I'm a beneficiary of the "startup lottery". I am living the dream, and I state that in this anonymous forum to provide perspective to my own feelings about The Rich.
In your early thirties twenties, managed effectively, one million dollars is enough to retire on, and live care-free. Two million dollars is enough to live well. Six million dollars is enough to retire on extremely well. Ten million dollars is disgusting. Twenty is obscene. A hundred should be criminal.
Thirteen million dollars is excessive, for sure, but that's not the kind of awful, powerful wealth that is the root of problems in our society.
>I think it’s worth discussing why people like “constrained” systems in a bit more depth, because some of the things I’ve mentioned above are definitely not constrained.
I am the CTO of an edu org, and I've spent a lot of time thinking about this. I would say that from our perspective, it's people aware that they're paralyzed by choice. Unity is a bad choice for kids because there's SO MANY OPTIONS on how to build your game, so many plugins, so many choices!
QBasic was great because it was limited. You had to do a lot of the work yourself, sure, but you could start with a simple text game and not have to think about which input library to use, or font choices, or whatever.
We start kids with Scratch. Most of them build a cute toy and get bored - we break out python (a document with a few imports and a window that opens with a moving sprite included) for the ones who start getting frustrated with the scratch gui (because it's too limiting).
Basically, you have to take a set of ritual steps to "warm" various email resources (such as domains, addresses, and IPs) to be flagged as "known" and "legitimate". For example, IP addresses: you should send warming emails to a valid address that you control for a few weeks to just show up on lists without having spam marks against you.
This partially comes from the SV all-or-nothing attitude: you can have AR on all the time (and thus revenue stream all the time), but you can't do that with VR.
At some point, the amount of people who have the curiosity to click any of the links probably outweighs the poor traffic if it was just like "we made a new tracker".
>Is it eliminating animal suffering, reducing global warming as farming is a major polluter, or are they actually just disgusted by animal products in general?
For me, it's both. For others, it's religious. For far fewer, it's health (allergies, intolerances, etc). In all of those cases, if a restaurant advertises their product as meat free, it should be or else it's false advertising.
Further complicating the issue is that burger king has for years sold a veggie patty that is heated in the microwave - using separate tools and is "contamination free".
So anyways, if they want to advertise meat-free, then it should be a meat-free product that is served to you.
Yes. That money should have been fairly balanced to the education system before it ever entered the robber baron's hands.