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The Sheriff will evict me at gunpoint if I don't pay the exorbitant rents in regions with an active job market.

• Brian_K_White 4y ago
  • rexpop 4y ago
    > Did you think many people would not roll their eyes On the contrary, it's your cavalier viewpoint which is in the global minority. I'll engage with your dismissive, bad faith argument for the sake of earnestly inquisitive bystanders: no, we are not "forced to work" but we are compelled to do so under an economic systems which, at its leaf nodes, enforces noncompliance with violence. Try thinking through a few nth-order consequences of chronic unemployment. As for the "particular job" aspect, no it's not that one (1) "particular job" is the requisite, but to attain particular living standards, one can't realistically look outside categories of jobs that share particular aspects. So think of it not as "a particular job," but rather a particular category of jobs which pay enough, in the right regions, for the right qualifications. So, really, I am referring to a limited category and a structural eventuality, while you are referring to "a particular job at gunpoint." I think your extrapolations have imported greater histrionics than my original post.
    • Brian_K_White 4y ago
      I don't see a single invalidation of my ridicule.
      • Sinidir 4y ago
        Then you're blind.
        • Brian_K_White 4y ago
          • pbourke 4y ago
            I see someone taking a rhetorical device literally. The point the person that you responded to was making, obviously, is that the cost of living - and in particular of housing - is high and rising in many areas with strong tech job markets.
            • rexpop 4y ago
              Do you think Sheriffs carry rhetorical guns, or do you not realize that they enforce evictions?
              • Brian_K_White 4y ago
                I think the set of possible things is not limited to these two things you have arbitrarily presented for some reason. For instance, one of the infite things which are neither of those things, is that there are no evictions or sherrifs or guns that play any part in a software developer's housing arrangements, because they simply moved long before it gets to that point. There are people who get themselves into that position, but they are surely not the kind of smart lawyer coders who make valid arguments on HN right? If you're here, trying to argue something at all, then one presumes you think you're generally on top of things and not an idiot, right? Well, then does a smart rational person just sit there in a place they can't afford for the weeks or months it takes before serriffs come, and do so at gunpoint? You do realize they don't just start with that right? That there are many letters and notices, and mere pieces of paper over the course of several weeks to months before LE comes, and even when they do they don't actually point guns at you unless you barricade yourself in and resist or something. You can't invoke a STUPID hyperbolic image like that and at the same time lay any claim to have any sort of valid point to argue, considering this whole thread is about taking high paid developer jobs which they don't give out to idiots. But they do give them out to people who seem to think everyone else are idiots that don't know self serving hyperbole when they see it, and are such huge fragile babies they can not under any circumstances tolerate having this pointed out.