Boris Badanov looking for Bullwinkle

No, my advice is, it's hopeless to try to catch up, look for a new career.

The city planner probably doesn't know squat about laying bricks. That's why city managers don't manage bricklayers. The foreman who manages them certainly does.

When someone says they are 40-something, they are bumping 50, same as dating sites. Otherwise he would have said low 40s.

Because the definition of "older" follows Moore's law in this industry. Every 18 months, old is one year less.

Do you want fries with that?

Except he can't show relevant experience either. So, if you had to recommend someone who is obsolete, or someone who at least has papers to show they are current, who would you interview, and whose resume would you throw out without blinking an eye?

Experience. He has been freelancing for more than a decade working in isolation. He cannot show any experience managing to any potential employer. Worse, he is seriously out of date. And no experience as an employee. Even if he was willing to work for free, nobody would hire him because of the cost of his errors of judgment and having to have constant close supervision. He's not even qualified to intern as any sort of management because anyone he manages will see that he's not qualified. Time to use this as an opportunity to get away from the keyboard and experience the real world.

This 100 â... this. No matter what he does in terms of trying to catch up, there will be dozens of people with a decade of experience to compete.

Don't forget the more weeks paid vacation, etc. Watch "Sicko" and see how much better life is there.

In my experience, the biggest asshole bosses are in tech. Ditto for the customers.

High blood pressure, burn-out, and ageism in tech mean you've got to really enjoy what you do ... but ask anyone who got out of the rat hole how they feel a few years later. At a certain point, quality of life becomes more important than having more of what George Carlin accurately called "sh*t."

So circulating money in the economy is worse than keeping it in the bank or tied up in illiquid assets? You know that's how deflation starts - and deflation is really ugly.

What good is vocational training when those vocations are being automated out of existence?

And the poor are more likely to put pretty much all their income back into the economy in their day-to-day living, whereas the rich don't.

"Basic income" is a subsidy to businesses that don't want to pay a living wage. Why should taxpayers subsidize big business more than it already does?