The best way that I've thought about it is like this:
You pick a door, then Monty let's you switch to the two remaining doors and if the car is behind either of them you win.
Obviously choosing the two remaining doors is better.
The trick is to realize that Monty showing you the contents of one door and letting you choose the other one is identical to Monty letting you choose both the remaining doors.
I do like this (and the way you phrased it!) but I do think it has a dark side - there will come a time in your life where your skills plateau, and another time in your life where your skills start to decrease. Actually both of these will probably happen many times in your life!
It's important to recognize the ebb and flow and to be kind to yourself.
A lot of addiction is caused by social issues or mental health issues, but it's really hard to deal with those issues when someone is also dealing with the effects of addiction. A drug like this could provide an opportunity to fix the underlying issues causing addiction in the first place.
And for some people they will have to take this for life, which isn't so different from many other medications.
Yeah, I honestly don’t see a problem with taking a drug for life, as long as the side effects are minimal and the logistics are simple. I’m in my early 30’s and have a family history of bad cholesterol. So once a day I will take a statin for the rest of my life. Not a problem, little to no side effects and pretty easy to manage, and not the end of the world if I miss one day every so often. Twice a day is not so easy to manage and plan but once a day is definitely manageable for a lot of people
You are correct, the US has very few rights for workers, at least federally. Different states have different work protection laws, California has a lot of well known work protection laws.
49 states out of 50 are what are known as "at will employment" states (Montana is the only exception). "At will" employment means that the worker or the employer can terminate employment at any time with no notice. There are some restrictions on this, for example an employer can't fire someone because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Additionally there are laws about how larger companies have to handle mass layoffs.
I would bet that the majority of non-techies couldn't name a single discontinued Google product.
Outside of the tech world Google still has a stellar reputation. Most people don't seem to care/know/notice any of the privacy issues, support issues or product continuation issues.
So I think your statement has some merit for certain types of products - ones that are targeted at the tech crowd - but overall I don't think it's generally true.
I would bet that the majority of non-techies couldn't name a single discontinued Google product.
There are 283 products listed on Killed By Google. If you're right then Google must have a massive problem communicating with non-techies. What's the point in launching anything new if they're so bad at getting users?
Sure, that list has a bunch of items. Have you looked at what they are? Here's a random sample of five items from it:
1. YouTube for PS Vita - a YT app for hardware that's been discontinued. Nobody would know of this because the PS Vita was a tiny platform that Sony quickly abandoned; normal people did not own Vitas.
2. Postini - email security software that Google bought, stopped selling standalone, and integrated into GMail. Nobody would have heard of this because it was enterprise software, not consumer.
3. Gesture Search - a toy Android app for searching for contacts / apps with handwriting recognition rather than a virtual keyboard. Nobody would have heard of this because it's a tech demo solving a tiny problem that people just didn't have. But if people had wanted this kind of search, it would have been integrated to the OS.
4. Building Maker - software for making building models on Google Earth. Nobody would have heard of this since it was incredibly niche. How many people want to model buildings into Google Earth? 10k?
5. Google Schemer - some kind of location-based activity sharing. This does appear to be a legit consumer application, though not one I'd heard of.
I worked for a New York based company once, and I was moving to Washington State and planned to continue to work remotely. I told my manager, he told his manager, everything was approved...until I sent out my goodbye email - turns out they never told HR. They had just assumed it would be fine since another employee was working remotely from Montana. However WA requires companies to pay WA taxes if they have any employees there (or something like that, I forget the exact details).
The solution was to make me a contractor and it more or less worked out in the end.
The point is, hiring remote workers can have all sorts of legal and financial hurdles, even when the remote workers are in the same country. Larger companies often have global employees and are used to and capable of handling these issues but smaller companies may not be so well equipped.
I worked for a while on a dating app (that was never released). It had over a dozen gender options and allowed selecting more than one gender. In the case of a dating app allowing multiple genders wasn't just about inclusivity, it was also practical - a non-binary person might want to also be classified as male or female for the purposes of a dating app, for example.
But in any case, it's the context that matters. Most of the time you don't need to know a person's gender so just don't ask. Many other times gender is just a proxy for something else, such as a person's title. It's better to just ask for their title than their gender.
You pick a door, then Monty let's you switch to the two remaining doors and if the car is behind either of them you win.
Obviously choosing the two remaining doors is better.
The trick is to realize that Monty showing you the contents of one door and letting you choose the other one is identical to Monty letting you choose both the remaining doors.