You’d think striking it suddenly rich would be the ultimate ticket to freedom. Without money worries, the world would be your oyster. Perhaps you’d champion a worthy cause, or indulge a sporting passion, but work? Surely not. However, remaining gainfully employed after sudden wealth is more common than you’d think. After all, there are numerous high-profile billionaires who haven’t called it quits despite possessing the luxury to retire, including some of the world’s top chief executives, such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.
But it turns out, the suddenly rich who aren’t running companies are also loathe to quit, even though they have plenty of money. That could be, in part, because the link between salary and job satisfaction is very weak.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday December 13 2016, @05:51PM
I'd try to change the world. You speak of infrastructure. I'd like to get people thinking that governments should build more transportation systems than just roads for cars and trucks. I'd like to see the sidewalk promoted to the walkway. The "side" in sidewalk denotes a vastly inferior status. Just because a route is inconvenient for an automobile road is no reason why it can't be done with a walkway. Make most buildings at least 2 stories, and connect the upper story with an entire network of elevated walkways. Move the sidewalk to the 2nd floor, call it a walkway or maybe a skywalk, and leave the ground level to the cars. The buildings themselves can be designed to support the walkway, no need to put bridge piers all along the walkway.
But then, we can't be bothered to eliminate railroad crossings.
I'd also like to see copyright law made completely irrelevant, turned into the kiss of death that ensures a work of art will be buried in obscurity because no one will touch it, and that because we have set up better business models to pay artists.
Would take more than a few millions to swing those, I'm sure.
(Score: 2) by tathra on Tuesday December 13 2016, @06:14PM
part of the problem with city design is that things were made as the technology allowed it, rather than designed from the ground up with everything we have today. rails were laid down across the country long before the personal automobile was even a dream, and walkways were used long before either of them. we've had to lay rails across the walkways, and then lay roads across the rails, leaving us with a big, mishmashed mess of modern and legacy pathways crossing over each other all over the place. i dont think there's a single city in existence that doesn't predate the automobile (maybe in like China or Dubai or something, there's probably an edge case somewhere, but in general, most cities are well over 100 years old). if a new city were designed today, it could factor in all kinds of better ideas, like elevated walkways and light rail from the start instead of implementing them each as the new technology becomes available.
(Score: 1) by charon on Tuesday December 13 2016, @08:28PM
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Thursday December 15 2016, @11:16AM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 1) by charon on Thursday December 15 2016, @08:43PM
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday December 16 2016, @11:43AM
sudo mod me up