Free education? Internet in general, http://ocw.mit.edu in particular. Good job? http://LinkedIn.com etc. Cheap housing? http://Zillow.com , name your state & price. Cheap food? Shop careful, $1/meal. Any desired product? http://Amazon.com to your door.
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Cheap car? Get a used Nissan Leaf for $6000 on http://AutoTrader.com , turn it into an ad on wheels via http://Wrapify.com , get paid >$200/month, free in 30 months, power dirt cheap. I could keep going. Opportunity abounds. Quit bitching and get busy.
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OMG PEOPLE YOU'RE ALL BUT FORCE-FED OPPORTUNITY WHAT THE HELL MORE DO YOU WANT?!?
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My father once asked me "do you want to make money? or do you want to make software?" The point hit home hard. And I chose software (making a good buck at it as well).
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You'd at least have to start by controlling for survivorship bias, the composition fallacy, the strategic importance of avoiding humiliation and poverty signals, like say a car covered in ads.
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If you're not willing to drive a car with ads because "humiliation", then you're rank ordering prima donna hood over money. This thread started w you saying "you need rresources to make money". Now you're arguing that ads on a vehicle is a bridge too far. Curious.
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Humiliation as in being marked socially so that associating with you damages others' status. When I said "strategic," what I meant was strategic—the extent to which actually landing a good job can depend on not sending any weird or undesirable signals to eg a would-be employer.
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that is a good link. in particular, white seems feckless and obnoxious if and only if you assume she's lying—if you don't make that assumption, it sounds like she needs considerable help
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People who want to succeed do. People who care about work / life balance, "unreasonable" demands, "dignity", etc., don't. I'm ok with that.
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Can't say I agree with you about the empirical facts there, but I also can't reasonably expect to convince you. If you're comfortable with the kind of meat grinder world you describe, then I think we have very different core values. It is to shrug.
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It's like being comfortable with gravity or death. Better to accept the universe as it is than pretend it's something it's not.
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