This is just a time of reckoning for the YouTube generation as it has Ben for every generation of entertainers when they realize they are just a cog that can be disposed of when they become a liability. YouTube will make money saving this guy and will lose no money because there are a thousand like him willing to take his place in hopes of the easy money. Why he believes he is special and deserves tens of thousands of dollars of YouTube attention is beyond understanding,
Yes there is right and wrong and he is likely in the right, but there is also business, and if you cost more than you make for corporate, they will just spit you out.
I think the issue is going to be that Android is going to have a harder time protecting its user. Apple has a walled garden and I commend them for boldly protecting users and enforcing the wall. It could mean that companies that are primarily interested in abusing users may use this as an excuse to promote Android. And this at a time when Apple is very venerable and is losing market share, for example in China.
That Facebook was willing to face the wrath of Apple and lose all functionality on corporate devices just shows how desperate they are. we will see how this plays out.
No one is going to take thier phones away in college. In college all they will do is take their tuition and fees then kick them out when they fail the year the kids will still have to pay student loans until they die.
At thier first real job they will not have thier phones taken away. They will be fired and escorted out. When they get another job they will have a bad reference.
At school, especially high school, kids have to be taught to use thier devices to succeed. They have to run searches, calculators, simulations to learn thier devices are not just toys. This was the problem with 1990 kids. Computer were video games and they never learned to leverage for profit.
In lower grades, take away phones like you take away all toys, but in later grades there is no good done if you don’t let student fall, learn why they fall, and get up. If they are failing because they cannot get off their phone, they have to deal with this organically. Schools hav3 to teach, not live in fear
It is parents who need to manage time. Kids need sleep, so they maybe need thier phones taken away at night. Kids need more time to process than adults, so having kids fighting with thier freinds all night or being bullied or never having any alone time is likely going to lead to depression and maybe even thoughts of suicide. But school cannot do this. It is the parents who bought them the phone and pay the bills.
IN fact the vinyl format gave a very specific reproduction quality that, if you are listening to music form the era is integral to the experience. Modern LPs are going to be of superior quality because they are not pressing a million of them to sell to kids with no discerning musical judgement.
That said the mistake here is that there encoding quality in only one of the many factors in reproduction, although it is obviously a limiting factor. When I was a kid we had a high fi amplifier that used vacuum tubes, a dedicated very very heavy turn table with very expensive gearing, and s speaker system that essentially used the entire room . On the other hand, most people had a boom, boxer an integrated stereo, with laughable frequency response.
It makes little sense to take about the media when for most people the hardware, or the listening conditions, is the limiting factor.
It is silly because there is no real statement of correlation.
Music released on early LPs, for example, could be no more than 5 minutes long because a 78 was five minute
When the LP came out, the album was 15-20 minutes or so per side. Multiple tracks were recorded per album, and it became customary for people to expect around 10 tracks per album. Radio was a force, and they also wanted tracks around 3 minutes so they would not lose the kids attention. As must as old people want to blame TV and computer for attention span, the Happy Days generation had the same 3 minute attention span that we do, The Theme song, as released is 2:40.
The LP did allow some recording artists to release longer form tracks, and some people did. This was not done often due to radio play. Disco, which is club music, had much more common long tracks, such as Rapper Delight and King Tim. Hybrid tracks, such as Conga, which were promoted as club music, but meant for radio, were around 4 minutes.
Of course the CD removed practical time limits for recorded music, and then digital formats made then meaningless.
The time for songs then have fluctuated greatly over the 60 years or so that kids have been spending their pocket money on songs. It most often has to do with practical limitations. What I do believe is that an artist who wants to get more hits is going to make shorter songs. But this is not an artifact of streaming. The royalties on the radio are the same for Scenes from an italian restaurant or Happy Days. It has always been the artists choice to maximize cash or artistic expression.
Not everyone gets to eat kale and rib eye steak. Some of us just have to live cabbage and beans.
this was exactly my point. Certain groups believe that living in Seattle and eating artisanal farm to table porchetta benedict with sous vide ovos is a birth right. They can’t understand that eating a mug of oatmeal with raisins is not starving. They think if they have to have 7-11 coffee instead of Starbucks it is a police situation.
