Browne wrote this at at time when regular people holding international accounts was no big thing. Also, he was quite wealthy himself, so I'm not sure he had any idea what "regular people" could do or not do since most of those firms would laugh you out the door if you wanted to park $10K there.
The powers that be don't want any of us to be financially stable. They want us powerless and broke, while they themselves enjoy all the benefits of international mobility and freedom from taxation and accountability. Same as it ever was.
Agreed, but I would add (if my account is not shadow-banned) that $100K/yr. is not that much money anymore. It was in the 1980s, but not now. The bait and switch on taxes is obvious--you're barely middle class with 100K income in most locales. Just look at how many people are under that figure and you know the rest of the story. Inflation killed us and we are quibbling over silly tax deductions and bones thrown to us by the multi-trillion-dollar elephant in the room!
Also, you can't give income tax breaks to people who earn no money, which is what the bottom 2/3 represent pretty much. If you want fix America, ditch the EIC and other stealth welfare and start rebuilding industry. Telling me I'm rich when I'm clearly finally just making it in life is bullshit.
I will state, however, that I did make some interesting contributions to knowledge and even helped invent some things we all see every day in modern web browsers. Unfortunately, my university never backed my group to patent any of those inventions and so the most we got out of them was conference talks and a few papers while others adopted the ideas we gave away for free and made a lot of money off of them. Not that I'm cynical, but damn I ate a lot of crappy food and even had $0 tax returns a couple of years there.
Yeah, mine hangs on the wall, unused. The pay would have been half what I made just doing software development. Oh well, I enjoyed my 20s and poverty was hard at times but didn't scar me.
What the hell does that even mean? When my father had trouble with his union doing illegal shit in the 1980s, the Dept. of Labor back then was useless, as was the NLRB, and when the trouble became to violent threats, the FBI was zero help, too!
I know you meant that as a veiled criticism of Trump, but here's the reality: The US government under Trump is getting itself turned around after decades of mismanagement. It won't happen overnight, but there are clearly much-needed reforms in progress and a lot of people don't like that. And the rest just take cheap shots because they simply don't know any better.
Okay, but what I don't see is a real campaign against food producers padding out their products with crap! It's everywhere--not just corn syrup, although that's a huge one, but every place food can be padded out with what amounts to sawdust, they're doing it! Not a peep about it in the media.
Also, if everyone is so worried about the environment, how about some pushback against the ever-diminishing package sizes of literally everything? Landfills must be teeming with plastic and cardboard boxes because people aren't eating less now that inflation is being "hidden" by the 7.8 ounce pound! It's disgusting and nobody in times past would have been this gullible or put up with it! People used to run goons who put their finger on the scale right out of town.
Yes, and if they didn't do that nobody would want to be outside for most of the summer. The mosquitos in MN are bad, really really bad. Some summers are worse than others, but there's a reason why the mosquito is the state bird.
Exactly. It's what humanity set out to do--we applied chemistry and other sciences to the problem and solved it and now somebody is complaining. Someone who didn't get malaria.
Yeah, besides, Harvey Weinstein and all the other Limousine Liberals will happily fly in their private jets and do as they please so what difference does your minute sacrifice even make?
Plus, we have all now seen without any shadow of a doubt that the FBI mainly exists as a political enforcement apparatus and not so much as some kind of national investigative agency. Anything the FBI does that is not political looks like some afterthought to me.
Actually, on 2nd read, his chute didn't fully open but was slowing him down some. Then at the very last moment it unfurled? The writing is not clear, but it makes it sound like his parachute slowed some of the fall at least.
Go learn Clojure or any LISP language and solve some problems using it. Watch the videos by Neal Ford and Rich Hickey. Think about your data. Then come back and reflect on it.
Lots of things are crimes in the US, but if you're part of the "special" class, you will not be prosecuted for them, e.g. Hillary Clinton.
As far as ageism goes, companies know exactly how to get away with it without undue legal exposure. Same as it ever was.
Note to all developers: YOU WILL GET OLD! Your mental faculties and physical abilities will fail you. Plan accordingly. You have a very fixed set of time to make the bulk of your income in life and there is a very steep tail off at the end unless you are extremely lucky, which most people who are unprepared will not be. You need to consider a backup career, something you can do if "knowledge work" can't happen for you for whatever reason.
I'm sure plenty of developers can work on into their 60s, but it's simply not realistic. Figure age 50-55 and out, or perhaps slide into a non-development role by leveraging your contacts and reputation. Otherwise, find the $10-15/hr. part-time job of your choice. That's how it is.