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This should be obvious to anyone who isn't gifted with top ~10% looks. Not just in the legal system but in the way the really attractive just have things easier. The person who just smiles and avoids trouble, etc.

Napster was a godsend. The music industry was a racket. In 1999 it would cost me around $32 for a single CD album here in Australia. That's close to $55 dollars today adjusted for inflation. When music/movies/games first moved to online distribution they had artificially inflated prices here. The cost of these would often be 40-80% than what Americans would pay. This was due to their distribution deals that companies had to artificially drive up prices here. When the Australian dollar rose against the US dollar they changed out prices to Australian dollars, since for the first time we were paying the same as the Americans. Overnight these things rose in price 50%.

I pay for my music. I have had a Spotify subscription for years. They're offering me a product at a reasonable price. You try to extort people and they'll move back to piracy.

I replied to you because you felt the need to cover your statement with:

> tend to not think I'm someone who has actively studied the space because of the ways it has negatively impacted my life, so I'm somewhat knowledgeable about such topics

Those who have actively studied in this area have had large negative impacts on my life. I felt the impacts of gender policy, derived from the liberal arts academia, during the hardest years of my life. I'm sick of having the fact I'm a cis het white man thrown in my face by people "educated" in this area. Here's something I wrote here 8 days ago:

>That video reflects purely on skin colour and I feel that can be harmful. My skin is white but I'm descendant from the Australian Stolen Generation (google it if you want to see more). I was raised in a poor country town and I literally joined the military to escape that life......I make decent money now since I used the military for a CS education but when I go shopping I choose to go to the low socioeconomic area. I don't fit in culturally at the upper middle class shopping centers. I don't dress the same, talk the same, hold the same values, etc. Not feeling like you don't fit in isn't just linked to race.

I don't fit in culturally in upper class white areas. I was born and raised in an area that is in the top 5 for every single crime in my state. My family still has baggage from literally being stolen and given away, not to mention being half casts (part aboriginal). I became a single parent. And yet, I've worked my arse off and managed to carve myself a good career and a lovely life.

I see plenty of black people, women and gay people do very well in life. The trick is to be born in money or into a culture of success (i.e. did you know 2nd generation Nigerians and Ethiopians have better educational success than the general population?). The issue is that a large majority of slave descendant black people are born into a cycle of poverty. In my home town I've seen programs attempting to break this cycle and it's brutally hard.

I'm much more interested in breaking these cycles of poverty than I am in restructing the way society manages productive work. Free, educationally-programmed daycare from 6 months of age? Daycare that has the ability to accomodate people working non-business hours? Some form of universal income to keep people afloat? I'm all ears here, and this will benefit marginal communities immensely.

Blaming it on cis white men? My ears will close. It's a single-digit percentage of white people born into the privilege that those at top have. People of all races can be born here but due to historical reason it's pretty heavily white. The majority of us aren't born into that and are sick of being blamed.

My reading is that Unilever had a large non-indigenous workforce living on a plantation that was attacked. This was a western Kenyan plantation and I suspect the workers had travelled there from other west-Kenyan areas based on their tribe. I'm not expert on Kenyan law or the way these business contracts play out but I feel the issue at play here is if Unilever has a responsibility to protect workers when nationwide ethnic violence breaks out, and they have non-indigenous workers.

I became a single father when my youngest was a baby. I was juggling a baby plus a two year old and all that comes with it (obviously I couldn't breastfeed) with full time work. I saw the results of years of womens studies first hand. Zero services available to fathers of babies since every single government funded program was only for mothers. Being questioned about potential unsavoury activies because my two year old said they like wrestling at home with dad and everyone distrusts a father who is raising a baby by himself. How the entire gender studies academia misses that the culture in raising babies is hostile to men I don't know but I trust their professional opinions about as far as I can piss.

EDIT: I'll flesh this out with an example of why I don't value liberal arts degrees. Approaching one Christmas I was struggling. My work didn't go on break until 5pm on the 23rd, I was juggling that plus parenting plus all the other tasks that go into preparing for a family Christmas. I stumbled across a news article that I would summarise as "We need to thank all the women that are working hard right now to make Christmas special for us". I emailed this journalist, a graduate of the liberal arts, and mentioned that there are a number of men out there in situations like men working towards the same goal and the gendered language can be harmful. The journalist reponded that it's mostly women so there isn't an issue with this language. The same journalist who writes about how we need to make STEM more hosptitable to women, etc.

Her formal liberal arts education only taught her to see gender issues in one direction and didn't give her to critical ability to think about gender issues in a broader sense. So yes, I don't value when people have some parts of a liberal arts education.

The golden ages of civilizations had the majority of their populations fighting for survival. The elite were free to pursue what they wanted.

How do you have solid grasp on what the average is? I googled "Python web salaries Melbourne" and the answer came back at the top from Indeed at $750 per WEEK. I wouldn't apply for something paying $39000 per year in a city that is incredibly expensive. Payscale[.]com had it at $73k for Python (not just web) as an average, still not that high but you should expect a few applicants.

There are ALWAYS exceptions to rules. It serves much better to read comments as "in most cases".

I feel the author is writing about the ability of Amazon to use it's size to create a hostile environment for smaller companies. If you take a large enough portion of quality books and offer the author cash to make them exclusive then you'll shut down competition.

There is obviously a grey area here. I don't know how much Amazon is in the business of creating books (i.e. hiring authors to write them).

The main difference is see between this and Netflix exclusives is that Netflix takes an active have in making their own content (it's a Netflix movie, not a X director movie on Netflix), they have competition in the marketplace and the financial dynamics of movies is different from books.