MS and very rich people do not do charity. They do philanthropy. They invest thier money to create the world they want, or to promote their right to extreme wealth.
Charity is when you give someone some money on the street or the Red Cross some money to deal with future disasters. Philanthropy is when you demand the guy on the street goes to homeless shelter or complain because the Red Cross does not spend money on the disaster you want
The reason home prices are so high is that certain groups of people like to live together and they like to have high home values so undesirables don’t go there. To see these groups of people just check the demographics of Seattle, San Francisco, and houston, each with very high densities of very well paid engineers.
Affordable housing can temper the tragedy of gentrification by providing resources to displaced people who can no longer afford to inhabit the area. More than likely it will just excaberate the problem by causing more to want to live there, encourage even higher prices to keep the undesirables out, and promote the myth that certain groups of people have the right to live wherever they wish, even if they. cannot afford it,
Certainly the US president believes this, and his experience with so many women, three wives, countless mistress, infinite one night stands, is a example for all the American boys to get a tan and have as much casual sex as they can. Hopefully this will break the evangelical lies that celibacy until marriage and monogamy are good things.
That said this is cultural, as not everyone can or wants to be be orange. In many parts of the world being orange is not a sign of prestige. In fact, a tan for white western people is more a cultural sign of wealth. There idea is that a wealthy person can travel, can play golf, and is not stuck in the office or factory all day. It is like when being very white was a sign of wealth. It meant that you were not in the field all day, but under cover with servants.
Even how we interact with the sun is cultural. At one point there was an issue in England with the new immigrant children getting sick. The cause was mother covering ups the babies when they went outside, which was absolutely appropriate for their native land of india, but England just did not have that much sun.
In any case, for those who of us who have not dedicated out lives to constant casual sex, and have seen too many people die of skin cancer, the lesson is real, and supported by great evidence. Be aware of how much sun you are getting, and don't get a tan.
Climate change can be solved in many ways. One would be a radical move to nuclear power.
But s Heinlein so famously said, there is nothing that is a free lunch, and as we software people know, there is no silver bullet.
So there are aways political and practical considerations that limit what we can actually do Otherwise Texas and West Virginia and most of the midwest would be 100% wind, and we would not have petrol cars.
Given that we are in arguable dire circumstanced, the increased risk of nuclear over wind and solar is probably justified. But the issue is, has been, and always will be selling those risks to the public who tend to not think of things in terms of relative risk and inconvenience, but as an isolated risk.
Take wind turbines for example. They are unsightly, but so is smog. They make a lot of noise, but so does the shale pipelines. They kill birds but so does bad air quality. They can destroy mountains, but so does coal mining.
Nuclear power has 70 years of background to prove it's worth. The political reality is that places where it has proven valuable use the technology. Places that haven't, don't, and it is still going to be a hard sell.
And when looking at what the experts say, think of it this way. No one is going to want to live in a house that an architect built because it will fall down, no one want to live a house that an engineer build because it will be ugly, and no one wants to live in anything a physicist built because we all start from basic concepts, so something as simple as flushing a toilet will require a masters degree.
I did without cable for a very long time, and only have it now because, inflation adjusted, ti is much cheaper then when I was young and at this point it is the only way to get internet.
When there is another option for internet, i will be cutting cable. I am paying for Fox News and ESPN and i don't watch either, but the form the largest percentage of the carriage fees. That said I know that a ls carte is not going to a sustainable model for cable companies, so I suspect they will just go away at some point.
What these new streaming services do not remember is why they created Hulu and Netflix. It was because getting some money was better than getting no money, which is what they were getting when all of us were just downloading videos without paying Disney, et al, anything.
If they go back to the bad old days when content was expensive and hard to get, then they are going to lose a generation to unlicensed viewing. Netflix and Hulu was a brilliant move as it trained a generation to pay for things they never paid for before. It is a revenue stream, and while maybe it is not the revenue stream it was before, at least it is cash. Which is better than the nothing they were getting, and the negative nothing due to the cost of litigation.
