Sounds good, doesn’t work. Never will. Life is cruel, brutal competition. Ideal utopia like that is a fragile, forced state. Violence, hardships, is like energy and complexity. Can’t be eliminated. It can be suppressed only to find it pops out somewhere else.
If a cashier finds out they can make a decent living more will want to be cashier and the cashiers will have less leverage, less salary because they are dime a dozen. This is the reality of this treacherous world.
First worlders offload their less desirable work to poorer 2nd class immigrants, poorer countries. Like it or not, all well intentioned Tesla owning, apartment owning, software engineers are there because someone else in society do the dirty work for them with low pay, indirectly.
All of these compiler/transpiler related projects, especially for big mainstream language like TypeScript seems like a full time job, more so than any other open source initiatives. You need to keep up with the spec, constantly read the source codes, etc. Kudos to those who are providing their time to do this.
Feels like everyone thinks they're not the average tourist. Ok well the average tourist is really the tour bus, get off, take photos, back on the bus kind. But are you the average "not-average tourist" ;)
Not sure what kind of "special visa" they thought they could get... To come here right now (before this change takes effect) you need to be a permanent resident, have a work visa, or be a close family member (i.e. parent/child, not sibling) of someone who lives here. Or be a tourist with one of those tourist groups of course.
Americans coming here with iPhone 14 Pro phones aren't going to have a good time: the easy and cheap way to get cellular data here is to buy a tourist 30-day SIM card at 7-11 or the airport and put that in your phone. But the 14 Pro (US model) doesn't have a SIM slot. But that's OK: anyone with a 14 Pro should be perfectly happy to just keep their regular US phone service while overseas, and pay exorbitant roaming charges. If you look at forums discussing this issue, this is exactly what the Apple fans advocate, and that you're being cheap if you waste time on foreign SIM cards to save money.
I don’t do botany but aquascapes (underwater gardening) I generally learn from:
- books, just search it on amazon
- youtube tutorials
Then I try to practice it, trial and error while subscribing to various forums like Reddit, plantedtank, barreport, facebook groups for troubleshootings
I am like more and more certain day by day that political theaters such as what DeSantis and Gavin Newson do back and forth are just theatrical plays that they cook behind the scenes to distract most Americans from politicians, the real criminals.
Anecdata, I’ve some students from Columbia in my circles. While they aren’t the brightest of the bunch they certainly are some of the wealthy ones. One student actually admitted that she chose Columbia just for the prestige, even when she has to pay $200k.
Maybe that’s the goal? Then the system is working as intended.
Nowadays college is less about high quality education and more social signaling of prestige among peers. From that perspective, your student who is paying $200k is making a rational decision in her mind.
When she graduates, she may get a prestigious high paying job (investment banking or management consulting) and that will validate her decision. If instead she gets an "ok" job and most of her peers are form lower-ranked colleges, she will feel like she is top of the social / prestige hierarchy, thus validating her decision, bc social prestige has its own unquantifiable value.
Really depends on the field. If you are a law firm, then they want as many ivy league graduates as possible because that is attractive to prospective clients (regardless of the individual merits of people working at said law firm) but if you are google, it makes no economic sense to pick person A from Harvard when person B from community college is much better. I look at my own company (in a "hard" field like google), we got our fair share of top college grad's at all levels but there isn't a large correlation between position and where someone went to school. Our interview process for engineering is 100% technical and people who pass can join regardless of things like education background. As for social heiarchy, people at my company demonstrate their worth by delivering things (that is how the status at my company is determined, what did you do?), you'd get laughed out of the room if you wanted respect because you went to some prestigious school.
Agreed - certain prestige-driven fields highly desire high-ranked academic pedigree, but not all fields. I'm just saying people are willing to borrow the amount equal to like half the median home price for that prestige.
If a cashier finds out they can make a decent living more will want to be cashier and the cashiers will have less leverage, less salary because they are dime a dozen. This is the reality of this treacherous world.
First worlders offload their less desirable work to poorer 2nd class immigrants, poorer countries. Like it or not, all well intentioned Tesla owning, apartment owning, software engineers are there because someone else in society do the dirty work for them with low pay, indirectly.