Contrary to some of opinions here where the easiest thing is to criticize Trump and his administration, I will give a different point of view:
Many of us European citizens love the Trump administration and we envy Americans for the big step you've given against the globalist tyranny.
The EU is totally controlled by them and we are literally living in a dictatorship (in Spain with the dictator Pedro Sánchez is one of the worst). The EU is implementing laws for full control of its citizens, censoring all the contrary opinions. Freedom is almost non-existent anymore. And the worst part is the forced Islamization of Europe they're creating. This with the sole purpose of riding us of our culture and identity. People without identity are people with nothing to fight for, people easily enslaved.
You Americans wake up! Trump is the best thing that's ever happened to you.
I totally agree with this comment. You put my thoughts into words.
Unfortunately that kind of cheap comments (Economics is the lies told by some middle class assholes with a degree and/or credential that get paid just enough by upper class assholes to trick low class rubes.) are quite common over the internet and mainstream media. Just enough to keep people not thinking about it and everything is a lie by the elite and we can do nothing about it.
I have to say something good about billable hour: it made me value my time more.
I used to work as a freelancer in tech, so I had to bill my time. I was billing my time at 50€/hour. Out of work, when I was doing something I liked, I didn´t think of the price of my time, but when I had to do something I didn´t like I thought "would I do this if I was payed 50€/hour?" Depending on the answer, I would try to leverage that.
Since then I try to make the most of my time. Not only my personal time alone, but also I think about who I spend my time with. Apart from my parents, my wife and my daughters (which is always a very valuable time) I try to spend my time only with people who provides value to my life, and I try to avoid people who don´t.
One example: 2 months ago my father died. We used to spend time together, less than I would have liked when I think of it now, but back then I was not that aware of it. I remember we would go work on the fields growing vegetables, collecting olives and trimming the trees. I remember one day that I was a bit tired when we were setting up a new land and trimming some very old, mostly useless, olive trees, so I asked my father (in a rude way):
- "why are we doing this? why are we wasting so much time and doing so much effort just to clean some old trees that will hardly provide enough olives to make a few olive oil litres?
His answer was so clear, emotional and bonding that still hurts me today. He answered:
- What? Who cares about the trees? The important thing is the time that we are spending together.
I would have never thought that now, I would pay several thousands just to spend a single more hour with him.
I am personally quite worried. The thing that worries me most is that our government (at least in Spain) would do anything in order to keep their power and maintain their high salaries at the expense of our lives. That involves increasing and creating more taxes everyday.
So it´s like living in the Titanic. Everybody knows it´s sinking and the government is just stealing from us (the passengers) in order to buy nicer lifeboats just for them, and paying the musicians (media, labor unions, allied parties...) to keep citizens still and quiet.
We are under an autocracy disguised as a "people´s party" that is bleeding us dry while many families are just drowning because of the high cost of living and unemployment.
I can't really understand how a post by El País can make it to hacker news. El país is a disinformation newspaper full of manipulation and indoctrination controlled by governments. At least this is the case in Spain, do reading this newspaper is just killing your brain
EU is a hidden and well thought dictatorship, disguised as a democracy with values where everybody who complains and says otherwise is marked as an enemy. An autocracy full of useless burocrats who live out of citizens taxes
EU is becoming more like an authoritarian state. They put constraints on companies but allow governments to have full control and surveillance over their citizens. It's so hopocrit
I'd rather have companies control that than governments, which is all about mass control, power and citizen slavery. My current government, along with our autocrat president, is one good example of this (Spain)
I remember just a couple of weeks ago a tweet from Forbes Spain saying unemployment in Spain was going down (https://twitter.com/Forbes_es/status/1486640126071480320). It felt outrageous as Spain currently has the highest unemployment rate in the European Union (https://www.statista.com/statistics/1115276/unemployment-in-...). We are currently living under a totalitarian government and it saddened me that Forbes was yet another media paid by our totalitarian government covering their shit.
I don´t know why, but for some reason Forbes was in my mind as an economic-freedom newspaper like. But as the title says, it´s just another platform for for scams, grift, and bad journalism as the other media payed y the government like El País.