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by unicornporn 530 days ago
> the author is quoting prices in Euros, which is pretty much synonymous with "extreme poverty" I mentioned before :)

Care to elaborate?

> Especially ironic this article is from 2020 when M1 was launched and now laptops, both Qualcomm and Apple ones, are leaps and bounds better than before.

Something tells me you haven't quite grasped the blog post or what LOW←TECH MAGAZINE is about. https://permacomputing.net
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tgma 530 days ago
> Care to elaborate?

Europe is increasingly a basket case.

> what LOW←TECH MAGAZINE is about

Yea, I did sense some hints of political ideals, but did not know that it is explicitly part of some movement. Thanks for elaborating.

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herbst 529 days ago
Have you been to Europe?
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tgma 523 days ago
Yes, I have [but I've not been to the border :-)].

Lack of air conditioning and low respect for tech employee (feudal style treatment of owner/worker) compared to Silicon Valley was obvious (although they are propagandized to think they have "better working conditions" due to more mandated vacation days and not being easily fired, but the order of magnitude lower salary is almost never brought up and if you bring up 500k salaries being a routine thing for upper-middle-range of a run-of-the-mill Senior SWE, they think you are exaggerating; to cope, immediately the subject of socialized health care comes up!) But good historic landmarks, for sure.

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herbst 521 days ago
I honestly don't even know what to answer. You just generalized some places you think you saw as Europe.

I live in Switzerland, you can earn 500k if you want to. But you can also have a relaxed live. All your neighbours aren't poor so you barely have to be afraid of anything. Junkies get their heroin from the state, even them are nice people on the streets. Vacations is part of our lifestyle and even the poor have that. Tax burden is way less, startups are common and usually don't require a lot of investor money...

Also I have no idea why people always bring up silicon valley. That's not even 1% of the US, the rest of the country still is an obvious shit hole, in every single metric. And silicon valley is just barely better with super high wages.

You can build your walled mansion, but you can also enjoy being part of a healthy society.

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