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> Chunks of the population that took on debts prior to late 2022 with the understanding that there would be a way to pay those debts back with their labor.

I’m calling it now, the future is indentured servitude.

> At some point you get what APL is all about, and you can move on with life without too many regrets.

Honestly this is how computers/software/programming feel in general these days and it’s ruined it all for me.

> They can just pollute wherever they want and jail anyone who complains.

Hey don’t worry, the US is catching up: https://www.fox4news.com/news/woman-arrested-facebook-post-c...

I suspect the drug addicted pedophile SV elite will start endorsing other Chinese social ideas so that we “don’t fall behind”.

> How are these kids going to meet other practitioners, build their network and even put themselves out there by presenting?

If they have any amount of wealth in their family they will have plenty of opportunities for this.

Otherwise, unless they’re particularly intelligent, they’ll find that that are among the “overproduced” elites and will have to find something else to support themselves.

> Go to any top STEM PhD program and do a headcount.

Intelligent Americans rarely go through the hazing ritual that is a PhD because its financially stupid unless you’re rich.

> it was a futuristic land, but a futuristic land of suicides, with little drone-like salarymen crammed into little shoebox apartments the size of a Western bathroom, working 20 hour days.

So basically just what the west is becoming?

Indeed, here’s a prompt snippet to help you afterwards”.

“Create me a resume for [newjob]. Ensure that it is properly embellished so that my two years of superficial, directionless AI-driven learning seem equivalent to the multi-decade experience and domain expertise the company is actually hiring for”.

> Many will not survive.

Thankfully the people responsible have already prepared a golden parachute to land safely to destroy something else.

> The employer was constantly involving themselves with US national politics, but employees were expected to refrain from having political opinions of their own.

Reminds me of my first job in state government where the incredibly underpaid workers had to go through bureaucratic paperwork if they needed a second job to pay the rent (ostensibly because of the conflict of interest risk)

Yet the governor was a known slumlord. I’m sure there’s no potential conflict of interest there.

> Their customers love it even more when rules are broken so this is more like a bonus for them.

You joke, but this is actually a pattern I see a lot. Is there a term for this sort of brain dead contrarianism? Ive noticed it for years, mostly among GenX where they will zealously defend any idea/action they heard thats against mainstream narrative.

It’s like a “stick it to the man teenager” stereotype but these people are fucking 50+ years old now.