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That's weird. This was discussed here a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16934942

These are start-ups, right? The article is talking about Fortune 500 companies, not start-ups. Having said that the top 2 ones are pharmaceuticals. I wonder whether the fat salaries trickle down to their bioinformatics divisions.

So -basically- SO says that a lot of its contributors behave like bullies but, being unable to actually yell at them (because SO needs them) tries to fuzzy out/alleviate the issue by taking the blame for them. I don't see any way that can work out. For what is worth I can testify my own little experience from that pit. * Contributors who downvote other answers without any excuse/explanation/commend (I guess it makes their own answer seem better). * A tiny minority of users ever upvoting (that's a largely thankless community). * Moderators that are being extra harsh with language usage (I'd say most of SO users are not native English speakers but this does not stop some native ones considering themselves somehow superior). *Extended usage of points, badges and several other facebooky notifications to tap into your dopamine receptors.

Living in a van might also be part of the answer to the skyrocketing rents wherever there are jobs worth their salt. Which -housing- is one of the real big markets that desperately needs to be disrupted as it siphons money out of the productive sector into the rentiers' black holes.

Disclaimer: Living/renting in Dublin/Ireland.

"that industrial automation has been responsible for the loss of up to 670,000 jobs since 1990. But just in the period between 1999 and 2011, trade with China was responsible for the loss of 2.4 million jobs: almost four times as many. “If you want to know what happened to manufacturing after 2000, the answer is very clearly not automation, it’s China,”"

I think globalization in general would be more accurate than "China".

Yet I also think that automation is also a factor which even though might not be the major one yet it can very well be in the near future. I'm in IT industry and I've witnessed at least one line of job going out of the window - namely manual testers- due to automation. I bet everyone has similar stories from his own walk of life. Yet most of the jobs lost in my locality was due to them being shipped to low cost countries. So - all in all- these two factors work in parallel and probably globalization is holding up automation up to a point (where automation cost > low wage worker).

Why not worrying about the same thing about Saturn though? The best thing would be to slingshot Cassini in outer space like Voyagers but I guess they wouldn't have this option here.

HN algorithm magic. You submit a leftist story (that is no propaganda but it just paints the world in its factual colors). The story gets upvoted quickly so it makes it to the front page (which will get it up voted even more). Then the magic invisible hand of the market appears and the story gets lost in HN underbelly.

Note to self: Why am I still bothering with HN? It is exactly like the general IT crowd. Anything worth discussing is not.