Here is what I discovered. I can live without the new Star Trek very easily. I can live without many of the movies. If netflix can no longer get content, i can live without paying them. I am unlikely gong to pay the same amount to five different services. I think the same holds true for the college kids now, who will just stream illegally like we did.
It was time five years ago. Godaddy has value if you need free and your time it worth nothing. I move to namecheap a long time ago, when I forgot to renew my domain name and godaddy held it hostage.
I pay these people to register my domain names, and I pay s fair amount. I know it is hard to make a profit, but really what do they actually do that costs so much? I don't need someone trying to monetize me when I am already paying them.
If Toy Park ir in a space that at a certain time becomes a Two away zona, or you Park it in a median or you Park it in onna public play ground Teen it William be Tower and you can hace a choice of paying the fees or abondoning the car. I think that anyone who owns a car know this.
Also most cities have laws that after a certain amount of time the vehicle is legally abondoned. So yes
If the scooters violated some city law and were legally impounded. The Bird has to fight to have law removed or adjusted.
Bird has the right to pay the impound fee, as many of us have done, or have the vehicle seized, which has happened to some of us.
At that it becomes government property and they have the right to do what they can to reclaim their costs. It is unfair for bird to expect the local taxpayer to secretly subsidize their business model.
Now the tricky thing here, to me, is that company have successfully argued that even if someone buys stuff, that certain parts of the machine is not under the control of the person who purchased the thing. For instance, john deere just won the right to keep their customers from repairing the tractors. If this were transferable to the scooters, then bird has a case.
And if this were the case, then the city has a case to sue Bird directly for damages it cannot recover from resale.
Canada builds pipelines across the US, all the way to Gulf of Mexico, because it does not want the problems of refining oil.
Canada has not begun new reactors since around 1980 though many have been approved. As shown worldwide, the economics make little sense so there is no private funding interest. Only country with very limited energy resources, like France Belgium and Sweden have much of their supply by nuclear energy.
Trump is the head of a shithole party, but sometimes it seems like people just use him as an excuse.
Many large organizations and building have on site food service. Logistically getting people in and out for food is inefficient. This is why some firms actually give away food and snacks.
This is not function of fairness, however. It is simply a function of how people get around. If everyone has a car, then they will more than likely drive to work, eat at work, and drive home, especially in a speed out place like Apple.
Street food is an artifact of walking culture, and people who need affordable quick food. Who you see street food go away it is more than likely a result of the loss of foot traffic and people having more time to eat.
I have seen this.. As a small town becomes more affluent and more people drive, more of the food moves inside. In nearby big cities, where they is still a lot of foot traffic and people work far from home, there is still a lot of street food. This is especially true around busy bus stops
Design requires intent, but creativity often takes a life of its own. For instance, It's a wonderful life is a Christmas movie because it fill the network television time royalty free. There may be no intent, but most people see this movie as the definition of christmas.
That said, there may be design in this creative effort. Like the child born on this day, McClane sacrificed himself to save the people. He went though a series of trials, just like the child when he was an adult, and never flinched or took the easy way out.
Gruber, like the prosperity gospel pharisees that occupy the christian landscape, use misdirection to trick the masses into thinking he was a terrorist. In fact, like the hypocrites that fill our mega churches, all they wanted was money and they do not care about the sanctity of life or the immortal soul. But McClane smites the judas.
How could this be more Christmas. One can see the great teacher telling this parable as a way to demonstrate the ill will of the false prophets, as he did so so many centuries ago.
I mean, the question still stands,. Would he wear a rolex on his television show.
I wonder if these people read history or are just pissed that they have to shop with the peasents.
THis is just the 5 and dime thing all over again, and the great stores, TG&Y, Woolworths, are all gone. Only Walmart and Kmart remain fro that time. Stores that adapt and work to serve customers will survive and prosper. Those that don't meet customers needs will fail.
In fact collar stores aren't cheap, but neither is krogers. My krogers is a piece of shit, and I know why people in the area go to the dollar stores. I can imagine that the only grocery stores in my city are huge big box things that assume you have a car, for those with limited transportation the dollar store is more convenient.
