wisethrowaway
US feels like a capitalist monocolture, where every city looks pretty much like the others.
Current strategy is to turn down the volume and scroll down to the comments / look away for 10 seconds.
Ads are very irritating
But some websites were usable and now I am frustrated (in Bloomberg, newspapers the reader mode used to work but not anymore). Medium, Towardsdatascience have nice ML articles now often behind registration wall.
- cloudflare redirections
- Affiliate links to Amazon
... to read a minimally informative article.
uBlock is not detecting Youtube ads,
Twitter is blocking anonymous navigation
And the examples of OP are all too accurate (Business Insider, Bloomberg, Forbes, Medium, virtually any platform).
In Japan 40% of population is over 65. It's extreme case of aging.
Yet they are doing perfectly fine with virtually zero immigration.
Pensions are very high in Europe, salaries stagnant, the elderly are property owners while the young are not.
Enough of cheap fallacies!
No, we don't. This is a mantra that keeps being repeated without much substance.
Housing affordability, job quality, public finance sustainability won't get any better with immigration. Maybe salaries keep being depressed, consumer demand increases, and that's good for profits. But I can't think of much more!