You need to screen share a lot more during remote work

> the "natural" way of things is older generation gets supported by children and they help take care of grandchildre

It's an ideal. Structuring society to require it falls down often because:

- people have kids later, making them too old to help

- disease and addiction can make grandparents unfit

- young families often must move to where work is, even if far away

- deeply in debted grandparents may be unable to afford to help

- grandparent's own care needs compete with those of their grandchildren, i.e. sandwich situations

- cultural expectations unfairly burden some over others, usually women

People have kids later but life but expectancies and health and medicine for older people are far better than they were historically. Not for everyone, but for most people.

The rest all comes down to solvable social and economic problems, mostly as a result of putting short term GDP growth over all else.

Rush on the radio was poison for my impressionable brain. Thankfully the Internet came along and exposed me to outside perspectives.

It's celebrity. People want to imagine themselves like these icons they've built, even if only through the laziest of efforts. I wonder if it's an innate human trait to aspire to be like those we admire.

> I just wish all the moaning would end.

It can be unpleasant to participate in a community of differing opinions and experiences. I still think it's worth showing up. If I hadn't then your perspective would have been missed too.

That doesn't yet capture the shrinking of the market, especially for juniors.

If demand for developers is shrinking then you'd expect salaries to go down.

If you can prove otherwise, show some stats.

The distinction is important because at least private enterprises aren't directly controlled by the government. So they have the capacity for independence, and if they choose not to flex it then another private enterprise may.

> Nothing Obama could have done was going to make Obama look good on Fox News.

So "Fox News" has a massive accuracy problem. Or are they actually only "Fox Commentaries"?

I don't think that's limited to only Fox News. Cable news channels today are seem to be a strong majority opinion pieces. They also seem to mostly be mouthpieces today for whomever is coordinating a broader political message they want being discussed.

Was the left's cancel movement really hysterical? Or are you referring to the right's reaction to it

I don't recall Obama or Biden administrations opening threatening private outlets.

Always better to prewarm your sock puppets before spamming. That's why I joined HN in the first place!

(The product flopped and I got lost on so many rabbit trails. YC took me out of the game with a side hustle forum!)