The world is a shitty place, everything depends on your rng, two could be working the same job but one ends up making 10x more because they were born in the right country.

I know what you're going to tell me, quit being a crybaby and acting like a victim, always easier for the fortunate to spew out that bs.

The best things in life are free: friends, family, my ranting about the best interpreter ever. What country do you come from?

It's true and It sucks. But if you grind hard enough you could emigrate.

Yes but we should look on the bright side. It could always be worse!

@retoor Egypt :/

@jestdotty USA always been worse in terms of food safety than Europe

However your argument is not valid, even if things were 10x less expensive here, you make a lot less and your currency loses value, so if ur money sits in the bank in local currency, it keeps getting weaker against the dollar, and because most goods are imported, u end up not able to affrod them anymore.

Currency = Weak, You = fucked

@UberSalt do you own a camel?

@jestdotty Where did you get those stats?

@UberSalt this is terrible. You’re living in a place with higher expenses but they won’t pay you more bc you weren’t born in the right chunk of land. That’s not fair at all!!

@leonaboucher69 take your spam elsewhere!!!

It's always rng. Had a discussion with a guy from uni. He believed he deserves what he has. And what he has is smarts. And he will earn good money because of it. He thought it came from hard work. I assume we all have it here. It's a prerequisite for coding.

But go to an elementary school. They do the first round of filtering. Reading comprehension. There are children, surprisingly many, who cannot read and understand what they are reading at the same time. The can read it out loud, no issue. But they won't know what they read. The can listen and understand what they hear. But they cannot do it both at once. And their chances or successfully finishing school is like survival rates close to atomic bombs. University is out of question. This is not dyslexia. It is just the amount of ideas you can hold in your brain at the same time. Working space issue.

Bad rng in your genetics. Yep, it is rng. It always is rng.

@jestdotty yes, COL is higher where salaries are higher, but at the end you still have way more purchasing power.

A kg of rice on the world market is a kg of rice, they dont ask you how much you made or what's your country's GDP

@UberSalt I believe it''s because of the british.

My gf loves egypt tho. She's tunisian and she said egyptians were the most social people of the arab sphere :D

@jestdotty > "like yeah this is totally fine"

Problem with that graph and the so-called 'experts' is the assumption our government follows the same economic rules as everyone else.

Under the current modern-monetary policy, our government 'prints' the money it needs for it's spending. Taxes are only used to pull money out of the economy and never considered a governmental source of income.

Any/all politician(s) who scream about the national debt is lying and knows how the game is being played.

How? Just ask them, if we can send *billions* of dollars to Ukraine, why can't we solve <insert domestic problem here they can't solve because we don't tax the 'evil rich' enough>?

@jestdotty > "they follow the same rules because that's debt to other countries"

The key component of the modern monetary theory is you have to control the unit of currency (aka, the US dollar). When the debt is you owe yourself, you essentially owe nobody. One dollar or $10 trillion, doesn't matter. Control/balance inflation by removing money (taxes), spend whatever you need on everything else (printing).

What keeps MMT from becoming fully implemented? Cash and the non regulated cryptos. When, not if, government 'outlaws' all physical+virtual forms of currency and dictates their own digital currency, they will be able to control every dollar you spend...and not spend.

Spend too much $$ on oreos? You pay extra in a 'Fight Obesity' tax. Buy an electric car, you get $7,500 in tax credits.

@jestdotty > "they don't control all the money if they only control USD"

Correct, I'm referring to how the different countries trade commodities, especially oil. Value is traded+evaluated in USD, nothing else. For example, if Russia, China, and India convince Saudi Arabia to use anything but USD, we're screwed. Knowing how our government works, there will be another world war before they let that happen.

"PaperTrail, that is another crackpot conspiracy!"

Is it? Russia+Ukraine? China+Taiwan? Israel+Iran? How easy would it be for our govt to push them into full scale war (not this pop-a-shot stuff they are doing now), only to step in and save the world...again.

@UberSalt just don't get your hopes down. I actually have a friend from Egypt who started working for one of my previous company remotely in 2016 (php, symfony) and gradually built himself toward a chance to move to Europe. Currently he's living in Germany and working for some travel unicorn. So yeah everything is possible if you put in the work and make a good strategy toward your longterm goal.