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Why is the job market so hard?
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I'm not in it anymore because I'm retired however my children are and one has a really hard time to get any interviews. I'm just wondering with the low unemployment that we are seeing, why are so many people complaining that they can't even get interviews? This seems to apply across the board whether it's fast food work, department stores, computer software or even sales.
Is it because of the internet and employeers getting hunters and hundreds of resumes
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Is the job market good for graphic design? Is the industry hard to break into?
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I’m an 18 year old college student thinking of switching majors. I am currently doing nursing, but art is my real passion.
I want to do animation, but animation schools are extremely expensive, the job market is bad, and there is a lack of quality online 2D animation programs.
Now, I’m thinking I want to do animation on the side while pursuing graphic design as my main career because I get the impression that it’s more stable and realistic for my situation right now.
My Question Is: Is it easy to find a job in graphic design? Is it welcoming to new designers, or is it hard to break into the industry? Does it pay well? Is there a good work life balance?
Or, like animators, is it extremely difficult to break into and oversaturated.
Top Comment: It is very rough. Many jobs previously available in the west are being outsourced to India.
Hard truths about Chia
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Chia coin price is being dragged down by (in order of impact):
A. Farming Economics
- Chia is the hardest coin to farm, yes, even as compared to Bitcoin. Why? It is the easiest to set up, with no barriers to entry. I have had friends who spent 200K on hard disk drives and have maybe 20 coins to show for it. The fact that it is deceptively simple to set up a rig to become a solo-farmer induces many small individuals to play, and while that is the point of being decentralized, this exponentially increases the investment requirements to have any meaningful coin yield.
- Compared to Bitcoin, where complex ASIC systems (you have to buy, ship and set them up), GPU cards, electricity costs are limiting factors, chia is just too simple to set up. The lack of barriers of entry becomes a double-edged sword. BTC pioneers who invested 200K in mining rigs definitely had returns much much higher than Chia did.
B. Supply and Demand
- What is the use case of Chia? If you scour the forums, everyone tells you Chia has no use case for now, but we are all investing for the future. Well, I am very sorry to inform you that in life ("right person, wrong timing"), and especially in investments ("market can be irrational longer than you can be solvent"), timing is everything. In fact, if you can 'time the market', you would be a billionaire.
- A coin that has absolutely no use case currently, will have low to no demand, other than speculators buying in small amounts hoping that someday it moons. Most serious Chia believers would rather farm than buy the coin, and farmers always inevitably SELL some of their farmed coins because that's the way it is, they need to pay for running costs, and in Chia's case MORE hard disk space. This creates a vacuum where many people are farming Chia, nobody needs Chia and so nobody buys and of course price just trends down. Don't get me wrong, there is an overall market (beta) effect, but you can see Chia prices not recovering as well as the market. The alpha is negative for now.
C. Pre-farm
- Yes, the pre-farm. The issue is not Bram rug pulling. I don't think he would sell off all his coins and retire to a tropical island. He cannot anyway, the price will tank before he finishes selling as he has way too many coins. The issue is psychological. Why are we all working as Bram's slaves to prop up his system, when the whole world's combined mining efforts would only equate to Bram's pre-farm after 20 years. Wow, would you do business with a guy that tells you, he gets half the profit, you get the other half after 20 years? No way. This specter haunts every Chia investor, and induces fear, and shakes confidence. No no no. Sorry, I'll rather take my bets with dogecoin than to invest my life savings into Chia, just for Bram to reap what I sow, 20 years earlier.
- The notion of a fair token launch is important ethically, and also for the economics. For people to believe in Chia, Bram must burn some coins. Personally? I think commit to burning 50% of coins over a certain period of time, and use 40% to build the Chia network, and keep 10% for himself. YOU DONT NEED SO MANY COINS IF EACH COIN IS WORTH MORE.
