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Re:My Google job was tedious and pointless by weberc2 on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @02:00PM (#15493122)
Mind you, America is a vast and diverse place; California/Silicon Valley/Google are at an extreme end of the spectrum, and they also get a disproportionate amount of attention. Rest assured, much of America is saner.
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Re:My Google job was tedious and pointless by TheAdamAndChe on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @02:17PM (#15493301)
I see what you're getting at, but "saner" is biased language.

Cali/SV/Google all lean one way because they've been benefiting from the way things have been going. The thought that large swaths of the country have been experiencing a declining quality of life just doesn't register to them. That doesn't make them "insane," just uninformed.

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Re:My Google job was tedious and pointless by weberc2 on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @05:11PM (#15494993)
It's definitely figurative language and I understand that it's charged, but I don't think it's "biased" in any sense of the term that might illegitimate my opinion. I don't think "uninformed" accurately conveys the phenomena we're seeing in our country, particularly since much similar ignorance flows out of institutions that ostensibly know better--notably the academy and media.
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