George Carlin ~ The American Dream

A 3rd Generation US born Citizen turns his back on the USA:living the American dream in Vienna, Austria: Lived in Silicon Valley for 20 years founding 4 companies in the process. I am an honest and decent person who was raped each and every time by my co-founders/investors. Only the soulless/ruthless succeed in Silicon Valley. SILICON VALLEY IS A TRAP! Everything is dried out and dead, including the people. Everything is about money, and everybody including your employer has their hands in your wallet. Child care is hideous. People are shallow and self centered. Homeless camps are everywhere, and there is no empathy/compassion for these older "former heroes of high tech" fucked over by the Vulture Crapitalists masters. Work weeks of 80 hours are the norm. Your company owns your soul. Schools are 3rd world. You have no life. Three hours sitting in traffic to get to the beach. No Culture. East Palo Alto is being bought up and the people tossed out on the street. Crime rate is now "off the scale" in both Menlo Park and Palo Alto (Facebook paid to construct and operate a Menlo Park Police Station just to protect its corporate HQ campus). Lived in Boulder Colorado for 3 years. Closest thing one can find to living in Europe in North America. Fell in love with mountain climbing. Primary reason I chose to move my wife and 3 young children to Vienna Austria 11 years ago (easy access to the Alps). I am giving up my US Citizenship this year to become an Austrian. I was back visiting my

> the entire system isn't geared towards that George Carlin said it best: this video "But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education SUCKS, and it’s the same reason it will never, ever, EVER be fixed . It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you’ve got. Because the owners, the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the BIG owners! The Wealthy… the REAL owners! The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critica

That's kind of the point George carlin said it best: this video The whole educational establishment is to create an ignorant slave class.

>Who exactly falls for this kind of scam? Uhh the same people who fall for the scam that was steam, uplay, mmo's, etc... aka it's irrational to buy software you don't own or control. If anything the modern software landscape is an idiocracy. Windows 10 "requires internet" (wtf?) I mean come on, anything that "requires interent" is a giant red flag. The steam stats prove we live in an idiocracy. Don't think so? Silicion valley tech companies are over the moon that the public bought into mmo's/drm/f2p mobile gambling games en mass. They finally are going to close the PC as an open platform, which started with merely renaming PC RPG's in the 90's and calling them "MMO's" then they started applying that fake moniker to every game they wanted to client server to steal them from the public to deny ownership. Whole industry is looking to setup the internte (aka the world comptuer) to trap software between the public pc's and their servers, so we get incomplete software in the future "requiring login" to remote servers (aka stolen software as a service). link Steam software survey - windows 10 at 85% link Windows 10 privacy invading, drm defective app model (uwp, encrypted vm's). Making preserving old software using UWP/encryption impossible (aka encrypted files). The average person in our society both working class and professional is dumb. I've talked to programmers who've bought overwatch or sent money to quake champions, not realizing that their mtx money told the industry to