Bug list

Bug list -

1. Atrocious internet: wifi connections are often slow, if they can connect at all. ISP’s regularly throttle service when they think they can get away with it.

ISP’s control their own infrastructure which makes it very difficult to break into a particular market, this makes ISP’s a natural monopoly.

2. ISP’s: Internet service providers are not only trying to end the free internet, they are also regularly price gouging their customers.

Poor regulation and natural monopolies do not a just and vibrant market make.

3. “Fake News”: currently the news is less of a source of useful information than another entertainment program. Clickbait and overtly biased reporting seem to be the norm unless if one is willing to pay out of pocket for a subscription service, and even those are only slightly better most of the time.

Currently the media is entirely for profit and must provide a service people will pay for, Because the people are stupid they will more readily pay for someone to gratify their biases rather than facts. As long as journalists are beholden to corporations and the masses they can never be entirely trusted.

4. Tuition fees: college is expensive, unreasonably so. And much of the money does not go to paying the teachers or providing better services but into the pockets of administrators, many of whom are entirely redundant. There was once a time when a University’s president was also a professor, I see no reason why a university should be run by Business grads and not their teachers, it stands to reason that the teacher would know more.

There is a weird infatuation with business school and quarterly earnings in today’s business world. This is a holdover from the 90s and modern studies and evidence has proven that the dominant theories from that time were overwhelmingly wrong. As it turns out most administrators are completely pointless and only hold onto their jobs because of the system itself.

5. Letters of Recommendation: It always bothered me that I would need to get letters of recommendation from people in order to get jobs/internships/admissions. It makes me feel like my own work is less valuable than someone else's opinion. I do not feel like i have earned my way when I have had to rely on someone else's word.

It seems to be an aspect of American culture that we are much more willing to work with those we know than others, regardless of qualifications.

6. Healthcare: While I can just get healthcare on the campus clinic and Obamacare managed to get my parents good and cheap healthcare for the whole family, it annoys me how much money is wasted on healthcare in the U.S. The U.S. receives on average the worst care in the developed world, and outspends every other developed country on healthcare per person.

We have things backwards here, instead of seeing corporations and ideologies as tools meant to serve us we serve them. Instead of building cities for the people who live in them, we have designed cities around our cars.

7. Anonymity on the Internet: in everyday life people are unable to reveal the depths of their depravity because they would be ostracized. But online it is possible to do and say absolutely terrible things and get away with it because no one knows who you are.

There is a law on the books that makes it illegal to take on a different identity online, nobody enforces it. People have decided to extend the right of privacy to the public domain on the internet.

8. Fear Mongering: The media and politicians regularly focus on the most negative possible events.

The problem is two pronged; the media focuses on things going wrong because they depend on ratings which drives them to seek the most horrible possible stories in order to attract an audience, politicians have learned that it is easier to convince people to fear something and thus give up their rights than to try doing anything useful, go figure.

9. Hypocrisy: I don't like when people (including myself) are inconsistent in any way.

Human beings often begin with the conclusion and then go in search of facts, instead of beginning with facts and drawing conclusions from them.

10. Triple A publishers: they do stupid anti consumer things, regularly release unfinished products, overspend on advertising and generally refuse to try new and interesting things. Corporate culture in general seems pretty terrible and executives have proven repeatedly that they are all but worthless over the last few decades.
11. Exclusives: they are anti consumer and limit choice and competition in the market. They also limit the number of people who can experience the product which also cuts down on possible profits.
12. Preordering: why do people keep buying digital products prior to knowing if they are actually worth anything. After so many disastrous launches you would think that consumer would learn something, but people are stupid so no.
13. Fanboyism: some people seem to latch their identity and sense of self to some extrinsic factor over which they have no control. This frequently results in hypocrisy and an inability to accept reality as relates to the thing one is a fan of.
14. Extremism: all things are best in moderation. Extremism, regardless of reason, is always a vice. Daedalus had some good advice; do not fly too high or too low.
15. Relativism: When alternative facts are just as valid as objective reality you know you have a problem. Not everything is possible, not everything can be done, not every belief is valid just because people believe it. There is an objective and verifiable reality out there, we should be grounded in it.
16. The (insert name of entity you dont like here) is pure evil!: Yes it is easy to lump the other side into the EVIL!!!! camp. But when the enemy is pure evil then they require limitless justice that does not account for collateral damage or long term consequences because to allow it to exist is infinitely worse than any possible cost of destroying it.
17. Fighting the inevitable: There are some battle that are not worth fighting. It is not worth fighting things that do not affect you personally and will positively impact others for “moral reasons”.
18. People not saying thank you after I hold the door for them: I like holding the door for people because it's the polite thing to do, and it's nice to be appreciated if even just a little bit.
19. How cold the air conditioning is in public places: I don't mind when it's cold outside, i tend to be moving when i'm outside, but i tend to not be moving when I'm indoors and then the cold is very obnoxious.
20. Assignments that require me to go into detail about me, like this one.

I have no idea why these kinds of assignments keep popping up, i thought I had escaped this kind of thing after high school.

The Hardest part of this was definitively coming up with 20 things that bugged me. I am fairly content with my own life and I don't let allot of things bug me. Most of the things I am concerned about are larger problems that affect others more than me. I also tend to find these kinds of assignments rather annoying. I came to school to learn something, not for self help. It is entirely possible that I am looking at this the wrong way and should not take it so personally, but the fact remains.