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Without wanting to spoiler, let me whet your appetite for this very interesting article by quoting this: "you’re unimaginably more likely to become homeless tha
by hash0 3mo ago
Without wanting to spoiler, let me whet your appetite for this very interesting article by quoting this: "you’re unimaginably more likely to become homeless than to win at the game of capitalism"
Go figure.
- Danox 3mo agoBut everyone thinks they will win. And that is why most people are cooperative. It’s only when they get to their mid-30s that they start to realize it’s not gonna happen.
- hash0 3mo agoSo very true. A bit saddening to realize that the old story "from dishwasher to millionaire" is still so pervasive despite the odds having changed considerably against us in the meantime... I guess some dreams are just too beautiful to forget.
- dotcoma 3mo agoSocialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. -- John Steinbeck
- ThrowawayR2 3mo agoSWEs in SV are earning $250k+ per year and the job market for them has been red hot for them for the past 30 years, minus a few bumps. Most of them are _are_ millionaires, many are multi-millionaires, and they're not embarrassed about it at all, temporarily or otherwise, dohohoho.
- cathalharte 3mo agoMost tech workers, especially those in bigger companies, are such a tiny cog in the wheel I can barely fathom it. I wonder if there’s truth to the idea that the big companies were simply hiring as many people as they could so that at least their competitors wouldn’t have them.
- hash0 3mo agoIf this wasn't some moderately clever ploy, it would make a good "Dilbert" plot, actually...