ToastedRavioli
That is basically the point I was trying to make. I used to do all kinds of stupid stuff 10 years ago, and I would never touch anything today. Of anyone left who would try anything, so many of them have died that how many are left?
I think even most people drawn towards substance abuse for one reason or another would be put off by the lethality of modern street drugs, especially when there are other options. Alcohol, cannabis, whatever
The world of online jobs is basically the same enshitification as online dating.
In the hypothetical sense you have the opportunity to find more jobs than at any time in the history of employment. But employers also have to field more (and mostly unqualified) applicants than ever before.
So they can find more potential employees, and you can find more jobs, but ultimately the end user experience 9/10 times is just getting buried under a 10,000 person stack of other applicants. You may be the best person for a job, but not even get an interview because the person on the other end of the machine doesnt have time to actually look through that stack.
And then worse yet, job search companies capitalize on knowing they create a demoralizing atmosphere and use that to push products on people. Resume help, professional career guidance, etc etc. Job search companies, like dating companies, dont really want any of their end users to find that much success. They want you to keep applying to jobs. Its the same reason why they dont do more to trim down unqualified applicants for employers. They sell companies on virtual interview bullshit and the like instead. Solutions that just make everything worse
The number of extremely loaded people that fly first class public everywhere even though they could afford a private jet might surprise you.
I work for private jet type clientele, and only about 10-25% of our clients actually fly private jets everywhere they go. Which makes sense, considering it is about 1/10th the price to fly first class versus chartering.
Ive noticed actually just in the last year there has been a major drop off in terms of people chartering jets. It used to be that you had private jet owners, people who chartered jets, and then people who didnt fly private. Now you basically have people who either own a jet or are flying public with no inbetween. Even though these people could still afford to charter, its an easy place to tighten the belt. Just a <1 hr connection from our airport to the main airport in the state is a cool $10k
St Louisans voted to legalize weed before most states in country ever did. DC I think was the only city that legalized it first. Then the state government overturned what people voted for.
St Louis also voted for a minimum $15 wage way before $15 was the crap wage it is now. The state government then overturned that too.
The MO state government has been tyrannical ever since the state turned from purple to red. Imagine where St. Louisans would be today if we had gotten a $15/hr min wage 10 years ago…
I love my city, and MO at large is a beautiful state if you can ignore the political bullshit, but I cant and its among the plethora of reasons why I live in CO now instead. It may be far from perfect too, but at least they recognize home rule as being more important than state government tyranny
Plenty of countries have some degree of immigration issues whenever there are worse off countries near by, which is true for most countries.
For example, the president of the Dominican Republic is doing the same thing right now to deport Haitians back to their half of the island.
Its insane how many mini Trumps there are