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What does this have to do with the article?

You are describing ways of getting acquaintances/just friends, the article describes ways of deepening those friendships such as paying more attention to questions that lets you better know people, I found it very helpful, it may come 100% naturally to you, but not to all of us

>Do you mean that sex is a product of a degenerate society?

They never even hinted 'sex'. Probably sex work, from people who in other times had other job opportunities besides selling their body online.

>Do you mean that sex is a product of a degenerate society?

So, answering your question, widespread sex work, yes.

I think she clearly compensates the alone aspect of her travelling by having a 1.58M subscribers youtube channel with 500k~ views videos. I am not saying this COMPLETELY replaces face-to-face interaction, but I bet travelling without videoblogging and receiving feedback+receiving attention from thousands from people around the world would not be the same...

"Adjective. parasocial (not comparable) One-sided (especially of a relationship, as for example between celebrities and their audience or fans)."

In which way organizing a raid via (say Discord or whatever communication way you use) coordinating efforts towards a common objective and, in some cases, meeting your teammates offline is something parasocial?

What do you mean by developing world? I live in Argentina, developing world afaik, and I have all of that. Majority of people here does.

Why do you need people in the same physical space than you? What can't be achieved via remote tools?

>Interesting that Steam solved most of that problems for game distribution though. They have worldwide publishing agreements, regional prices AND good support of local payment providers in many countries. I think a lot of people underestimate how these factors allowed Steam to overtake piracy.

Sadly it is being ruined by people from first-world using VPNs. Many AAA stopped using regional prices and we're stuck paying the same cost as in the first world.

10 USD is the average cost for an e-book from my anecdotal experience, some even 20. 200 USD our average salary range approximately.

It's not easy for us, you can say "well if you can't afford them then tough luck" which I could understand but that'd be your point for most of the third world. There's a reason Steam videogames regional prices exist for example (which people with VPNs ruined it exploting the system)

I also highly recommend "The Collapse of Complex Societies" by Joseph Tainter which also talks about the economic diminishing returns of any activity in societies as they become more complex. Uses the roman empire as its main example for his hypothesis but some other societies as well, it's worth a read.

Although I agree, nothing would make me spend ~2hs daily commuting again. My company's office is 40 minutes by subway + 25 min walking if I choose to walk to the station. It's even worse considering I work as contractor for a software factory (consulting firm, sorry not native english here) so the people I specifically work currently with are not even from my country. Plus I won't ever probably know about them 3 months from now.

I think daily about this issue but working again for a national company would mean earning 50% less of my salary probably... so tough choice.

Any advice or recommendations from other contractors/freelance workers are appreciated.

>I'm hoping that the recession will kick in harder than it is now and allow the managers to start requiring people to come back in. Those who threaten to quit will make the manager's lives easier so that they don't have to lay people off. This is sort of happening at Facebook right now.

Hoping for a worse economic situation for everyone just so we go back to the office with you? Really?

Already seeing those diminishing returns. They really are out of ideas aren't they?

Well, I understand how you feel but... you are the one who moved, not them, I'm not from North America but I imagine it's not a small distance just judging from a map, not that easy.

I have a friend who moved to Switzerland for example, being from Argentina it's impossible for me and almost anyone else to go there and visit him, but he chose that

I literally lol'd when I read "a blindfold for the ears which encourages us to disregard the whispers of the planet". I guess this person leaves in the countryside or some really beautiful forest, I really like my blindfold to the car horns, people screaming, construction sounds, etc.

Not my fault pal, they started this shit many decades ago, I was born in the 90s, I'm not gonna take the burden of fixing this country. Also, if you'd live outside of the first world bubble you'd know how our corrupt governments spend taxes

>I've heard this a lot. It seems a point of contention. I don't see how people don't depend on work for some level of social interaction. How can one want to spend 1/3 of their life not giving a fuck about the people they work with? How can someone want to sit at a computer banging out useless shit for faceless corporations and not have the conciliation of suffering through it with people you know and like?

I have enough social connections with family, my girlfriend and friends made in university, other activities, school, etc. I don't need to make friends at work tbh, I understand if others do, and that is one motivation to return to the office but please for the love of god, don't make me waste 3hs of my daily life because you need that.

And why should those competent, employed individuals pay the cost of having an incompetent government who's willing to steal around 75% of their salary through unfair taxes? You receive, for example, 2000 USD and are forced, by law, to convert them to pesos in 5 days but to their fantasy exchange value of around 147 pesos per dollar. Fantasy exchange value because try to get someone to sell you a dollar at that price, it's impossible, the real value of the dollar here is the one most people can access which is around 280. And also, besides that you have to pay all the ridiculous taxes from just exporting your services and invoicing.

No thanks.

Latin America is too brown to be from the west?

>The government doesn't control them now. What do you bet there are armies of programmers working for the government, figuring out how they can?

Argentinean here. That probably won't happen... for many years, at last. Programmers from my country start working for foreigners for dollares/any other non-meme coin that is no the peso. Anyone with 3+ years experience stops working for locals if they have a good english level and stop considering job offers in pesos (100% anual inflation as of now). What I'm trying to say is, the government can try to do that but it'll have to manage with only mediocre devs or spend a lot of money which... they don't really have.

>Why not build a society where everybody is building their own business, and we connect them all together? Why does Google have to build their own browser? Why does Tesla have to build their own GPUs and Amazon their own datacenters?

Some of us are not interested in having our own business, we just want to enjoy life in other ways such as raising a family, hobbies, relaxing, etc.

>It's a great shame that academia is terribly paid and an unstable career path in the West.

Is it better in the East? No loaded question, I genuinely want to know your answer

I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina and it got really tiresome to hear the same people complaining about rent costs and lack of housing also complaining about high buildings, new apartments in their neighbourhood, etc. It's so annoying, they want all the cakes and eat them too.

If someone is willing to do it for money and I'm willing to pay them for it, why should I do it?

And tbh, it really does take time to prepare a good meal, including washing dishes and all that. For those of us living alone it takes a good chunk of our free time after work.

But many people think they're worth that. I don't think there is an intrinsic "worth" for each developer, demand is high, supply is low, that's why salaries are high.

>Developers in their 20s are definitely overpaid

Why?

Just curious, why do you find Gmeet so bad? Among the three most common used (in my experience ar least zoom teams and meet) I find it the most usable.

Are you kidnapped or held against your will by your employer?

The one who feels personally attacked is the article's writer IMO. From this article and others from his website you can see he clearly has a problem with new developers, especially those from JavaScript. A lot of resentment can be read between lines.