Jumpingspiderman

joined 4 months ago
[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

When I left academia to go to the private sector, I got a 40% bump in pay, and worked at least 30% less. And I didn't have to write grants to support my program. When I was an academic, I thought people never came back to academia from the private sector because they couldn't. I quickly found out that it was because they'd have to be crazy to come back. I wouldn't have returned to the university for anything less than an endowed chair. And that was NOT going to happen.

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Teachers in the US. Hands down.

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

The Catholic Church is a oligarchic Republic in that the Popes are elected. But only the Cardinals do the electing.

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Ranked choice and similar electoral systems are a direct threat to the monopoly on power held by the Dems and the GOPers- which is why we don't have some sort of a ranked choice balloting system instead of first past the post.

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Tell us you are ignorant without telling us you are ignorant. A republic of any kind is a state in which the head of state is elected. The US is a representative constitutional republic in which the representatives and head of state are elected- at least that's the theory.