Oddbean new post about login | logout You have no idea if my job is cushy so don't make judgments on things that are impossible for you to know. I happen to have just worked eight 16 hour days in a row out in the rain and mud fighting to keep lights on. So fuck off.
And your hourly rate of pay climbs to what on those days? YOU choose to work there, why? Because it's less work & responsibility & better pay than you can make working for yourself, right?
True my rate of pay climbs, but 'cushy' would not be a valid adjective. No I cannot start an electric utility. Nor can I purchase small pieces of power line. Don't even try to theorize it because the ruling class has that all locked up. The only good model of electric utility out there in use now is if local municipalities had the guts not to sell in the 50s, 60s and 70s and kept it in house like the water and sewer services.