Feb 22 2012: Main reason we must all have resumes: EVERYONE goes to college. VERY few people have any true experience by the time they are 22 or 23 (most are discourage to work menial jobs in their teens and few companies want to take the legal risks to hire teens), so everything substantive they've ever done actually does fit nicely on one page. Since EVERYONE goes to college now and most people spend dozens of hours in classes that add zero value to their employ-ability (classes they are encouraged to take by these schools), all they can hope for is that the school they went to is more marketable than the schools other applicants went to. Maybe one in a hundred college students actually has it together enough to do something impressive in the 4-7 years they are undergrads. This has been going on long enough that the people doing the hiring are still in the mindset of looking at where you went to school or worked instead of what you did while you were there since they assume you wasted your time there like everyone else.
Feb 22 2012: Did you say billion with a "b" on purpose? you used it twice. Just wondering, because we use about 85 million barrels a day right now. Obviously, no one source could produce in the billions, but if it could, then everyone should support doing whatever is necessary to that area to get as much oil out as possible. Plentiful food, water and energy are the three things needed to support human life on the scale that we have achieved. To get those things requires trade offs. Those who prioritize human life over anything else tend to support exploiting whatever energy sources we can. Count me among them.
Feb 11 2012: I agree that he seems to have a problem finding satisfaction. He eases this stress by attempting to be a contrarian. What he describes as silly amounts of choice is simply competition and the reason so many can afford so much. So what if you don't need every feature of your cell phone? Some people will use it. Sounds like he won't be happy until everyone can order whatever they want straight from the factory and have someone else pay for it.
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