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Those damn Zimbabweans if only they made it a law that you have to have clean drinking water then everyone would have it!

You are comparing living in the one of the most expensive cities in the world to someone living in Zimbabwe as if they are remotely the same thing. Only 40% of Zimbabwean people have access to toilets, what do you think that number is in London?

$8.43 gets you 20 pounds of rice in the west, 42 cents a pound. How much cheaper could it be?

Put it this way, India is a relatively wealthy nation and a large proportion of middle class Indians don't have flush toilets. How can you compare that to a middle class European with a straight face?

It's not that the cost of living is lower it's that standards of living are.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Long-Grain-Enriched-R...

It costs pretty much the same to live in a tin shack with no running water or electricity and eat rice and beans for every meal everywhere. This whole "cost of living" thing is a rationalization to make westerners feel better.

60k euro puts you in the top 0.11%[0] globally in terms of income.

"It would take the average labourer in Zimbabwe 71 years to earn the same amount."

[0]http://www.globalrichlist.com/

If you believe that the wealthy should only spend their money in a way that provides for "serious long term benefits for humanity" I ask you to enter your income into this website and then come back and tell me if you still feel that way.

http://www.globalrichlist.com/

I wonder how that compares to what they tell new hires who are likely taking a haircut for equity in the company

Much like Huckleberry Finn and that is similarly thrown down the memory hole

"Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms"

-Aristotle

Come to think of it Wargames is my #2, and I like the Weird Science hacking scene more than hackers

Neither does a 4 year sentence for marijuana. Likely this was a parole violation and OP was forced to serve out the sentence he was previously paroled from.

Sneakers is the best hacker film ever made. Hackers was maybe number 2 in my book.

Do I get to bill google for all extra traffic I have to send by appending that to the body of my websites in order to prevent them from stealing my intellectual property?

Also going forward you have to add this to your site or I will steal anything that isn't nailed down.

<meta name=”fuzzz4lyfe” content=”notheft”>

It makes more sense in context, take Patrick Henry's words in 1775 to understand what liberty and the preservation of constitutional rights means to Americans.

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

or Thomas Jefferson in 1787:

"We have had 13. states independent 11. years. there has been one rebellion. that comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. what country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. what signify a few lives lost in a century or two? the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it’s natural manure."

Salaries generally are lower compared to the US everywhere I've looked. Those labor protections and social safety net aren't free is my guess as to why.

They aren't stupid. It's completely on purpose and virtually anyone who has had a lengthy career in congress or the senate has voted in favor of this system many many times. That includes anyone you like.

Whats better? Experts that can be purchased? Elected or appointed judges who owe favors to those who elected or appointed them?

It's nice of the government to check to see if the government is defrauding the taxpayer.

>This sounds like a setting expectations issue. Developers are expected to write code, write tests, and troubleshoot issues. Why not also expect them to produce written documentation?

They often do, when sysadmins say "There is no documentation" doesn't mean that there is literally no documentation it's often the documentation looks like this: "Set up a cron job and have it fire every few minutes" instead of "login to the server located at 192.168.1.25 via SSH using the administrator credentials located in the password manager and type chrontab -e..."

>Correct me if I'm wrong, but If there's no holes in the application/web stack to be exploited, then there's no getting in. Right? It's not about hacker/pirate skill. It's about whether or not the target has plugged all their holes or not.

Similarly if a ship is unsinkable the passengers will never drown. Easier said than done.

So sickle cell anemia is racist? You can't tell the intent of something by the impact alone.

>The bills are already there. They've likely been piling up for years, and continue to do so.

>If you're $20k in debt, and it keeps growing, and every time you've tried to save up a few dollars to pay it down you've had to spend the couple bucks you managed to accrue on yet another critical bill you can't put off any longer, it starts to feel pointless to save.

If they have so much debt buying so many lottery tickets? Seems like a bad idea. What if they never bought lottery tickets to begin with? Who keeps extending them credit when they clearly never pay any bills?

Do you extend this same logic to firms like Amazon? Amazon spends virtually every dollar they make, does that mean they are poor? Should the government step in a give them money because of how poor they are?

I don't see why, "You have to stop buying lottery tickets" is a non-starter when talking about Americas poor. First stop buying lottery tickets, then we can talk about money problems you may have.

>There are always more bills to pay.

If saving money causes more bills to appear as you suggest the solutions seems to be to give the poor less money so they will have less bills.

>You have not. You've shown that after a year of not buying lottery tickets they might have that $500, with the caveat of the fact that we know that's not really how that works - any savings gets wiped out by the next unexpected bill long before that.

I don't see how this math works. Lets say my total annual income is $5000 to keep the math easy. My spending looks like this:

get $5000 paycheck (for the sake of ease of math)

spend $3000 on rent

spend $500 on lottery tickets

spend $1000 on food

spend $500 on tobacco

Now I have a $500 bill that I don't have the money for.

Conversely I could:

get $5000 paycheck

spend $3000 on rent

spend $1000 on food

Now I have a $500 bill that I can cover because I did not buy all those lottery tickets.

>How would having money solve money problems? That's really the question?

I have shown that they do have $500 to cover an emergency but they have chosen to spend it on lottery tickets and tobacco products. You claim that this is due to being poor and how they have poor impulse control and that makes them unable to save the money and instead the immediately spend it. If I give them another $500 why wouldn't they just spent that on more lottery tickets and tobacco products?

In the last few years there has been a social undercurrent of "don't help the police under any circumstances" that often comes from the "give up all of your guns to the police" crowd. I don't really understand it honestly. I'm willing to bet the vast majority of these requests have to do with people breaking into houses, stealing from cars, stealing packages and causing other nuisances that it would be beneficial to prevent near your home.

At this point anyone who works in a office has had a computer on their desk for two or three decades. If they decided not to learn how to use it I don't have much sympathy. Much of these situations are what is called performative ignorance, where someone pretends to be ignorant in order to get someone else to work for them.

Does not saving prevent those events from happening? How are those events handled without savings? How would giving them more money resolve this problem?

"The average American can't come up with $500"

>The lowest-income households in the U.S. on average spend $412 annually on lottery tickets[1]

>In the U.S., people living below the poverty level and people having lower levels of educational attainment have higher rates of cigarette smoking than the general population[2]

>Among smoking households, the mean quarterly expenditure on cigarettes in constant 2015 dollars was US$458[3]

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-12/the-poore...

[2]https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/disparities/low-ses/index.htm

[3]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6009464/

The market isn't wealthy or large enough to target for a lot of American companies.