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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))2/18/2018 3:44:11 am PST

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹

We don’t have high speed Internet access here. The only computers in the entire village are the village office, the library, my wife’s, and mine. That’s it. No one else wants any thing to do with them, and after my wrangling with Microsoft (their “We want your feedback!” page is a joke, with thousands of people making the same complaint I did, including the complaint their instructions are nonsensical), it is obvious they hold their customers in contempt.

This does a lot more than “Hillbilly Elegy” to explain the world of Trump supporters. These people still dream of well-paid jobs that require minimal training and education.

Fer chrissakes, I do my banking on the Internet, buy nearly everything but groceries and household supplies through online offerings and send my work back and forth by e-mail (tight deadlines preclude being able to send discs by mail).

That is something America needs to fix in order to stay competitive.