My guess is they're involved in this kind of criminal behavior because of the same personality characteristics that would make it impossible to: 1) provide any kind of "customer support" in a self-employment situation, or 2) get a degree and/or be part of a typical workplace
It appears to me that an existing pool of talent to pull from was one of their criteria (for at least a portion of the jobs...). I don't know that they would be willing to gamble on a "build it and they will come" approach, but.... Perhaps a compromise would be to find a large city of a certain size and/or infrastructure that has lost some luster and is still cheap, but that is on the upswing (both economic and socially/culturally). I've been hearing that Detroit might meet that description? As pointed out elsewhere, a big part of this is also the corporate welfare available, but perhaps a city on the upswing would be able to scrape something together?
As indicated in the previous replies, it is a highly variable situation. Personally I've not heard of any of our neighbors complaining about theft, and I think over 15 years of one/week porch deliveries, we've experience one missing package.
As a Vendor I would start implementing a signature requirement if the systems picked up a level of, or an increase in, reported theft in a given area (certainly to the zip code-level, but I assume there is a way to slice that up as well...) I wonder if the larger vendors feed this type of information back to the carriers? So carriers could provide recommendations to their entire customer base...
This finding wouldn't seem to be Common Sense for a manager (loosely defined...), whose major "tool" is communication, and to whom collaboration is seen as a way to get things done efficiently...
Common sense is continually conflated with "absolute and obvious truth", when in fact a given subject often has multiple facets, each with its own "common sense" perspective.
I was thinking the same thing as parent re: "would increase consumption and place an additional burden on the supply chain and the natural resources of the planet overall."
That would apply to the shorter term. Now look longer, when civilization falls, and we need conserve calories again and can't (we'd gamble on some natural selection recreating that gene effect in order to come out the other side still a species...)
The other thought I had was regarding a big root cause - habitual overeating for comfort. I wonder if knocking out this gene would have any effect on that mechanism? or if lack of calorie storage would be noticed by internal systems and trigger some other unpredictable behavior influence?
Recently started getting same type of thing from Instagram: "It seems like you're having trouble logging into Instagram. We can help you get back into your account."
What is weird is I signed up a year ago, hadn't really accessed it since signup, recently logged and only then started getting the emails...
I was on a flight through detroit a couple months ago and had need to reprint boarding pass while inside the terminal (inside security).
Delta kiosk just required last name and flight number - no confirmation number, or FF#, or CC#, etc., as is typically the case outside of security.
I've spoken with plenty of rural Kentucky natives who explained that they had mixed feelings about going back home during breaks in the University of Kentucky school year due to the attitude they get back home. Attitudes like - "You think you are so much better than us" and "if our town isn't good enough for you, you can just stay away, traitor".
There are HUGE psychological barriers to overcome to the extent that only the strongest-willed can work their way out of the poverty cycle.
I can understand the perspective that a foreign language requirement just adds to the challenges. Realistically, it would be rare to find a capable teacher for any foreign language in these communities.
The "flexibility" that is mentioned in TFA is to allow these communities to use limited resources to get some of these kids to college. In certain communities the default expectation is education post high school, but in others the expectation is the disability/welfare dole.
This expectation is found in both rural and urban communities with limited resources and limited local opportunity.
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My guess is they're involved in this kind of criminal behavior because of the same personality characteristics that would make it impossible to:
1) provide any kind of "customer support" in a self-employment situation, or
2) get a degree and/or be part of a typical workplace
It appears to me that an existing pool of talent to pull from was one of their criteria (for at least a portion of the jobs...).
I don't know that they would be willing to gamble on a "build it and they will come" approach, but....
Perhaps a compromise would be to find a large city of a certain size and/or infrastructure that has lost some luster and is still cheap, but that is on the upswing (both economic and socially/culturally). I've been hearing that Detroit might meet that description?
As pointed out elsewhere, a big part of this is also the corporate welfare available, but perhaps a city on the upswing would be able to scrape something together?
As indicated in the previous replies, it is a highly variable situation. Personally I've not heard of any of our neighbors complaining about theft, and I think over 15 years of one/week porch deliveries, we've experience one missing package.
As a Vendor I would start implementing a signature requirement if the systems picked up a level of, or an increase in, reported theft in a given area (certainly to the zip code-level, but I assume there is a way to slice that up as well...)
I wonder if the larger vendors feed this type of information back to the carriers? So carriers could provide recommendations to their entire customer base...
This finding wouldn't seem to be Common Sense for a manager (loosely defined...), whose major "tool" is communication, and to whom collaboration is seen as a way to get things done efficiently...
Common sense is continually conflated with "absolute and obvious truth", when in fact a given subject often has multiple facets, each with its own "common sense" perspective.
I was thinking the same thing as parent re: "would increase consumption and place an additional burden on the supply chain and the natural resources of the planet overall."
That would apply to the shorter term. Now look longer, when civilization falls, and we need conserve calories again and can't (we'd gamble on some natural selection recreating that gene effect in order to come out the other side still a species...)
The other thought I had was regarding a big root cause - habitual overeating for comfort. I wonder if knocking out this gene would have any effect on that mechanism? or if lack of calorie storage would be noticed by internal systems and trigger some other unpredictable behavior influence?
Recently started getting same type of thing from Instagram: "It seems like you're having trouble logging into Instagram. We can help you get back into your account." What is weird is I signed up a year ago, hadn't really accessed it since signup, recently logged and only then started getting the emails...
Given the mechanism targets a core property, this applies to both "good" and "bad" bacteria. The thing to fill the niche may not be bacteria at all...
I was on a flight through detroit a couple months ago and had need to reprint boarding pass while inside the terminal (inside security). Delta kiosk just required last name and flight number - no confirmation number, or FF#, or CC#, etc., as is typically the case outside of security.
I've spoken with plenty of rural Kentucky natives who explained that they had mixed feelings about going back home during breaks in the University of Kentucky school year due to the attitude they get back home. Attitudes like - "You think you are so much better than us" and "if our town isn't good enough for you, you can just stay away, traitor".
There are HUGE psychological barriers to overcome to the extent that only the strongest-willed can work their way out of the poverty cycle. I can understand the perspective that a foreign language requirement just adds to the challenges. Realistically, it would be rare to find a capable teacher for any foreign language in these communities.
The "flexibility" that is mentioned in TFA is to allow these communities to use limited resources to get some of these kids to college. In certain communities the default expectation is education post high school, but in others the expectation is the disability/welfare dole. This expectation is found in both rural and urban communities with limited resources and limited local opportunity.