(I know there are like at least 5 different ways to say it depending on what dialect you are going with, but I think the above is 'wrong' by all of them, lol)
Its definitive proof that we live in an anti-meritocratic society, that is ruled by nepotism and violent and dangerous sociopaths.
Yes, its violence if it goes through a complex system for the violence to happen, is done indirectly.
So yeah, our lives are ruled (and ruined) by utterly incompetent dangerous sociopaths, who will gleefully destroy the entire economy because... they like buzzwords and feeling like they are smart.
We either need to kill these people, or they will kill all of us, just give it a decade.
Would you know where to find just the average/median income of a household, instead of an individual?
That would be closer to the same rough math I'm doing with the US figures.
If you were to try to set this up for another scenario, not a family of 4, but say, a single mom or dad with one kid, well then all the numbers change significantly.
And yeah, the ... the whole mess of it is... who actually qualifies for what actual benefits, at what income levels?
A huge problem with the way the US is set up (the article goes into this) is that basically you end up with multiple glass ceilings that you have to break through.
You have to increase your income by substantial, not incremental amounts, for the net income gain to actually offset the benefits you now lose from only slightly breaching some income threshold.
So the whole system actually functions to disincentivize or punish people who... 'succeed' more... but not enough more.
Now, take that as your base scenario, and now... you tell me:
How much debt does it make sense for you to go into, to get a college degree, that... may or may not actually result in you either... staying at the same income level, only slightly breaching some threshold/glass ceiling, or perhaps, substantially breaching that threshold/glass ceiling?
Bazzite is so user friendly that I could, and did, set it up on a Steam Deck...
...without a mouse or keyboard, with just the Steam Deck as a controller!
Then I figured out how to set up containers, and built a Debian environment, that can and did successfully compile different game engines from source.
Again, without a mouse or keyboard.
... Did I mention I'm currently crippled in the right wrist and shoulder and arm?
Bazzite on a Deck is extremely usable.
Just had to tweak the base Steam Control mapoing thingy a bit to be able to use common shortcuts, figure out how to do a kind of half southpaw layout for the mouse -> trackpad stuff.
If you can't figure a modern linux distro, that is specifically geared towards being n00b friendly (there are a good number) ...
... its time to retire from thinking you are tech savvy, its time to hang up that hat, time to humble yourself a bit, realize you overspecialized in the wrong direction.
Presuming this is occuring in or near Seattle, yep, yep, the "Seattle Chill" has these days basically become 'Permaonline / hikkikomori / over exposed to fear inducing media / paranoid main character myopia to the point of delusional antisociality.'
And then you have other people who have like, basic social skills, who do not become infuriated by a bit of small talk with a rando at the same bus stop.
From all the way back when we thought Dubya was as bad as it could get:
Yeah, he's totally saying alienation.
Totally.
Not Aryan nation.
... Yep. Its an ... angsty song, not a protest song.
Mhm.