Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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4-6 percent? Exactly. We are nowhere near that number.
Have you been to a Taylor Swift concert? Neither have I. You don't hear all the Sifties saying "Everywhere she plays she is sold out, so everyone must be a Swiftie."
There is a reality outside this Board, and the reality is not me dooming... it's me stating that we are not there, yet.
Not sure if this analogy has any relevance to what I wrote. I specifically wrote about people outside this board - people who were not even Trump supporters, who are finding their way to Trump through all the unity points Trump is focusing on.
I think being surrounded by professional class highly dependant on the beast system, in fact, is more similar to the Swiftie analogy.
So, to restate what you said more accurately - there is a reality outside of the people you meet on your work trips. Dont let what you see in that narrow slice of life define the whole world.
Agreed. But you are making a lot of assumptions about my work trips. My clients are not the rich or priveleged.
My analogy to Swift is that her concerts draw people like Trump rallies, and yet her fans are not in a self-inflating echo chamber. Or, saying it another way, Trump's amazing rallies are not proof of a 70 percent country-wide love of trump, and for sure not 94 percent. You cannot make that extrapolation, the same way we can's say that 94 percent of Americans love Swift just because she sells out huge concerts.
And, I am not saying people like Harris. Instead I am saying that too many people still think this is Dems vs Repubs. And that is not where we need to be.
Would love to hear what kind of clients you come across, but in my experience its not the rich or privileged that are as brainwashed as the "aspiring to be rich". The ones solidly on the rat race and very little time to think about anything.
I work with non profits and community groups. Average Joes. And when i'm done I hang out in the bar and listen to people and engage them. And when I fly to and from, half the screens are tuned to CNN.