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She has an EU passport for her and her kid (husband is american though).

China is capitalist.

> like we're now seeing in Ecuador and other countries.

The protests in Ecuador are about IMF austerity measures. The sort of cruel anti-working class policy we've been seeing peddled by neo-liberals for a long time. The sort of policy that is now seeing a resurgent fascism and socialism.

As opposed to the US where it's rob the poor give to the rich and it's so wonderful?

Or they worked for 40 hours assembling computers for minimum wage while the company made billions and billions off that worker labour.

Except Harvard has limited slots and the failsons of the rich buying in takes away a spot from someone who is actually competent and driven.

I think the point is more that he's a useless failson who can just go from thing to thing wasting massive amounts of money and it doesn't matter.

So basically no one from a rural area and no black people?

> Eight of the nine Supreme Court justices graduated from just two law schools.

The latest two went to the same high school.

> I missed the memo on when meritocracy became a bad word

When people realized that the guy who starts with a billion dollar dad and a buy in to harvard is being graded on the same scale as the guy who started in a trailer park with a single mom and community college.

You can't have a meritocracy without the same starting point, and you can't have that in real life.

That's because people like Michael Dell have truly absurd sums of money. 30 billion dollars.

His failson can piss away money all day every day and never even make a dent.

> 1. How easy/difficult to get Switzerland citizenship if you live and work there?

I know someone who was born there, raised there, currently lives there (after a while in North America) and does not having citizenship or want to go through the hassle.

From what she says it's a massive pain in the ass.

I don't think I could stand Texas. I don't like heat and I hate having to deal with commuting.

Also I abhor the politics of the state and region, in general.

So move to Switzerland and have a lower quality of life?

> In any other low-key metropolis (Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Austin, Phoenix, Des Moines, whatever)

I'd wager the typical city in Switzerland is much more liveable (i.e. not being trapped in a car as you commute to and from suburbs or just get around the horribly laid out car-centric city) than those places.

> but your pay is roughly correlated with the value of your labour.

If that was true businesses wouldn't show profit (or would show low profit margins consistently) because the value of the workers labour would have been been paid back to them.

Plus that whole thing about these billion/trillion dollar SV tech companies engaging in massive wage fixing.

You're paid the absolute minimum amount of money the company thinks they can get away with.

10 years ago it was absolutely 1/3.

> I think 30%+ of my class were foreigners.

Because foreign born people can't be rich?

What income percentiles are Harvard MBA students coming from?

It teaches you the value of Harvard on a resume. It teaches you the value of having rich and well connected contacts in your phone.

It's a 2 year program and you're also supposed to be learning business administration.

I know they like to select the smart people who have lots of extra money, but when in the program is all this stuff taught?

Being managed by someone with shallow technical skills and bunch of book knowledge about how to manage doesn't like a good time.

> It's a pedigree that allegedly excludes the dumb rich kids

Yeah, it's exclusively for the smarter rich kids.

> Companied worth working for are eager to hire people who know better. Position yourself as someone who has learned these lessons the hard way.

Learning those lessons the hard way still requires doing those projects, which means you learn how the tech works, which means I still feel 100% justified in my previous statements.

I want to work on a project like this that actually has lasting value to the company. Actually does something novel enough that it's worth doing.

How do I get there? Is the only way to win the lottery and get placed there as a new grad/junior engineer?

Cause that seems like what you're saying.

Why does hacker news allow paywalled content?

How do you balance avoiding this with wanting engineers who have ideas and agency?

> This development came at extraordinary cost for the org and, in the case of the people who were laid off, cost to people's careers.

Except the people who were laid off, if they have been there a while, got much deep knowledge than if they just glued together a bunch of AWS stuff.

Gluing together AWS stuff can get you a good job, but it's not the same as solving these sort of problems.

I'd rather spend 3 years working on this and get laid off than the way I spent my last 3. Guarantee I'd be in a much better spot in the job market too.

Instead I'm trying to figure out how the fuck I get my career back on track because I'm headed towards the sort of job I will hate every single day.

> She may have been a visionary

I fail to see any indication of that.

They maybe fail because they won't outright lie or "cheat".

Theranos is obviously an extreme example.

> push their predetermined left leaning narrative.

The NYT Op Ed department is largely despised by leftists.

AN honest Theranos would never have existed as a company.

People still laud Uber for illegal behaviour.