I'm a refugee from Nicaragua living in Mexico. I have legal status (thank god) but my paperwork is still a mess. So I freelance on Upwork.
I'm surviving, but I make way less than a kid flipping burgers in the US. But the good news is I'm alive and well and happy :) And it will get worked out in time.
I'm super happy with my life and it keeps getting better but when I hear first worlders, or even affluent third worlders, talk about money it sounds so crazy :3 Hearing someone say 100k a year is 'enough for a family', when working families where I am now get by decently on 300 MXN a day lol.
Perspective is everything. Just gotta keep working hard! If you ever need a freelancer who's even cheaper than Eastern Europeans I'm here for you <3
I'm not Catholic, but I think a better question to get from that analogy would be
>Is the scientific method perfect though? Isn't it the result of the same fallible human minds that make it's implementation inherently flawed as well?
Maybe the scientific method is not perfect, but itself is still open to improvement in fundamental ways. This is more interesting to me than debates about ancient Judaean fig tree parables.
>The scientific method as practiced by fallible and irrational humans
This is giving me flashbacks to Catholic school :)
'Christ is perfect, his earthly church is not. Because the church consists of fallible human clergy and laity it is vulnerable to corruption, ambition, lust, and politics, oh the politics'
It's interesting to know that secular students get the same arguments just in defense of scientism instead of Christianity. All apologists sound alike.
You'd be surprised. Content farms are always hungry, and people just feed them crap because the pay is low. But zero is the lowest pay of all, so why not pour your heart and thoughts and citations into some $5 essay for a content farm instead? Tech is the most indemand, and these days there is a market for any niche
>It was a lot more fun than dealing with the "tough customers" that would want you to log into their production server and make changes.
Oof, yeah. My idea of "tough customers" is kind of the opposite though - clients who want you to do something super specific but you don't have any access to peek in on the real server and figure out what's going on, so you have to make them this elaborate guide but can't experiment on the real thing so it's hard to give exact instructions
The idea is: why do leetcode for free when you can get paid to help students do the exact same problems, helping you learn and saving them from wasting hours forcing themselves through problems they don't care about for working papers that don't matter?
Así sobrevivo :3 just an idea for people who like to eat. Maybe it feels icky to you. Para ser cristiano, primero hay que comer
So as long as you have a ton of money and are a corporation your privacy should be just fine