davidcarew19Feb 4, 20201 minHow long does it take the average person to become a senior software developer?Gee, I dunno. I have been doing software-related work since my twenties. I have never known a senior software developer who was “the...
davidcarew19Jan 31, 20201 minWhy do you pay off your student loans if the government will do it for you?Some people take a romantic, idealistic, and moralistic view of student loan debt, and other commitments. For example, when I promise to...
davidcarew19Jan 31, 20201 minWhat kinds of circumstances have a company sell for $100 million and the owner gets nothing?Here’s one— Suppose that company owes (on the day it is sold) more than $100 million, to a bank and the bank’s credit terms require...
davidcarew19Jan 31, 20201 minGood arguments against minimum wage? Will employers really pay more without a legal requirement?The argument from economic theory is that if the fiat minimum rate is higher than the value that some workers can generate with their...
davidcarew19Jan 31, 20201 minIs the cost of equity ever lower than the cost of debt? Examples?Life tends to be wonderful and varying. Perhaps the example I cite below seems not realistic… but I assure you cases like this arise “all...
davidcarew19Jan 19, 20201 minCan I be rich if I don't have money?I find it easy to “count my blessings” and see myself as wealthy. I still occasionally say (as I used to say often), that I am an...
davidcarew19Oct 29, 20192 minThink of It as ‘Robot Slave Labor’Since the Industrial Revolution 200 and more years ago, there have been concerns about human beings being displaced by automation. And...
davidcarew19Sep 13, 20191 minA Systems ParableSystems are always more complex than we think of them. Side effects are not only less predictable than we imagine, they are (all too...