Recognizing the need to improve is the first step. Next is America has to want to change.

Business and authoritarianism working hand in hand. That's nothing new.

Once you get experience under your belt, and make contacts....incorporate yourself and go into contracting!!!

If you incorporate yourself can do B-2-B contracting and it can be quite lucrative and you do get to make your own hours, etc.

If you can get into Federal or DoD contracting, that's steady and VERY good bill rates....if you can get a security clearance....VERY VERY good bill rates.

This requires either full time work, and jobs will dry up, or making one's own business which requires paperwork and keeping track of money. This paperwork is handled by a "worthless" degree.

Incorporating yourself and forming your own LLC or S-Corp company and doing a little paperwork is not rocket surgery and everyone that is an adult should be able to handle basic finances.

None of that requires a degree.

Yes, compete with people here illegally who will work for cheap. Sounds like a good idea.

Well, to be fair...we're in the process of throwing those folks here illegally out of the US and making it harder for them to work here.

These jobs should and would go to US citizens if the artificial lowering of wages you describe did not exist.

No it just shows how inept and BAD Kamala was as a candidate and elected official....

For all his faults...Trump is still far superior to her.

All my best jobs I got because I knew someone.

Go straight to their reception desk and ask for a job application. Employers will respect that you're serious about getting a job. Make sure you firmly shake hands, to show that you are excited about the opportunity.

That Boomer advice never actually worked for me. Not even 30 years ago.

I also never bothered to create a different cover letter on my résumé, despite numerous people telling me that's critical. I just listed all the programming languages I knew, and then filled 4 or 5 pages with descriptions of my job history. Recruiters just feed these documents into a machine to harvest search keywords, and during the face-to-face interview it is convenient for the interviewer to pick any topic on the resume and talk about it instead of having to guess at what you might know.

The responsibility to demonstrate providence should fall on the one making the model. And be independently confirmed. Transparency is the key to making most things fair, but businesses really hate exposing how they operate.

Because homelessness would require the redistribution of wealth. California isn't quite as communist as people like to pretend. We're not going to take property from landlords and developers and give it to poor people that have no jobs and no lobbyists.

How it really works here with CAISO is they cut my solar power from the grid during a rolling blackout. So that I have plenty of power that I can't sell, and my neighbors have no power for their air conditioner.

The AI datacenters start up the diesel and natural gas turbines in response to the planned outage, they often get an advanced and automated notice.

In a sane world we would have solved that with fines and prison time.

It's too late. Journalists and entrepreneurs already treat LLMs as A.I. And they are ready to hand over human-level responsibilities to the magic 8-ball machine.

A.I. is ordinary management stupidity in a shiny new package.

Let's put the algorithms for managing our critical infrastructure into a black box that cannot be audited, analyzed, or duplicated. What could possibly go wrong!