Curious, do you have an example of "more functional societies"? Do you have an experience of living in "more functional societies"?
I mean not "I read a couple posts" or "a friend of the friend of my third cousin's coworker who spent a weekend in Switzerland" kind of "grass is always greener" situation, but a concrete example?
I completely agree with you that we effectively killed natural selection among humans. Natural selection is dead, and now guess what, we are going after artificial one, with UBI, welfare etc. Ridiculous, right?
We reward stupidity, promote mediocracy, and teach dependency.
free market IS all-powerful. times change, technological progress moves forward, financial powers rise and fall, it's natural, it's evolution, a chaos controlled by the market (and not by the billionaires, it's not Russia). If you interfere, you are making things worse, delaying the inevitable, promoting dependence, killing individuality (or even progress).
Of course having a low-paying job is A LOT better than not having a job at all. You can ignore other ill-intended comments that are throwing straw-men at you.
Subjective opinion: jobs promote financial independence, mainly independence from the government. When the majority is not handcuffs and forced to give their votes to socialists to secure their welfare benefits (which, ironically, furthers their dependence on corrupted government and tightens handcuffs), democracy and sane vote prevail.
These regulations upon regulations, shitty policies and "governing" from socialists are killing the market and gotta stop. It's dumb to interfere with the market and dictate how much your skills are worth. USSR as a reference? We know what financial top-down planning and dictatorship does to countries.
Are you saying that it's better to be on food-stamps than having a "low-paying" job? You are part of the problem. This mentality is extremely harmful for society as a whole, as well as for individual taxpayers.
Nothing new here? It's just a basic human factor? Not only essential for the career, even interviews go a lot smoother if you are a pleasant to look at, deal with. It's the first impression that gets you ahead. If you are competent enough not to ruin it by talking, you are golden!
Still, surgeries is kind of extreme, but lets be honest, even some basic things like a shower and deodorant can help a lot of devs.
It’s called “right back at ya”, a quite effective (online only though) strategy. “Give the other cheek” and similar BS is not going to work with crazy lunatics and bullies.
It's just plain bullying. I'd suggest to ignore these trolls. Whole climate thing has turned into a useless political drama and scare-marketing. Impossible to have a decent conversation without being labeled as a "denier" or "ignorant" by crazy lunatics.
> unfortunately I’m lacking the funds so I still need an income till I can properly develop it and I’m also hoping my next role can help me
"God helps those who help themselves"
Not sure what you are complaining about. Funds shouldn't be a problem if you already have an income. Should be able to start and figure it out.
Are you not comfortable working on your own start up after 5PM (after you are done with your main job duties)? Sounds like you DO want comfortable 9-5. In this case "I want to be somewhere where people want to push the envelope " sounds hypocritical.
It's like saying every programmer should know assembly or know how to punch machine instructions on cards. Or in order to be able to jump-start your car you need to learn how to build car batteries from scratch. Silly right?
We progress by abstraction. Everything you are using right now is a complex abstraction of the base materials and instructions. AI that builds stuff for you (and possibly itself?) will be just another level of abstraction for "programmers".
Most checks are just to make sure you didn't steal your SSN (or using a dead person's one), and very high-level felony check.
This is for tech jobs only though. Other industries are more strict.
Some tech startups don't even bother with bg-checks at all.