Has Jamie Diamond caused anyone here to do a little self reflecting besides myself ?

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Anonymous wrote:OP here My son works for Boeing. He leads a very skilled team. It's true I only have my son's story, but I also know my son and wholeheartedly trust him.

My post wasn't meant to be about my Son. It's about me rethinking several things that just hasn't made sense to me the last several years. Why can't we get along with everyone and try to see their side of the story. Why must we fight about everything. I feel all my neighbors and friends just want to be antagonistic politically and get us nowhere as a nation. I have been a democrat for almost 60 years but I'm beginning to think the moderate people like me needs to break away and form a new party without all the silliness.

There are a lot of us out there thinking along these same lines. You seem reasonable and introspective. It’s sad we have to always boil everything down to left or right. Years ago you could agree to disagree, or never even drag politics in to it, and still be friendly with your neighbor. I don’t see anything wrong with your thoughts in any of these areas so if that makes me wrong then so be it.

[Anonymous]

Yes, but years ago, we didn't have super cheap lending from the government and people were more judcious about picking a major that made their degree worth the cost. Now, it has gone sideways with ridiculous degree programs and students seeking an easy way out. Blame the federal reserve and government writ large for that.

STEM or bust.

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Anonymous wrote:He's the CEO of JP Morgan Chase. Rumored to be thinking about running for president.

lol Trump will lock him up if he does. Diamond does not have a clue what is happening outside his gilded mansions. Seriously Diamond is one of the biggest cowards out there.

Oh, he knows exactly what’s happening in the real economy, they have all the personal income and spending data of every account holder. They know more than the government.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. What rude behavior some of you have ! So close minded and bigoted. I expected some insight and frankly a little compassion, not unchecked hate. That's precisely my issue with the democrat party now. Where are the nice people, where did they go ?

Is your nickname “Big Balls,” OP? Your posts are not giving Concerned Mommy.

[Anonymous]

People, it's Jamie DIMON. Spell his name correctly.
And side note, I find him extremely attractive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here My son works for Boeing. He leads a very skilled team. It's true I only have my son's story, but I also know my son and wholeheartedly trust him.

My post wasn't meant to be about my Son. It's about me rethinking several things that just hasn't made sense to me the last several years. Why can't we get along with everyone and try to see their side of the story. Why must we fight about everything. I feel all my neighbors and friends just want to be antagonistic politically and get us nowhere as a nation. I have been a democrat for almost 60 years but I'm beginning to think the moderate people like me needs to break away and form a new party without all the silliness.

Boeing is a failed company for a number of reasons, but DEI is not one of them. Promotions are almost always about personal connections; judging from his upbringing his superiors saw that he had a chip on his shoulder.

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OP is a troll who has definitely not been a democrat for 60 years, because if she’d been in America for six decades her written English would contain far fewer extremely basic grammatical mistakes.

And also real people don’t sound like that. They just don’t.

But the post has confirmed for me what I’ve suspected for a while, which is that there is a concerted effort to manipulate anxieties around college to deepen wedges between Americans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations OP! You’ve hit every RWNJ talking point. 😂

Because OP is a RWNJ.

[Anonymous]

Contempt

One of the main things that I hear from my fellow tradesmen is how the elite and white-collar professional class don't care about or respect the blue collar working class. This disrespect comes out in many ways, big and small. But you can hear it a lot in the political rhetoric coming out of the progressive side these days. It was there in the COVID conversation, how work-from-home white collar folks pushed for endless lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to be imposed on the working class whose labor they relied on to stay home. It's there in the way they talk about a universal basic income instead of high-paying trade jobs, and in the way they push for low-wage green jobs instead of union energy jobs.

But you can really see it in how they talk about college. Take the latest issue that progressives are pushing the Biden administration on—student loan cancelation. They want us taxpayers to pay off the student loans of the college educated, who on average make more money than those without a degree, and for whom the economy recovered almost immediately post-COVID. Then they have the audacity to tell us that it will help blue collar workers. They want us to enthusiastically agree to pay off their student loan debt, and then have the nerve to tell us it's in our interest as Americans.

That's what I mean about disrespect. And it pervades the entire conversation about college in America today.

https://www.newsweek.com/divide-isnt-right-v-left-its-us-blue-collar-workers-fighting-elite-contempt-opinion-1706053

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's the CEO of JP Morgan Chase. Rumored to be thinking about running for president.

lol Trump will lock him up if he does. Diamond does not have a clue what is happening outside his gilded mansions. Seriously Diamond is one of the biggest cowards out there.

Oh, he knows exactly what’s happening in the real economy, they have all the personal income and spending data of every account holder. They know more than the government.

Sounds like a threat to Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. What rude behavior some of you have ! So close minded and bigoted. I expected some insight and frankly a little compassion, not unchecked hate. That's precisely my issue with the democrat party now. Where are the nice people, where did they go ?

