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
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.
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.
TSMC and semicon in general work their people like dogs
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
