Clickbait, contrived nonsense. If housing is taken care of, the real minimum-viable wage for San Francisco is $35k/year. Anything beyond that is either exorbitant discretional living beyond one's means and/or overpaying. Housing is insane in most of SF with rooms approaching $6k/month, which would necessitate an income of around $200k/year. There's no need to live in SF, and it maybe untenable and illogical to do so without commensurate income for the majority of people. Live elsewhere and save money, don't just bid into a bidding war because everyone else is.
Whale blubber and mammal livers are high in vitamin c and considering primates lost the function of the GULO (L-gulonolactone oxidase) gene, one could surmise from megafauna extinctions that hunting was essential to most nomadic hominids.
Also, GULO is one of many interesting genes to contemplate resurrecting.
There's no technical panacea to this undesirable behavior. Sanctions against party elites would be a start by preventing them from banking or traveling freely.
China is far, far worse with the sex ratio being incredibly imbalanced due to the past one child policy. There's a number of documentaries about the craziness and competitiveness of dating in China. People not having sex, not having families (if they so desire) and not making enough money to be comfortable anywhere is a national emergency.
American men of any sort can just go to Brazil, Mexico, Ukraine or the Czech Republic... where an endless supply of objectively-attractive women are willing to hookup with foreigners for very little or no relative cost. (Prague 10's for 60€/hour.) Rent a huge villa for cheap for a few weeks in Central and South America, the girls beat down your door like they're meeting a celebrity... they will bring their girlfriends if you ask them for a good old hellraising.
LDOW (older women) from the US visit Jamaica, Haiti, Costa Rica and parts of Africa for sex tourism, formally or informally, because of the abundance of fit men.
I think frustrated dudes need a shift in attitude, a more open-mind and make an effort for their own sake. A more pleasing personality, better social adroitness and improved awareness goes a long ways to many things in life.
I don't have a villa or anything but I have a pretty decent apartment on the beach in Mexico. I work for a startup so I'm not wealthy at all but still am doing better than 80% of men in this country. I'm also have an oddly asymmetrical face and look like I'm sick all the time due to some chronic health problems. Girls are not beating down my door. Actually I gave up on Tinder here awhile ago and I don't try to meet women who are the least bit attractive because its obvious they are not interested.
Prostitution is not really what this article is about, but even as far as that goes, really good looking prostitutes kind of try to avoid the ugly guys (although they won't actually say no, they just generally aren't enthusiastic). I have kind of proven that on a few occasions.
Anyway this is kind of a long way of saying that there is a limit to how far being American or "a shift in attitude" will take you as far as sex if you're unattractive. Its not a substantive part of my life and that's something I've just had to accept. I have more or less substituted that with masturbation on the internet to be honest.
I don’t agree that these are good solutions. A lot of these frustrated men are simply looking for companionship. Not to mention the unrealistic prospect of someone flying to another country for some casual sex. Not everyone can afford that kind of thing.
And even if you CAN afford it, it's still a huge step to take - from a life of low social interaction to a foreign country to play the part of a playboy?
I mean I'd probably be up for it if I was still single, but where do you even start? Is that even legal? You'd be under some serious scrutiny if you were to go on a sex vacation to Thailand for example due to the prevalence of child abuse (and child sex tourism) there.
I do know one guy (very much a jock) who openly goes on sex vacations, not even the kind where you have to pay for it. He just gets on Tinder and does his thing. Good for him, not my thing - even if I'm a bit jealous, it's a lifestyle and a social situation I don't want to be a part of.
> I think frustrated dudes need a shift in attitude, a more open-mind and make an effort for their own sake. A more pleasing personality, better social adroitness and improved awareness goes a long ways to many things in life.
Yeah, the "just be yourself" narrative needs to die. Not because it's false(you should be authentic in your words and actions) but because it is used as an excuse to not make an effort to self-improve.
Hedges mentioned that when capitalism is in doubt, the panacea "answer" that often turns into a wedge-issue is whether to replace the previous socioeconomic order with more fascism or more socialism. Anomie and angst get channeled into convulsions leading towards yet another civil war along these lines; dividing-and-conquering on the similar issues and concerns as almost a century prior. Paraphrasing what someone once said: history is doomed to repeat itself about every 90 years. I feel like we're repeating the late 1920's, to a degree, with growing nationalism and hate directed at minorities.. which inevitably leads to World War if not civil war.
