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Yes, and I bet there are 10x employees in all other areas of work as well.

I don't see the issue as the statement is not targeted at any single person, just a generalization.

I imagine most 10x developers just have their life together as a whole and that's what allows them to be so productive.

So many developers I see are overweight, drink alcohol often, play video games until 2AM and then sleep 5 hours, no exercise at all, bad diet, porn addiction.

By having such a bad lifestyle they are really low energy and tend to go into "autopilot" which of course translates to worse output at the job.

It's not an environmental problem, it's a cultural problem.

People just don't want to have children anymore, fertility rates have dropped a lot post-2012(smartphones and social media)

In Finland the Erasmus/foreign exchange students of universities also tend to hang out among themselves and the native Finns don't really care about them.

One thing I've heard is that the Finns consider many of the exchange students to be a bit juvenile since in their home countries people often live with parents until their 30s. Whereas most Finnish students move out and become fully independent by age 20.

None of these species are really extinct.

Homo sapiens interbred with them and their genetics still live on in the local populations. In fact this is a major reason how different human populations around the world became so different looking in such a short time.

it's not a webpage. It's an application that happens to run on browser platform.

If you downloaded a regular software and the exe file was 5MB that would be considered small nowadays, yet if a web application fetches that in JS it's considered large.

(sidenote: not defending the gifs they're just idiotic)

Because angular versions are like chrome versions. 1->2 was a full rewrite, now the new major versions always have some small upgrades and even smaller amount of breaking changes, it's not a big deal at all to upgrade.

You don't really have to upgrade every time a new version is out btw.

Online dating is the only dating for many young people nowadays. Alcohol used to be a major factor in finding a partner but young people are drinking less and less by the year.

The social skills of the youth are also getting worse due to smartphones, leading to less interaction in schools at workplaces etc

Dating in real life within a small(ish) social circle and modern online dating where the available pool is literally millions of people is completely different

It's called a filter bubble. Imagine a retail worker going "where are these people who are millionaires? Certainly not in the environments that I frequent and not in my circle of friends either. Lots of normal working class people, though"

If you want to find these people, they will be at the night club. In the gym locker room. In the suggestion list of your Instagram feed.

It has a lot to do with smartphones and socialization moving online.

Firstly, the way you interact with and judge strangers is completely different to the way you behave with your friends who you've known for 10 years. The us vs them tribal mentality is built into our brains. Random people are considered as disposable as you don't have any attachment to them and can effectively never see them again in your life if you choose so. Smartphones allow us to instantly tap into an infinite pool of strangers.

Secondly, social media lets us see the lives of the top 0.1% every day. Beforehand you lived in your small filter bubble and didn't know any better. Most people don't look like or hang around with fitness stars or male models in real life. But when you follow a ton of them on Instagram and see their photos daily, your mindset and standards start to change.

Third, the amount of choices online is effectively limitless and a "candy store" effect happens. Why would you pick an "ok" candy when there's 100 brands to pick from that taste like heaven in your mouth?

They do want to date alright. When you interview a random person on the street they're lying both to the interviewer and themselves.

The problem for men is that the women generally don't think the average man is good enough.

The problem for women is that they're mostly lusting after and eventually, in the long run, sharing the same top 20% men.

If you're a man, it's a winner takes all market. Either almost all women desire you, or not a single one does.

Arranged marriage used to solve this.

Or you could study, improve your skills and get more money to be able to afford the bigger car, among other things while still having the latte.