and yet people wonder why middle class wages and living standard have dropped. Letting 11+ million unskilled workers into the country who have no protection under federal labor laws is a big part.
I'm always amazed how the left has been brainwashed to defend mega-corporations on illegal immigration
Health insurance in general doesn't make sense. Insurance is supposed to be for random catastrophic events, not regular things like checkups. Car insurance doesn't pay for oil changes, the concept of health insurance doesn't make sense.
That's the same reason I don't really agree with forcing companies to cover pre-existing conditions. That's like calling up a car insurance company after totaling your car and expecting them to cover it. It's no longer insurance at that point.
Millennials are being prepped to be the new serfs. They'll live on the land of their lords, riding in cars they don't own, using subscription services and software they don't own, working "gigs" with no rights, all of which can be revoked the minute they step out of line or run out of money.
Those jobs are still there, how much they pay has gone down due to importing 10+ million illegal immigrants. Construction, farm work, meat packing all used to be a middle class jobs. I know people from the 70s who made $50+ an hour inflation adjusted with benefits and pension cutting meat, those same jobs pay maybe $15 today. It's just supply and demand. The main issue is that corporations are keeping the profit rather than passing it on to consumers, which is lowering standard of living.
Funny thing now is that techies are sounding pretty similar to blue collar people a few decades ago, who were saying chinese and mexican made stuff couldn't compete with American. Now programmers say the same thing about Indians.
Obesity is a negative for both the individual and society. The fat acceptance movement is terrible because being fat isn't some sort of permanent, genetic condition that's out of people's control. You control what you put in your mouth and how much exercise you get, it's a choice.
Should we have an ignorance acceptance movement, where we don't push people to educate themselves? That's a choice as well.
I think MOOCs are the future based on my own experience. They allow the best teachers to scale their reach. Instead of aristotle giving a lecture to a room it allows an unlimited audience who can also rewind and pause if they don't understand something.
I've been able to learn machine learning and deep learning from Andrew Ng, one of the best AI researchers in the world, among other world class researchers, for free. It's incredible when you think about it, probably one of the most significant things in human history. I've been able to learn how to code by picking and choosing the best classes from MIT, Stanford, Harvard, etc without spending a penny. Why settle for mediocre teachers at state universities when these options are available?
The major thing we need to do is find some other way to grade people other than using a college degree as a benchmark.
The stronger, more confident civilization and culture wins, not the most progressive or sophisticated. Rome was wiped out by barbarians and the dark ages followed. Western civilization is weak and divided, some don't even think it's worth defending. This is mainly due to outside influences intentionally creating division to weaken the United States from within.
Western civilization is far from perfect but I think it's preferable to any alternative I've seen.
edit: As far as what people are entitled to, I feel I'm entitled to nothing, not even the air I breath, unless I'm willing to work for it or fight for it. Most of the human rights we take for granted are only there because our ancestors fought to defend them. If you sit on your ass and feel entitled to something because you exist don't be surprised when someone takes it away.
People need to realize we are built on hardware that is hundreds of millions of years old. We share a similar hormonal dominance hierarchy system with fucking lobsters. You can't just say it's </CURRENT YEAR> and expect these things to disappear. Tribalism was important for survival, trusting someone who didn't look like you could mean death and thus was selected for over long periods of time.
People really do need to get some perspective on real problems. The safe spaces and coloring books for students after Trump got elected was pathetic. 18 year olds stormed Normandy, now they are crying over the democratic process. I say this as a college student myself.
People will always find a reason to be miserable, so now that almost every major issue has been taken care of we have increasingly small things being brought up like "microaggressions".
I think AWS is the majority of their profit but not revenue, it basically allows them to subsidize the rest of their business to gain market share off the absurd AWS profit margin.
I phrased it a bit harshly, more like less inhibited. The US can't even have a discussion about IQ and genetics due to the pushing of BS like blank slate and political correctness, which makes doing research impossible.
China already paid people with high intelligence to ship them DNA for research in 2013, they are already doing embryo gene manipulation. They are years ahead of us due to not caring about ethics. Political correctness will be the death of the west.
The distribution of IQ scores by gender is also a big one. To deny differences is race you would have to basically throw out the theory of evolution, I've seen many already calling to ban studies on differences in intelligence. China will take over the world if that happens because they will create superhumans with it.
If you want something really uncomfortable you should look into genetic heterozygosity and differentiation in humans.
I spent hours trying to get setup before finding crestle mentioned in the forums. It's preloaded with everything you need and is billed by the second with 25 hours free
I'm always amazed how the left has been brainwashed to defend mega-corporations on illegal immigration