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List (as of 2019) of public domain versions.

https://blog.prepscholar.com/worst-college-majors

https://www.salary.com/passages/8-college-degrees-with-the-w...

https://www.ownyourownfuture.com/most-useless-degrees/

What I find interesting in these articles (and others) is CompSci is listed as a bad investment... oversaturation and what not.

Having a degree is, as you've said, a requirement (I have a 2 year... I'm out on some jobs because of it)...

Not having a degree is bad. Having a useless degree is worse as you now (generally) have the debt of a paper that means nothing.

If they cared about having an alternative browser or a good experience, they'd let Chrome run without being hamstrung by webkit.

"Lashing out" telling you the truth in an uncomfortable manner isn't lashing out... it's telling the truth. It's only lashing out if I... "touched on a sensitive areas for you". That sword cuts both ways.

I never said I controlled EVERYTHING... I already said I was lucky to be born American where even our poor people are so lucky they are in the top 1% of the world - past and present.

"I really don't have any sense of entitlement" Funny how many Americans says that while preaching from a platform of entitlement.

This is the key... the problem isn't really the market... it's the market interference.

First COVID and the "lockdowns" (effective or not)... and then the resulting "free" money that makes it more lucrative to be on unemployment than working a job.

Yes... I was born in America.

Then I stopped relying on being lucky and took my poor ass (I grew up with a single parent and little to nothing) and worked my ass off to better myself (using the opportunities afforded in the wonderful country I was lucky enough to be born in).

> why should those less fortunate be allowed to live decently

The problem is definition of "decent". Poor people in America make 10x more than the AVERAGE global salary and have opportunities that people around the world envy. "I can't afford a good apartment" in other countries is "I can't eat and my kids are dying".

You say I'm lucky... I say you're entitled.

Funny thing is we're both correct and that still doesn't make "affordable housing" something that's realistically possible for 100% of people in 100% of the US much less the world.

The average life GLOBALLY sets that the "minimum wage" life in the US is the top 10% globally.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/07/how-much-money-you-need-to-b...

> And the global median income is just $1,225 a year

You can be worth $4/k total and still be worth more than 50% of the world. Your $15-25k/year income for minimum wages is still 10x the global median and your "I can't afford a nice apartment" life is still 100x better than most of those places.

"every wage should be able" Why? Because you feel it should? Guess what? your feelings don't make land cheap, labor to build housing cheap or get rid of burdensome government bs that makes things 10x more expensive than the should be.

Your entitled opinion doesn't make things affordable or change the fact that the people crying about how bad they have it in the US have it 100x better than previous generations and current generations around the world.

There's also 100 years of research on how to pick up skills that aren't minimum skill and minimum wage.

Problems can be address... but so can skewed ideas of what you deserve and what reality shows you're going to get.

I grew up poor. I started with low-pay, low-skill jobs. I lived on couches and didn't have "2 bedroom apartments" because even before I got my college education I understood that not everyone can afford to live like that.

Know what I did? That college degree I mentioned... I got a skill in demand and became more than a burger flipper and dish washer.

The disconnect between our opinions is the expectation that you deserve a good life in a minimum wage job. People have been lied too that life is fair and that they deserve a minimum standard of life. I grew up with the expectation that I got what I earned and if I earned minimum wage? I got a lot less than a nice apartment.

Look at other places government butts in? Schooling? Health care? Day care? etc... all more expensive and worse than ever.

When the government throws tons of money at it? Housing is funded by a lot of government money for "affordable housing" and the like.

As with ANYTHING the government throws money at? Supply goes down and prices go up. For other references on increased price, worse results? Look at school, daycare, health insurance... amazing how bad government help screws everything up.

"basic need" supply and demand... when there's only x amount and there are x+more wanting it? the price will go up... either you increase the supply or decrease the demand.

It's a strange world we live in where people think labeling things as anything removes the supply/demand dynamic and the ability of the government to screw things up "in the name of the good"

... if it helps...

As you say, self reflection and skill improvement.

I honestly think it's why I'm a good programmer...

That... and being lazy. I'll work for weeks to make processes easier. IE: a release process that used to be manual and fraught with mistakes is now, more or less, button clicks and powershell scripts.

... I'm still a dumbass...

I wonder... if after 10 years... will I stop being one after 20? 30?

The post you reply too says "we need minimal zoning". You say "its hard to work because of too many restrictions".

Am I reading it wrong, but you disagree but seem to agree on the main points: Government needs to get out of the way to allow progress.

It's ugly and mimicks real life... more effort gives better results but life isn't fair and never has been. Luck factors but always fight on multiple fronts.

I'm an outsider and wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

I think, personally, most will want hybrid - to get the best of both worlds - and it's simply a matter of finding the right personal and corporate balance (if possible).

We'll see how long term the effects of COVID are. We might see WFH become mainstream... we might see a massive pushback to go back to the Old Normal. I think successful companies will find the middle to keep their talent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvJKUQ0dDoU

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-sting-using-anom-platform-l...

I saw someone say that a lot of what makes WFH successful currently are the bonds that we had built while working together... and that as time goes on, those bonds will loosen as new people come in that don't have those experiences and those hallway talk.

I think I agree with that... but it remains to be seen how things will work going forward. I see most companies going to a hybrid model. I see a large number of turnover at places that don't offer hybrid.

My current place of employement seems to be winding up towards hybrid and I have a long commute (had before covid). I'd be unhappy with 5 days meat in seat. I'll be very happy if I only have to be there 2 days a week. Still happy with only 3. Sad with 4. I'd probably hunt for a new job with 5. Maybe 4.

"Apple makes a good argument" Their argument doesn't give near enough excuses for their mafia level racket to shake down businesses of protection money. "Pay us or Joey will break your kneecaps. Its for your own protection."