Top Comment: A. Farming Economics If you or your friends spent 200k on a unproven altcoin, you're all idiots Back when BTC started, I could setup to mine in 5 minutes on a CPU, no special hardware, no GPU, no ASIC. 5 minutes seriously B. Supply and Demand No crypto has a use case until it becomes popular enough for people to find a use for it. The buy/sell cycle of miners/farmers is the exact same as every other coin. Every crypto miner out there is always looking to get more or better hardware and selling coin to cover the costs. Don't make Chia out like its the only crypto out here where people are selling coin to cover costs C. Pre-farm Non-issue. Every new coin (not talking about forked coins here, only original coins) are pre-mined. The only exception was BTC but at the time it wasn't a thing and the crypto community was so small that Satoshi didn't need to, they didn't even have enough miners initially to trigger an increased difficulty, so pre-mine wasn't needed for them to take an early share of their product. You have no idea what Bram or anyone else involved in Chia plan to do with the coins farmed. Maybe they'll burn them, maybe they'll use that as collateral to get Chia on more exchanges, maybe they'll hold to maintain coin price, maybe they'll sell and retired off all us idiots, there is no way to know. So why bring all your FUD here where people are wanting to try something new that is not another PoW altcoin they have to dump half their earnings into just paying off an electric bill?
'People are being duped': Marketplace exposes homegrown lies at farmers markets
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I was at the Peterborough Farmers' Market the day Marketplace showed up. I used to have such respect for the show, but was deeply dismayed by the way they approached vendors at the Market.
I have no idea how much of this will show up on tonight's episode, but their reporter was rude and condescending to most of the people trying to speak to her. I don't mean resellers - I mean the long-standing farm families who bring food to the Market and didn't want to be filmed, or who wanted to explain that the Kents don't represent the Market as a whole (yeah - Jamie Kent shouldn't lie to people, everyone knows this, but it's really not common practice at the Market, most vendors there will be honest with you).
That California system the article mentions? Apparently it costs the farmers $2/day. That may not seem like much, but adds up to $700+ a year - which is a huge cost to small-scale farms that already struggle to make ends meet. It was lovely when the reporter, in her high heels and fancy haircut, recommended it blithely. California has a year-round growing season, and access to very lucrative markets. Meanwhile, Peterborough's growing season is less than 6 months. I'm not clear on why farmers here should pay for a program so that customers who claim to love local food can feel comforted by a label, instead of actually learning about food and how it's grown. [I've shopped at the Peterborough Market for 26 years, and I've never been confused about who's a reseller and who's a local farmer - it's really obvious.]
And there's no mention of the fact that reselling is actually a vital part of Ontario markets. The produce they sell at the Peterborough Market, for instance is all Ontario-grown. Remember how excited we all were when French's ketchup decided to use Ontario tomatoes in their ketchup? Well, the resellers are bringing those same tomatoes (and cukes, and peppers, etc) to the Market. So why are we mad at them?
A few years ago, Ontario had a mild winter and early spring, and crops started earlier than usual. But the grocery store chains all have contracts to buy California-grown produce up to the date they expect to be able to buy Ontario-grown. They were locked-in, and couldn't buy from Ontario farmers until the contracts expired. Resellers at Markets across the province was how that produce got sold at all - an important lifeline for farmers who don't attend markets on their own. After all; marketing and farming are really different skills.
There's also no mention in this article that Lauren Nurse is part of a small group seeking to undermine the local governance of the Peterborough Market. [She wants a stall at this Market, but hasn't been accepted because most of what she can offer is grown by vendors who already have stalls. The Market just won't work if everybody has the same stuff - it dilutes the profits of everyone so that no one can succeed.]
This group been engaging in some really destructive tactics to try to get their way. They've gotten a lot of press coverage that suggests this group is "local growers" fighting the good fight against "resellers". When in fact the PFM is mostly local farmers (4 out of 5 members of the Board are local growers). Whereas the destructive group includes vendors who don't grow anything and a lawyer (who's got some weird agenda I'm not clear on, but who is also, clearly, not a farmer).
Finally; the resellers help provide fresh Ontario-grown produce in much larger quantities and at lower prices more reliably than more local small-scale growers can do. That's important in terms of keeping a customer base, and allowing a broader swath of our community to shop at the market. Local organic produce gets pricey, and not everyone can afford a $6 bag of spinach.