This doesn't go far enough. As reported by Al Jazeera in 2010, critical structural elements of the 737 NG that were supposed to be CNC'ed were handmade and grossly out-of-spec, leading to at least three deaths when 737 NG's broke apart in several sections on runway overruns, while in the past airframes held together intact in such events, protecting passengers. Boeing then covered up and scuttled its own investigation panel after management didn't like its conclusions.
tl;dr: 737 NG and MAX aircraft are fundamentally unsafe because of systemic lapses in regulatory oversight. These aircraft cannot be made safe economically due to Boeing's regulatory capture of the FAA, so it's best to never fly on them.
In my mind, Boeing as a passenger transport company is, or should be, finished. How they acted regarding the 737 NG and MAX are criminally-unforgivable.
People don't seem to get: the world isn't anywhere close to this lie of meritocracy they've been sold. There's a small fraction of society with the right pedigree who don't have to work hard and have everything handed to them because of who their parents are. This fraction is the predominant constituent of Ivy League universities, whereas merit students who worked hard are a tiny minority.
Basically from their parents and their parent's friends. It's kind of funny because I can see the OP's point: on the one hand people are sold this idea of a meritocracy. If you think about "the American dream", anyone no matter what their background can "make it" through hard work. But there is an unspoken implication there: that you can "make it". What happens after you "make it"? Presumably you're on easy street. You don't have to work hard any more. Your family is taken care of. They don't have to work hard any more.
I tend to think of the "American dream" more like a class lottery. Sort of like the movie Ratatouille, it's not that anyone can be in the upper class, but people from the upper class may have come from anywhere. I think of people like basketball players who come out of poverty. Their mother used to clean toilets 14 hours a day and now that her son is a famous basketball player she can spend her days relaxing in a big house and she never has to clean toilets again.
But the OP is correct. No matter how people made it to the upper class, once they are there their family has an advantage. Even if you start with a totally fair meritocracy where people get their just rewards, because they want to provide for their children (and their children's children) you end up with a class of "old money" who own and control most things of importance.
I'm not sure there is a way around it other than massive inheritance taxes and high inflation, which are historically not super popular ;-)
By that description, we can draw a line around the people born in regular old middle class households, and another line around the wealthy, and imagine them trading with one another, much like poor countries in the mid to late 20th century, that are now wealthy. This should demonstrate there is nothing holding back the rest of this country's population from getting wealthy too, while some rich kids inherit from their parents, or go to some rich-kids-only-(except-not-exactly) university.
A different situation is if some wealthy people engineer things so as to effect transfer payments from the middle/poor classes (or just everybody in general) to themselves. I.e., rent-seeking, which obviously exists. While I don't like legacy admissions, afaict it's not rent-seeking.
Regardless of acquisition price point, this is almost always what happens when employees take these third-rate shares.
The solution is employees need to insist on the exact same class of shares as founders. Furthermore, more startup workplaces need to closer to co-ops than these pseudo-meritocratic corporations out to exploit labor with impunity. Maybe it wouldn't have helped in this instance, but that's not the point... the point is being treated fairly regardless of exit outcome.
That processor is really old 6th gen and underpowered. I got a faster and newer quad core 8550U in a Lenovo T480 with 9 hours of battery life in dual batteries. Plus, I have a 1 TiB Samsung 970 Pro. Sure, they do better on firmware tracing and privacy, but if it's not a competitive and good value, it's risking not being a survivable business model. The PC business is competitive and runs on slim margins, so if they shirk or shrug at keeping up, their business is going to die.
People that care deeply about privacy aren't nearly as price conscious as the average consumer. You just can't find many options that come out of the box with Intel backdoors disabled and completely open WiFi firmware.
I want a Librem, but I'm finding that the price premium is a little higher than such a small risk is worth to me. I hope they can bring prices down so people like me can justify it, but that probably won't happen for some time.
