> I think the difference is that the mentor might introduce them to the magical world, but its still up to the character what they want to do with it e.g. to quote the matrix "But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it." And the decision as to what to do with it has consequences and changes them.
And in most cases they accept blindly, otherwise there's no story. Madoka Magica is one of the few stories that I know where this trope is broken by the characters questioning the decision.
Oh come on, you can't expect any good from one of the most corrupt men of South America? Really?
He's from the same corrupt political lineage as the Kirchner family in Argentina, do you really want to fund the people that only mange to bring misery to these countries?
The interview you link is just our everyday populist discourse: show yourself aligned to whatever is the hop topic of the moment, get elected, do nothing about it and continue to use the power to finance your own corrupt agenda. Didn't work? No worries, you can always use the "heavy heritage" from Bolsonaro as an excuse.
As far as I know, there's not much evidence that physical exercise can influence visual acuity on humans(other than reducing it due to general body fatigue), though I'd love to read more on that if someone happens to know of a study on the subject. Diet, on the other hand, may influence it. Generally speaking you can't consider a part of the body as if it were it's own isolated system: the general state of the body will influence them.
To give a practical example, contraceptive pills change the tear composition making it hard for women taking them to use contact lenses.
Most of the issues related to lights/monitors, apart from the effects on the eye development due to prolonged near distance focus, are related to the quality of the tear film, not so much about the actual visual acuity or the refractive capacity of the eye. For example, the ambar-colored night mode that most OS have now not only decreases the brightness, which helps with visual fatigue, but also stimulates the production of melatonin, which is essential to enter "night mode" and make it easier to fall asleep, in contrast with blue lights, which reduces melatonin production and puts you on alert mode during the day.
In humans, cataract is mostly(not accounting for birth pathologies or trauma) caused because the crystalline, since we are born, never stops producing collagen, the substance it's mostly composed of. At late ages, the crystalline has produced so much collagen that it loses transparency, thus causing cataracts. It's also the same reason people develop presbyopia as they age: the collagen production reduces the crystalline elasticity, making it harder and harder for the eye to adjust it and focus on near distances.
There's a common misconception that using computers is the cause of hyper/myopia. The truth is that during the early years of development(up until 15-21 years old), the eye is not yet fully developed and it has great adaptability. This means that, if you are a kid and you read too much(on paper or computers or smartphones), the eye will develop to focus mainly on short distances, this developing myopia. This is the reason why kids textbooks have big letters, so that kids don't have to focus so much to read the text, and why kids using computers/reading too much(specially smartphone usage) is detrimental to their visual health. If you did this on your early ages, that certainly explains your issue, but it's not computers per se that cause it.
The other big factor is the shape of the ocular globe. Some globes are "longer" than others, which causes the image focused by the cornea and retina to land in front or behind of the retina, causing the hyper/myopia.
What you do actually experience a lot when using the computer too much is that when you focus on a task for a long time, your blink rate decreases, the tear film breaks more often, and you get sore eyes/eye fatigue. This is solved by regular breaks, or the 20/20/20 rule[0].
I have worked as an electrician. It's not particularly a clean trade and you get spaghetti too, in the form of hundreds of wires of the very same color and air conditioners connected to the lights circuit.
Most probably, the average salary here is about 5000-6000USD/year if you're lucky and have a legally registered job(about 5-10% of the population). Most people have informal jobs and make less than that.
> Do you know how much a talented computer programmer gets paid in Argentina (or is that what you mean by IT)?
I have a friend working for MercadoLibre at a senior engineer position and last time we talked he was making almost 1000USD/month. I work remotely for a foreign company and make 4000USD/month having half of his experience.
> I'm thinking that Argentina seems like a good place to go to start a startup. What do you think? What problems would I run into aside from language?
As much as I'd love for this country to move forward, companies are leaving more than coming to the country, it's a TERRIBLE place for startups due to:
1. Aggressive taxing that gets worse and worse every year that passes
2. Terribly slow times for legal processes, like getting your paperwork done to start your company
3. We have a track record of the state wanting to confiscate bank funds
4. Depending on the trade you choose, you might face heavy opposition from the current monopolies, like it already happened with taxi unions against Uber, or MercadoLibre putting pressure to prevent Ebay from coming to the country.
Maybe if you come from a wealthy country it may not seem like too much of an issue as it might look cheap, but I personally tried to have small business multiple times and time and time again some new government measure or tax or government change made it unsustainable.
In Argentina you can only buy 200 USD per month and even that isn't guaranteed, you have to make appointments with banks in a lot of places. And even if you get them, you can't use them outside of the country because such payments are mostly blocked. You can pay online services or internatioal shippings by converting to crypto first and trade it with a foreigner to deposit USD in a foreign bank account, and then make the actual payment.
I don't get why this is being downvoted. Living in an unstable third world country I know these points are true.
There's less and less jobs, the few there are offer miserable wages(less than 3000k/year), and crypto is pretty much the only way to get paid working remotely for other countries as freelancer or contractor.
If you go the official route(only around 5% of workers do it even locally anyways) then more than half of your money is confiscated by the state and forced to convert to a local currency that's worth nothing two months down the road due to high inflation rates.
It doesn't seem like people in stable countries understand what it's like to live in places like this so I guess it's no wonder all they see is a bunch of "crypto bros" making money.