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Oh man, was it implemented as an ISAPI extension? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in the wild.

> But I want out, and this is coming from someone with a ton of FAANG experience.

But where do you go? Retraining is too expensive for decent paying fields to be worth it and there a very few careers otherwise that won’t be a steep lifestyle regression.

> On steam you have to go out of your way for such games to be recommended for you.

Go on steam, not signed in and go to new releases. I promise you there are porn games right there on the first page of results. Often of a very degenerate nature. I don’t even need to be authenticated to see that. But I do need to go out of my way to verify my age, if I click on a call of duty game or something.

> Did you read the post I wrote initially? I give the breakdown of how much of the money I pay to the union goes to the worker on his paycheck (55%) with the rest going to insurance, taxes, union dues, pension, etc (fringe benefits, which are 45%)

I misread that intitially.

At the end of the day, anytime this topic comes up, there’s an oddly large discrepancy between the anecdotes and the BLS data.

Even half of that $100 puts these electricians in the 90th quartile for hourly wages in that MSA. So they’re either sending there most expensive guys or I’m misreading misinterpreting the BLS data.

Well sure, my questions is why is the Union charging over double what seems to be 90th quartile for electricians in small to mid sized MSAs and only a bit more than the 90th quartile on high COL cities.

I suspect the electrician they send over isn’t just pocketing $100/h on wages.

They’re also nearly untouchable often disconnected from anything the mainstream would experience and experience things the mainstream never will.

> Then it's called "mainstream" music for a reason, most people are OK with listening to it in the first place :)

I think there’s bewilderment is mostly from these not being “mainstream” people.

> Why would I work on building websites in my local community if google is going to at least 3x the salary to build and cancel several products? We need to flatten the capital distribution curve and many of these problems will work themselves out.

It’s all good. The local community doesn’t need you to build out sites anymore.

I quit doing that when small business owners started expressing that they didn’t need a website, it wasn’t very valuable to them. What they wanted was a nice Facebook page. If they did need a website, it seems Squarespace, Shopify, etc. provides a sufficient offering for them. Cheaper too.