Buddy, oil isn't running out anytime soon. If you want better programmers, maybe we should have more than a handful of universities that have programs whose sole purpose is churning out the same type of developers you're shitting on.
Wouldn't you expect a slower physical decline from someone who has stayed active all their life? Wouldn't expect any real difference with the mind. I've overstayed my welcome at my current employer by a couple of years. I haven't had an actual challenge in a while. I feel like I am getting worse at programming. Not better.
He sounds a lot like my mother and she isn't even 60 yet. She was lucky enough to have inherited a bit of money after her mother passed. She worked a hard job cleaning most of my life and hasn't worked more than two days a week in 10 years. It is hard to watch her decline to only realize that things haven't even really started to get bad yet. If she only didn't abort my siblings, I would have someone to help with all of this. Lucky me.
Don't worry, we've stopped using our allotment of visas for developers and just use them for physicians now. We won't really need many US-born doctors in another few years. Great!
Neither is the Audi, but as of yet, nobody has been able to compete with the best gas-powered cars of their respective price brackets like Tesla has. Everyone has A LOT of catch up to do if they care about getting enthusiasts to make the switch. Which...they probably couldn't give two shits about :(
Not trying to pick your response out in particular,but when we talk about growing up in a rich family, what type of rich family are we talking about? It feels like a lot of time with topics like this, we're using Bill Gates as the example of being rich. Isn't that a little off the mark? I had a bunch of friends from "rich" families growing up through high school. Most are lazy pieces of shit that haven't gotten anywhere close to achieving what their parents have. There are a few exceptions, but it is definitely below 50%. I see this all the time at work. Want to guess who the laziest employees are? The people who didn't have a job till after graduating college and came from families that didn't have much of a want for money. They stagnate. The kids who grew up struggling have largely continued to out work the others and their career progress has showed as much. The same goes for people I know who have inherited enough money to where inheritance tax comes in. When we talk about inheritance, are we talking about someone like this, or one of the few legitimate dynasties that still exist? If the former, a large percent will burn through their money within a short amount of time. There is a reason that generational wealth typically doesn't last that many generations. Again, if we're talking about someone like the Rothschild, then yeah, it is a bit different.
Asking what the typical american dream is a bit hyperbolic, no?
For the same reason we seem to be worried about vaping but also want to make sure children get their puberty blockers and can chop off their penises before they could legally have sex or consume a beer.
For the same reason why being a stay at home mother is similar to slavery, but wasting your life away at some joke of an HR job while you're just a slave to your boss is empowering.
For the same reason new companies who are supposed to be taken seriously play video of a shooting range in Kentucky and try to make the public think that it is a foreign country where our stinky old racist president is allowing untold slaughter to take place.
For the same reason the guy who won and aware with Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali is supposed to be the biggest racist of them all while he tells his supporters, who are also the most racist people to have ever lived, that he would like record immigration if done legally.
Sure, but what is the reason a lot of the bigger players are putting less into R&D and more into aquisitions buying up smaller micro-cap companies after they've managed to get to approval and then wear down shareprice before enevitably being bought out or sold off? What is the expense for the average drug to get from p1 through p3 and then through pdufa approval assuming it will only take a single submission for approval (Hi $HRTX and $OCUL, you fucking bastards)? What percent even make it all the way through p3?
What sort of financing are we talking about? An offering to dilute sharholders? Saddle the company with so much debt it is coming out of their eyes?
Has this sector done very well compared to the broad market during the last 5 +/- years? Odd, if they're just jacking up prices sky high, hey?
Who cares. This is not a fight we should back down from. Let them steal IP. Let them buy up land. Let them screw us on trade. Oh please, do anything but fight back!