As a former Call Center Director, it's pretty amazing to me how much bad-will these massive companies are willing to foment by not running their support correctly.
It's not that hard / expensive guys... you can hire great support employees for $20 / hour all across America.
Yep, exactly. $400 is not unreasonable for the most important communication device, which should be amortized over 2-3 years (and explained to the kid)
>Let me recommend you read Michael Lewis’s book The Fifth Risk, or at least listen to one of these interviews about it:
I'm not sure I need to read a biased polemic about how big government is good and the Trump admin is bad.
>The US civil service is full of highly competent experts without whom we would all be exposed to grave risks every day.
I've worked for government agencies, and this is certainly not how I would describe the workers there. I'd say this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21805768 would more closely represent my typical experience with civil servants.. rampant incompetence.
Upvoted, because very valid points overall. That being said..
>Individual consumers can’t possibly have full information about the supply chain of every item they buy
Of course not, however, they don't need full information to hear, at some point or another, that Amazon is a poor place to work.
And it isn't as if the government has a solid track record of producing new regulation lately. Can you name one well-executed regulatory initiative the US Federal Government has implemented in the last 20-30 years? Or better yet, one well-executed major infrastructure project?
I'm genuinely curious, maybe I'm just cynical, but I'm not sure it's even possible anymore for the government to be functional at any deeper level.
But there are tons of laravel sites, so there is a substantial profit motive to look for vulnerabilities in them.
It's like, outdated Wordpress sites get hacked all the time, but if I just threw together my own shitty blog in PHP and MySQL there's almost no chance it would, as no one (generally) is going to take the time to figure out hacks for just one site (especially for SMB).