The Cayenne has no right to be as fast as it is. The stupid thing will powerslide out of corners at 120 kmh and fly at hot hatch speeds through twisty cobblestone roads. The brakes were also wonderful and surprisingly cheap for the size. Didn't have air suspension so it rode like a fast car though.

It became more of a selling point as regulation came for it. OPF, stricter modification control, etc. Prior it didn't matter as much since it was always decent and you could do whatever you want to it. Now, a pops and bangs tune with a straight pipe will get your car impounded in most countries the first time a cop sees/hears you.

It's a balance. If a country is investing severely in a specific industry you can either tax them out of your swamp, counter invest in your industry or, realistically, do a mix.

It'd be difficult to compete with companies receiving large gov assistance without gov assistance and I find taxing them slightly safer than making it rain on specific people/companies.

The best one I had in that regard was just a nice dude who I wanted to help as much as I could since he'd help me when needed. I don't think any other way would really work in the current landscape. Whenever a manager talks about our grand product and the clients dying to get a taste of our artisinal code stew, even they can't take themselves entirely seriously. The only thing that seems to help is just being liked so your team wants to make your life easier. (outside of money/benefits/promotions and maybe short term gaslighting)

I've found the best managers are very aware of the "clueless manager" trope and suffer from imposter's syndrome more than most, but use that to make them good managers doing what you said: recognizing & owning where they are blind or lack skill (working on it, asking for help), helping where they can (doing a share of the shit work, or backfilling holes), and trying to be a nice person (building a relationship beyond the manager-employee dynamic). This doesn't mean they are your friend, but most people want to work (and win!) with people they like.

but we are a family /s

Grandparent:

> Processed foods are much cheaper per calorie than "healthy" options.

Attractive is a separate topic. Regardless of budget, for many people a chocolate cake will always be the most attractive food, regardless of cost. Doesn't mean we should have people living on chocolate cake diets.

I usually prefer

    List<Foo> x = new();

since it gives me better alignment and since it's not confused with dynamic.

Nowadays I only use

    var x = new List<Foo>();

in non-merged code as a ghetto TODO if I'm considering base types/interface.

Not always without a performance cost which is a no go in projects with very expensive hardware (ahem Cisco).

Not even capitalism. Every economic system has pensions and healthcare costs rising with age, coupled with a decreased productivity.

You decreased productivity of the elder, as a society we are getting more and more productive. We create more and more billionaires.

Productivity isn’t our problem, distribution is.

I see these as separate issues.

On a macro scale you want to see country wide economic statistic numbers go up, regardless of who the money gets to in the end. When your population's age isn't evenly distributed it causes spikes in productivity and costs associated with the elderly which makes the metrics go down. Combined with short term politics that are not incentivized to prepare for it, but rather to play hot potato with it, it makes for interesting situations. If, in the worst case, the country is functioning paycheck to paycheck, you have every member of the workforce supporting multiple elderly and children via taxes, since their taxes were already spent on X or stolen long ago during the productivity boom.

Outside of the maternity leave issue there's a cultural issue with stay at home dads. I believe in essentially all countries, if the family isn't financially secure, it's assumed the dad's a bum, so leaving the financial situation to your better half feels like it can backfire.

Worded like this it sounds stupid but it's just one of those things..

There used to be similar assumptions around women working - it was seen as neglecting their family. Culture can change.

Good point.

Weird link to gas chambers.. Do you think 'genocides' will go down if we bring first world militaries to third world standards?

I think Israel would find it harder to kill children, yes. In my view a good thing.