The 'traditional grocery stores' are failing because their model is a failure. Just like Walmart had to change from a dollar store, to a suburban eyesore, to an urban destination, to survive. Entitled people like to blame other for their problems, but, you know, maybe you are going to jail not because everyone hates you, but because you ran a criminal business and fraudulent charity for most of your life.,
It is scary how many people are still stuck in a 1950s mentality of training schools. They think that kids should be aught to fix cars, and colleges should train for jobs that now exists. Universities exist train students for their last job, which by definition is one that does not currently exits
I was lucky in school. I was trained on a five year old obsolete mainframe and microcomputers. This mean that I had the basics so when MS Excel was released I was able to learn it quickly and get paid lots of money to use it.
In college my education was equally diverse. No one trained me for a jobs. Rather I was trained to problem solve and think. Therefore when people were needed to build a new fangled thing called a web server, I was able to do it. hen a thirty year old technology was revived as the major method to allow rapid communication of the context of content, I was able to assimiliate and use it in my job, even though no would have thought that would be a skill needed for the 21st century worker. Of course those of us who worked with early text editors were very familiar with mark up languages.
The reality here is that as more people believe they need a college degree to succeed, they are going to want more accessible degrees. To dome extent that has ben happening, with the rest of technology degrees, but more people are realizing these are fake so they want traditional degrees without the traditional learning. Of course without the traditional leaning, the problem solving, the analysis, all you are getting is job training, and that does not prepare you for jobs that don't yet exits.
Whole food caters to a certain demographic; There issues with Whole foods were not the products it sells, or the price, but that it got too big and no longer had quality control.
A secondary problem is that it no longer was the exclusive retailer of whole foods, but now has competition. You can buy real foods at all outlets, even Walmart, even your locally owned grocery store. I don't because for a lot of the items it actually costs less at Whole Foods.
But ever since Amazon has bought the stores it has accelerated a decline that begin in that began in the 1990's. At that time they began to replace some of the lesser selling staples with candy. They began to hire workers not based on competency, but on an appearance that would be more suitable to snowflake suburban customers.
Amazon has continued to remove products to the point where there is no predictability, so I jut order direct from the manufaturer. They have no inventory control, so ordering Prime Now is a gamble. Honestly, even if one is in the Whole Foods demographic, there is really no reason to buy from them. Any competitive advantage they may have had is all but gone.
Amazon is going to have to invest some serious cash to bring back the real Whole Foods brand if they want the stores to remain. However, I really believe that they were just looking for centrally located warehouse locations, so it may be that the retail spae iteself it secondary
Established businesses get desperate to retain customers. Remember when the mainframe companies said there were a market for a dozen microcomputers. Remember when IBM ran ads trying paint people who bought elsewhere as crazy kids.
Or even when old people try to make us feel guilty or nostalgic for the bankruptcy or such loser retail firms such as Sears or ToysRus.. They just want everything to stay the same, for us to keep buying the same junk so they can make a profit without ever doing anything new.
Mainframes have a place when you need 7 nines uptime and absolute data validity. But banks of cheap computers are sometimes good enough, such as google has shown.
There are places where Oracle is going to the only solution, but for many applications Amazon is good enough. As Amazon has shown. Honestly many of us run production websites on SQL and even AWS is overkill.
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Yes there is right and wrong and he is likely in the right, but there is also business, and if you cost more than you make for corporate, they will just spit you out.
That Facebook was willing to face the wrath of Apple and lose all functionality on corporate devices just shows how desperate they are. we will see how this plays out.
I don’t miss mine. Wanting a headphone jack is like wanting to be 1970 sheik with a boom bar bigger than you are.
At thier first real job they will not have thier phones taken away. They will be fired and escorted out. When they get another job they will have a bad reference.
At school, especially high school, kids have to be taught to use thier devices to succeed. They have to run searches, calculators, simulations to learn thier devices are not just toys. This was the problem with 1990 kids. Computer were video games and they never learned to leverage for profit.
