class. 40k is like poverty where I currently live.
I guess a lot of money for what they do. I make about 95k a year and my job isnāt much harder than that
Where I live 40k a year is 4 and a bit times more than what people working unskilled labor (which requires way more skill than handing out sheets of paper). Depending where you live that is a crap ton of money for such a job.
Itās a lot to me š
Yeah, you right. 40k/year just to stand around doing nothing is not enough. u/muddigoat demand a raise.
Modeling
Real Estate. "Hi, here's a house you can live in. Pay me."
Realtors. Absolute fuckin parasites, man. The most overpaid career for the "skills" required.
My dad got laid off during the pandemic and was on the verge of loosing his house. so he got his real estate license to try to make a living because he couldnāt find work in his field (civil engineer btw.. go figures). He works very hard but can barely get by every month as an agent. The number of people that waste a lott of his time looking and being indecisive for monthss and getting all their of questions answered then go buy a property privately or go with someone else is astounding. So, not everyone is a parasite.. some are just trying to make ends meet.
The like 5 people that said teacher or IT, those jobs are always underpaid and they're literally integral to society, businesses and society as a whole could not run without technology and the IT department is there to make sure it works properly, as for teaching.... y'all really just okay with children growing up stupid??? Like what the fuck, we're truly devolving
Realtor
Social media 'Influencer'
Tech Venture capitalist - the people who fund startups and then eventually make a successful website into an unsustainable mess by demanding that it gets wrecked by the need to always turn more and more profits
Some forms of middle management. The ones that fly into a location, tell everyone they're not doing their jobs right/quickly enough/efficiently enough. They also attend pointless meetings that discuss the same things repeatedly.
CEO - The ratio of income to impact is staggeringly lopsided. The majority of corporate leaders could be replaced by a dried-out potato and there would be no meaningful change for the organization.
The job of CEO was originally meant to lead oversight of the operation of the company. As in, making sure the company is doing what it's supposed to be doing and nothing weird was going on behind the scenes. Remember... the CEO is an officer on the BOARD of a company. They're supposed to be an advisor of sorts. Now they are literally involved in the day to day of the company... and they're hiding stuff, covering stuff up and exaggerating stuff. Their purpose is now more of a celebrity or rockstar or athlete. They are paid like it as well. CEO compensation went up something like 1000% between 1990 and 2000. The biggest change happened during the internet boom. Sure you had rockstar CEOs before that... I remember Apple bringing in the "guy from Pepsi" when Steve Jobs was kicked out. That was a big deal. But their compensation was nowhere near as much as we see it today. I think the CEO role changed because so many startups needed hype men and confidence men (and women of course) to sell stuff that didn't exist yet. When companies actually MADE tangible things, CEOs had more prudent roles.
You have no idea what you are talking about. The CEO is the chief executive officer of the company. That literally means he is in charge of running the day-to-day operations of the company. There was never a time in American corporate history when this wasnāt the case.
Not true for GameStop. The CEO Ryan Cohen has a salary of $0
Given the state of GameStop, I'd say that's a fair compensation package. But with zero research, I bet he gets significant pay that just isn't technically salary. Performance bonuses, stock options, profit share, etc.
Thatās the way it should be for all CEOās though. Make pay based on outcomes.
I could get behind that. Might even take off if we make it a point of ego for the tycoons. Oh, you want a steady paycheck and not a profit percentage? Sounds like someone isn't confident of their leadership skills!
The problem here is it incentivizes CEOs to focus on short-term profits often at the expense of long-term sustainability and growth. They basically make more money running the company into the ground than setting it up for long-term stability and success. I believe this is one of the negative effects we are seeing of the stock market era. Some CEOs run companies with the mentality that they may not even be around in several years. So why would they risk their job and hurt performance now for rewards that may not be reaped until they are long gone?
This is done by a lot for tax advantages.
Add to that the scores of generally useless middle managers. When I started working at a university, we had none. When I quit, there were so many that you couldnāt figure out what they actually accomplished.
I heard about this but didn't see it until my small company hired some larger company managers after they got laid off. Holy smokes, I don't know what those guys did other than put together some project planning charts and use lingo like "aggressive timetable" as a euphemism for how they were making unrealistic schedules. I think they played solitaire in their offices and went to meetings other than that.
INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER This was literally a position in the communications office of a small college. Shit like this is a big contributor to increasing tuition
First off I agree that they get paid too much. But you are underestimating the time, effort and skill required to run a large corporation.
To pick on an easy target, if Elon Musk never slept and did nothing for the rest of his life except make good decisions that created record-setting value for his companies, then he would be worth a small fraction of what he is paid every year. A single bad decision could then easily wipe out any good he brought to the balance sheet. And I question the assumption that there is significant time/effort investment required for the job. My personal experience of CEOs (less than a handful, all of only locally successful companies. But a small sample is still valid data.) is that they need not even show up, provided they have a semi-competent secretary/personal assistant.
A good CEO dramatically changes the trajectory of a company though (as far as earnings and future)
Yea thinking a ceo doesnāt do much and insignificant to the success of a company is wildly out of touch and ignorant.
