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If you're the person without whom the project can't go ahead or will suffer a major inconvenience (at worst, filling your position with someone else) then you get part of the collective responsibility.
If you write code you know will harm people, you get part of the collective responsibility, no matter how much of a cog you are.
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I'd rather pay £129 for my Zone 2 pass than £135 without ads. The £6 I can buy a kebab with. Even bought the Kindle with special offers. Preferred it to the one I have without.
If it ever happens, I'll gladly pay 12 more and you can have a kebab and a pint on me. ;) I reckon if we ever get to that point, by then the pint alone might be 12 quid though. Soz.
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A hustler hustles, but one who hustles isn't always a hustler.
Poetic, but that could be said about anything; A programmer programs, but one who programs isn't always a programmer...
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Hustler is used a lot in rap. It's always been there. A hustler hustles. They put in work. They are in the grind. It's all about turning a nickel into a dime. In other words, they sell a lot of crack. Nothing deep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbwTCrnktY - Cassidy - I'm a hustler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv6CbP4kVno - Lil Wayne - Hustler Muzic
Selling drugs is pretty deep, try it sometime. You really feel every dollar. Now I’m more connected to money and survival. Great capitalism experience 10/10.
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It doesn't matter what the data says, the feeling that our society is crumbling is palpable, and that is what drives this overwork. People my age (40s) and younger do not believe that our institutions will be able to support us in our old age and retirement. We do not even believe that the earth's ecosystems will be able to support us (as a group) then. In 30 years, we as individuals better have resources accumulated…
This is a really interesting statement: It doesn't matter what the data says, the feeling that our society is crumbling is palpable, and that is what drives this overwork. There is an interesting conflict of interest buried in there, "someone" who is benefiting from your work figures out that if you "believe" that society is crumbling, you will work harder (which generates them more benefit), and so they arrange it s…
However:
1) I have seen it become commonplace to have several generations of a family living in the same house.
2) I have seen my grandparents struggle to afford prescriptions even with 2 pensions and social security.
3) I have seen a sibling fall into poverty despite making bi-weekly efforts to establish an emergency fund. A totaled car was all it took despite full coverage.
4) I have been a part of the crowd commuting 4+ hours round-trip a day to jobs they can't move closer to.
It definitely feels as though institutions are failing us. I don't think social security will fail, but I do think they'll move the goal post on when we can retire.
There are conspiracies and there's anecdote..
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I'm waiting for a massive exodus of US citizens to Europe for healthcare. Also the perceived society crumbling is self-imposed. Raging culture wars, terrorism as an excuse for totalitarian paranoia, freely accessible firearms, school shootings, obesity epidemic, trade tariffs, monopolistic corporations lobbying for laws, ecological disasters. Frankly, I'm happy with my European backwater if the cost of getting off we…
I emigrated from America to the UK. Healthcare is the number one thing that would make me trepidatious about moving back, far ahead of the gun violence and even the general political lunacy.