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I too have the same problem. In my case, I am in cheap outsourcing haven. We have IT company captives which outsource absolute crap work. There is no cutting ed

I too have the same problem. In my case, I am in cheap outsourcing haven. We have IT company captives which outsource absolute crap work. There is no cutting edge to speak of. The last time I gave an interview almost 70-80% of the work was done in the US and they are throwing some unimportant work to their captive in their outsourcing destination. I have 13+ years of IT experience. Most of the good jobs are filled internally by some kind of favoritism and the crap jobs are floated to hiring websites. The level of technical work is a joke. Most of the companies try to hire my experience level people for junior positions(4 years exp) because the cost is low or tell to go to management. I see my friends in Silicon valley doing interesting jobs and yes, Silicon valley privilege is a thing. The American dream is a thing. By the way we do not even have a social system to speak of. So lucky you!

mettamage 7y ago
> By the way we do not even have a social system to speak of. So lucky you! In what (perhaps small or big) way do you think others could help? I hope that we can eventually have a social system for anyone. I hope AI will take care of this with good political leadership (one can hope). However, even the Dutch social system isn't a heaven. It's good, but not heaven. Good: I have success stories from family members who got their hearing back after a 15000 euro's operation that they got for free-ish (and 25+ years of being almost deaf, so there was a waiting time but also the technology needed to be there). Other family members who got a stroke got access to government housing or free personalized medical care. Bad: I know one troubled person who is kind, but has a very very troubled mind. I'm honestly surprised this person isn't dead. The list includes almost freezing to death and being on your way to starve to death. And that's only what I know, and I know nothing. For the truly troubled mind, the Dutch social system doesn't work at all. Since all of my family is working/middle class, I wonder what goes on in the lower class families and the Dutch social system. My guess is: it's even worse. With that said, the "being significantly helped" to "almost death on the street ratio" in my family is about 3 to 1. And since I know almost nothing, I daresay that ratio is a conservative negative estimate in my particular family. Fortunately, most of my family is simply fine.

mettamage 7y ago

> By the way we do not even have a social system to speak of. So lucky you! In what (perhaps small or big) way do you think others could help? I hope that we can eventually have a social system for anyone. I hope AI will take care of this with good political leadership (one can hope). However, even the Dutch social system isn't a heaven. It's good, but not heaven. Good: I have success stories from family members who got their hearing back after a 15000 euro's operation that they got for free-ish (and 25+ years of being almost deaf, so there was a waiting time but also the technology needed to be there). Other family members who got a stroke got access to government housing or free personalized medical care. Bad: I know one troubled person who is kind, but has a very very troubled mind. I'm honestly surprised this person isn't dead. The list includes almost freezing to death and being on your way to starve to death. And that's only what I know, and I know nothing. For the truly troubled mind, the Dutch social system doesn't work at all. Since all of my family is working/middle class, I wonder what goes on in the lower class families and the Dutch social system. My guess is: it's even worse. With that said, the "being significantly helped" to "almost death on the street ratio" in my family is about 3 to 1. And since I know almost nothing, I daresay that ratio is a conservative negative estimate in my particular family. Fortunately, most of my family is simply fine.