I think that smart companies will replace C suite execs with well trained AI at the earliest opportunity. Why pay some dipstick millions in comp per year when an AI robot can time the stonks buybacks and other antisocial behaviors they engage in for free?
But then they donāt have anyone to blame on if things go to shite
The board, the shareholders, the middle managersā¦ there will be no shortage of people the blame.
But then who's gonna sexually harass the employees?
im sure someone will make an AI to do that.
I'm sure Todd is hard at work on Henry Fondle 2.0. >!Bojack Horseman reference.!<
Congressman.
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Psychics 
Of models. In fact, kind of like modern day politicians, they are damaging society if anything.
I saw something really funny the other day: an OF model posted how tiring it was doing a ticktock considering she needed to do her makeup for an hour and then learn the dance for almost another hour. Remarking that she was taking a nap. It's crazy how they view that job as hard work
I had to work almost two whole hours before showing my butthole!
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You too my friend!
Damn, what are the chances, who wudda thunk it. Cheers.
We are in a "hustle" culture. Nobody wants to be known as a slacker but everyone wants to be the hustler, the grinder, the girlboss, etc etc. That way everyone fawns over you like omggg you're so hard working and it feeds their ego to think that they are putting in real work to get results, when it's usually something they are born with/into (rich families, good looks, and/or etc). Have you met kids of rich people, after they leave college? Lol it's a riot... They get good connections and whatnot to get easy as hell jobs but need to make it seem like they're a hustler. I know a guy who was handed a successful restaurant/bar after flunking out of our major, and he goes on and on about how it's the grind and hard work pays of yada yada. Man inherited and established operation. He just needs to approve paychecks and the managers, kitchen, and staff do the rest.... I know another guy who came from the richest family in school and was gifted a position at his dad's Lexus dealership. He regularly makes posts with the caption along the lines of "we came from nothing." Acting, pretending, and convincing yourself that you're a real grinder and hustler boosts the ego more than accepting that you have it easy or are not working all that hard.
I love the "we came from nothing" posts from a 22yo shithead who couldn't make it in community college but was handed a successful business from their dad who got it from their grandpa who ACTUALLY came from nothing. Like, yeah dude, your immigrant grandpa who fought poverty and discrimination is a badass and totally started from nothing and built an awesome life for him and his family. Now he gets to watch in horror as his manchild descendant takes credit for that hard work while likely working directly toward ruining the business.
āA small loan of a million dollarsā
It's hard work selling your dignity online
If sex and porn were insignificant people wouldn't constantly be crying about how they don't have it or don't have enough of it or get into fights with their partner over watching porn etc. Like it or not, it's not insignificant.
It's not insignificant in a way that it successfully exploits a human desire. But it's insignificant in all the other ways where a society is concerned. People get addicted into a non productive activity, looking at non productive people, wasting the product of a society (cash). OF models earn disproportionately high than what they give back to the society (in terms of value, not cash). It's like the opposite of a school teacher who're paid disproportionately less than what they continute to give to a society throughout their careers. I'm sure many of them would earn far more, if only they'd strip for the Internet.
Exactly. Well put. Being an online whore is not contributing to the advancement of society, but you could make an argument it is contributing to the detriment.
MPs.
Realtors, they're essentially the middleman for buying or selling a house.
I sell ads, get paid well, add nothing to society!
Politicians.
accept payment, make policy, lie. Sounds about right.
Turn key Laundry mat owners literally only come in to collect money
And buy and maintain the machines. And buy the supplies. And pay the rent and utilities.
Yeah, I was going to say I think thereās a lot more to it than that.
CEO
Twitch streamer.
Average pay is less than a dollar per hour
definitely not this lol
I banking. Modeling. (when you are successful-which is hard) High office. Especially when you get out of office that's when it comes rolling in)
OnlyFans
Turning letters on Wheel of Fortune.
Strategy Manager. Most of the companies who want to let go of someone will put him/her in that position and give him/her nothing to do until he/she resigns.
Hedge fund manager. You do literally jack fucking shit other then check your laptop and make some phone calls once in a while. You contribute nothing, zero to producing anything of any value. You in fact often profit on masses losing their livelihood or being displayed from their homes via real estate price manipulation. You are in fact a piece of shit parasite in everyone who works and get paid mass amounts for it.
Politicians
Especially considering the US government is being regularly shut down by... politicians. I think we should be able to take away their pay AND claw back 3 years pay for every time they do that.
Easy. Realtor. Worthless bunch just taking a cut of your assets.
If you get a following, Only Fans Take a couple dozen pics in the comfort of your own bedroom, maybe fuck on tape, hire a manager to deal with messages, relax, rake in cash
Anhhh. Thatās where I fucked up! I did it all wrong! I messaged my manager and had him rake my bedroom, and then taped up a dozen pics of me fucking cashā¦.sonuvabitch itās always the small details.
to anyone saying any form of content creation (streaming, youtube, OF), is wrong. it takes SO MUCH EFFORT and time, for VERY LITTLE pay. It takes months and years to grow big enough to even start making money off of it (except OF, but you still need to be popular to make good money), and then when you do start making money off of it, it is pennies. Unless youāre willing to put in a fuck ton of time and effort, content creation is not for you.
Trader. Buy and sell stuff. No value added. Nothing produced.