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I'm an older worker in management. Willing to be hands on. Not looking to get paid as much as Meta (I've worked there too) but also don't want something that pays peanuts. Willing to relocate to many places.
Genuinely curious where I can find such jobs.
https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64a...
Doing it once a month is easy enough to remember (or put a calendar invite, if you're not able to) and forces me to do a quick validation. In my 20 years of working and being independent, I've never accidentally paid for a subscription longer than one month.
He handled it with immense maturity and dedication. He's back to work reporting on the war.
In the U.S. (and broadly, the western world) we seem to have a really hard time using economic incentives to encourage certain behaviors. I think it's partially because we don't want to implicitly judge a given lifestyle choice as better than another.
However, I think there is much we can learn from a place like Singapore. Singapore simply does not stick to any single political dogma - they choose a mishmash of policies based on the outcome they want to achieve.
Who will care for these people? How will we deal with the consequences of flat population growth? How will we deal with the stock market's expectations of perpetual growth when the underlying population itself is not growing (and especially since productivity has also been relatively flat)?
I don't really feel too comfortable sharing specific details, but suffice it to say I've worked at a few large companies and my experience with Meta was one of too many cooks in the kitchen. Lots of overlap in ownership and the boundaries between teams IMHO was not very clear nor well thought out. This meant that launching anything required a lot of work across many teams (more than necessary IMHO).
> Also, can you elaborate on this?
As a simple example, the EU mandated that if you signed up for Instagram and you also signed up for Facebook using the same e-mail address, your personal information could not be shared (or used for targeting) between apps, unless you explicitly agree to link those two accounts together. This was a pretty clear-cut case, but it got much less clear when talking about Facebook vs Messenger (they are different apps, but direct messaging is also integrated into the Facebook website). Now if you start adding in things like Threads, Oculus, etc you can imagine the implications for how you share data will continue to get more complex.
Meta, on the other hand, has data intertwined between Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and other platforms. Plus, Meta's internal bureaucracy and ownership model is an absolute hellish mess.
Theoretically, your Revolut balance should be safe from bank failure as it's FDIC insured through their partner banks (according to https://www.revolut.com/en-US/how-we-keep-your-money-safe/)
As a Pakistani, I can tell you it's very rare to see media go there. Even movies that are supposed to be set in Pakistan (Zero Dark Thirty, A Mighty Heart, etc) are filmed next door in India. And other than maybe Al-Jazeera, I rarely see international media reporting from on the ground.
Vice not only went to Pakistan, but they did at least three episodes I can recall from there. And they covered some pretty important things, such as the disfunction that resulted in Pakistan being one of the last countries to still have polio.
I speak of Pakistan as one example because I know how little our stories are represented in mainstream media, but there are many other examples where Vice seemed to be the only ones willing to go on the ground. Other examples include North Korea, Haiti, and Syria. I'll never forget watching Isobel Yeung courageously reporting in Syria while bombs literally could be heard exploding around her.