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Or, you know, you enjoy your work/working

It treats its white collar workers like adults, not privileged overly sensitive babies. Only in the Silicon Valley is that considered “dirt”.

I'm going to violate hacker news's regulations for substantial comments by just saying "what the actual fuck"

Why would he do something when he can be morally smug at the “man” on the internet?

That story is depressing. Not the story itself, just how privileged the West is that not being able repair an iPad is poverty.

Are you kidding me? 2.5 billion people still don't have access to proper sanitation, and they're not depressed - and you think it "brave" of young people in the West to deal with the horribleness of _Brexit_?!

The commentary in this thread just blows my mind. I'm astounded in an era of regular travel just how sheltered people in the West are.

> Teenagers face far greater economic insecurity than before, and are more acutely aware of it. What will the workforce look like when they graduate highschool? Jobs that teenagers would have been invited to do are being replaced with automated checkouts and computer vision algorithms. Teenagers are required to go into more debt than ever, to escape this lack of opportunities via education.

Sometimes it blows my mind that even in "educated circles" of the west there's such a blatant lack of perspective on the rest of the world. We still live in a world where 3 million people a year die of diarrhea - and you think economic insecurity is the reason Western kids are depressed?

No, this is not why teenagers are depressed. If that were even remotely true every teenager on Earth not from a G8 or Scandanavian country would be jumping off a ledge by the time they're 14.

Nerds have been trying to seem edgy railing the "work smart not hard" mantra for decades. It's a nice way to seem clever and enlightened, but it doesn't really make any sense.

> Why am I celebrating mere effort? Celebrate creativity, insights, breakthroughs, rebellions, anything but mere effort

Uh, why not do both? You know who really succeeds? the person who has creative breakthroughs AND works harder than everyone else.

What on earth are you talking about? You think the average American student is participating in 4+ team sports during a given week?

There are hundreds of millions of people around the world who's parents are spending their life savings to send them to a broken down public school, and anything short of an A+ means abject poverty (I mean real poverty, not the American "I can't afford my iPhone bill poverty") for another generation of their family name. My dad is the only person in his small shanty town who made it out, and he studied 16 hours a day, 7 days a week - all to achieve a decent middle class salary and drive a Toyota Camry. I was an exceptionally gifted student thanks to him, graduated at the top of my class, and now, again, barely eek out a middle class life

Not to mention the societal aspect - in many Asian cultures anything short of an A and you're an abject societal failure and a generational disgrace. Western-raised people don't have a clue what that kind of pressure feels like.

Anyone who thinks American schools are stressful are completely delusional about how the rest of the world works. Americans have had life too easy for too long - depression is simply a symptom of an overly easy life. It's the same reason depression & mental health issues overly present in zoo animals.

Suffering and struggle are necessary for a fulfilling, happy life - the West hasn't been exposed to real suffering in over half a century.

Some feedback that will help you as you grow older: grow a thicker skin and stop taking everything so seriously.

I broke a major news story on my own blog years ago on Reddit. It was the top story for a few minutes. Within 20 minutes it was magically deleted, I was shadowbanned, and an identical story from one of the biggest news publications in the world was suddenly #1 up there.

The information we live and breathe every day is bought and paid for.

No, what that person said was not chauvinistic. You're just trying very hard to imply it that way and your horrendous smugness about it isn't helping.

Especially when you're backing them up with ridiculously biased assumptions (which aren't supported by the science): "In many sporting disciplines the fact that men continue to outperform women is most likely due to the fact that men are generally encouraged to participate in sport to a greater degree than women"

I'm sure the reason Serena Williams can barely compete with a fringe male pro is because society is mean to her.

You're trying extremely hard to avoid scientific realities and scolding anyone who acknowledges them as "chauvinist". Your method of argument is everything that's wrong with societal discourse in 2019.

Deterrence and retribution are different things. Prison systems with harsh sentences are typically more about sending a message to potential criminals than punishing existing ones.

I find it interesting that people who blindly support social economics almost always immediately revert to some moral argument. Good to know it only took 2 posts for you to revert to "oh the hugh manity, you obviously like dead children"

The original question was about a country where raising taxes would improve the situation. Name me a country that solved child labour and improved the economy by raising taxes?

If you could accomplish that point without comparing me and my family members to the Nazi party, extra points.

Ehm majority of their markets? The entire developing world says hello

...how is that an answer to my question?

I feel like this point could’ve been made stronger without all the resentment

Example of a country who’s people are dying on the streets because of a lack of taxation?

Baffling really. One of the most obnoxiously well differentiated and profitable enterprises in history raising their minimum pay can’t possible be an analogue for the entire business world

Lol this is such bullshit. I spent 4 years in Sweden, people there complain even more than Americans.

Um, about half of Sweden’s ten richest people left the country.

I don’t get America’s obsession with Scandanavia. Have any of you actually lived there? It’s hilariously overrated.

If hesitation from bad reviews was a substantial blocker they would have addressed it by now.

Most people don’t give a shit.

I mean, look at how many people tiny Bangladesh is supporting.

Lol who exactly do you think would assume the burden of the cost of hired product review staff?

San Francisco really is a different planet

> 232 billion

I mean, there's a guy coming pretty close to that right now.

It’s called Bluemix - it’s hilarously underwhelming

Day after tomorrow, 2012 - we’ve had a fair few and they all suck

I’ve been hanging out with comservationists the last few months - universally I hear the same things. Poachers are young men who start due to need and stay due to greed.

Yeah we live in an age where professional athletes, musicians and celebrities play an integral role in shaping global socioeconomic policy.

What the fuck could possibly go wrong