In lower grades, take away phones like you take away all toys, but in later grades there is no good done if you don’t let student fall, learn why they fall, and get up. If they are failing because they cannot get off their phone, they have to deal with this organically. Schools hav3 to teach, not live in fear
It is parents who need to manage time. Kids need sleep, so they maybe need thier phones taken away at night. Kids need more time to process than adults, so having kids fighting with thier freinds all night or being bullied or never having any alone time is likely going to lead to depression and maybe even thoughts of suicide. But school cannot do this. It is the parents who bought them the phone and pay the bills.
That said the mistake here is that there encoding quality in only one of the many factors in reproduction, although it is obviously a limiting factor. When I was a kid we had a high fi amplifier that used vacuum tubes, a dedicated very very heavy turn table with very expensive gearing, and s speaker system that essentially used the entire room . On the other hand, most people had a boom, boxer an integrated stereo, with laughable frequency response.
It makes little sense to take about the media when for most people the hardware, or the listening conditions, is the limiting factor.
I reiterate music profit is mostly made of kids with short attention spans buying what their friends buy so they can fit in and be popular.
Music released on early LPs, for example, could be no more than 5 minutes long because a 78 was five minute
When the LP came out, the album was 15-20 minutes or so per side. Multiple tracks were recorded per album, and it became customary for people to expect around 10 tracks per album. Radio was a force, and they also wanted tracks around 3 minutes so they would not lose the kids attention. As must as old people want to blame TV and computer for attention span, the Happy Days generation had the same 3 minute attention span that we do, The Theme song, as released is 2:40.
The LP did allow some recording artists to release longer form tracks, and some people did. This was not done often due to radio play. Disco, which is club music, had much more common long tracks, such as Rapper Delight and King Tim. Hybrid tracks, such as Conga, which were promoted as club music, but meant for radio, were around 4 minutes.
Of course the CD removed practical time limits for recorded music, and then digital formats made then meaningless.
The time for songs then have fluctuated greatly over the 60 years or so that kids have been spending their pocket money on songs. It most often has to do with practical limitations. What I do believe is that an artist who wants to get more hits is going to make shorter songs. But this is not an artifact of streaming. The royalties on the radio are the same for Scenes from an italian restaurant or Happy Days. It has always been the artists choice to maximize cash or artistic expression.
this was exactly my point. Certain groups believe that living in Seattle and eating artisanal farm to table porchetta benedict with sous vide ovos is a birth right. They can’t understand that eating a mug of oatmeal with raisins is not starving. They think if they have to have 7-11 coffee instead of Starbucks it is a police situation.
Charity is when you give someone some money on the street or the Red Cross some money to deal with future disasters. Philanthropy is when you demand the guy on the street goes to homeless shelter or complain because the Red Cross does not spend money on the disaster you want
The reason home prices are so high is that certain groups of people like to live together and they like to have high home values so undesirables don’t go there. To see these groups of people just check the demographics of Seattle, San Francisco, and houston, each with very high densities of very well paid engineers.
Affordable housing can temper the tragedy of gentrification by providing resources to displaced people who can no longer afford to inhabit the area. More than likely it will just excaberate the problem by causing more to want to live there, encourage even higher prices to keep the undesirables out, and promote the myth that certain groups of people have the right to live wherever they wish, even if they. cannot afford it,
it is like socialism for the entitled.
That said this is cultural, as not everyone can or wants to be be orange. In many parts of the world being orange is not a sign of prestige. In fact, a tan for white western people is more a cultural sign of wealth. There idea is that a wealthy person can travel, can play golf, and is not stuck in the office or factory all day. It is like when being very white was a sign of wealth. It meant that you were not in the field all day, but under cover with servants.
Even how we interact with the sun is cultural. At one point there was an issue in England with the new immigrant children getting sick. The cause was mother covering ups the babies when they went outside, which was absolutely appropriate for their native land of india, but England just did not have that much sun.
In any case, for those who of us who have not dedicated out lives to constant casual sex, and have seen too many people die of skin cancer, the lesson is real, and supported by great evidence. Be aware of how much sun you are getting, and don't get a tan.
