I had an 8k bill for a TIA I had last year. It's a lot of money, but if you have a job that will cover most of your hospital bills, you can probably pay for it without drowning

To be clear, I'm not saying it's a good system

Depends on which chapter of bankruptcy, which all entail wildly different things. There's bankruptcy that effectively eliminates debt and others which force you and your debtors to come to the bargaining table to restructure your payment plan or they get nothing since you could just file for actual bankruptcy

The difference is if you can afford to pay for the lawyers necessary to create that restructuring or if there's any trust at all that you can pay it off eventually without getting yourself deeper in debt

Sure but if they're trying to send new requests while the others are still retrying, then it will result in the same thing

They actually care quite a lot. Google ranks you down if this occurs frequently through a metric called Cumulative Layout Shift. You can also be put into confirm click status if you do this egregiously, which basically means you have to click "yes" after clicking an ad before you go to the actual page. It has a huge negative effect on revenue.

You know you could just report them yourself right

so if you are under 35, honestly, this story isn’t for you

I realize it's supposed to be a joke, but just reminding you not to take this at face value. Friends of mine making 60k a year have afforded a house just fine through my state's first time home buyer's program (guaranteed a loan on your first home at low rates and little down), and I'm likely buying one next year. It's not all doom and gloom.

I don't think being inflammatory is helping the situation. I've been surprised before, and just because I'm net negative doesn't mean lurkers haven't read it and listened.

To be fair I didn't link it directly in my comment (though I doubt it would've changed the outcome). Thanks for tracking that down for me, though!

I actually love my job as a software engineer! I'd rather do absolutely nothing else, as a boring desk job where I sit around looking busy all day would bore me to hell and I'd very likely make 1/3 what I'm making now. I find exactly zero interest in a "people job" even if it paid more because I wouldn't enjoy it.

So, the reason I do the job I do is because of personal fulfillment and money. Beyond the bare minimum of survival, that's why people do the jobs they do. It's not rocket science

The alternative solution is paid subscription for more features, and even that's hit-or-miss.

Even the government! Though the few that have been caught have had to resign. Truly a national tragedy.

Hard disagree honestly. There are tons of people who would be happy to support if they knew it was an option. I'm a software engineer but generally don't access this on anything but phone because web is usually lower performance and I can't pin it to my home screen. Native always feels nicer to use.