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As many as it takes to maintain the US dollar as reserve currency, and necessary access to mineral resources.

What I do not know if NATO was able to change regime in a country, without having it (NATO) being directly involved in a conflict.

In my understanding if NATO was able to change a regime, there were expressly military boots on the ground (or bombing campaigns like in Yugoslavia)

Some of these regimes are horrible to their own people, so the change by NATO (acting an alias term for 'US') is good.

Sort of like the Spanish Conquistadors stopped the horrors of the Aztec empire [1]

The inflation apparently, does not just affect the currency value -- it also corrects the value of salaries compared to the outcome.

A person who had trained themselves taking (and reviewing) 100s or 1000s of pictures of one particular camera, and one or 2 particular lenses of fixed focal length (prime lenses) -- would have developed a mental model of how a given picture will look, before they take it.

It is that 'pre-physical' mental modeling maturity, that allows experienced photographers to transition to artists (same is for film development and analog printing processes, as well) and stay minimalist at that (as far as gear).

Camera makers are aware of this I think.

This is why cameras with non-detachable, single focal length (prime) lenses are very popular, at any time.

Before it was Yashica Electro 45 [1], now it is Richo GRIII [2] (as examples).

It is also notable that camera makes who make popular SLRs/mirroless cameras such as Nikons, look for current/modern trends of what a 'favorite focal lenght of a lens' is.

For example Nikon recently announced that they will be making 26mm pancake lenth for their Z mirrorless line.

26mm is an 'unusual' focal length, the standard wide-angle is 28mm. And these lenses are usually not pancakes (pancake means very slim / thin lenses that are barely sticking out of the camera body).

But this 26mm focal length is the length (equivalent) of an iphone camera. That's clearly why they are picking this unusual focal length -- and making a optically high quality lens that will fit their full-frame Z range of cameras.

The full frame camera sensor (or even APS-C sized or m4/3 sized sensors) allow to take pictures in low light situations with out flash, while still autofocusing reasonably fast -- much better than with a phone camera.

I would also not be surprised if Nikon would also develop a new Z camera body that will be just big (small) enough to just host these small lenses and that will have perfect integration with phone and pocketable.

So that the camera can utilize this lens, creating much better low-light opportunities without a flash (allowing the photography be more discrete, and take advantage of natural shadows in composition).

They will have to solve battery dimension issues (full frame mirrorless requires more power than a smaller sensor.)

Nikon, I suspect, will also probably enable the post processing to utilize new or (even app-store like) filters to add various effects.

Point I wanted to make is that fixed focal length, single lens, single camera -- enables 'trends', mental-model training and probably other interesting features in the whole word of photography that I do not have words for.

Camera makers certainly know this.

So minimalism in that sense is great, but requires a lot of training and practice :-)

In other words employers should not looking for 'how you a acquired skills', but instead for 'what skills you have'.

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Same as when you publish scientific paper (or a Talmudic treaties, for that matter) before it gets accepted....

It should not be relevant the name of your scientific advisor, institution, or whether you grandparent a famous Rabbi (if we are going with theological texts..)

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Yes, by eliminating the names of your school from the hiring process you are also eliminating that little detail that the cost of attendance for 1 year undergraduate at , say, Vanderbilt University -- is 80,000 USD [1], and that you could afford it...

But the approach I am suggesting does more than that -- it incentivizes employers to consider skills of the hires, and not the 'image' of the schools they came from.

Which, in turn, will incentive the schools to prioritize education quality over hyper-marketing.

Certainly I am not advocating to hide personal achievements (eg participation in relevant open source projects, STEM olympiad's, or other relevant endeavors that build not just technical skills, but also a good character).