imNotTheProb

Democracy?

The issue is that we have too many people per representative.

You representative doesn't need to care about you, they need to care about donors for mass media.

I see parallels in tech as well. Some companies are openly anti consumer but run massive advertising/brainwashing campaigns. One will go as far as saying 'privacy' but turn around and give your information to the US government and China.

To my 1 year old with $1000 it is.

To a college kid with savings from teenage jobs, it is.

To people who's wages didn't go up, it is.

I think it has been politicized but rather in favor of whatever the ruling party says.

The federal reserve benefits from a long ledger so they are more than happy to let inflation run rampant.

Blink- "you can figure out a person's intentions from split second facial expressions"

Talking to strangers- "everyone and their culture is different, it's impossible to know if someone is lying"

Apple is actually doing evil monopolistic tactics. At least you can compile your own Android or Chrome. I do this.

I think the point about the workforce being flexible is tremendous.

I had an engineer tell me- in America people don't care about your title, they care about how much money you have. In Europe it's all about titles. In Japan it's about seniority.

I've had no problem picking the job that pays the highest and it changed me from chem engineer to programmer.

My peers that are obsessed with a title have fallen behind, making 80k a year as a 30 year old. I think these people have a significantly harder time finding a new job, where as being a programmer and engineer, I'm able to work in any industry.

Meanwhile the majority of computers use open source software as their OS....

They don't have LLCs?

If you get an MBA I highly recommend a marketing class.

Otherwise it might be good just as a defense against psychology tricks.

Why macOS?

I don't know about finance, but in automotive it's common for the established Auto companies to increase regulations to keep competition out.

The driver Out Of Position 2 airbag test comes to mind as one that causes worse airbags/safety, and increases cost.

Is it a gap year if you do something in-between jobs? I've done that

Apple markets to non developers, by advertising to the masses, it forces us to join to partake with the masses.

I've been lucky enough to avoid the walled prison but a fortune 500 company cannot.

We can only educate the masses that better products exist or the psychology tricks Apple uses in their marketing.