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Re:3 Kids. 2 paychecks. No home on Saturday November 30, 2019 @11:12PM (#21673804)
One of the achilles heals of democracy. When the many or the older vote for their self-interest, sometimes those self-interests don't align with the well being of the younger generation or society at large.

You can't blame the older generation for voting in the interest of maximizing their home values and low taxes for themselves. But you also have to admit how unfair that is to the younger generation who have difficulty finding affordable housing and have to take on a greater property tax burden.

> Sheesh. I wish tar and feathering of politicians made a return to modern political discourse.

Why blame the politicians for doing what their voters wanted? Why not tar and feather the voters?

Re:Being Average in the Age of Alpha on Saturday November 30, 2019 @11:07PM (#21673787)
But nobody really wants to be average. We all deep down want to be exceptional or important or matter in some way - not average.
Re:Belarus’s Soviet Economy on Saturday November 30, 2019 @10:51PM (#21673739)
> The main downside I noticed was meals based on meat and potatoes, not many vegetables.

Do you realize where belarus is? It gets cold in belarus. Meat and potatoes are food that can be grown locally. Also, it is environmentally devastating to transport all the vegetables all over the world like we currently do. Look at how much globalism has damaged the environment, not to mention the problems with climate change.

More people should be eating their local "meat and potatoes" rather than a globalized diet.

At the end of the day, the client/users/etc just want it to work. They don't care about the quality of the code.