HobbitFoot

Why do you think there is so much disparity between your bosses and your clients?

It is a bit of both.

It is really hard to write a good contract that can handle the scrutiny of a public bidding process and it is really hard doing it when paying staff the wages that NYCHA likely pays the staff managing their contracts.

The jobs have gotten outsourced since NYC in general has found keeping staff on hand to be incredibly expensive, but the model of contractor maintenance is to make money where possible, not to serve the best interest. It is really hard to write a contract that makes serving the public good a money maker for the winning contractor.

I feel like some bean counter figured out somewhere that the big money is making a Skinner box instead of the older model of a basic game combined with DLC.

Unemployment is still low. The stock market is still high. Inflation is down to below historic averages.

The raw numbers look good. And if you want to complain about inequality, unions have been winning major concessions in a lot of their contracts recently, so wages have been going up as well.

What do you drive?

The economy looks to be good, but the tech sector isn't the economy. We're at the popping of another tech bubble as recently developed product lines aren't generating the returns that were expected of them. Outside of AI, there isn't a reason to invest in tech, so why people to develop in tech?

Did she get jealous of Heathcliff?

Advertising seems to be a dead end. The patron model is starting, but it seems focused on certain personalities. I don't believe anyone has developed a payment system yet that pays for cents at a time.

Does such a system exist, and how do you implement it without a third party login system?

And people will bitch and moan about a paywall.

Probably. The industry is still trying to figure out pricing, and the cost of making content isn't matching the cost consumers are willing to pay for it.