Would you say that women entering the workforce starting in the 70's may have contributed to the overall flattening of wages? (The workforce essentially doubled). So while their incomes increased, the effect was to flatten the total average?
I'm sure you have seen the graph showing productivity increases aligned with incomes suddenly diverging in the 70's and incomes flat lining while productivity continued to increase linearly. Given the stark change, I don't think it was necessarily due to increased global competition. Where did the money that would have gone to improve salaries end up going? Having incomes flat line for the middle class for the last 40 years is not a good sign. Perhaps the money has gone to the billionaire class, but I am not sure. What is your take on that.
>The Zen of Go is looking at individual persons and deciding whether it's net positive to cut them now, or 6 months from now, after their next performance review.
Your conclusion is nothing more than a hilarious ad hominem attack on the language.
Much of your complaints simply do not apply to many use cases for people when developing a server side web application. Just because Go does not have such features you are used to using in your high level language does not make Go a bad language. I also find it funny that you dislike the simplicity of the language because it apparently empowers "blue collar" types (uhk, how gross!) to do the jobs you are used to doing.
Nope. They can get a VPN, or fight against their big ISP or government to stop such dubious practices. Your point of view seems to come from a standpoint of infantilization of these users.
>Do you want ISPs to inject random crap at the top of your website?
If your ISP does this, or if you are on a sketchy network somewhere, then maybe you should not use it at all. Get a new ISP, or use a VPN if you are that worried. If the webmaster is not sharing sensitive information on his casually maintained static website, then that is good enough reason not to use HTTPS. I know it sounds... uncaring.
It is true ordinary people, who don't understand the risks could get MITM'd and never suspect a thing. For some reason I still don't care enough to put HTTPS on my shitty old flash game website. I just can't be bothered. I think that is good enough of a reason. Blame should go on the ISP who are MITM'ing their customers.
You really do have to wonder about the sincerity of such an article, especially coming from such a prominent publication as the Economist. Why don't they just admit what they are instead of using subtle propaganda to influence people into their political ideology? Even more concerning is how half or more of the people in here seem to actually agree with it.
"Demoralization now reaches such areas that previously, not even comrade Andropov and all his experts would even dream of such a tremendous success. Most of it is done by Americans to Americans; thanks to a lack of moral standards. As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized, he is unable to assess true information, the facts tell nothing to him. ... Only when a military boot crashes into his fat bottom, then he will understand."
The Western world has maybe 20-30 years left before serious political upheaval turns our way of life on its head. Call me a cook conspiracy theorist or make fun of my old quote from a kgb agent being pushed around in dubious circles today.
The author can correctly see things are worsening, which is true (in my own estimation), but his reasoning as to why, is terrible. I defiantly agree however on how aloof our elite are to the problems around us, and of their arrogance.