I know that at some point all my google homes and chromecasts and chromecast audios will be sent to the google graveyard, and it really bugs me. I'm slowly working on having stuff I don't have to ask permission to use.
This exactly. The point of insurance is that you hope you never need to use it.
You pick up emergency supplies during a non-emergency because often when the emergency strikes you won't be able to get those supplies.
I was living in Ottawa when the 2003 power failure knocked out the grid to most of the northeast for up to 4 days. Getting gas was a problem, and there was no chance you were going to find a generator for sale anywhere. My mom owned a diner and lost thousands of dollars of food because the freezer thawed. Ultimately it was one of the things that caused her business to fail completely shortly later.
Imagine how different that situation could have been if she at least had the means to cool the freezer for a little at a time with some stored fuel in a generator she had on-hand.
You pick up emergency supplies during a non-emergency because often when the emergency strikes you won't be able to get those supplies.
I was living in Ottawa when the 2003 power failure knocked out the grid to most of the northeast for up to 4 days. Getting gas was a problem, and there was no chance you were going to find a generator for sale anywhere. My mom owned a diner and lost thousands of dollars of food because the freezer thawed. Ultimately it was one of the things that caused her business to fail completely shortly later.
Imagine how different that situation could have been if she at least had the means to cool the freezer for a little at a time with some stored fuel in a generator she had on-hand.
Most people don't become billionaires by being lazy, but relatively speaking it can be easy if you're in the right place at the right time and gain favor of the government, like being part of a tech start-up during a tech bubble and having your startup get bought out before the crash, followed by being the most prominent electric vehicle builder while governments around the world pump up EVs and then you catch a second tech bubble along the way.
You have a product that is directly subsidized to the tune of I think at it's peak it was $7,500 per vehicle just at the federal level with possible state incentives, and you basically got the factory for free because cali really wanted EVs, then hundreds of millions of dollars of loan guarantees and billions of dollars of direct subsidies and tax credits to start with.
Then you go public and it's into the largest central bank infused stock market bubbles in the history of the world so despite making very few cars and making very little money compared to other car companies your stock becomes more valuable than most of the car companies that actually make lots of cars combined.
The central bank largesse really is the biggest part. Our food and shelter costs have gone up constantly for the past 20 years far more than 2% per year, and that's the inflation tax we pay for the extra money that's been created out of thin air. It comes out of our savings, it comes out of our hourly wages, it comes out of our retirements. Then where does all the money go? Well, for the past 30 years it's gone into driving up different markets. In the late 90s it was internet companies. In the 2000s it was housing and banking. In the 2010s it was tech companies again including a certain EV company. Meanwhile, whole industries have been shrivelling on the vine for lack of resources.
You have a product that is directly subsidized to the tune of I think at it's peak it was $7,500 per vehicle just at the federal level with possible state incentives, and you basically got the factory for free because cali really wanted EVs, then hundreds of millions of dollars of loan guarantees and billions of dollars of direct subsidies and tax credits to start with.
Then you go public and it's into the largest central bank infused stock market bubbles in the history of the world so despite making very few cars and making very little money compared to other car companies your stock becomes more valuable than most of the car companies that actually make lots of cars combined.
The central bank largesse really is the biggest part. Our food and shelter costs have gone up constantly for the past 20 years far more than 2% per year, and that's the inflation tax we pay for the extra money that's been created out of thin air. It comes out of our savings, it comes out of our hourly wages, it comes out of our retirements. Then where does all the money go? Well, for the past 30 years it's gone into driving up different markets. In the late 90s it was internet companies. In the 2000s it was housing and banking. In the 2010s it was tech companies again including a certain EV company. Meanwhile, whole industries have been shrivelling on the vine for lack of resources.
Elon Musk became the richest man on earth (and as I recall in the history of earth adjusted for inflation) because of a marginal car company propped up by federal money and exploding in value from central bank largesse propping up the stock market. All that money came from somewhere, and that somewhere is everyone else.
Food and shelter costs have risen disproportionately for 20 years from the same money printing, that's the inflation tax. Incomes rise, but quality of life drops at that income level. Meanwhile, the government sees your "rising wages" and goes "oh, since you're a richy rich now we can take more of your money!"
Food and shelter costs have risen disproportionately for 20 years from the same money printing, that's the inflation tax. Incomes rise, but quality of life drops at that income level. Meanwhile, the government sees your "rising wages" and goes "oh, since you're a richy rich now we can take more of your money!"
fr, the problem isn't that the super rich aren't getting taxed enough, it's that they get overwhelming and absurd benefits from the government that taxes way too much.
It's easy to become a billionaire when your benefactor slings around trillions every year. Meanwhile, those without that benefactor suffer.
It's easy to become a billionaire when your benefactor slings around trillions every year. Meanwhile, those without that benefactor suffer.
"Sometimes people make sounds I don't like or explain things I don't want explained!"
must be tough...
must be tough...
Even right now there's people arguing for an algorithm on fediverse, but I think that drive towards mindlessly driving engagement is part of the problem. It's like reality TV -- What better way to get the Jews and Nazis to stay on the platform than to get them fighting each other all the time while everyone else gets to watch?
The Internet is a really dangerous place that big companies want to convince you is totally safe and ok. It's particularly dangerous for young people. Different parents will have different strategies for dealing with that fact, and different kids will require different levels of protection from the dangers of the Internet.
I swear, Twitter is like the one ring. Just having it starts to twist you into thinking like it does.
Haven't you heard the child's rhyme?
"Sticks and stones may break my bones but names oh my god what are you doing! Oh my god he's got a fully automatic assault name! Run! Run for your lives!"
"Sticks and stones may break my bones but names oh my god what are you doing! Oh my god he's got a fully automatic assault name! Run! Run for your lives!"
Maybe. The establishment is so omnipresent and evil, it's tough to put anything past them.
Seems like when he took the job with the daily caller his tone immediately shifted. I don't think Jordan Peterson of 5 years ago would much care for this new Jordan Peterson much.
There needs to be a limit. Everything from the very words we use to most of the ideas came originally from a commons. If we're going to use state power to give someone a monopoly on a work derived from that commons to give them an incentive to create something, there needs to be a path to return it to the commons whence most of it came. I like the original copyright term which as I recall was 15 years with another 15 year extension if you specifically applied for it. 30 years ought to be plenty of time to figure out how to get paid for your work.
I did put my money where my mouth is, and each copy of The Graysonian Ethic releases it into the public domain 15 years after the first publication.
I did put my money where my mouth is, and each copy of The Graysonian Ethic releases it into the public domain 15 years after the first publication.
That's not funny! Bob from Canada is three quarters through designing a new face for all our coins!
The current brand of LGBT rights is dragging support for the concept down, ironically because they're leaving the liberal argument and going somewhere moralistic. It stopped being "leave them alone" and started being "do as we command you to do".
Imo at least.
Imo at least.