I live in Kensington and don't hear it much at all up there from either UMC or working class folks, both white and black (+ Latino + Asian for that matter). I've heard it 100% from black folks in West Philly (can't tell socioeconomic if UMC or working class though). I haven't heard it much from UMC white folks but I don't spent a lot of time with them so might just be sample bias.
I have been a customer for 3 years and have been ecstatic with their service. I think there have been maybe 2 outages in 3 years, and within minutes Mark e-mailed everyone detailing what happened, why, what he was doing to fix it, and when he expected to have maintenance finished. Observed speeds are typically higher than SLAs and as long as Mark is in business I don't plan to use anyone else.
When he came to install equipment I got the opportunity to go up on my roof and "help" (I know v little about networking) but it made for a really fun afternoon.
What's the latency and speed like beyond the advertised speeds? That would be my biggest hold back and was why I didn't sign up for Clear a couple years back.
Fiction:
A Little Life, not about technology but a very eye-opening set of perspectives I've never read before. Cried on the El twice while reading it.
Nonfiction:
Master of the Senate by Rob Caro. Lyndon Johnson's years in the senate (1949-1960) with an incredibly rich historical backdrop and detail. Caro is known for writing about power and how powerful people have wielded it, and this is a master work. Paints a very human picture of an extremely effective politician.
I've read all Caro's work. I greatly enjoyed them all, although the last book felt like it lost its way about halfway through. Hopefully volume five will be back on track.
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Speaking from personal experience, this would cause more resentment rather than gratitude. I worked more hours to ensure that I didn't have to wait in these types of lines wherever possible. I found that people with money were less likely to want to associate with you once they found out that your family didn't have any because it made them feel awkward.
Yep. I remember my parents spending more time talking to cafeteria workers, I didn't even think it was appropriate for them to meet my professors, nor did I think it was an option. Being weeded out from social circles was also painful. "Let's go downtown for dinner Saturday night", "Nope I'll meet up with you guys later, I've got something else going on."
That's what struck me hard as well. I was a poor kid in a largely wealthy Ivy league school, there on scholarships and a whole lot of debt.
There's no difference between you and the wealthy folks in class, your brain works the same as theirs.
Socially, it's a whole other story. I could never afford to go out, and all my evenings were spent working at either a cafeteria or as a lab assistant, anything to pay the minimum payments on my loans. My classmates would invite me out with them for dinners and trips, but I never went, and eventually they stopped asking. My social circle became other students in similar situations, but it definitely made me feel like I didn't belong.
This social stratification was also present in class, when people had to form up for groups for group projects, since those groups tended to form along social group boundaries.
I don't regret going one bit, though. I have a great degree, paid off my debt, and have been working in preeminent silicon valley companies for more than 20 years now.
I'm guessing Soros doesn't actually expect to make a great deal of money from these. It seems like by making an investment, he will help create a self-sustaining set of business solutions rather than a donation. There is reasonable evidence that "top-down" donations a la Jeffrey Sachs do not work, and that helping people build tools creates an incentive to tackle solvable problems first, then iterate until a reasonable patchwork set of solutions/companies are effective.
