It is not just the selfish that can use extortion. It goes like this:
"Be polite, because if you piss me off bad enough I will shoot you. I might go to jail for life, but you will be dead."
Seems to work here in Virginia... (and y'all wonder why southerners are so polite). 8-)

The math sounds interesting.
But all they have really shown, is that the calculations are very sensitive to initial conditions. That is the problem with the calculations for predicting the weather, and you know how good that is... 8-)

No, it's because the person interviewing you is stupid and lazy, You would not like working there anyway... 8-)

In htis case, the name "austerity" does not mean less spending, it means less spending -by the govenment-. Unsupported government spending "sucks" value from all of the people through inflation, and thereby dampens the economy.

Government spending can only boost the economy if the spending is from stocks of value that do not cause inflation. Such as contingency funds from previous years or from gold stocks. Otherwise it is counter-productive.

Except that the poor have more to lose than the rich. It may not be as much money, but they value it more than the rich do. If the rich lose half of what they have, it might not effect how they live at all.

By the way, don't believe all of what your college professors told you. To quote an old saying: "90% of anything is bullshit."

No, actually it is due to the politicians "printing" fiat money to push inflation, becaue they see it as a secret tax on anyone that has money. The effect on the ones that have money is just the opposite of what you think.
And if you think it is moral to "soak the rich", consider that inflation hits -anyone- with money, even the poor with a little cash in their pocket. Maybe it hit the rich for $1000 or $100,000 where it only hit the poor for $1, but that dollar hurts the poor just as much.

The people that are considered "poor" in the US still have TVs, refrigerators, bathrooms, and such. Even the homeless have access to them when needed. Ask a person from a "third world" country how many poor are in the US and they will look at you like you have lost your mind! 8-)

How rich the "one percent" are really doesn't matter. At that level it's just "monopoly money" and does not effect anyone else significantly. If they gave all of it away to the poor, all it would do was to cause more inflation...

Y'all sound like you could fix the world, if you could just get control of the world.

No, you couldn't. It's been tried, repeatedly, and the results were really B.A.D. 8-)

All of this is assuming that jobs come from the government, or big monopolistic companies.That is "propaganda" spread by people that want to control the world. In reality, most jobs are with small companies started by one person or a small group. And they can find things to do if they try, because they are doing that now.

What do people do when robots take jobs? Make the plastic spacers used in the robots joints. Or maybe make the same product as the robots, advertise it as "hand made" and charge twice >>> three times as much. People find ways, and then they hire others to help.

P.S., Don't drink the coolaid!

It's ok, a lot of people don't know that.
Including me, up to a couple of years ago... 8-)

If that were true "in general", there would be several hundred thousand people screaming on line. It doesn't, and they aren't.
At least not about that, specifically...
One advantage of Windows is that they have a -really- big group of "Beta testers". 8-)

Ha! Me too. What the clients use, is what I use.
Not that I don't cuss at it frequently...
But once a version gets patched up a bit, it is not bad. And I have heard that Win V8.1 is actually usable! 8-)

Maybe that -is- his name? How do -we- know?

Also, there is a rumor that he knows something about engineering...

Maybe you haven't noticed, but the dollar is not worth nearly as much as it was a "few years ago". Inflation has been running fast for a long time. This is a suprise to us who bought their current car for $12K new, but that was not last year!

I think $35K is not really as high as it sounds to us... 8-)

Mod this guy up, he has hit the core of the issue. 8-)
(Intel from the other side can be very valuable!)

It depends...

Keep in mind that a lot of companies rely on HR people to do the hiring. And they have no idea at all, what characteristics make a good developer.
In those cases, comfort yourself with the idea that you probably "dodged a bullet", you would not have liked the job. In fact, remember that the interview is for You to evaluate Them, not so much the other way.
The best thing that helped me with this problem, was a couple of Psychology courses that I took.

Also note my sig line, for the result for those companies...