Phone fraud is huge in the US and there are gangs that use stolen credit cards, and homeless/druggie credit and SSNs to steal thousands of phones every week and resell or ship them overseas.
I've tracked a single person fraudulently buy 20 iPhones in 18 days through stores in NY, Pennsylvania, NJ, and Maryland. We caught and blocked his purchases and additional 8 times. Different addresses, emails, SSN, etc. that he tried to rotate through but we were eventually able to start identifying him and blocking him. Unfortunately it is difficult to get the police involved.
If the phones are unlocked they are immediately resold in the US. If they are locked they have to ship them overseas and their profit is much lower. All of this fraud is reflected in your store costs, Verizon costs, insurance rates, etc. It all comes out of our pockets in the end.
You will still need:
Housing programs for kids whose parents waste their UBI
Food programs for kids whose parents waste their UBI
School programs for kids whose parents waste their UBI
Medical programs for kids whose parents waste their UBI
Housing programs for adults who waste their UBI
Food programs for adults who waste their UBI
School programs for adults who waste their UBI
Medical programs for adults who waste their UBI
Drug treatment programs, etc.
I read once that if you take the top 1% of software developers in China that is more than all of the developers in the US. You have to go up to 3% in India. What that means is that it is difficult to compete on pure skills. Where we can compete with somebody in India, Colombia, Croatia, etc. is that we are often in the office and can collaborate in person.
Just my $0.02
Oh yeah? And what about your cozy little problem with Linux compatibility you Mormons!
Mormons are fully Linux compatible. Some of them even use BSD.
Real Programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.