OP, I just want to say I feel and validate the hate you are receiving on this Board. I don’t get either other than you are tangential criticizing DEI, which I agree is rampant in large corporations.

But, the truck is on you. I would never buy a new model like this until it had 3-5 year track record, especially from Ford.

DEI is “rampant in large corporations” because study after study after study has shown that DEI improves profitability. Period.

Plz cite a few of those studies.

https://mbs.edu/news/why-diverse-teams-are-more-profitable

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/diversity-and-inclusion/diversity-matters-even-more-the-case-for-holistic-impact

https://online.uncp.edu/degrees/business/mba/general/diversity-and-inclusion-good-for-business/

McKinsey study has been called into question.

Gartner seems to be saying that outsourcing to Asia IT to get more diversity makes you more profitable(both their methodology is not clear). Duh? Foreign labor is cheaper.

Other studies from controlled environments purporting to show diversity leads to better decisions have suffered from methodological flaws and non-replication.

Here’s the thing: if DEI really leads to more profitability and better decision making, you already have the best lab to test and prove the theory: if your theory is correct, the market will punish those actors who don’t adhere. But for some reason you guys need to push this with crappy studies rather than letting the market sort it out.

The US is running out of mediocre white men. Get with the program! You can’t put the genie back in the bottle.

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Anonymous wrote:No I just think he's an azsshole.

Must be nice to have a net worth of $3 BB.

You're part of the problem. You immediately go after a person's net worth and wealth when you don't like what they say. As if they can't have a valid opinion if they have money.

Drop the jealousy. It's tiresome.

It’s so gross to look at these GenX numbers—worse than boomers! Ugggh!

[Anonymous]

I would say I LOVE my hybrid. It’s our third car. All the alerts for lane switching etc. our teen sons drive it and gate alarms. They stay well within the battery radius. We’ve paid maybe $150 on gar for the last 15 mos.

Now, if I needed to buy a car to tow something to n Carolina that would be the car for me.

But it’s silly to say all EV cars are bad.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here My son works for Boeing. He leads a very skilled team. It's true I only have my son's story, but I also know my son and wholeheartedly trust him.

My post wasn't meant to be about my Son. It's about me rethinking several things that just hasn't made sense to me the last several years. Why can't we get along with everyone and try to see their side of the story. Why must we fight about everything. I feel all my neighbors and friends just want to be antagonistic politically and get us nowhere as a nation. I have been a democrat for almost 60 years but I'm beginning to think the moderate people like me needs to break away and form a new party without all the silliness.

There are a lot of us out there thinking along these same lines. You seem reasonable and introspective. It’s sad we have to always boil everything down to left or right. Years ago you could agree to disagree, or never even drag politics in to it, and still be friendly with your neighbor. I don’t see anything wrong with your thoughts in any of these areas so if that makes me wrong then so be it.

She has a racist son. Blaming his life on a POC. How can it not be political. She’s mad that her DD is teacher, which she couldn’t be without a college degree, which she bemoans. So, that’s hard to discuss because it’s not logical. She’s blaming a poor purchase in Democrats, because a billionaire disparages.

Pretty hard to discuss. But, you knew that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Contempt

One of the main things that I hear from my fellow tradesmen is how the elite and white-collar professional class don't care about or respect the blue collar working class. This disrespect comes out in many ways, big and small. But you can hear it a lot in the political rhetoric coming out of the progressive side these days. It was there in the COVID conversation, how work-from-home white collar folks pushed for endless lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to be imposed on the working class whose labor they relied on to stay home. It's there in the way they talk about a universal basic income instead of high-paying trade jobs, and in the way they push for low-wage green jobs instead of union energy jobs.

But you can really see it in how they talk about college. Take the latest issue that progressives are pushing the Biden administration on—student loan cancelation. They want us taxpayers to pay off the student loans of the college educated, who on average make more money than those without a degree, and for whom the economy recovered almost immediately post-COVID. Then they have the audacity to tell us that it will help blue collar workers. They want us to enthusiastically agree to pay off their student loan debt, and then have the nerve to tell us it's in our interest as Americans.

That's what I mean about disrespect. And it pervades the entire conversation about college in America today.

https://www.newsweek.com/divide-isnt-right-v-left-its-us-blue-collar-workers-fighting-elite-contempt-opinion-1706053

You literally have no idea what you’re talking about. The loan forgiveness is not forgiving principal, it’s forging out of control interest from predatory lenders, who keep jacking up the rates every time they transfer the loans. That doesn’t happen with mortgages.

But, it would be smarter to forbid these transactions, rather than pay off lenders.

Also, see how MAGA is always telling you to blame someone else, rather than them.

—no dog in this fight for DH or me or kids