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He disputed his way into becoming a co-founder of Tesla so I'm not surprised.

You can have a middle class salary, save well, and become a millionaire in time for retirement. In fact, at retirement age you really need millions nowadays. Not that most people have that. And most of those retirement age millionaires wouldn't have hundreds of thousands to lend.

I'm talking about billionaires, and what I contend is most billionaires had parents or family members who were rich which helped them.

- Elon Musk's parents owned an emerald mine in S. Africa

- Bill Gates not only got seed money from his millionaire parents but one of his parents was on the board of IBM and helped him land early Microsoft deals

- Bezos got 300k seed money from his parents

- Zuckerberg, is maybe an exception? His parents were only upper middle class. Enough money for good schools and private CS tutors. Seems plausible that if he was lower middle class he wouldn't have made it to Harvard.

It's feels like your "utopia" is a world controlled by a few giant corporations which guarantee the "effective movement of capital" around. If that's the case we have few things we'd agree on as our world views are just too different.

I'll just say that as we have fewer major players the more those players will lower wages and generally exploit workers. Most people won't enjoy living in that world.

What was his vision? Destroying millions of mom and pop shops and forcing millions of people to work for poor wages and harsh conditions delivering Amazon products? I'm not sure a 2 day delivery window is worth that.

I didn't say it wasn't impressive but it's as impressive as... watching someone win the Squid Games by backstabbing everyone else? I don't think it deserves any applause or proves anything.

"Bezos achieved" it's never one person that changes the world, it's the conditions being ripe for it along with some bloke having enough seed money and brutal determination to make it happen.

- Internet was just starting to be a thing in the 90's so right time to capitalize on a new easier way to sell things

- Bezos got hundreds of thousands of dollars in money from his parents to start his book empire. It's not like he was a rags to riches story, they never are.

- Amazon warehouse workers suffer nearly 2x the numbers of bodily injuries[1] and it's almost like the company expects (and wants) to burn through these workers bodies because they have a ridiculously high turnover rate[2]

If he didn't do it someone else would have and for all we know they could have broken less bodies along the way.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/01/study-amazon-workers-injured...

[2] https://labor411.org/411-blog/warehouse-worker-turnover-rate...

Singularity enthusiasts have been saying that for 20 years. Even said we'd be there by know where we're obsolete.

Will technology put some, even many, folks out of a job? Sure of course, that's been happening for hundreds of years. Think of the blacksmiths of the 19th century who drank themselves to death.

And even at the end of it all, people still love the novelty of a human doing something. People still prefer "hand scooped" ice cream enough that it's on billboards.

So the pay bands go up. Everyone gets paid more, board salary go down a bit, and things hopefully become a bit more event. Sounds good? Things have been going the other direction far too long.

I should have put the example I was comparing to: VIM. I like VIM as an editor because it's extremely fast and works well once you adapt to it.

I'm sure VSCode and Linear are fast, nice, and fine. I just hated the lag/latency compared to my terminal text editor.

Also all have the same magnitude of latency and lag. At least you know if one of them bugs you, they all will.

Given

> Person 1 says there is a lot of politics, ass-covering, and throwing under the bus

It sounds like you have to be good at politicking or it doesn't matter if you write bugs or not :(

Yes and no? My m1 MacBook Air doesn't have a fan and performs better than my Intel MBP in many respects.

It’s Maslows hierarchy of human needs: some employees are treated well enough they have capacity to care about other issues and how their work affects the world.

Ideally all employees would have the time and capacity for that care.

Why are you saying this? It's what every single corporate pamphlet and forced talk says. No one is saying unions will bring everyone enlightenment and cure cancer.

What people are saying is workers need a say in how the workplace is run and companies spending millions convincing folk otherwise should be forced to stop.

Because alcohol has been around for thousands of years, theater for thousands of years, video games for half a century and super addictive social media for less than 20.

Any time a big change happens to people's daily experience I think it's reasonable and good to have a lot of reflection on if that change is good or bad and what should be done.

Yep, and folks will keep complaining until it’s just a fork of Chrome.

They own the web through Chrome, it’s one of their best investments.

They’re killing Firefox with it (RIP) and successfully killed IE with it (rest in piss).

We’re getting to a desktop browser hegemony again but I doubt a scrappy upstart will be able to save us.

I mean, look what happened to Qwest. It’s totally believable.

It’s important to note you actually have a choice to use Apple products or not, or even use this relay or another. In many places in the US you have barely any choices for your ISP which could be tracking you and selling your data.

This is great in that it gives everyday folks a stupid-simple protection from ISP and mobile service providers.

And yes, of course Apple did it as another reason to sell next tier iCloud service and gain good will of folks, which I think is a much better trade off then ISPs and Sprint/Verizon/etc knowing your full browser history.

That’s the thing though, you don’t have to seek attention or power. That’s not an Asperger trait. That’s the thing which really makes it inexcusable.

You can also be rich and relatively unknown, most rich people are. He chooses to be super public.

Isn’t there usually some sort of removing of the skeletons from the closets before a deal closes? Yahoo revealed there massive data breach while their deal was closing and such.

Then why did we build the JWST! /s

Don’t some European counties like Germany have the number of delegates forced to roughly equal the total vote totals for a party? So if you have “60% violet party and 40% teal party” but the seats are split 50/50 10 closest seats move over to violet?

Theres no perfect way to solve it but the ultimate problem is social: one party is willing to gerrymander to win and the other doesn’t because they don’t have to but would if they actually saw any gain in it.

It works for my team is all I can say :( and our new devs would leave if we switched to working in an office.

We train new devs at our office using screen share and open audio channels. Which is to say there’s ways to do it. It’s a bit disingenuous to brand WFH as self centered and not helpful to new devs.

Who here is saying Canadians are perfect? I’m sure it’s easy to find individuals who had a better experience in the US.

Those stories aren’t irreconcilable. The US is huge and has a lot of specialists and I don’t doubt there are some cases where you can get better treatment in the US, especially if you’re rich.

The issue is we fail most people and those we don’t fail we often bankrupt. That isn’t acceptable.

And what you focus on brings about thoughts of a zero sum game which I called out. You can safely assume I don’t agree with what you find most pertinent.

I think a country which lets some get rich off of other’s cancer is an abhorrent, indefensible, system.

I have Canadian friends and it sounds better than when my older brother had to call their insurance company every months to get their anxiety meds covered because, for some reason, the insurance company lost the paper work for approving them every month. For a year.

Funny because it’s just the sort of thing to cause more anxiety in an anxious person.

I’d also love hear how many Canadian cancer survivors have to put up gofundmes or go bankrupt for care.