Completely agree. I see others are not liking this comment. I suspect they have an interest in young people continuing to slave themselves for less and less. The cold truth is that young people can cause a hell of a lot of trouble if they do it en mass. I encourage them to not only enjoy their lives but to be ready to buck the system hard when the time comes. This world can't continue this way and the ones pushing for it are not going to stop and cut the youth a fair deal until they feel their backs against the wall and the real fear sets in. They are a thick bunch, you have to get through to them this way.
I quit carrying my phone out of the house because I knew something like this was coming. I really like it, I look at scenery and actually think about things now. People around me probably think I'm poor as dirt too, so they leave me alone.
> You still seem to think that the cartels do things merely for their own cruel amusement. I, on the other hand, believe that cruel amusement is luxury which they allow themselves only as long as it works.
I agree with you on this. I also think it would absolutely work, just like it works in Mexico. I also think it would be the first choice of people accustomed to it working.
Dang, the guy said "You cannot have dominant players in a supply chin if there is no demand". What would you take that to mean? I honestly think he's talking about removing the demand (users). I asked him for clarification, but it sounds pretty macabre to me.
I absolutely do think they could. They operate vast smuggling networks in the US right now with near impunity, as one proof of this capability. Also, US intelligence is pretty bad when it counts. It didn't catch 9-11 or the fall of Afghanistan or the Soviet Union. Why would it detect a raid on a nuke plant?
Hold on amigo, have you seen how cartels operate? They actually do just do as horrible of a thing as possible, just because the top people want to be monsters and show their enemies they can slaughter them. They hang their gutted enemies off bridges, or decimate a whole neighborhood, or you name it. I think you assume they would play by your rules in a war. They might just decide to erase Houston so they can watch those people die in a gas cloud.
You think that if a thousand cartel guys showed up at a nuke plant with the intention of melting it down that armor and airstrikes would help matters? I think that would just help them actually.
If the US actually started using its military to hit these guys, what would stop them from sending a thousand guys into a large chemical or nuclear plant and creating a disaster that wiped out a city, or more? I find this sort of jingo rhetoric disturbing because the US has never faced an enemy with thousands of troops inside the US and the funding of a nation state. I can imagine an idiot like Trump actually starting something like this up.
This sounds like what I wanted to do once I realized how insanely easy remote work was. I do my wife's code for her dev job and it honestly works out to like 2 hours a week for me. She spends maybe 10 hours in meetings, so it totally makes sense to put 3 or 4 front people in positions to handle the meetings and just funnel the work back to me. Sounds like they are doing a bait and switch strategy though. You should just give them a coding test and see if they actually have a senior dev behind these guys. If so, quit pestering the front person who takes your order and be happy with the finished product.
> Sometimes it really does seem that "the cruelty is the point".
This extends very far beyond Guantanamo. I really wonder where all these sick fucks come from. I don't remember much of a psycho vibe from classmates or work colleagues. Yet the US makes them in sufficient quantity that they seem to pop up wherever authority is. Prisons, police, military, they all seem to have endless human garbage that enjoys being cruel if they can. How has this country produced these "people" and why do they achieve positions of power instead of failure?
You shouldn't be downvoted here, this is true. As tax revenues decline, they are trying to shift the burden directly onto the inmates to pay for the whole works.
At some point American has to shut down this horrible failed experiment with mass incarceration. I feel like I'm watching the end stages of it where they try to make it as absurd as possible and get the last bit of cash out of everyone. I sincerely hope this whole system collapses soon.
Look at how many people will lose their jobs if this shuts down. The people who support this are often just happy to see minorities and poor people get fucked if it means their stupid brother in law stays on at the local prison. They view these people as human waste, so they don't care how much they get hurt, as long as their people are getting something out of it. Trying to stop this means figuring out how to unfuck these people's mentality. That is even harder than stopping drugs.
They listen to the ones they find useful. I guarantee you "trickle down" wasn't Bush's idea, an econ man put those words in his head, and it was to provide academic justification for giving the rich a big wealth transfer from the working class.
No I don't want to read through that crap anymore, I had enough in grad school helping econ friends. What I'm talking about is that they always make a bunch of simplifying assumptions about the world and then fit their model and analyze. But what they almost never do is seriously justify the assumptions. One popular paper is to do "Assuming the world follows theory X, we propose this tweaked version of model Y from paper Z and show how it better predicts this dataset of 600 points from the world bank." I knew numerous people in grad school who played that game. There is no way the tiny little dataset they had could justify any of this, but that's what publishes in econ. And if you ask them about this, they will tell you that they only had this tiny little dataset because that's all that is publicly available and so on. That's fair, but also gives them a huge dodge to hide behind. That's what I saw of the field and I came away thinking that it stank.
Its a very political field and whichever little clique gets the ear of the decision makers that year determines what policies get enacted. I'll grant you that this doesn't matter in practical terms, because we all know that the policies will benefit the rich, not us, but at least you can get a better understanding of how you'll be robbed.
This. The subject is definitely not the rigorous science that its practitioners would like you to believe. They mostly just fit some sort of regression model and analyze it, but rarely is there any serious work to demonstrate that reality actually obeys the model. I understand that proving the real world actually conforms to theory is very hard, but that is what makes science what it is, and why science is really hard.
Explain it to me them oh wise one. Tell me about my privilege and how I was able to do all I have done because it was given to me. Show me how I earned nothing and learned nothing and life has been a magical journey. tell me that I could never do any of this if I were not born in a poor US family in a shithole town in the south. I'm all ears.
Happened to me for no reason I could discern at all, twice. If you have anything important tied to it, I'd worry. Better still, put your actually important stuff on an account that you pay for somewhere else.
Actually, I learned every bit of tech I currently live off of on my own and outside of the US, I haven't lived there in over a decade. So I recommend that poor people start doing projects like I did until they can pass a coding test, get their first job, and move up from there. It will take a year or two, like it did for me. I mention I am a US white guy so people can see that it makes more sense to live outside the US and work remote than to live in the US and work anywhere (the economics are better by far and I have the option to do either and choose this route because it makes way more sense). The US sells a false narrative of success but is really a trap. You can have much more working outside of it if you do it right. People keep shilling that narrative and it gets people right into the trap though.
I swear this sort of thing strikes me as 10X the trouble as just getting a job. Even if you write something that others want (highly unlikely, let's be honest), trying to monetize it adds so much hassle to the whole thing, it isn't worth it. Easier to get a remote gig and just fund the project that way.