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Kick out the residents who watch the most — they’re busybodies and or voyeurs. I don’t want Peeping Tom neighbors.

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Put it this way: teaching and research make me a hell of a lot happier and more excited than being an I.T. consultant and spending my life spinning my wheels, fixing Microsoft’s mistakes.

My dream life would literally be having enough rental income to pay for basic expenses and being able to work part time doing research/teaching as an adjunct for additional income and fun.

All of the good aspects of being an adjunct (flexibility, academic environment) without the bad (money difficulties).

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Right, no. I like my freedom and an occasional “toke.” China is nice to visit, but I’d rather live under looser discipline.

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Or Boston, or the West Coast, or Europe. If I have rental income, adjunct for life would honestly be fine with me. I’d be giving back to humanity and teaching is more fun than fixing other people’s bovine detritis in I.T.

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Why not borrow to a reasonable LTV and buy a few other properties that pay dividends? If the market crashes, you’ll still have rental income even if you’re underwater.

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Probably buy a property or two in NJ (gone up some, but foreclosures are still there) and use it to pay for expenses whilst in grad school. Real world is overrated. PhD with minimal school debt sounds like fun.

Worst case, I’ll end up with a roof over my head and a teaching job. There are worse ways to live — never really liked the corporate/business world, found it boring.

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Because people in tech are expected to work 70-80 hours a week with a weeks vacay per year and like it.

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Do you really think those Trump voters will be subsidized, or is this just a con job to help people at the top of connected defense contractors in red states?

Also, define motivation … not everyone is motivated to kill themselves for 60-70 hours a week at the expense of family and social life. The US (and some Asian countries) has managed to turn this into a virtue.

Basically, I have no motivation beyond enough money to maintain a home, take my family on a trip a month a year, own a used car, eat, and buy health insurance. Any additional income gains will hopefully be realized in more free time. Time is the real currency.

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You have a biased sample — those that hate the Spanish social welfare system are more likely to come to the US vs working in Spain or elsewhere in Europe.

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Maybe that will be the nudge needed to get Americans to support a bigger safety net and throw out the bootstrap fairy tale.

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We’re not Israel. Israel is a borderline theocracy run by authoritarian xenophobes (not a comment on individual Israelis), not a model to emulate.

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EU declined to mandate this due to privacy concerns. They did set voluntary standards.

We and Europe are not China. Thank G-d.

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Might not be that easy — EMP or lasers could render the drones blind.

Also, that doesn’t have much to do with spyware requirements for personal cars.

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Just because China does it doesn’t mean that we always should. Do we really want a Great Firewall or a reputation-judgy system?

High speed rail: good.
Surveillance of everyone: not so good.

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