But s Heinlein so famously said, there is nothing that is a free lunch, and as we software people know, there is no silver bullet.
So there are aways political and practical considerations that limit what we can actually do Otherwise Texas and West Virginia and most of the midwest would be 100% wind, and we would not have petrol cars.
Given that we are in arguable dire circumstanced, the increased risk of nuclear over wind and solar is probably justified. But the issue is, has been, and always will be selling those risks to the public who tend to not think of things in terms of relative risk and inconvenience, but as an isolated risk.
Take wind turbines for example. They are unsightly, but so is smog. They make a lot of noise, but so does the shale pipelines. They kill birds but so does bad air quality. They can destroy mountains, but so does coal mining.
Nuclear power has 70 years of background to prove it's worth. The political reality is that places where it has proven valuable use the technology. Places that haven't, don't, and it is still going to be a hard sell.
And when looking at what the experts say, think of it this way. No one is going to want to live in a house that an architect built because it will fall down, no one want to live a house that an engineer build because it will be ugly, and no one wants to live in anything a physicist built because we all start from basic concepts, so something as simple as flushing a toilet will require a masters degree.
I did without cable for a very long time, and only have it now because, inflation adjusted, ti is much cheaper then when I was young and at this point it is the only way to get internet.
When there is another option for internet, i will be cutting cable. I am paying for Fox News and ESPN and i don't watch either, but the form the largest percentage of the carriage fees. That said I know that a ls carte is not going to a sustainable model for cable companies, so I suspect they will just go away at some point.
What these new streaming services do not remember is why they created Hulu and Netflix. It was because getting some money was better than getting no money, which is what they were getting when all of us were just downloading videos without paying Disney, et al, anything.
If they go back to the bad old days when content was expensive and hard to get, then they are going to lose a generation to unlicensed viewing. Netflix and Hulu was a brilliant move as it trained a generation to pay for things they never paid for before. It is a revenue stream, and while maybe it is not the revenue stream it was before, at least it is cash. Which is better than the nothing they were getting, and the negative nothing due to the cost of litigation.
Here is what I discovered. I can live without the new Star Trek very easily. I can live without many of the movies. If netflix can no longer get content, i can live without paying them. I am unlikely gong to pay the same amount to five different services. I think the same holds true for the college kids now, who will just stream illegally like we did.
I pay these people to register my domain names, and I pay s fair amount. I know it is hard to make a profit, but really what do they actually do that costs so much? I don't need someone trying to monetize me when I am already paying them.
Also most cities have laws that after a certain amount of time the vehicle is legally abondoned. So yes
Bird has the right to pay the impound fee, as many of us have done, or have the vehicle seized, which has happened to some of us.
At that it becomes government property and they have the right to do what they can to reclaim their costs. It is unfair for bird to expect the local taxpayer to secretly subsidize their business model.
Now the tricky thing here, to me, is that company have successfully argued that even if someone buys stuff, that certain parts of the machine is not under the control of the person who purchased the thing. For instance, john deere just won the right to keep their customers from repairing the tractors. If this were transferable to the scooters, then bird has a case.
And if this were the case, then the city has a case to sue Bird directly for damages it cannot recover from resale.
Canada has not begun new reactors since around 1980 though many have been approved. As shown worldwide, the economics make little sense so there is no private funding interest. Only country with very limited energy resources, like France Belgium and Sweden have much of their supply by nuclear energy.
Trump is the head of a shithole party, but sometimes it seems like people just use him as an excuse.
There are pictures. We will see if the rumor is true that it would not even make it past the teeth
And Rush Limbaugh can now say Fuck that Bitch as much as he wants
This is not function of fairness, however. It is simply a function of how people get around. If everyone has a car, then they will more than likely drive to work, eat at work, and drive home, especially in a speed out place like Apple.
Street food is an artifact of walking culture, and people who need affordable quick food. Who you see street food go away it is more than likely a result of the loss of foot traffic and people having more time to eat.
