we can't just show up with a firm handshake and get a job that'll pay for a house, stay at home wife, and 3 kids and a yearly vacation like our grandfathers could.
I think this is the worst part. Why "pull up by bootstraps" when the best you can hope is paying rent in a crappy apartment and a shallow life.
To be honest, if you consider how house prices increased is not that hard to become a millionaire. Got an ex-coleague, he had an apartment in Boston and sold it and bought a house in a suburb. Then sold that house, bought another a bit further away and then sold that one and bought another house even further away he has a million easy. Still had to have the apartment to start with and he was smart enough to capitalize on the the house prices boom.
I don't know how anyone can afford to buy new houses now. Even in my area the price of houses is insanely high.
Not only prices are up but housing prices are disproportionately rising. I was shocked that the house I bought back in 2015 has doubled in price by 2018 and it keeps on increasing. As an idea, today I can't afford a house in my area and I make a decent amount of money.
Other then the H1B stuff, Elon is ok.
Lindsay and Peterson, both gave me the strange feeling that they never expected the pendulum to swing back and that scares them. Both are liberals and they believe that the left has gone so far to the left that the pendulum swinging back is going to be nazi Germany. I find their fears to me unfounded, the pendulum is not even swinging back, it has slowed down while still going left.
This makes for a good discussion, identity politics have pushed racial relations way, way back. Anti-white hatred is still the norm to the point that a lot of white people just don't care. Why would I care if a black person is discriminated against when white people are constantly being discriminated while politicians and companies are bragging about it with their DIE goals? Why would white people care about the treatment of immigrants when you have politicians and companies celebrating white people becoming a minority?
I doubt anything will happen but at the very least it will be apathy.
This will prove interesting. As I've mentioned before, the propaganda becoming so obvious is a good thing, I don't want to go back to the subtle propaganda we had 15 years ago.
Good part is, they are full of DIE that lack any capacity for subtlety.
The future will tell if they can course correct or not.
saying they had no role in deciding what the company did with the content that was fact-checked.
“I don’t believe we were doing anything, in any form, with bias,”
Even if they are 100% honest, they are saying that they did not know they are biased and that they should not be trusted and need to be double-checked by Meta.
In the best of cases they are incompetent and should not be trusted so why would anyone pay them?
I assume someone at Meta realized that being an obvious political propaganda machine is counter productive and no one there is even remotely left of center enough as to figure out how to even fake being impartial.
This is a desperate attempt from Meta to change course. I hope it's too late and all the left-wing corpos crash and burn.
Western society used to be a model to strive for. Now it's a warning against multiculturalism and extreme tolerance but we still have countries that want to implement the same. I'm thinking of easter european countries and Japan.
Happy New Year 2025 may it have negative multiculturalism.
All workers get the tool, the difference is that the good worker will be faster while the bad worker gets decent.
Not sure how wide spread it was, if it was just my personal experience or not but several companies where planning on cutting down on the Indians. The reason being that they were just not worth the price. Now you can argue they are worth the price. With AI the price is fair.
AI made things better for them. I have one Indian guy on my team, his code was incredibly bad, it barely worked and had 0 reusability among customers.
Now we're using AI, his code has improved drastically. He still needs input on what needs improvement but I can actually use it. As a friend of mine said, is all nice until you do code review and you ask them what was the logic behind it.
H1B Indians are profitable. They do work, sure their code is crap, they lie, hide their mistakes and are extremely racist to non-Indians as long as it is not against a higher up but things are still functioning. Compare H1B to DIE and H1B are much better. DIE are just as good as H1B but have no incentive to be better, they are entitled and are more expensive.
Not only that but Indians have made boot liking in to an art. Management loves that.
H1B also makes sure corporations keep control. If you restrict the supply of labor the people make the demands but corporations have the equivalent of cheat codes for capitalism.
Are they really moving to rednote or is it this just marketing?