jupiterjaz

I'm a junior dev with just 1 year of experience and this was my immediate instinct.

That and unwilling to accept immigration.

I just finished Marvel Comics: the untold story by Sean Howe. One thing I was really surprised to learn was that Stan Lee was in his 40's and had already been a comicbook editor for 20 years before he co-created all the famous Marvel heroes like Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and The Hulk.

So much of this would go away if the city would just loosen its building and zoning regulations.

Honestly if autonomous cars can reduce even 10% of accidents caused by drunk driving and other human errors then they will have payed their way and more.

Sometimes I feel like "do what you love" is a kind of psychic barrier-to-entry for certain fields. People say "you really have to love this field in order to be successful at it". Which implies that just being hardworking, disciplined, and determined to improve aren't enough. You have to love practicing the craft more than food, sleep, sex, or any other hobby or recreation imaginable. You have to feel like you were born to do it and when you aren't that's all you can think about. That the idea of a perfect day is 16 hours at the task with as little time as possible left over for anything else like food or sleep.

That's what comes to my mind when people tell me "make sure you love this stuff before you try to become a professional. You wont succeed otherwise."

I blame NIMBYs. Landowners in rich cities stop anything that might bring down the value of their property, especially additional housing.

Disrupt all the nimby's who lobby against building additional housing. Landowners hate new housing because it drives down the value of their assets. If anyone's truly despicable in this culture it's the landowners who refuse to let more housing come into the market.

"Cutting everyone a check for $1,000 a month, which most people in that room would consider too little to live on, would cost almost $3 trillion."

...What? I work a low skill service sector job and I only make $850 per month after all the taxes and deductions are taken out and I do fine as far as shelter and food are concerned. $1000 a month is plenty if it's after taxes and deductions.

Why does this topic keep creeping up here? Are people really that interested in this stuff?

Well some kinds of education will. Keep in mind that tutoring or face-to-face job training is a kind of education as well. I don't think the price of that will decrease and become as abundant as air. As high paying jobs become more difficult to get, it might get so expensive that only the wealthy can afford it.

Often those jobs require a physical address.