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Comment Re:As long as you are not the last one out... (Score 1) 191

Yes Social Security IS a ponzi/pyramid scheme

It is this only because they won't eliminate the contribution cap. That would keep it funded for decades and give us plenty of time to come up with something better.

Me and my wife take care of my parents because my siblings don't want to

You're supposed to raise your kids to want to take care of you. Sounds like you either got different treatment, or tolerate more abuse.

I tell parents of those kinds of kids, don't leave them ANYTHING, let them figure it out on their own when you die.

I've had to figure it out on my own for the most part anyway because my parents were so terrible at parenting. My father did teach me one valuable lesson, pay attention, but as he frequently did it with his hand I didn't grow up with a lot of affection for him.

Comment Re:Anecdote (Score 1) 64

Those people are often hired through a totally different pipeline with almost nobody moving up from L1 to L2. They are hiring very different kinds of people for those jobs. You don't need to know shit about shit to do L1, often even in very high end support scenarios. For example while I worked for IBM/Tivoli (just post acquisition) they implemented a level 1 support team because they had to handle the larger number of new customers being sold the product by IBM salesdroids instead of Tivoli salesdroids. They were spectacular fucking idiots. We saw shit show up in cases like "dragon drop" and "yowzij" (an attempt to spell "usage".)

Comment Re:Deserved (Score 1) 76

Due diligence has never been the answer to fraud.

Due diligence has always been the answer to how to avoid fraud.

If the fraud is sufficiently good then no amount of due diligence given the limited up front information people can ascertain

Buyers can request literally any amount of up front information, and if insufficient information is not provided or cannot be verified, they can not make the purchase. You are in denial and delusional.

Comment Re:Anecdote (Score 1, Flamebait) 64

L1 tech support is usually too incompetent (for one reason and/or another) to solve problems, and is there mostly to filter out the non-problems caused by obvious customer error. The real action doesn't usually occur until you get up to the next level. The primary exception is where there is no next level and they're all useless.

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