Isn't this is just a naked reach around the 4th amendment?!

Only if Norway's lack of internal consumption must be met with equal and similarly destructive consumption elsewhere.

Consider if others followed their lead. Then oil would be used less for transportation, one of its most destructive and singular uses, and more for manufacturing or medical or less wasteful uses.

Orthogonal to? Irrespective of the use of?

Ignore the mercenaries. Here they are legion.

As for us (aspiring) craftsman, there are dozens of us! Dozens!

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.