This shouldn’t be news. I grew up in Texas and most of my high school’s top 8% were cheating to stay ahead. Older siblings handed down tests and kids snuck into classes to steal exams.
At my university most kids I knew cheated. Having done the work honestly - lots of classmates would ask if they could glimpse my answers during exams.
In my naivety I believed that there would be somewhat of a comeuppance but no they’re just as successful (and some even more!) than I. When the outcomes are extreme, people will do anything to stay ahead.
Most Americans are honest hard working people. Don’t be them is the hard lesson I’ve learned.
Not surprised. Every relationship in America is transactional. Work is cut throat especially at stacked ranking companies. This country is basically a social Darwinian hellhole. Friendships here seem try and extract the most value from others.
I have an incredibly close circle of friends thankfully.
Empire maintenance is hard. USAID was a form of soft power that prevented the necessary use of blunt force.
Given the rhetoric against China, the consolidation of power and rise of nationalistic fervor. I suppose we’re just a few years from war with China. Presumably under a false flag operation ala Gulf of Tonkin style.
Historically you pretty much have to wait for the institutions to over extend itself before an opportunity arises for means reversion. Fascism can never be satisfied with the status quo- it must take actions for actions sake. The enemy is always inferior yet all encompassing. Fascists will always lose in a war of equals because the longer they stay in power the further they stray from reality.
This is pure cope. Brand loyalty will do nothing against the Chinese car companies. American car companies relied heavily on tariffs and import limits to compete with Japanese car companies.
The Chinese don’t have a gun to their heads so we can’t make them sign a plaza accord 2.0.
Why not do something you care about? I started a company recently making apps for comic book collectors and it’s been more fulfilling than anything else I’ve done.
I think what’s weird is the formatting isn’t even something I can control for. In the past few MRs my tech lead asked me to apply changes he made which when compared has zero difference .
Yeah this ignorant. The root of Americas problem isn’t the government, it isn’t the billionaires, it’s the people, the culture.
Billionaires don’t fund themselves, politicians don’t vote for themselves. The average adult has the literacy skills of a middle schooler and yet they’re entrusted to vote.
Schools aren’t failing just because teachers are underpaid. Learning is a two way street- the kids don’t want to learn. It’s the reason why most of our engineers and doctors are from cultures that value education.
The current American system is designed to exploit as much of the ignorant masses as possible.
This happened at intel and was very noticeable even back in 2010. Indians hires other Indians. At every company I’ve been at if you were not Indian you were not invited to the conversation. Sitting in meetings where you were excluded from 30% of the conversation was wild. I never felt like they were rude or anything though- just that I was an outsider.
Best team I worked with was very diverse and they actively worked to help each other get promoted and protect each other.
I’m an engineer at a grocery chain that essentially has a monopoly in most of Texas. The chain has a good and well earned reputation for the public but it definitely uses underhanded monopolistic tactics to maintain dominance.
As it’s grown and expanded you can definitely tell that the ethics and how they treat workers / customers has gone down hill. Maybe it’s all the Amazon managers they’ve absorbed.