You're suggesting pointing out hypocrisy. Pointing it out is entirely ineffective. They just laugh and call it "owning the libs" because they are subverting the system and getting what they want. I wouldn't dismiss it as 'ignorant' so much as malicious.
Damn there's so much to agree with. The way you've found a common thread in all this, it puts into words many criticisms I've started to foster. growing up in capitalism with such a far reach (into our private lives) and high speed is absolutely leaving it's mark on the culture.
Well, how do you define middle class? Is there a certain income bracket that needs to be met? Or is it the middle slice of 3 equally sliced segments of the US population?
A MacBook is very good at what it does. If you tried to spec out a laptop/portable computer for similar tasks, the Mac would be pretty competitive and have longer battery life.
Once you try to do anything that apple didn't intend for it to do (play games, for example) or if we turn to desktops then the value proposition goes away pretty quickly
individually the door has that 1:2 chance, but the scenario has more context and information and thus better odds. Choosing scenario B over scenario A is a better wager
I find the easiest way to understand Monty Hall is to think of it in a meta way:
Situation A - A person picks one of three doors, 1 n 3 chance of success.
Situation B - A person picks one of two doors, 1 in 2 chance of success.
If you were an observer of these two situations (not the person choosing doors) and you were gonna bet on which situation will more often succeed, clearly the second choice.
I think we can all guess