NoahECampbell

So what you're saying is you made an assumption about what I said, took that assumption and wrapped your entire thing about it without knowing it was true. I recommend taking things at a surface level and not trying to read 50 layers into it

I did say work-life balance is important, but also you are not being paid to sit at a desk for a few hours a day. If you work more then you should get paid more, I never said anything about working more for free, so please stick to what I was actually saying? Also try reading a book called Stolen Focus regarding the human brain's ability to focus, which is diminishing due to people actually not working on expanding their focus

I mean if you can't handle working when something breaks, you probably shouldn't be working there in the first place. Work is.....well work.

I never said anything about not paying people for working more?

If something breaks and suddenly no customer can use the product and its 5pm and the engineers say "Welp sorry, my shift ended a few minutes ago so I'll fix it tomorrow!", that is in fact the bare minimum. If an engineer does that, they can be expected to not be earning any raises for actually doing what they're supposed to do, which is not to sit at a desk for a few hours a day, but to deliver a product

No we aren't actually. We are still well within historical data, since we use that still to calculate future weather patterns, and there hasn't been anything unprecedented that would trip up a model like this either.

I mean this isn't actually a large problem, at least in programming where I am familiar with a lot of trends. It is very common for people to immediately sign off for the day the minute their work day/shift is over and not do anything else after. If people want to do that then sure they can, but they also trade off the ability to earn raises and promotions by doing the bare minimum. Getting a work-life balance is important absolutely, but the answer is also not to only work the bare minimum you have to in order to get paid, especially in fields like software development where your job is not to write code, but to deliver a product that currently requires code to be written. When something breaks in software development, you don't wait 12 hours for someone to get back on shift, someone does need to be on that as soon as possible, since if that happens with something as important as say google or AWS, it breaks the infrastructure of most things, certainly most important things, on the internet.

I mean as we're seeing right here, they are just as good in their testing stage while not taking several hours to run. They're more efficient to run and calculate since they don't need to go through a lengthy process to determine the weather, just take advantage of the cyclic nature of nature to do the work for us.

That’s amazing! Here’s hoping it leads to more AI improvements in the near future, since being able to train models faster and cheaper would be nothing less than fantastic

> The individual pursuit of wealth is not increasing common well-being anymore.

That’s how it’s always been and that’s how we got to where we are today. Because person A wants to make millions or billions of dollars for himself, he creates a company and a product that improves life or solves a problem for people in a community of his choosing, be it everyone or parents or mothers or children, or anything like that. This is how we got to where we are today and that hasn’t changed, the only thing that’s changed is the government influenced trying to control and micromanage the entire system.

> Compounded by rising inequalities

Yeah sure, the rich get richer for sure, the poor do too. The rich get richer faster as well, but why does that matter as long as everyone else is also getting richer and better living conditions and qualities? This is flawed because it works under the assumption that our economy is a zero sum system when it certainly is not, as while money cannot be created from nothing, wealth absolutely can be. When Apple was evaluated to be 2 trillion dollars, they didn’t steal that money from other companies or people, that wealth was created by them, their investors, and the people who bought their products

As someone entering the workforce, made my own projects in my free time, paying attention to my peers, and using connections I have to talk to people hiring and in leader positions, people are absolutely not performing to their abilities. It takes 4x as many people to do the same if not less work than 10 years ago. The fact that I can spend 1.5 months working on learning how to be a full stack dev over the summer and that is more work than most of my peers is not a good thing. There needs to be higher standards or else we stagnate and dont improve

I had a similar experience with public school even in Los Angeles, and thats before I started taking public transit and school buses to get to and from school. It would often take the better part of an hour with minimal LA traffic