On today’s episode of Radio Tortuga I speak with
, a veteran job stacker and senior member of The Tortuga Society.Last week Bingo attracted significant attention here on Substack with his debut essay The Post-Capitalist Economy, even earning himself a spot in the New Right Post.
Topics include:
How Bingo started job stacking in 2021 after HR demanded that he get vaccinated before coming back into the office
What it’s like to work three software engineering jobs
Bingo’s efforts to upscale his S corp into an above-board consultancy
The obstacles facing ambitious young men looking to form their own consultancies and compete with the likes of McKinsey and Deloitte
The corrupt and parasitic nature of the consulting industry
Tech guys used to a brisk pace of work can easily handle multiple insurance jobs
The unique tax challenges of job stacking
The ankle-biting culture of mainstream overemployed communities
Corporate America’s impotent attempts to curb job stacking with RTO
How Bingo deals with overlapping meetings
Time Zone Arbitrage
Lying to your boss
How Bingo invests his piratical spoils
Bingo’s article The Post-Capitalist Economy and his definition of corporatism
Does Bingo consider the EIC and VOC corporatism or capitalism?
Cultural differences between the upper class and upper middle class
Women were the original illegal immigrants
David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs and the Principal-Agent Problem
Corporate middle managers are more pleasant bosses than entrepreneurs
- ‘s article on job stacking and Reid Hoffman’s predictions about the future of the white collar labor market
Executives derive psychological value from ordering around their peons in person
Low agency normies will cling to stable W2 work
The potential of AI to deepen asymmetries in the labor market
Incongruity between normally distributed salaries vs. pareto distributed talent
Job stacking involves arbitraging lower effort demanded by IC vs. management
Middle managers get shit from both directions
The tenability of subcontracting as a job stacker
Staffing / recruitment is where the real money is
Legal and tax benefits of an S corp vs. an LLC
Husband-Wife job stacking teams
The ubiquitous culture of deception in Corporate America
The recent explosion of fake offshore candidates
Is AI going to destroy entry level jobs in tech and data analytics?
AI has solved lots of simple programming languages like SQL / VBA / R
Competition among the Mass Affluent has massively raised the threshold for being Upper Middle Class
Walt’s hatred for onerous credentialing schemes
The racket of AWS certs etc.
Do managers actually value profitability vs. raw power or the ability to be lazy?
Young guys right out of college should live it up rather than saving all their money
The Absurdities of Late Capitalism