Intriguing idea. The only problem I can see with such an idea is what will you do with configuration files in the home directories? I suppose you could recurse down the home tree and delete configuration directories as well, and thereby uninstall everything. Or would you just leave them alone?
An education, degree, etc, will never entitle anyone to a well-paying job. The problem with your logic is that you assume that by putting in time and effort for a degree that you must be worth more money. However, you fail to think about the potential that there are many more people, other than yourself, that have degrees and training in the same field.
We know that after the dot-com bust there was a smaller number of companies requiring your skills and training. The side effect is that there are more people with your skills and training out looking for jobs, and expecting their old salaries.
Now, if there are so many of these people, and very little demand, it is likely that the market-clearing price for labor will drop (ie, wages). If there are significant numbers of people willing to work, then this price will drop significantly.
Furthermore, because these companies can effectively ferret out workers from overseas, you have to take into account even more people helping to push the overall expected salary down. It may be a decent wage overseas, and seen as crappy here, but that is in general how the prices are going to work. Regardless of a degree, education, etc.
If you can find a way to make yourself desireable again, to the point that a lot of companies need people like you, but there are few to be had, you can expect the wage you get to be higher than someone who isn't in high demand.
Go re-invent yourself, and perhaps find a better paying job.
If what I hear regularly is true, AMD will have trouble in the future as well. My wife has repeatedly run into business professors who tell their students that there is only one processor manufactuer, Intel. These same professors cannot/will not take a clue. If AMD is brought up in class, it's existence is flat out denied. Of course if suits are in control and buy into marketing from Intel, what do you expect?
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Intriguing idea. The only problem I can see with such an idea is what will you do with configuration files in the home directories? I suppose you could recurse down the home tree and delete configuration directories as well, and thereby uninstall everything. Or would you just leave them alone?
An education, degree, etc, will never entitle anyone to a well-paying job. The problem with your logic is that you assume that by putting in time and effort for a degree that you must be worth more money. However, you fail to think about the potential that there are many more people, other than yourself, that have degrees and training in the same field.
We know that after the dot-com bust there was a smaller number of companies requiring your skills and training. The side effect is that there are more people with your skills and training out looking for jobs, and expecting their old salaries.
Now, if there are so many of these people, and very little demand, it is likely that the market-clearing price for labor will drop (ie, wages). If there are significant numbers of people willing to work, then this price will drop significantly.
Furthermore, because these companies can effectively ferret out workers from overseas, you have to take into account even more people helping to push the overall expected salary down. It may be a decent wage overseas, and seen as crappy here, but that is in general how the prices are going to work. Regardless of a degree, education, etc.
If you can find a way to make yourself desireable again, to the point that a lot of companies need people like you, but there are few to be had, you can expect the wage you get to be higher than someone who isn't in high demand.
Go re-invent yourself, and perhaps find a better paying job.
If what I hear regularly is true, AMD will have trouble in the future as well. My wife has repeatedly run into business professors who tell their students that there is only one processor manufactuer, Intel. These same professors cannot/will not take a clue. If AMD is brought up in class, it's existence is flat out denied. Of course if suits are in control and buy into marketing from Intel, what do you expect?
...unless you really believe 8,898,833 pages is "about 16."
Clearly, you seem to forget that 16 = 8,898,833 for Extremely Large Values of 16.