your links don't disprove OP's main point at all. being forced to share data to the government is different than actively collecting data to sell to other third parties. these companies have tons of incentive to collect user data, but very little to sell it. i think that nuance is important to understand. if you think i'm wrong, try going to facebook or google and asking to buy some user data. you cannot.
It's all about risk/reward tradeoffs. Once you get past the junior->senior level, each promotion is hiring you for a completely different job. As an individual, there are only a few ways to get that job:
1. Trial run at your current company (could be wasting your time, but also you have domain knowledge and relationships to help)
2. Join a smaller company and hope it grows (could rapidly accelerate growth due to needs, but could also go very poorly if the company stagnates)
3. Try to lateral to another company with a promotion (pretty difficult in general)
It's not really that juicy for the corp. If they hire (promote) you without experience, they are hiring someone without experience for a position and then have to go and hire again to replace someone else. Vs. just hiring someone with experience
this can definitely happen, and in weird ways too. i thought my neighbor was playing bass super loud at night, and it was reverberating loud enough in my home so that I couldn't even hear a movie in my living room. when I knocked on his door, I was surprised to hear almost nothing and he had just been cooking dinner with low volume music. he shifted his subwoofer about 3 feet (it wasn't even against the wall) and it completely solved the problem
i'm not sure what you mean by "bread and butter" of the fitness industry. certainly most fitness "influences" are on some sort of performance enhancing drug, with many of them on anabolics which is the reason why they look muscular and lean. i'm not sure what fat burners you think are actually more dangerous than this stuff (clenbuterol? ephedrine?), but I don't agree
not really, but private funding is generally pretty controversial with weird incentives (e.g. a company may only fund for positions that will create demand for their products--like a skincare company only funding dermatologists) [1]
don't think many other entities besides the federal government have a ton of incentive to fund residency. and the federal government does have caps on residency slots
they contribute already, but it's more challenging than federal. many residents do not stick around in the state they train in, so states have less incentive to fund this
china is on a similar path, maybe even worse. hard to make people have more children, even harder if you have a history of actively stopping people from having children
Funny thing is, it wasn't even effective. Most of the decline was before the introduction of the one-child policy, and other countries, like South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong (which is a country for these purposes; it has a different government, it's a country) managed to make it fall lower, without such legal barriers. It was a failure on multiple levels.
your opinion of doctors is probably off. i'm married to a doctor (in the US) and i would say 4/5 doctors i meet spend most of their time talking and thinking about money. there are lots of reasons for this (some valid), but assume your doctor has money on the mind
Well, let's hope they still think of the interest of their patients first or that the incentives are aligned. Also, in the US, everything is more money oriented than in Europe which may explain the difference of views here. I grew up in a family of doctors and they didn't see their job as a business, but rather as a public service.
he has nothing to say. his strategy has been to keep riding the gravy train for years. now the growth is slowing and he can see the core search business will be under attack and there is no answer. he'll essentially coast for the next 5 years. play politician, take few risks, "streamline operations" and fire a bunch of people, then walk off into the sunset. what is their future? cloud is still very small and has really difficult competition, youtube has challenging competition and isn't super profitable, maps/search/mail/docs/drive all feel quite stale. what's next?
yeah surprisingly that was ideal for me when I was single. i enjoy the actual physical act of cooking but hate the constant planning/prep/shopping. guaranteeing a few healthy dinners a week that I don't have to plan was pretty nice. unfortunately the meal quality dropped a good bit and the recipes get redundant after a while
i'd still recommend it to anyone who's never cooked before at all and wants to start
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