In the United States, the single most determinative factor for lifetime earnings and life expectancy is the zip code you were born in and grew up in, up to age 13 or so.
Thanks for weighing in! But this is just speculation, right? Are you speaking from experience? I'm specifically looking for someone who does it to explain it.
I mean, I can make my own guesses about various forms of attention seeking and hopes to somehow cash in on high karma all day long but, to me it feels like HN is among the worst possible venues for that. I'm not aware of easy ways to convert HN karma into cash flow like you maybe could with followers on other platforms. So I don't immediately see a benefit in just farming karma for its own sake.
Is there some benefit to karma farming I'm not aware of? Like, some points-to-dollars conversion stream that I'm not in the loop on?
Take any metric you like: child mortality, educational outcomes, hunger, per capita income, media income, purchasing power parity, you name it.
Compare those cities to traditionally Republican run states.
Try it.
There is a very very good reason why the best and brightest leave rural republican areas and move to the big cities: it is better in almost every way we measure human wellbeing.
This is what happens when the only "history" you consume is from reddit comments. I'm embarrassed for you. This is top-tier /r/confidentlyincorrect cringe. No, not the Dixiecrats, the Democratic Party. From your GP above:
"... traditionally Republican run states."
The South was not "traditionally Republican run", it was solidly Democratic: "The Solid South was the electoral voting bloc for the Democratic Party in the Southern United States between the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964."[0] Traditionally the "Red" states you opine about were a staunch voting bloc for the Democratic Party.
Does the mayor have any influence whatsoever over Centerpoint, the private company given a monopoly by the state government which has been run by Republicans for god knows how long?
As long as you eat the transmogrified flesh, you get to be a zombie too, at some point (the last day), no matter your sins in life...well as long as you give all your wealth away first (preferably to the Church but if you give it in a way that brings more people that's okay too). The institution just gives you an opportunity to start the process during life as a gentle precursor to what comes after death.
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