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That was my first thought - the only logical way I could see for step 3 would be to pay for people's parking.
Universal healthcare doesn’t pay for everything. My friend in Canada has a boy with a rare disease and the out of pocket costs are significant.
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this is a feature, not a bug, of globalization. Work that can be done in cheaper countries is allocated there. On a related note (and I get negative feedback whenever i say this, but) this is the future of all software developers as i see it. If you can do your entire job remotely, then "remote" is going to get optimized over time. It does not make sense to spend your time in USA (for example) coding when you can sto…
I suspect you've never been a technical liaison to an offshore team. I believe your vision is to replace all satisfying work with soul-crushing work. If all your work is done by people who don't want to work there, including the supervisors, then what kind of quality can your company expect?
I am hesitant to believe what I think you are implying here. Do you think everyone in cheaper countries would prefer to live in more expensive countries? Even if provided a stable income far above everyone in their area?
I also dont know what would be soul-crushing? It's doing what we do here, just over there.
I can see a younger version of myself making something like this and intentionally letting it slip to the media for attention. I th8nk this line is telling: "Since there are no known victims/ targets for the ransomware group, their Tactics, Techniques and Procedures remain unknown." I don't think there's a risk if any great outbreak here. A bunch of scriptkiddies took some open source project and modified it with som…
>laltrr the6 infrct
*later they infect
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this is a feature, not a bug, of globalization. Work that can be done in cheaper countries is allocated there. On a related note (and I get negative feedback whenever i say this, but) this is the future of all software developers as i see it. If you can do your entire job remotely, then "remote" is going to get optimized over time. It does not make sense to spend your time in USA (for example) coding when you can sto…
"Just" sending it overseas to be coded is more likely to end in failure than success, unless you have a lot of experience and know what the pitfalls are (which is a very expensive education). I'm not picking on developing countries; the same goes for big enterprise contractor providers in the U.S. They have no incentive to write stable, maintainable code. Their incentive is to make it just stable enough to not get su…
I think you are assuming I was implying overseas work to be all short-term contract work but I am not saying anything about the paperwork. The paperwork will write itself such that the relationship between a remote worker and the company is identical whether they are in texas or india. And itll happen that way because of financial incentive to do so
It's already happening. People from NY and CA are moving to Texas and Georgia, and then their salaries are being reduced to adjust for cost of living - but they still make really good money for Texas or Georgia. Maybe those SWE think they are irreplaceable, but what they have effectively demonstrated to the company is that the work itself can be done entirely remote, and so when it comes time to replace them - they will look for a cheap remote worker. Maybe today it is tough to find good replacements in India, Ukraine, etc, but over time (on the order of 1 generation would be my bet) those replacements will be much easier to find over there.
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You still have to build it out of something. An economy of pure traded labor, like trading foot massages or whatever, wouldn't actually have property.
There are natural resources that nobody created. Using them to create something is not coercion and results in property that can be traded for other property or services. Property can be coercion (e.g. untouched land claimed by or with the support of the state), but it doesn't have to be.
Merely using resources isn't coercion but it doesn't "result in property" unless you also apply coercion to exclude others from them.
(Seems like a pointless word game you're trying to play here.)
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Don't be dismissive of script kiddies, they can cause a lot of chaos, and often do it because they feel like no amount of self education or self improvement will improve their chances of stable full time employment. (Hence many of them operating out of the former USSR.)
I’ve met tons of script kiddies over the years and none of them were concerned about employment. They do what they do just to show that they can.
Even worse: when I was a kid trying to hack around everyone had some (probably false or based on rare occurrences) where the hacker/script kiddie would get caught but employed for their skills instead of prosecuted.
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I’ve met tons of script kiddies over the years and none of them were concerned about employment. They do what they do just to show that they can.
>I’ve met tons of script kiddies over the years and none of them were concerned about employment. Your sample is probably biased in some way. I've met many who feel trapped in wage slavery, here in the USA.
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"Taxation is theft" is the rallying cry of the overprivileged who want to feel like victims for once.
Completely false, and an attempt at character defamation while sidestepping the facts. A primary human right is you own the fruits of your labor. Period.
(Might as well claim that the government's income collected through taxes is the fruits of the government's labor.)
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I think AI will do a better cheaper job before your vision of the future comes to life.
i like that bet, I was ignoring AI in my observations. The server running the AI will probably be cheaper overseas all the same though
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I’ve met tons of script kiddies over the years and none of them were concerned about employment. They do what they do just to show that they can.
> I’ve met tons of script kiddies over the years and none of them were concerned about employment. They do what they do just to show that they can. Even worse: when I was a kid trying to hack around everyone had some (probably false or based on rare occurrences) where the hacker/script kiddie would get caught but employed for their skills instead of prosecuted.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/19/how-hackers-dug-song-and-jon...