https://www.wired.com/story/i-saw-the-face-of-god-in-a-tsmc-factory/
I had discharged my insomniac unease by looping through iOS games while perseverating on Putin, Xi, MAGA Republicans, and the rest of the nihilistic flexers with malevolent designs on democracy.
Xi, famous nihilist
It’s a tragedy of the modern world. So many people with the potential to advance greatly in medicine and technology and science, but they’re probably poor and starving in some alley.
Yeah I’ve been learning more about Puerto Rico and this is a problem. They get educated in the island but because of the exploitation there’s huge brain drain. Of course that makes it very profitable for the US because it means they can swoop it up and “modernize” the country for rich, mainland yanks meanwhile they enjoy Puerto Ricans’ labor
I believe east Germany also experienced this. They had superior education but the west offered much higher salaries
Philippines is brain drain city. They rely on remittance for a sigfbicant portion of their national income
Yeah, that's why you always get those articles where some engineer says "the unification was great, you just had to be flexible and open to opportunity" and then 3 paragraphs down they got their education in the east but fled to Stuttgart in 1992 for the pay and never went back.
Not that I'd wish Stuttgart on anyone.
I went to Morocco last summer, and ran into a couple of people who spoke english. They seemed pretty interesting, and I was getting tired of having to speak French to everyone, so I struck up conversation with them. It sounded like Morocco, despite its strides in the past 10-20 years, still have a long way to go, because the country is so dependant on foreign investment, specifically French investment. It really seemed like very few people actually wanted to stay in the country and work to improve it, and instead just got whatever degree they could think of that would make it easier to move to France and find a job. And the people who didn't get degrees, wanted to move to Spain to do backbreaking aggricultural labour.
It honestly amazes me that a country with Moroccos size, population and general education level isn't doing better, but I guess that is one of the main ways that capialism constrains development.
Conservatives: “we don’t want immigrants. Stay back and improve your own country :frothingfash: ”
makes it more attractive to immigrate instead of staying back
"I am less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than I am in the certainty that people of equal or greater talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
Fuck the Burger King discount, imagine paying less than 10% of your income in rent.
no joke. that is what stood out to me. i was once in a situation where i was "only" spending about 19% and it felt like i was stacking stacks like a young money hustler. 10% would be crazy.
i read somewhere that housing costs in the soviet union never exceeded 3% of income for most. i can't even wrap my mind around that.
For this to be true in my case, I would have to make roughly 8 times more money than I currently do, which would make me a multi-millionaire.
For me I'd be looking at around 230k/yr. I could retire in like 5 years.
In USD, I'd have to make 21k a month, which is something like 252k/yr. (1.7 million DK/yr.)
I'd also be retired within a decade, and I can't even begin to fathom what that would be like
TSMC represents the most expensive single investment of concentrated technological capital in human history. We do not currently appreciate the implications of networked computing and embedded computing/sensors/general technology
mfw google offers me paid leave, insane bonuses, and 24/7 playground access but no burger king discount
no but literally that's exactly how google works. shit's wild. it's not even like...a productive bell labs kind of thing, it's daycare for smart people that can't be otherwise trusted to invent real things.
TSMC and the principles it expresses have started to appear in my dreams as the last best hope for—well, possibly human civilization. I want to view the Sacred Mountain and its promises with innocent eyes, as if nothing at all in the past three centuries had compromised the fondest fantasies of Locke, Newton, Adam Smith.
:aaaa: :aaaa: :aaaa: :screm3:
This article seems designed as a straight up cognito hazard. The stuff about the history and the process is cool, the neoliberal Adeptus Mechanicus fanfic surrounding it wasn't. If you'll excuse me, I need to go wash my brain with bleach now.
Nihilism is when you transform your country's economy into a thriving major player on the global market with a speed never before seen in human history
... oh wow they seriously think 10 percent is a good deal don't they?