I have seen this.. As a small town becomes more affluent and more people drive, more of the food moves inside. In nearby big cities, where they is still a lot of foot traffic and people work far from home, there is still a lot of street food. This is especially true around busy bus stops
The thing with you grinches is you want to limit Christmas to one day, instead of spreading the joy all year
That said, there may be design in this creative effort. Like the child born on this day, McClane sacrificed himself to save the people. He went though a series of trials, just like the child when he was an adult, and never flinched or took the easy way out.
Gruber, like the prosperity gospel pharisees that occupy the christian landscape, use misdirection to trick the masses into thinking he was a terrorist. In fact, like the hypocrites that fill our mega churches, all they wanted was money and they do not care about the sanctity of life or the immortal soul. But McClane smites the judas.
How could this be more Christmas. One can see the great teacher telling this parable as a way to demonstrate the ill will of the false prophets, as he did so so many centuries ago.
I mean, the question still stands,. Would he wear a rolex on his television show.
THis is just the 5 and dime thing all over again, and the great stores, TG&Y, Woolworths, are all gone. Only Walmart and Kmart remain fro that time. Stores that adapt and work to serve customers will survive and prosper. Those that don't meet customers needs will fail.
In fact collar stores aren't cheap, but neither is krogers. My krogers is a piece of shit, and I know why people in the area go to the dollar stores. I can imagine that the only grocery stores in my city are huge big box things that assume you have a car, for those with limited transportation the dollar store is more convenient.
The 'traditional grocery stores' are failing because their model is a failure. Just like Walmart had to change from a dollar store, to a suburban eyesore, to an urban destination, to survive. Entitled people like to blame other for their problems, but, you know, maybe you are going to jail not because everyone hates you, but because you ran a criminal business and fraudulent charity for most of your life.,
I was lucky in school. I was trained on a five year old obsolete mainframe and microcomputers. This mean that I had the basics so when MS Excel was released I was able to learn it quickly and get paid lots of money to use it.
In college my education was equally diverse. No one trained me for a jobs. Rather I was trained to problem solve and think. Therefore when people were needed to build a new fangled thing called a web server, I was able to do it. hen a thirty year old technology was revived as the major method to allow rapid communication of the context of content, I was able to assimiliate and use it in my job, even though no would have thought that would be a skill needed for the 21st century worker. Of course those of us who worked with early text editors were very familiar with mark up languages.
The reality here is that as more people believe they need a college degree to succeed, they are going to want more accessible degrees. To dome extent that has ben happening, with the rest of technology degrees, but more people are realizing these are fake so they want traditional degrees without the traditional learning. Of course without the traditional leaning, the problem solving, the analysis, all you are getting is job training, and that does not prepare you for jobs that don't yet exits.
A secondary problem is that it no longer was the exclusive retailer of whole foods, but now has competition. You can buy real foods at all outlets, even Walmart, even your locally owned grocery store. I don't because for a lot of the items it actually costs less at Whole Foods.
But ever since Amazon has bought the stores it has accelerated a decline that begin in that began in the 1990's. At that time they began to replace some of the lesser selling staples with candy. They began to hire workers not based on competency, but on an appearance that would be more suitable to snowflake suburban customers.
Amazon has continued to remove products to the point where there is no predictability, so I jut order direct from the manufaturer. They have no inventory control, so ordering Prime Now is a gamble. Honestly, even if one is in the Whole Foods demographic, there is really no reason to buy from them. Any competitive advantage they may have had is all but gone.
Amazon is going to have to invest some serious cash to bring back the real Whole Foods brand if they want the stores to remain. However, I really believe that they were just looking for centrally located warehouse locations, so it may be that the retail spae iteself it secondary
Or even when old people try to make us feel guilty or nostalgic for the bankruptcy or such loser retail firms such as Sears or ToysRus.. They just want everything to stay the same, for us to keep buying the same junk so they can make a profit without ever doing anything new.
Mainframes have a place when you need 7 nines uptime and absolute data validity. But banks of cheap computers are sometimes good enough, such as google has shown.
There are places where Oracle is going to the only solution, but for many applications Amazon is good enough. As Amazon has shown. Honestly many of us run production websites on SQL and even AWS is overkill.