Re:The Complicated Financial Lives of Freelancers
by stevenwoo on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @09:29PM
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The book A People's History of the United States makes a pretty good argument for everything you are stating being in the mix from the very beginning from the founding fathers and the volatile economic mismatch between the haves and the have nots. Of course the author has an agenda but it makes sense from the evidence given.
Re:The Complicated Financial Lives of Freelancers
by GrumpiNerd on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @11:12PM
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Not really true. Lots of people recover from mistakes or decide to change paths.
Re:The Complicated Financial Lives of Freelancers
by captain_perl on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @09:09PM
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And don't forget about being downvoted for listing facts!
Re:The Complicated Financial Lives of Freelancers
by NTDF9 on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @09:52PM
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> And don't forget about being downvoted for listing facts!
Yeah,its a very funny phenomenon. For some reason, Americans like to downvote anything true about their society. This is what you would expect out of communist societies.
Re:The Complicated Financial Lives of Freelancers
by jstewartmobile on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @10:18PM
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Not true. You'd be about halfway up in any other forum, but this is hacker news--where we're not supposed to talk politics... unless it's the kind of politics they want us to talk about--like net neutrality or antitrust or some other intersection of nerds and money.
Re:The Complicated Financial Lives of Freelancers
by NTDF9 on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @10:23PM
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> but this is hacker news--where we're not supposed to talk politics... unless it's the kind of politics they want us to talk about
But this isn't politics. This is the societal reality of the home of tech industry. There are many people around the world who are blown away by the stories of Silicon Valley.
When we share stories of SV parties, VCs, lifestyle, homelessness, then why not about life and reality here? At the very least, it is informative to people who are uprooting their families and lives in other countries.
Re:The Complicated Financial Lives of Freelancers
by da02 on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @10:39PM
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> blown away by the stories of Silicon Valley
What kind of stories? Housing prices? Management horrors?
Re:The Complicated Financial Lives of Freelancers
by jstewartmobile on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @11:13PM
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No disagreement there. Just sayin'.
There is a very very narrow set of rules that you absolutely have to follow to even be able to live peacefully here. Be born at least middle class, go to good schools, pursue the right degrees, go to corporations, make no mistakes in life and then finally retire in a retirement home paying thousands a month.
Steer from the above path and you'll start seeing things like mistakes in IRS filings or a medical issue or a pre-existing condition or a divorce or a bankruptcy or an unmangeable debt or a gap in career.....you know, normal human problems, you are screwed.
And then there are man-made problems like jail without bail, lawsuits flying around, guns, crime.
Notice there is no place in society for teachers, small-time healthcare professionals, career in arts etc.