That's the way. I've been programming for nigh on four decades, and it's almost a daily occurrence with junior devs going to stack overflow or chatGPT to solve an issue instead of just searching the code where nine times out of ten the problem (or a very similar one) is already solved.
"Atheism is a religion in the same way that not collecting stamps is a hobby"
I started a new job some months back, and my boss straight up told us in a team meeting "we're not paying you to give 100% all the time, that's not possible. We're paying you for your average effort. Everyone has good days and bad, so don't worry about it. Just do the job as good as you can on any given day and if we were right in hiring you, that will be enough." Kind of blew my mind and confirmed I'd done the right thing signing with that company.
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
- Everybody Knows, Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man, 1988
Heh, haven't seen the bash forkbomb in close to two decades... Thanks for the trip down memory lane! :)
An also a lot of middle-class western people. 1% of the world's population is about 80 million people.
You'd have to go down to 0.001% to only target the ultra-wealthy.
Inflation doesn't come from demand, it comes from someone raising the price of something - a raw material or a finished product. The combined effect of all those pricing hikes is what we call "inflation", and they are almost always done in the name of increasing profit, not to meet demand (whether elastic or not). A system that demands infinite growth cannot work in a finite world, that's the problem at the root of capitalism.
"Actual inflation" is just some capitalist a bit further up the supply chain "turning the screws on everyone just because they can". Inflation is the ultimate proof capitalism is an inherently flawed system.
Biggest problem with it is that it lies with the exact same confidence it tells the truth. Or, put another way, it's confidently incorrect as often as it is confidently correct - and there's no way to tell the difference unless you already know the answer.
Their money is already there so them moving wouldn't make much of a difference.
- "Blam, blam, stop!, blam, police!, blam"...
I've always been partial to the phrase "the worst thing someone has experienced is the worst thing they've experienced". Someone elses experiences never invalidates that.
BizTalk was (is?) a solid and also quite impressive product. That said, I'm happy I haven't had to work with it for years 🙂
I've always been partial to "sticks and stones may break my bones but words can really hurt me".
Left hand by the scruff, right hand by the belt, lift, swing forward, back, forward, and release. Easy :)