Did Argentina get trapped in debt with IMF because a meteor hit Buenos Aires?
Did a tsunami hit Athens?
These countries burned through their reserves with no responsibility at all, reserves which were hard earned money from the population, and people demonize the IMF alone?
The oil of these nations is extremely valuable for the US not to consume them but to acquire exploration rights with ridiculous terms, generating a huge amount of revenue, propping the US economy up keeping up the American dream.
The US has Saudi Arabia and the gulf countries on it's side, Libya in shambles, Venezuela and Iran isolated. That gives the US a lot of power on the energy market.
I some countries is still a challenge to forbid use of plastic bags on supermarkets and plastic straws. We just keep throwing this disposable stuff out like crazy.
Lets not mention the torture program, which the current head of CIA took part.
Or the "humanitarian" invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan, Lybia and Syria without UN Security Council mandate. Especially Lybya, which is much more democratic now with it's slave markets.
Or the protectionism that goes against the WTO treaties.
Or by weaponizing the dollar, which is supposed to be the world's reserve currency, by the means of sanctions.
Should I mentions the use of nuclear weapons and napalm against targets with dense civilian population close by?
China, Russia and the US are all draconian regimes. Some target it's own people, other target people overseas and others target both.
The difference is that one has holywood at it's side to show them saving the world time and time again from aliens, metheors and vile russians / nazis. And people just treat the US government as the good heart kid that makes a few mistakes.
Do you have any proof despite statements that the entire internal surveillance programs of the NSA was dismantled or we should just believe because the US government would never lie to us?
And the most frustrating thing is that even if there is irrefutable proof they murdered the journalist, there is not much the US could do.
If the US apply sanctions the maniacs from SA could threaten to stop buying weapons and using the dollar to sell it's oil.
They could also move investments to Russia or China and try to reach common ground with Iran. Literally making a monumental amount of money and American lives spent on wars in middle east in the last 20 years to be for nothing.
I guess the US government will have to propose some kind of "punishment" that SA is willing to take without hurting their fragile feelings.
All these events just show how completely messed up our world is.
If so I would suggest start learning new technologies, start adding simple projects to you github and writing on linedin.
Seems like too much but just start one thing at a time. This way you will dramatically increase your changes of finding another remote when when necessary.
But in the end of the day you also need a plan B, which is money saved and some idea of where to go in case you need to move back to the city to find a regular job.
> Other people would unfortunately have to ignore your advice because the circumstances of finding viable remote positions would be so different for them that if they followed your approach
You are basically criticizing me for answering the question made by the OP. Look at the question:
Ask HN: Are you a remote worker that escaped to the countryside?
I answered yes, the benefits I see in doing it and that I feel confident that I (me, not anyone else) can find another similar job.
Did Argentina get trapped in debt with IMF because a meteor hit Buenos Aires?
Did a tsunami hit Athens?
These countries burned through their reserves with no responsibility at all, reserves which were hard earned money from the population, and people demonize the IMF alone?