His stack indicates web dev, which is the typical path for self taught programmers. Plenty of work available that pays more than minimum wage.

>Many topics in maths and engineering are very intuitive to pick without formal education. To understand Humanities requires discussion with others.

This is why years ago I watched the humanities students struggle endlessly with their first year statistics unit. The incredibly simple, first year statistics unit.

Why should taxpayer funded money be used to encourage people to study arbitrary topics? I'd rather they spend the money to encourage growth in areas that will drive the economy.

My comp sci degree had 0 rounding classes. Every class was comp sci or math.

Can I ask what sort of salary range and work you typically offer? It could be many graduates see the big US numbers and expect similar.

They also spend a lot of money and effort on promoting their own religion and interests. They could easily create subcharities that are seperate entities designed to do the charitable work while being taxed on their non charitable areas.

Thats for items which depreciate in value over a multi year period right? I know that you were only in business one year but the tax system isn't really designed around 1 job incorporated companies.

Good luck making it work in a hyper individualistic society. Person A who has been told they're required to do contact tracing will get annoyed that their neighbour B doesn't have to do it but is still getting money. Add to that mix the antivaxxers, conspiracy theorists, people that dislike government, etc.

I'd argue that it's the way the term is being used every day in both the media and social media. The academic term might be different but it's not that definition that's driving discussion.

My issue is the way the media talks about "white" and "non-white". Being born white isn't some ticket to a silver spoon, and with so much emphasis on purely race there are negative repercussions.

i.e. I just googled it [1]. The fourth link talks about the relationship between usage of White Privilege and how it impacts peoples view of poor white people. There is so much emphasis on skin colour that the guy in the Youtube video literally won the privilege lottery at birth (compared to ~95% of other Americans) and still feels oppressed enough to make a video about it.

If his video had of been purely about solidarity for the Americans born porn and black I would have supported it since that demographic needs solidarity to help get out of the hole they were born into. Instead, he made it about himself and his rich boy problems.

[1] - https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-22926-001

The historically correct answer

It's also the method they use to train military working dogs. Find dogs with a huge ball chasing instinct but only reward occasionally and randomly. The dog will work so damn hard to get that ball toss.

Poker machines are built the same, as are the recently banned loot boxes in video games.

That video reflects purely on skin colour and I feel that can be harmful. My skin is white but I'm descendant from the Australian Stolen Generation (google it if you want to see more). I was raised in a poor country town and I literally joined the military to escape that life. Compare that to the experience of this Youtuber. He was a golfer at 10 years of age... I don't even know how you could ask parents to spend that sort of money on you at that age. His story screams privilege (professional ultimate frisbee for one). I make decent money now since I used the military for a CS education but when I go shopping I choose to go to the low socioeconomic area. I don't fit in culturally at the upper middle class shopping centers. I don't dress the same, talk the same, hold the same values, etc. Not feeling like you don't fit in isn't just linked to race.

That being said, poor black African Americans (and Aboriginal Australians) have horrible life outcomes, far worse than any I could expect. Second generation black immigrants from Nigeria and Ethopia have better life outcomes than the general US population so it's not just about skin colour. I feel that there is a whole host of intergenerational related issues impacting the African American community. In addition, I feel that mainstream culture is quite hostile to African American culture.

I feel that a significant majority people don't weigh up the value of courses for both undergraduate and graduate. Having a read through your contribution seems like you made the same conclusion, albiet slightly late for your own benefit.

I'm sorry you had to experience that. I hope you did get to experience some of the beauty of our country too. People are quick to bash China but there are some things they are doing well. I feel that Asian exchange students need to be warned about the danger of night time in Western cities.

I know the relations are strained between our countries but I hope they improve. Our government has "do not travel" recommendations in place for China due to the current political issues between our nations but I would love to visit one day.

I live in Melbourne. Can I ask what parts of life here felt unsafe? I live out the suburbs in a moderately expensive area and not much happens here at night. Is it "youth gangs" in the city that caused the issue?

That's just for the products that can be proven to be fakes. There is also a lot that just are shoddy that you cannot prove, in which case the store loses a repeat customer.

Amazon has already lost me for products where I care about quality. The Pilot G2-05 pens I buy in store ($5 each in Australia) have never had any issues and all worked flawlessly until I drained them of ink. The Amazon 12 pack hasn't had a single pen reach the end of its life.

The judge would likely have prefered to die than for her 20 year old son to die. I think the attackers sent the message they wanted.

Are you child free? I wake up and just hope for 5 minutes of peace to enjoy a coffee where I can sit, read and drink coffee. Making coffee using a French press would take all that time. Nespresso is a quick thing and I get to enjoy a few minutes of peace before chaos.

You mentioned in another comment here that you're eating 2.5g per kg of bodyweight, nearly every recommendation I see is between 1.4-2g/kg. Be careful with too much protein, one of my gym buddies put himself into hospital with serious kidney issues from going overboard. I'd assumed you were about 100kg lean eating that much protein.

If you don't want to eat vegan food, the only excuse you need is "I'd rather eat meat 6 times per day". The vast majority of western people could eat bodybuilder vegan diets if they needed to. If it is something you're interested in then there is a TON of vegan bodybuilders. Google Nimai Delgado or Torre Washington, for example.

Bean burrito - 450 calories, 28 grams protein

Wheat protein based shake - 120 calories, 25g protein

Two soy coffees - 300 calories, 16 calories.

Those 3 proteins complement the amino acid profiles of each other. I typically only aimed for around 130g, so with two protein shakes daily and those other foods I'm very close after only 1000 calories.