Thanks for the mention! Happy Easter everyone!

That's an interesting idea, it's true that people handle authority very differently. Some are fine, some turn into horrible dictators, and it'd be good to find that out about people before giving them a position of power. But I'm curious, what do you mean by measuring it though? How would we do it? Like a Stanford Prison Experiment kind of scenario?

Yesss those are amazing. I also really like chocolate with yogurt and cornflakes filling.

I see. Yeah, we're definitely on the same page here. If a company does something wrong, the last thing I'd do is yell at an employee who had nothing to do with it. Customer service/retail workers are mostly underpaid and overworked/overstressed as it is so I wouldn't want to add to that.
I don't have kids but I understand that sometimes motherly instinct just kicks in, so going full mama bear if someone's being an asshole to your kid, well it's just something you gotta do sometimes.

Okay, yeah that sounds like a horrible teacher. Sorry for the confusion, your previous comment made it sound like you got her fired for the name thing but it's clear there was a lot of bad shit from her already and it's good she's nowhere near your kid (or hopefully any kids) now.

Uhhhh hate to break it to ya but that sounds like you were a total Karen in that situation. It's really petty and mean-spirited to laugh at her losing her job over her calling you by your first name too. Such a small thing to lose your livelihood over. If she was a bad teacher and that led to both you pulling your kid out of her class and subsequently her getting fired, that's one thing, and of course I don't have all the details so I can't really make a judgment. But the way you're telling it, having someone fired just over such a petty dispute... oof. I feel bad for her, and I really don't think you should be laughing at this. I don't blame anyone for losing their temper at a Karen.
I'd honestly rather be told something mean to my face and be able to talk it out than have the person immediately run to my boss and demand they fire me. Talk it out like equals instead of whining to the person in power, y'know?

The idea used to be that anyone who reaches old age must be a badass to survive in a tough world. But nowadays with modern medicine and with today's lifestyle, any stupid asshole can grow old, and many indeed do. So no I don't think I should give extra respect to every old person, some of them are cunts who think their age means they get special treatment, so they skip lines, take up two seats on a bus and are rude to young people for the most minor stuff. Seriously, I've seen so many old people harass and insult kids for literally just standing there, waiting for the bus. I've seen an old woman demand that a young woman give up her seat, and when she DARED say there are plenty of seats left (the tram was like 20% full), the old woman said "NO I WANT THAT SEAT" and went on a tirade about disrespectful young people, and many other examples. So yeah, nowadays every asshole can grow old, so I won't give them extra respect by default. As I said before though, basic courtesy still applies.

Sounds like she's an absolutely horrible person but also like a total outlier case and I don't think you can use her as an example of people who say "respect is earned not given". Tbh it sounds like she doesn't respect anyone, period. Your example of walking up to someone and being a dick to them is not a good representation of what the concept means imo.
I also think respect is earned not given but I'd never disrespect anyone to their face. In fact my 'default' setting is to be nice to people unless they show me they deserve to be treated otherwise. That said I don't think every old person is worthy of respect, and by respect I mean venerated treatment or special treatment, I don't mean basic courtesy and politeness because as I said that's pretty much my default setting.

Pffft, you think the ultra rich don't already have weird murder and/or sex dungeons? You're on the right track, there should be incentive for them not to cheat the system, but the problem is, once you have enough money (that you have made by cheating the system) you can just get that potential reward yourself. For example by buying or building a remote island and doing all kinds of fucked up illegal shit there. Money is its own get out of jail free card.

What a wonderful thought. Yeah, I wish we could return to the renaissance Italy mindset, back when the richest families competed in who would invest more into public spaces as a sort of dick measuring contest. The question of course is if it's even possible to earn such vast amounts of money without massive exploitation of either people or resources (or both), but yes, if billionaires could invest more, that'd be great. Honestly it would probably be enough for them to stop cheating their taxes. So yeah, like that's ever gonna happen lol
Also, heck yeah, Celtic Woman are awesome.

Good odds, good odds indeed