People say these types of things, but they don't revolt. Have we reached a point where we are okay with a corrupt government as long as amazon prime ships us our toys within two days? Convenience and comfort seems like it's worth more to people than liberty and a good conscience.
We should have a peer-to-peer DNS driven by some consensus system like blockchain. Why do we allow critical pieces of internet infrastructure to be centralized?
It's not complicated. Wealth has been stripped from the people and is now held primarily by a few oligarchs. Much competition is fake. The bargaining power of workers is constantly undermined by monopolies and exploitation of overseas labor often working in inhumane conditions for meager pay.
It seems like we live in a post reason world. The reason for all this despair is right in front of everyone's face, but they refuse to acknowledge it: corruption. This corruption will not back down and our government has ceased to represent the people.
I hear people like you speak all the time. You are so insulated from the people of this nation it seems. You are probably in some ivory tower somewhere. You probably don't know that there are militias forming all over the nation or that the American people have a larger arsenal in terms of guns than any army in the world.
It's clear to me now that all the surveillance and reduction of freedoms pushed through after 9/11 was in preparation for the inevitable uprising the government is anticipating. Patriotic citizens may be pushed to a point where they become terrorists. Everyone wants to live in peace, but they keep pushing down on our throats. There will be a breaking point where people snap.
I pray things can be turned around politically. I don't advocate violence and hope it never comes to that.
There is no distinction between corporations and the government in America. The corruption is not even a secret anymore. The people of this nation are run through so many debt pipelines in the pursuit of a simple life. Everyone is profiting off the people because our corrupt government no longer protects us. Wealth is being stripped away from citizens like never before. The student debt pipeline is just another aspect of this corrupt systems complete control of the people.
I know people in silicon valley are caught up in a mania and don't give a shit about their fellow countrymen, but the corruption will come for you too. You watch with complete indifference as your fellow countrymen die from despair all around the country because their jobs are being taken from them, often leaving them no options. That corruption will come for you someday too. And there will be no one left to hear your screams.
This "fuck you, I got mine" attitude will doom us all.
The people of this country are on the verge of going to war. I think it is quite substantive to express the sentiment that requiring college degrees for jobs that do not require a degree is an exploitative practice that is bringing us closer to a complete meltdown in this nation. People need to stop pussyfooting around the issues. The people of this nation will not be turned into slaves by any convoluted schemes. If you want to push comments like this under the rug, fine. It will end up in your face eventually.
It's criminal. They are forcing working class people to take on student loans. We are being forced to become slaves to the Government. We are all sharecroppers now. We can't recover from this level of exploitation. The US is dead.
Edit: Hackernews has manipulated the title from "American Factories Demand White-Collar Education for Blue-Collar Work" to "College-educated workers are taking over the American factory floor." Can you guys be any more lame in your attempt to shape the narrative? Truly disgusting.
Do you see how labeling a slap with the larger class of physical violence, which encompasses all sorts grievous acts, makes the rather innocent crime seem much more severe? This is a huge problem. It's a slap. Not a vicious beat down. It's violence, but there are degrees of violence. Should those degrees of violence not be reflected in our perception of the act?
People aren't perfect. I don't think anyone commits a crime after performing a full calculation of the consequences. I think you demonstrate an important trend with your comment. The desire to label things and ignore circumstances. It appears to me that people don't want to think about the nuances of things; they just want to simplify all thought to some label level where conclusions are easily made.
Yes, there has always been a social layer to regulating behavior. In this sense, the world has almost become one village where you cannot escape your social offences, no matter where you go on earth. Also, a video or archive of a tweet doesn't fade. So I would say the visibility, reach, and permanence of one's offences is something new, or at least has reached a new unprecedented level.
In addition to government interference in free speech, all actions/words that offend have potentially life devastating consequences in this age of the digital permanent record. Suppose you slap someone in a moment of uncontrolled anger. If someone records that, posts it on the internet, and it goes viral, you then become the mad slapper in the eyes of the world. If someone googles your name, they will see you slapping someone. Even a single slap can potentially destroy your life. Not only do we have draconian laws, but also draconian self-regulation fueled by a vicious mob that demands political correctness.
People are angry. Everyone that steps out of line is now a target for that anger. It's a sad and scary state of affairs.
Amazon's stock has fluctuated with political focus on the company. It dropped for a whole month this year I believe -- I don't have the figures on hand. You are right that many Americans have a greedy consumer mindset, but also many Americans don't feel like they have a choice. With 70% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, that doesn't leave room for wallet activism. While what you are saying is principled, I think the full circumstances of the economy and consumer conditions prevent them from expressing their sentiment in the market as you suggest.
I'm sure you're the type of person that thinks poems are written to solve some sort of problem. Not all human communication is about expressing some solution to a problem. We can communicate sentiment and points of view as well.
Drama? What about the epidemic suicides and drug overdoses happening in this country? What about the absolute destruction of rural communities by monopolies emboldened by the lack of antitrust enforcement? The people of this country are being abused in so many ways and nothing is being done for them. Laws aren't going to help this situation, it's our stinking attitude that's the problem. It's our complete disregard for human life that's the problem.
We were warned not to feed man to the machine, yet that's exactly what we did. I guess everyone that died fighting for this country did so to create a bunch of billionaires and slaves to serve them. Our nation was paid for by the blood of its people, but somehow this debt is always forgotten. The people, by the right of sacrifice, deserve better than this.