> Like I said, America's a third world country as it is and... and we're just basically in a hopeless situation as it stands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP8XBJc2p_g
I keep GY!BE playing on repeat for the past several months.
Hunting people for commission is back in vogue. Now flag this article, it's about the intersection of society and technology.
The rates are per contractor.
The logistics are just impossible unless you build massive camps.
But will ICE be able to track immigrants using whatever Apps are created here?
Scary times we live in. Stay safe everyone.
But there are going to be software engineers working at these surveillance and tracking firms, probably some on this site.
Just like there are people here getting paid to work on Facebook or Instagram despite knowing deep down (even if they're in denial) that those products are profoundly harmful to society at large and young people in particular.
Technology is only becoming more intertwined with daily life, not less. When does the software industry develop scruples?
Demand scruples from the common man while the billionaire overlords who are actually the major beneficiaries are off the hook.
Oh how far we've wandered from that old promise of "small government".
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> a group of Dutch Nazi collaborators [...] in Amsterdam, during the Nazi Germany occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. [...] The bounty paid to Henneicke Column members for each captured Jew was 7.50 guilders (equivalent to about US $4.75).
For the curious, adjusting for inflation that's ~$91, insofar as they may have had a profit motive, I wonder if they supplemental that by looting.
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