If there was enough competition that experienced people were willing to work then at the same rate as college grads now, then college grads then would be even cheaper.
What seems objectionable to me, is that in order for Vlad to find people that are "cool" he's wasting everyone else's time.
This isn't exactly the same as if I give people a test on their ability. It's different. In here you pass if you did something that scores well in a metric that you're not told about. It's not very different than if I gave you a take home assignment which is just literally "code something - you have to be good at ambiguity!" Joking, you just have to guess the thing I had in mind. It's very inconsiderate to people, and doesn't tell me anything good about this Vlad person.
I think it's very reasonable to expect that there should be better communication here about this actually being a combination culture-fit-and-coding assessment. But I don't actually think it's fair to say that nobody is told about the metric. It's pretty clear to me. I think a lot of other people here also understood it (which makes sense, because they're all Hacker News brained). I agree that this sucks if you don't "get" it but I'm not entirely sure if there is a good way to convey this. Maybe they shouldn't be looking for this at all but that's a separate discussion.
> Neoliberalism is contemporarily used to refer to market-oriented reform policies such as "eliminating price controls, deregulating capital markets, lowering trade barriers" and reducing, especially through privatization and austerity, state influence in the economy.
Wanna share what the connection is between this article, and neoliberalism?
What are you saying, that the shithole countries which have the highest birth rates have the most optimistic people? Do you not understand the desperate circumstances under which a couple can have 10 kids?
Children are a sign of optimism in a poetic sense only. It doesn't affect how many children are actually born.
