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No, that's how things are in your reality, which is not necessarily anyone else's reality.
You've just perfectly described under-skilled, over-worked, under-paid H1b-style immigrants who get deported if they're fired. Not talented people working at the top of their game in finance, biotech, startups, etc.
When you're at the bottom of the pond everything looks like shit. You even said yourself they're fresh grads with very little experience. Dumbass.
But you're right, this thread is the perfect place for some casual racism to vent your frustrations in working with third-rate developers foisted upon you by your company's outsource policies.
I learned how to code and build UNIX systems before I went to college. So did most of the people you're going to be competing with to make any real money, so you should probably be patient, you already missed the first bus.
No they don't.
It's evidence and is treated as such, including all the proper oversight regarding chain of custody and regulatory capture/compliance. All evidence can be faked or forged, like testimony, physical evidence, or even legal "records" (what is that supposed to even mean, anyway? Did you know contracts are also evidence? And that they can be forged?)
That's why we have judges, juries and all sorts of messy legal constructs like "truth" and "perjury" and "oath".
None of this stuff is deterministic in the real world and it's a lot more complicated than some guy with a beard producing e-mails from a server in the closet.
Nothing in those answers is a lie or not true. It's just an answer that conveniently avoids getting insulted at a table full of people higher than you in the social hierarchy.
Maybe you just don't give a shit about walking into social boobytraps but to me learning how to speak to command respect is sort of an important part of my personal development.
Nothing about those answers are false. It's a truthful answer designed to promote good will, not a lie. It's called having social skills.
His inability to play this game got him a stinging insult in front of a bunch of the execs' peers. Way to go dude. I'm just offering advice on how to avoid getting socially "stung", not on how to live your life in general.
> ability to learn anything yourself
I agree, I majored in economics and I'm a search engineer making over 200k. My degree is nearly worthless to me.
Political protip: Answer his question. "I went to X University". Because... you did, didn't you?
And if he asks you what you majored in: "I studied Y. But somehow I ended up in this job! hearty laugh".
I have a degree but it amazes me that people who didn't go to college are never able to glide past this one. It seems like the only people who really ever bring up dropping out is the dropout. Only a very special kind of asshole will continue to press you about graduation dates etc.
Having said that,... I have a sneaking suspicion that people who dropped out like bringing it up just to say that they dropped out. You like bringing it up and debating it and then having people "agree" with you eventually, because you seek validation for the decisions you made.
It's called having a chip on your shoulder and the guy who said "oh you seemed smarter than that" was clearly fucking with you cause he's seen it a million times before.
And most people need an experience like that to learn to not be a doormat.
I'm confused, these two things aren't mutually exclusive.
China never "behaves" as the US wants. Where have you been for the past 50 years?
Furthermore, the direct beneficiary of Chinese mineral wealth is you, the US Citizen. Who do you think produces a majority of the goods you consume as well as finances the majority of your government's debt?
US and Chinese interests are inexorably linked - which is probably why the US Army is protecting Chinese infrastructure.
Step into the 21st century and let go of your borderline racist delusions like "If the Chinese do not behave..." - or what? The US will launch another proxy war and lose just like in Vietnam and Korea? The powers that be in both hemispheres have realized that there are better strategies to wealth, and they have been implementing them efficiently.
You could reproduce the whole thing from scratch and not get a dollar's worth of sales because you don't have the relationships to get past the market gate keepers.