Sputtering Startups Weigh on U.S. Economic Growth
A coworker at one of my jobs (I work 4 menial job &#x2F; gigs, make 17k a year, live in parents basement, have no friends or lover, was top of my class in CS but left after a professor openly helped a student cheat to no consequences and another prof revealed CS grads from my school had less than a 50% postgraduation employment rate for ANY job, much less a CS one) had an idea she wanted to patent that would be helpful but would essentially be a metal pole in a specific shape. I had to be a downer and tell her of this story:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;qz.com&#x2F;771727&#x2F;chinas-factories-in-shenzhen-can-copy-products-at-breakneck-speed-and-its-time-for-the-rest-of-the-world-to-get-over-it&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;qz.com&#x2F;771727&#x2F;chinas-factories-in-shenzhen-can-copy-p...</a><p>You&#x27;re damned if you put your idea on the net and damned if you don&#x27;t and it&#x27;s all getting disheartening. I just want to find a career so I can go out and court someone but even the people with CS jobs that I know are constantly complaining of work &#x2F; life imbalance and not getting to see their loved ones in person enough. Everytime I try to start studying some topic in the hopes of pursuing a living the shellshock of robophobia and the likelihood I will be too late overwhelms me. I can only cry at that leaked Clinton speech where she says we know what to do with the 120 IQ kids, but not the 100 or 80 kids. Well here I am at 145 mopping floors and literally shoveling shit despite only ever being excellent in school I guess it&#x27;s just bad genes because my uncle could solve a Rubik&#x27;s cube blind and built all sorts of electrical contraptions and has been a homeless drunk for decades. Here I am, another sandwich eater in front of thw trash pile as in Godard&#x27;s weekend.