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Lots of samples if you google.
Without both sides of the story it's impossible to deem the truth.
The biggest players gobbling up all of the competition and essentially having a monopoly.
All you have to do is drive through middle america to see the Ruby Tuesday/Strip Mall-ification effect on most of the United States.
I love capitalism when it's functioning it's the greatest system ever invented.
When it's just a market full of monopolies it's akin to dysfunctional communism from a consumer choice perspective.
I don't know what the solution is.
I think of Slatestar codex article:
"Beware the man of one study."
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-...
Until this is confirmed and validated in a number of studies, it's still merely an observation.
People trying to get cheap labor and instead get defrauded.
I feel bad for Connor though.
I've always really enjoyed Garmin and their products and their services.
I'm sure they're not perfect but they're an alternative to the Google all seeing eye of sauron.
All new work needs to go through the ticketing system and all new work needs a priority attached to it.
Every Monday you plan out your work for the week and line up higher priority tickets first.
If something immediate comes up during the week, you put a ticket out and bring the new item in.
People mark an emoji and then keep scrolling feeling good about themselves.
You have to find people who don't give a fuck. They're way more fun to talk to.
They are the laziest form of communication on earth.
It's a reply without having to think of anything to further the conversation.
Given that Intelligence is not directly co-orellated with success....and tons of Mensa people are waiting tables and doing jobs requiring no advanced IQ.
The real sad part is that there may be a baby with a 300 IQ who is trapped in a shitty dead end job by capitalism.
After taxes rent utilities insurance car payment gas groceries savings retirement student loan you're looking at take home of like 20% of advertised salary.
Then the average person spends 8 to 10 hours working and another 30 minutes to an hour commuting with like 2 weeks of vacation a year average.
Which is why I don't like the Buddhist idea of getting rid of all materialistic attachments.
If you get rid of materialistic attachments you also get rid of meaning. And while it's true, things don't mean anything in an abstract universal sense....
Human beings live in a human world not in some void in space and meaning is important to us and can give us great happiness and joy.
Obviously life means something to all of us because we're still breathing every single day and most of us wish to continue to do so.
Only European immigrants for hundreds of years until 1965 Hart Cellar. Coincidentally a few years later:
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
> Getting tired of the folk that move in and then say, "Hey, I've got mine. Now it's time to close the door on everyone else."
You're tired!!!?
I'm sick and tired of Western countries being responsible for Eastern countries billions of children! Stop having children! Maybe your country might actually be livable and not be something you want to run away from!
Notice that almost all of the countries that are desirable to immigrate to have a native population with a declining birth rate.
Also no one's closing any doors. any country can create their own prosperous economy? why not do that? Are they incapable of creating their own prosperous economy? It's closing the door because they're incapable of being successful on their own?
Instead Western countries get a billion people trying to immigrate and make the cost of labor dirt cheap.
It's pretty sad situation because the desirable countries are being turned into the rest of the world.