This seems appropriate here…

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

401ks came out in 1980. Since then it seems it’s been “every man for themselves”

> A form of compensation that most workers would not want because they rather have cash to pay their bills.

As if CEOs don't have bills to pay. That's not the reason.

Super cool and pretty! Any particular favorite from scifi and fantasy?

You get it. Average mouthbreather doesn't, and only whines that they're not in on non existing money.

The numbers are there to confuse the tax payers and boy does it show.

Oh cool, where in Karelia are you planning to go? My grandma is from Petrozavodsk and my grandpa is from Koivisto (Primorsk) (they evacuated during WWII). I always wanted to visit there, unfortunately I never got around to it and now travelling to Russia is out of the question. Koivisto especially sounds so pretty to me and there are these big islands on its shore, I’m from a coastal town myself (Turku, which lost its own oldest buildings in a massive fire in the 1800s so my sympathies for Toshkent for the earthquake) so archipelagos always call to me.

I googled and Samarkand looks absolutely stunning, wow! Thanks for the description, those blue buildings especially are so beautiful. There’s no architecture like that here in Finland.

And yes, the book was definitely from dark times.

Only 1,460%? That's not much. Oooooooh, You ment 1460%!

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I chatted with friends recently. They are GPs with a small passel of kids. They haven’t had meals with anyone outside the family in three years. Haven’t had anyone over or been to other people’s homes. This was their way of saying they would really rather that I not stop by for a visit. They’ve gotten their vaccinations and are strict about masking, so no one in the family has caught it yet, that they know of.

Ah, that's a shame. But I will keep an eye out from now on. If my trip to Karelia this spring will be possible, it will be a great opportunity to check out local culture besides gorgeous views.

Uzbekistan is a lovely country. Quite harsh climate though. Insanely hot summer (+45°C easily) and quite cold winters (-15°C this winter, which may not sound too much for Finland, but thats feels like -30 in Siberia). Tashkent or Toshkent depends on which language you speak, uzbeks say Toshkent (Tosh - stone, Kent - city), but again those who speak Russian do call it Tashkent so both ways are appropriate. It's the capital and very beautiful at that with more then 2000 years of history. But the real troves of history are big old cities like Bukhara Khiva and Samarkand. They are even older with carefully preserved historic buildings going way back to glorious days of Amir Temur. The most impressive display is the paint which still hold its original colour. It's quite amazing to see contrast of nearby desert and cloudless sky with buildings that sport blue and green colours. The secret of that paint sadly is lost but most popular theory is that valuable gems were grinded to dust and used for that purpose, which I believe myself to be true, as that was created at peak of Timurid Empire and it had resources for that kind of showoff. Tashkent hovewer have much less of those historic building left as it was devastated by earthquake which leveled most of the city in 1966. It's quite a historic event and one of the reason why many uzbeks remember USSR fondly, as the call was made to rebuild Tashkent and it was answered. In 3 years city was complely rebuilt and modernized, many of those who helped later stayed as well and formed new local intelligence which is never bad to have young blood with knowledge.

The book you mentioned is from memories of much darker times. Uzbeks themselves don't really like to remember those. Even history books in schools were quite short on that subject.

What a mess, this is confusing.

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Yeah I did, and I'm thankful that I only had to spend 3.5 years on the PhD in total.

I did not have comps. I basically started on the project right away. At my university, you had to take 100 hours of training, but it didn't have to be formal classes (Udemy courses counted, for example).

Costco ceo cut covid pay (admittedly was a temporary pay) and then gave himself and his cronies a big raise around the same time

He may not have been born a founder, but he identifies as one. Who are we to judge?

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That’s not a big barrier. (To make it scale).

We are family at 'generic company name'

Musk wasn't a founder of Tesla.

Lots of CEOs are paid $1 annually. Just one example of how the rich will always be able to pay accountants to figure out loopholes while the poor suffer.

I feel like we need a law: the highest paid total compensation to an employee of a company cannot be more than 10x the lowest.

If CEOs want to make more money, then they should have to pay everyone else more first.

Likewise!

As for sources about things on Ingrians, it’s a bit difficult. I don’t know anything in English, all I know is based on Finnish articles, books, one TV documentary and some stuff my grandma told me. Maybe there is something in Russian but I don’t speak it so I wouldn’t know where to start looking.

I’ve never been to Uzbekistan, but it sounds lovely. I just read a book last week that took place partly in Tashkent (is Tashkent or Toshkent the right name? In Finnish it’s Taškent but don’t know if that comes through Russian.) Incidentally it’s about this same subject as the writer is a Russian-Finnish author (Anna Soudakova) whose grandfather was displaced to Uzbekistan from the Leningrad region in the 1930s when his parents were executed as “enemies of the people” and she wrote the book based on his life. I don’t think the grandfather was Ingrian though, as far as I’ve understood one of his parents was a Finnish migrant to Canada, from where they moved to the USSR.

Now you need to make a website that does this for people. We put book titles in each month and this visualisation is generated. And when you are done. Please ping me.