Every colleague ridiculed me for switching to Linux.

A fine excuse to fire some more Americans! Why not start with the new dads?

It all went to shit in 1960. Been shit ever since.

What else happened in 1960?

Perhaps AI will explain someday the salacious intense sexual pleasure some people seem to derive from destroying other people's jobs.

No shit??

If there were a shortage of workers, wages would be increasing. The only problem is wages have been stagnant for 51 years. (source: American Enterprise Institute)

Meanwhile, now only half of 30-year-olds earn more than their parents. It was 90% in the 1950s. (Source: Brookings)

Worker shortages are bullshit. The entire American job market is fraud-coated fraud.

Median price for a house in my part of the world has gone up 700% in the last 30 years. No house, no wife.

That about cover it?

The plural of "anecdote" is not "data."

It has everything to do with attitude. I stopped thinking like an employee and started thinking like a leader. The results speak for themselves.

You're right. That's why I built it myself.

I built my own job.

I did. That's why I was able to start successful businesses in four different industries.

I have customers in sixteen countries.

That about cover it?

> Then what are you bitching about?

I'm not the only one who got screwed.

> And how successful can they be when they only last an average of five years?

The fuck are you talking about?

Failed? I've started four successful businesses since 2001. I can't be fired. Ever. You know why? Firing me requires my signature.

What, you think I've gone 23 years without a meal? How about you take a break from congratulating yourself and learn to read? Jesus.

Here's what happened in tech. I can speak with authority because I was there.

During the 1990s, when corporate America was caught in last place technology-wise, they had no trouble hiring and fairly paying people to help them build what they needed. I was one of those people, and because of my hard work, knowledge and skill I multiplied my salary 500% in seven years.

This was all funded by hard investments in technology infrastructure, and it is when all the key platforms were invented or perfected: browser, TCP/IP, streaming video, high-speed graphics libraries, multiplayer gaming, ecommerce, Flash, LAMP, etc.

By early 2001 I was unemployable. I haven't had a job since.

What happened? Simple. Plowing money into derivative shit became more profitable than tech stocks. (See Commodities Futures Modernization Act) All the capital and jobs were taken away so mortgage bonds could be monetized. That led directly to the housing crash, which led to bailout culture which led to mailbox money and then to rampaging inflation and finally to here.

They took our jobs, houses, women and money. Now they want our vote. We went from the greatest economic expansion in human history to the verge of ruin in one generation.

I couldn't rent a job now. Among the reasons nobody would ever hire me (despite the fact my experience and skill catalog runs close to 20,000 words and the fact I've built four successful businesses single-handed without one dime of outside investment) are: too old, too opinionated, too experienced, too expensive and so on. The situation is the same for everyone in my generation. We took the leading edge of the post-employment economy right in the teeth. We were educated and trained (by lifetimes of hard work on our parents' part) for an America that no longer exists. The world we grew up in doesn't even remotely resemble the one we live in now.

We're the ones who will never have homes, families or legacies because we were thrown off the train and we landed next to the very tracks we built.

All this bullshit about worker shortages and skill shortages is just that: bullshit. Stories like this are proof. Getting hired is pointless now anyway. You'll just get fired no matter how good a job you do.

P.S. For those of you who think you beat the system, just keep this in mind: your kids will never own a home, have a family or have a real job. They'll also never elect anyone to office. Have a nice day.

Explains why tech always sucks.

Nobody said it was, except the person I was responding to.

The entire purpose of the Constitution is to restrain the federal government. It is written specifically to frustrate, obstruct, inhibit, vex and ultimately cage the national government so it does not usurp the powers of the states or the people.

Congress has no legal authority of any kind to grant money to anyone for any purpose. Congress has no legal authority to loan, give, bequeath, save, deposit or invest money. The Constitution grants them the specific and limited powers to collect taxes, to pay debts and to provide for the United States.

That's it.

Any further action is a black-letter violation of the Tenth Amendment.

Fair enough. Suppose Congress opened a brothel? Imagine for a moment the supreme quality of whorehouse Congress could establish with trillions to spend.

Imagine if they made working there mandatory for all young women?

And if a state objects, well, federal law trumps state law, right? Why, according to you, Congress could just impeach anyone who complains.

Congress is king, right?

I asked if Congress had unlimited power and you replied unless the Supreme Court overrules them, "essentially."

So it does work that way.

Now you're invoking the Constitution again. You speak of basic rules. But according to you, the Constitution grants Congress unlimited power.

So which is it?

Scorching weather! Baked Europe! Extreme! Ravaged villages! Choked! Fierce! Drought-stricken! Deadly floods!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

These people are asserting that the general welfare clause gives Congress limitless authority to tax and to spend.

If they have such authority, then there is no legal basis under which it can be challenged, including vetoes, court rulings or future Constitutional Amendments. That's the meaning and scope of the word "limitless."

As long as they contend it is for the "general welfare" of the nation, their authority is absolute.

That is what is being asserted here. Let's be clear about that much at least.