They’re really gonna play the “men are shit” card? I mean come on.

I basically agree. Those are actually insurance, and serve a purpose. Health “Insurance” isn’t insurance at all really…

As you get more and more specialized, this starts to change. If my expertise is selling matts for large cranes, then there are like 3 companies that do that. The companies themselves are no special, but your expertise in that area does have a special alignment with what that company wants to do.

Non-specialized positions, again, make this question worthless.

I think good answers, in this case, are more than “I’m passionate about x”. A specific scenario where you were really interested in a specific scientific question related to the job at hand would be much better. Again, useful if you’re going to be an engineer at Tesla, not useful for a cashier at Taco Bell.

Absolutely agree.

If you mean specifically health insurance… yeah this is spot on.

I think it’s more complicated for other kinds of insurance though.

As I say every time I see this joke, it’s a stupid question when McDonald’s asks it, but a good when when more advanced or complex jobs ask it. A person who is passionate about science is a better candidate for a job at an engineering firm than someone who isn’t. Plus, the question, done right, is asking “why this specific company” rather than why do you want any job. “Why FLIR instead of Tesla?” is a very different question than “why McDonald’s instead of Burger King”.

I think it’s a good idea to separate the politicians and party leaders from the rank-and-file members.

The organization knows what it is they are doing. But the members… I think of lot of them are just completely deceived in various ways about various things.

So when someone says “republicans want a dictatorship” it can be true in one sense, and nonsense in another.

I wouldn’t say they were taken care of in this case…

But regardless, that’s a hardly an amount that would prevent someone from trying to do this again.