If you have a right to bear arms, but no company in the country's sells a gun, do you have the "right" to bear arms?
The answer is: no you don't. Because the government enables these companies to do these things that enroach upon your rights while making people like you believe you still have said rights simply because it's not the government proper doing it. The government and through lobbying can influence and control a lot of what you do without legislation you know.
If the government allows companies to buy all the avenues to free speech, do you really have free speech? For reference, North Korea has rights to freedom of speech and assembly. But it definitely does not mean they actually have that right.
So arguing that the façade of a private company being allowed to shut you down is somehow rational is nothing beyond absurd. If you cannot express your speech anywhere because a mob disapproves, you don't have freedom of speech. Freedom of Speech is not "Freedom to only listen to the things I want to hear." Otherwise there is no free speech, just what is culturally acceptable.
How can you exert your constitutional rights if the government allows companies to create/purchase/monopolize every avenue in which to express your rights? What if you had to pay a toll to utilize corporate paid sidewalks and roads? How could you protest the government? Likewise, the internet infrastructure we have today was created by the government, so it only make sense that the fundamental rights we have protected by the constitution be respected here as well.
I don't understand why many liberals defend a corporations freedom to silence speech but get angry when conservatives in the government do it. Six of one, half dozen of the other, it's still speech being silenced by someone more powerful than you. But one being a corporation and one being a politician doesn't change the fact that both limit freedom of speech protected by the constitution.
I keep finding winners of movies. Burn After Reading has been jumped up to my top 10 list just because of how benign and absurd it all is. A cool tragedy I think most people should see is "Into the Fade" with Diane Krueger and the drug addict from Babylon Berlin (dont know his name off the top of my head). A lot of mainstream "marvel-the-good-guys-win" type of people won't like it but if you want cold blooded reality it does it well.
High Risk != High Reward. There are far too many college educated people in the US that assume this. I walked in getting my degree knowing full well I was paying simply for the paper and the potential for getting a job in my field. I didn't walk in like I did the first time getting my associates degree believing I'd be making $50k upon graduation.
I personally feel like college institutions get way too much freedom to act as predatory as they do regarding student loans and education. So many 18 year olds are told to go to college and get a degree only to come out a 22 year old with no work skills or legitimate life experience unless they were fortunate enough to get an internship. Then they have to eventually either swallow their pride and work a garbage paying job for a while or get lucky working for somewhere that actually pays decently in wage and/or experience.
I'm currently a return student, and based off of the data my school collected for the 2019 year, the top majors were: Business Administration, Psychology, Biology, Organizational Leadership, and Nursing.
General business degrees are as worthless as english degrees. They don't teach you anything about actual business and you will not be able to just get a job. You'd have a better shot beating out external candidates applying from within at a low level position...almost every time. Psych and Bio, predominantly taken by females at my school (almost 80%). Again, another worthless field unless you go on to get a MS or Ph.D...of which none at this school do because it's a very low end state school. So there's another thing schools forget to mention about certain degrees. The next one is a general business degree for online transfer students at most schools in the area who just want to check off a "I have a Bachelors" box at application time. Then Nursing (again, predominantly women) which is actually a very hard field to pass but is basically a golden ticket to employment universally here. But that doesn't even hold a candle to those 4 ahead of it.
This base set of data shows that schools are marketing toward the undecided crowd or the people without the jaded understanding that real life can be a bitch. It doesn't care what you think should be the rules. And these schools take extreme advantage of it. Not to mention these schools get tax payer funding but have virtually no oversight as to how the school runs things. The head chair of my Comp Sci department is a guy with a Ph.D in physics! I know that's fairly normal, but it's pretty ridiculous that this guy is making decisions on us having to take an AI class over advanced database administration or making InfoSec students know OOP and programming.
Too many people believe those things are entitlements when in fact they are tradeoffs. Like half my high school graduating class dropped out of college or didn't even start and many make decent wages or have dual income with a significant other. Many of which own homes or live decently. None of which demanded free rent and a college education.
Because history is a dynamically evolving event, not something someone can 100% accurately predict just cause they read someone in a different era did something similar.
Management or business/data analyst. Half the time these people are just glorified middlemen that get paid decent wages and just look at excel or support some obscure piece of software without dealing with programming stuff. I am in a fairly large company actually it has never been more prevalent to me that many of these people's jobs could be done by literally anyone. If you know programming and don't mind engaging with people, these are the sweet spot for you.
Even letting a higher up down is expected. You have to feel it out though if the certain thing is one of those. But if you know it can't be done or you got time, one of the best things you can do is abandon ship. It's really absurd and kind of a bad thing to lace your coworkers with, but if you've got references elsewhere and people within whom you're on good relations with, it won't affect your career one bit. Not only will you not get the blame for it when things aren't done presently, but you don't have to deal with the impossible task management gives you! Which in the grand scheme, if you can stick it out long enough before they fire you and get a job elsewhere, on paper, you never failed! You always achieved your goals.
The entire Gervais Principle goes into detail on this and it's a fun read. A lot of it sounds like just general office politics written in a funny way, but there are some nuggets that a lot of people who aren't in the "sociopath" category (the authors words), aren't willing to do. It's kind of like "the best time to be looking for a new job is now" philosophy in work.
Doesn't it have more to do with the fact that they didn't even recover yet from the 1st World War? Also don't forget Holodomor. It literally happened after the Great Depression yet unlike Western Nations, 3.5 million people died from disease or starvation. Unlike in said Western countries that just had an economic collapse.
What is stopping us from launching seed payloads to these planets with some way to continually water them? Wouldn't that be a way to theoretically test the survivability of the planet without sending people?