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It's kinda weird how Dalio has been predicting a fall for a while now.

It was the second highest voter turnout in US history.

People can do leetcode AND all the things you talk about. Or do you really think engineers at companies who ask leetcode are all bad at their jobs?

> you can't interview for those

Also yes you absolutely can!

1. "out of college". I'm sure you can figure out how to interview new grads and identify good devs.

2. They are not. FAANG in India pays higher than what I quoted. My senior numbers are especially on the lower end of the spectrum. If your numbers are lower then you aren't working with good devs.

These are the numbers for good devs. The ones who get into great startups/companies. 95% make less and it shows in the quality. Infosys pays new grads 4000 USD/yr.

How much are the contractors being paid?

The people having a terrible time with Indian contractors always deal with folks making 3k-10k USD/year. Of course the quality is bad.

For reference:

Good Indian devs out of college make atleast 30k USD. Good senior devs make atleast 50k. The really good ones make much more. Most American companies outsource to bottom of the barrel contracting companies like Infosys.

I don't see how its "obvious" at all. I think most problems wouldn't be solved at all with this view because most problems aren't something people care about. Money gives people the incentive to solve every problem possible. Someone who "cares" is free to solve it even better and make even more money.

Why is this a problem? As long as the problem gets solved.

1. The life I want to live doesn't involve optimising for a salary. I want to fish for fun. Not fish for a living.

2. High earning SV engineers can easily build a substantial corpus in under 10 years.

3. Most people don't know what they want to do. That means experimenting till you find it.

4. Its the safest way of figuring out and following your dreams I can think of. Of course you may die before 30 but thats statistically less probable. I am optimising for the case where I do live to the median age. Optimising for the worse case scenario seems too pessimistic.

Achieve FIRE. Then you can afford to explore different lifestyles without fear. The software industry will always exist if you want to come back.

I don't think Europe should feel guilt or anything about their history. They are just operating like every other region prioritising their own citizens first.

I just hope all of this is a nothingburger. The last thing the world needs is a war between the west. But looks like globalisation is going to slow down regardless. Sad.

> Btw. as far as I remember neither China, India, Russia, nor practically any other nation stopped trading with the US over the war in Iraq. Maybe I am wrong about that.

Yep. Because countries only care about themselves. The US is too important economically. But are you saying that Europe like India and China does stuff that benefits them and isn't a better standard morally?

> And Indeed, there were no consequences later. But what should have been done and by whom at that point?

Reparations?

> How do you prove that it was deliberately misleading?

Are you denying the fact that countries didn't know? Many EU countries did indeed stay out of the conflict after all. Are you saying the incredible intelligence agencies of western countries were simply oblivious?

> Why would it be the job of nations of Europe or EU?

Because you sent troops? And because people there genuinely think they are the good guys?

> I remember having discussions about Iraq with people from Scandinavia, Italy, Spain, Germany, and France back when the invasion started.

Would you let Russia off the hook for Ukraine then? After all the people there are under dictatorial rule. I'm sure there are large groups of people there who oppose the war.

> The reality is that the US is the most powerful geopolitical entity and Europe is a continent consisting of many individual countries. Even the EU is a divided group of nations, and even if united would not be as powerful as the US is currently.

I completely agree. The US is too powerful. I'm just saying it shouldn't come as a complete surprise that they would one day target Europe as well. Unfortunately might makes right. I just hope the US comes to their senses.

Yep I vividly remember Tony Blair supporting the war. Millions dead. People just went on with their lives with a "oops". I'm just saying this behaviour is nothing new. Might makes right I guess.

Many EU countries did send troops did it not? And what happened when it became clear the war was a farce? There were zero consequences right? It's a "told ya" moment for a lot of asian countries who didn't fully trust the US.

America starting to treat Europe like it has treated the rest of the world all this time. Weird timeline.

Hobbies are just anything you truly enjoy doing that isn't mandated by your job. If you would continue doing your job even if your employer drops your salary to 0, then yeah your job is your hobby too! It is up to the individual to figure out what works for them.

It was interesting to see my dad retire. He struggled a lot initially and even went back to work for a while. He had to actively work on learning to enjoy his hobbies and time once again.

Thats interesting because my social media is filled with constant hustle culture content. Wonder how the algorithm classifies us.

Do you have a link to that podcast? Sounds interesting!

How do brains actually work?

I use "text-transform: lowercase;". It's just a fun look. When I get tired of it I'll just remove the property.

Crypto is going to be a new settlement layer thats it. You'll use stripe and they will settle it on their public chain. You are free to use the chain directly but no real consumer is going to do that.

So are citizens of rich countries willing to send their wealth to poor countries? We need global wealth redistribution to fix this right?

Every other living organism looking at human beings: yeah.

Still doesn't make sense. How are tariffs "subsidising" corruption? What does that even mean?

I made no such reasoning. The parent comment wrote about taxes like its something bad.

Europe does tax its people a lot more. So the argument doesn't make sense.

> the author has a .in email address

Indians write english just fine.

I'm curious. What is an example of any economy that has only worked properly and brought freedom and prosperity to their citizens and has never ever gotten worse?

I disagree with you there. We need to stop infantilising politicians.