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Right, the main differentiator with a person who does this stuff is willingness to do this stuff.

Let's not glamorize it.

>Intelligent, articulate, and technologically adept, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that in a place with more opportunities a young man of Omar's talents could find a legitimate way to earn his $500 a day.

Pretty ridiculous statement there. Not many places on earth can a person earn that for simply being smart.

I used to think Noam was a pretty cool guy, but now I'm super disappointed when I listen to him.

It's all doom and gloom. He rarely talks about practical solutions.

It's easy to get people upset about what other people are doing wrong but it's so much harder to be constructive with respect to the current situation.

Invariably the solutions that actually make things better are not polarized against one enemy. These solutions aren't sexy because maybe they only solve things half way or they respect other perspectives.

Still, thinking in terms of imperfect solutions is the only way forward.