If you work in a high-paying profession, you'll probably be able to retire faster (off your savings) in US than in Poland. On the other hand, in the US you'll have to work harder and more hours.
That's what I was doing as well (only in Bytom lol, to have even lower life expenses), till I retired at 41 years old. But, software engineers are an exception. Everybody else is pretty much making local salaries, which are lower than american ones in terms of purchasing power.
Most US citizens are for socialized health care. However, t seems that both parties are bought by the health care industry and prevent the change the people want.
This doesn’t make sense to me though.
If the majority of the population is for something it __will__ be implemented.
If a party fucks over the peoples will repeatedly like this, why would they still be voted into power?
But the general population votes on who will be in congress right?
Edit: so if I vote for John Smith and then I find out he voted against this healthcare issue I care about; I will for sure not vote for him again, instead for a candidate that keeps their promises.
At least that’s how it works in my country, all the votes in congress are public, you can even listen in to most of their sittings.
If both of the major parties are against something, you can only vote for some independent third party, which in the foreseeable future will never even have a single seat in Congress (not to mention a ruling majority). In countries without winner-takes-all electoral system (everybody except UK and USA) it's much easier for smaller countries to gain ground and hence they have a wider selection of viable parties, but in the UK and USA people are pretty much screwed.
Working inside a government is your best bet for a chill work. They're sheltered from market forces, so don't have to maximize output from their employees.
In general, I find retired people are more intersting, because they have so much more free time and, in consequence, so much more going on in their lives (interests, relationships, going deep into things), compared to people who just have to work through most of their waking hours.
For many people, that's Apple. You pay a premium, but the product will not shitty in many ways that the competition can be. Sure, they drop the ball from time to time (see the MBP keyboard fiasco c.a. 7 years ago), but at least they try.
I don't know which wealthy, western country you live in, but to be clear in the US Acela trains get up to 150 mph (241 kmh) -- admittedly in a short section, but with other sections that have a top speed of 135 mph (217 kmh). The entire route from Washington to New York has an average speed (including stops) of 90mph (140 kmh).
Should Acela be faster? Probably! But people should be clear-eyed about what the reality of the situation is.
That might be the average scheduled speed, but it’s not my average experienced speed on Acela, with about half the trips seeing significant delays from schedule.
C++20 has modules, which replace header files completely (unless you use old libraries which aren't available as modules yet). Compiler support is there, but unfortunately IDEs are lagging. If you use modules with Visual Studio, say goodbye to IntelliSense. Maybe they'll iron out the bugs in a couple years...
They needed the most powerful, most flexible module system ever, so it might take decades to really become useable. Adoption has been painfully slow so far, it's insane complexity really doesn't help.
You can use modules to structure your own codebase. No more need to write headers and think about how to structure your code in terms of compilation units. But yeah, your link shows that practically none of the popular libraries (except STL) can be imported as modules today.
I wonder if we're entering an era of social stagnation, caused by screens. Before screen-based entertainment was so ubiquitous, young people (teens and young adults) experienced a lot of boredom, which pushed them to do new things. Many of those things were stupid and bad (drugs etc.), but some of those kids decided they were ambitious and wanted their life to be above ordinary in terms of achievement and impact on the world. Today, there's less room for such thoughts to even emerge - and if they do, they have to compete for mindshare with addictive entertainment on a daily basis.
