sitting at BWI airport with my life's possessions in checked luggage. soon i will officially be a snobby california girl. move is 90% complete just need to get there and get out of LAX bag claim hell and back to my new place.
seeing so many posts on here from 50-something men complaining that younger software engineers can't do as much
i would really like to settle in somewhere and just truly master 1-2 things instead of having to constantly pick up random pieces of garbage and try and use them to reinvent the wheel, but unfortunately the economy has basically incentivized software engineering to become a trade centered around picking up garbage and jamming it in random holes.
here's a great stat: the average person that becomes homeless is earning $960/month when that happens. so, call it $12,000 a year. they are working, just not making very much money, and basically not enough to cover rent anywhere in the USA. that's about what most college students i knew back in the day made working part time, but it wouldn't put much of a dent in today's cost of living. it really is just a math problem and blaming drugs or mental health is just hand-waving.
i don't want $3500 vr headsets to pretend to go places or $50000 cars to run minor errands. i want reliable public transit and to be able to walk around a city without dealing with random injuries from people doing the first two things