Okay, then why gate it behind a recurring fee instead of a one-time unlock cost?
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Wrong. Fixing every broken item (~15 in all) would have cost over $400. Just for some plastic.
(just an anecdotal hypothesis, no data)
And as if to rub salt in the wound:
> 3. I don’t want Equifax to have my data. What can I do?
> Equifax is one of three national credit bureaus. These companies collect information about your credit history, such as how many credit cards you have, how much money you owe, and how you pay your bills. Each company creates a credit report about you, and then sells this report to businesses who are deciding whether to give you credit. You cannot opt out of this data collection. However, you can review your credit report for free and freeze your credit.
...though of course many who finance cars aren't choosing to do that. The car you drive is both a status symbol and a personal luxury. I think many people would rather take on debt than get a vehicle they could only pay cash for.
Both are important at all ages, but (A) seems more important at younger ages, where you need to know how to engage children. Kids are also more impressionable. (B) seems more important in middle school and high school. You wouldn't, for example, want someone who doesn't have a background in math to teach calculus.
A 4 year degree certainly isn't a perfect way to impart teaching competence, but it does set a threshold for the experience that a new teacher has. I'd expect more teachers at the back end of the bell curve if you remove the degree requirement.
- Low pay. For STEM fields, you can easily make far more in industry.
- Decreasing resources and investment from the community.
- Decreasing freedom in what you teach and how you choose to teach it.
- Half of parents see you as a babysitter, and the other half sees you as the only obstacle between their child and Harvard.
- High scrutiny of your actions. What you do outside of working hours can affect your job (e.g. having a drink at a bar or posting on Facebook). In our polarized society, anything that's slightly political could cost you your career.
- If you're male, expect heavier scrutiny. People will always suspect that you could be a child predator.
- Fear of school shootings.
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And I almost forgot:
- A society where somewhere between 20-50% of people are skeptical of your value and unhappy with your profession today.
In the US, it's pretty rare that any of those three are ever satisfied outside of major urban cores.
For example, music. Let's say 50% of people like mainstream music and the rest have more obscure preferences. In the past, when music was harder to access, you might be exposed to 100 artists. Now, you might be exposed to over 1,000. The 50% who like more obscure music used to spread their listening out over 100, but now it's spread out over 1,000. Those who like mainstream music still mostly listen to the top 100 or so. The end result is that the top 100 is more solid than before, even though music is diversifying.
For multiplicities, I see a snowball effect: each subsequent release in a multiplicity adds more people to the snowball. As long as the quality is good enough -- and people who enjoy mainstream content arguably have a lower bar -- the audience grows with each release. I think this effect, combined with the author's "proliferation" theory and major producers wanting to make safe investments, explains the dominance of multiplicities.
For example, the 680 lanes operate M-F, 5am-8pm. But northbound traffic in the morning isn't that bad, nor is southbound traffic in the evening. Almost no one would pay to use the express lane at these times, so you wind up with a lane that's almost completely empty and makes traffic denser in the other lanes.
- A large fraction of patients see the pandemic as overblown and nurses as perpetuating the myth. It's gotta be hard to care for someone who mistrusts you from the beginning.
- For those nurses taking care of COVID patients, it's probably tough to watch the cycle of death, and moreso when you know many could have taken steps to prevent it.
- The pandemic obviously puts a strain on the healthcare system, including its workers. More patients, longer hours, etc surely gets to be exhausting after doing it for 2 years.
- Administration that says they care but do the bare minimum to boost conditions or morale. A pizza party isn't as meaningful when you're struggling with an unsafe patient load.
- There's a feedback loop. As more nurses quit, the burden gets heavier on those who remain.
So even if pay hasn't dropped, the conditions have gotten worse. It's not a surprise that eventually people decide that it just isn't worth it anymore.
But it also isn't an option for everyone. Many don't have the flexibility to switch to travel nursing. For example, you may not be able to get a nearby contract and may not be able to travel (e.g. because you have children). Plus, traveling isn't an option for new nurses without experience, who now have to work in hospitals that are hemorrhaging experienced nurses to traveling AND have worse staffing ratios than ever.
- Demanding work: 12 hour shifts, irregular schedules, night shifts, physically exhausting, limited breaks (including bathroom/water!)
- High responsibility with unsafe conditions. You're literally responsible for people's lives. Poor staffing ratios stretch you thin and make you more likely to make mistakes. And if you make a mistake, you're at huge risk for litigation... and now criminal consequences too. Responsibilities, resources, and staffing stretched even thinner due to the pandemic.
- Administration that treats you as something to be optimized and does the absolute bare minimum to support you. Instead they tack on additional tasks, expectations, and requirements ("no water at a nurse's station!"). They encourage a culture where nurses provide a concierge service to 'guests' instead of critical care to patients.
- Hostile/entitled patients. I'd guess many/most patients are not an issue, but it only takes a couple of difficult/combative patients to really ruin your conditions.
- Low pay given the responsibility and working conditions for non-travel nurses. https://nurseslabs.com/nurse-salary/#nurse_salaries_by_state Like many others pointed out here, in tech I make way more than a nurse for a job that's less demanding, has far lower stakes, and is of far less value to society.
To me the blame lies mainly in middle/upper management, whose role is to build and empower an effective workforce. If 90% of your workers are considering leaving, you blew it.
I much prefer social media where you explicitly choose who to send things to. It feels way more personal than the usual model where you post to your whole network on some public feed. I enjoyed taking a picture/video of something interesting, then quickly choosing which friends would find it amusing. It felt like I was saying, "I think that YOU will like this!" rather than "SOMEONE will like this". And if the recipient wanted to reply, that conversation was one-on-one and more personal.
There were other perks too: taking/sending snaps was pretty quick, their ephemeral nature lowered the bar of what you'd send (in a good way), the filters could were fun, and recipients could review snaps at their leisure.
Sadly only one or two of my friends are still active on it.