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> When the social workers are driving in BMW's and talking to you like you're retarded... Man what social workers get BMWs?
As it happens, My neighbor in my apartment building is literally a social worker who drives a BMW.
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> if you're a teenage girl, depending on your culture, your family seems to be peer pressuring you to be a mother Ironically, societies that do not steer girls to parenthood are subject to extinction. I'm not saying it's good or bad. It's just the law of nature.
>Ironically, societies that do not steer girls to parenthood are subject to extinction. Which societies have gone extinct due to this?
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The idea that education (in terms of knowledge and skill acquisition) is zero sum is wrong. Educational equality starts with parents giving a shit about their kids' education. Why do you think Asians overachieve on every benchmark we have? Could it possibly be because there are cultural factors that motivate parents to care very strongly about their childrens' education? America spends the most in the world per capit…
Asians in Asia don't outperform the US overall. We just get the most driven and smart Asians as immigrants.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_St...
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As it happens, My neighbor in my apartment building is literally a social worker who drives a BMW.
I mean, it could be a 2006 318i with 200k+ miles. BMW means nothing.
I'm curious whether remote work will have a tangible effect on global poverty and if so, how it could be measured.
Remote work requires an investment in space and equipment that can be quite expensive. Someone can be a great candidate, but can't afford the computer, tablet and space they need to interview or get work done, and they'll be skipped over for someone who can afford it.
Given the generally accepted ideal of equality in the rich and educated world it strikes me as crazy that we continue to work hard to keep refugees out of our islands of wealth instead of structurally working on improving the chances of all people on earth. We seem to just turn a blind eye to this huge inequality or even increase and abuse it when it suits us. For example: Why don't we apply our minimum wage laws to…
Not to burst the bubble, but there's a reason why Elon Musk asked for a breakdown of costs for such a plan a few weeks ago. Throwing money at foundations doesn't automagically solves the problem. Sometimes it happens that if you donate clothes to some African communities, corruption will take over and your donation will not reach the hands of those in most need. The clothes will instead be sold into the illegal marke…
I'm led to believe[1][2] outrageous profiteering starts well before such donated assets---which are sold in bales---ever reach the shores of Africa.
What privileged 1st world citizens naively perceive as altruism turns out to be nothing more than a facade for egregious textile dumping with middlemen in transit to squeeze out any remaining residual profit...and it's turtles all the way to the ad hoc environmental disasters this racket has created in already immensely impoverished countries.
[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/fast-fashion-turning-...
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs_Gil
Completely off topic: It's fun showing to young people YouTube videos of Jesús Gil. That was Spain in the 90's. https://youtu.be/HB7H0a4X-b8
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Being able to work to increase your own wealth isn't really controversial. In fact most Americans over-estimate the amount of economic mobility that we have, which is probably what the article is referring to. And rich families tend to have their wealth eroded in just 2-3 generations. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/generational-wealth%3A-why-d...
Until dynasties with extremely large Southh Dakota in-perputuity Trusts make it almost impossible for wealth to erode in 2-3 generations or even longer. There's a good reason why trusts were restricted to ~100 years but now the world has lost that legal fight. In 100, 150 years, just how much power will the trust holders of these perpetual trusts have over the rest of society?