@2a70c54d@fb03856b It's not even really education, necessarily, but *certification of* education.
I worked at a place once where they required a college degree to go around the office campus refilling the break room supplies. The arrogance on that management policy contributed (slightly) to me leaving earlier than I otherwise would have.
@fb03856b@2a70c54d That choice becomes less wrong every year that tech workers do not have unions with meaningful bargaining power. Treat workers as fungible and disposable; get only mercenaries.
Colleges charge too much to do it for personal development. For that, libraries and Internet resources are amply sufficient, without costing anything beyond taxes and network access fees.
@2a70c54d Haiti is still being punished for its slave rebellion. Same way Cuba is still being punished for Castro's takeover that seized American rich people's assets on the island. I suspect some people want to create a consequence from history to discourage repetitions elsewhere. So we do mean things like prevent trade with Puerto Rico except via US flagged vessels or embargo all trade altogether.
Helping Haiti costs a fraction of helping Ukraine. But Haitians live there, so...
@2a70c54d That seems like it would be worse. As in "there is no longer a movie starring Sinbad as a genie named 'Shazam'; it never existed" worse. Granted, I never saw it when it did exist because it sounded like it would be a waste of $4, but still, if aliens weren't ramming dimensions together to make their alien drugs, I wouldn't even have to remember the idea of it.
@2b63efd8@2a70c54d@ac7cd295 Yeah, it's gonna take more years than he has left of posing before I forget how he cut railworkers down at mid-femur with one stroke, and didn't pay them back with protective legislation.
@2a70c54d As the Fed is considered to be a borrower with zero default risk, because it is the central bank of the de facto world reserve currency, the interest rates it pays on reserve deposits and one-day loans establish a floor for all other loans or investments with nonzero risk.
In other words, it creates new money and gives that to rich corporations, to reward them for not lending to you or investing in you too cheaply.
@2a70c54d The Fed is not a cute rat. It's more like a Goa'uld or Puppetmaster. It burrows in through your mouth, wraps around your brain stem, jams its tendrils into your motor cortex, adrenals, and limbic system, and makes you think what your body is doing is your own idea.
@2a70c54d As the Fed is considered to be a borrower with zero default risk, because it is the central bank of the de facto world reserve currency, the interest rates it pays on reserve deposits and one-day loans establish a floor for all other loans or investments with nonzero risk.
In other words, it creates new money and gives that to rich corporations, to reward them for not lending to you or investing in you too cheaply.
@d10c93fa@b92dcc07 Some would have made it a loot box with a 30% chance of getting a reload, a 69.9% chance of getting a pointy stick, and a 0.1% chance of getting a Davy Crockett M388 tac-nuke.
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