I think you're wrong on the incentive. If you make a copyright terms too long, then the incentive is to just buy up as many properties as you can, and sit on them. Keep on making Capeshit movies forever because you own them for another 60 years.
Sounds like more Orwellian nonsense. "The online safety bill will ensure we can shoot you in the face if you say anything we disagree with, ensuring the safety of world leaders who are badly bullied by facts they don't like!"
I always liked the "take a physical" part.
"In a place where you're not allowed to discriminate against disabled, we're going to send you to a doctor to find out if you are too disabled to do this job and if you are we won't hire you."
"In a place where you're not allowed to discriminate against disabled, we're going to send you to a doctor to find out if you are too disabled to do this job and if you are we won't hire you."
Bro bro he's really free speech bro you just can't say gamer words bro or post publicly available data on where planes are bro it's absolute Free speech!
Am I the only one not noticing the world ending from people getting sick?
I mean, we're still facing the consequences of the lockdowns even now and will for years, but people always got sick.
I mean, we're still facing the consequences of the lockdowns even now and will for years, but people always got sick.
There are benefits to having a virtually limitless well of capital to pull from.
And if I'm being honest, I am constantly frustrated by how limited even google assistant is.
And if I'm being honest, I am constantly frustrated by how limited even google assistant is.
Bluetooth is the better choice in terms of being in control of your own devices. My living room stereo and my garage stereo both support bluetooth. The nice thing about the google homes and chromecast audio is you can play music without touching anything. I can just holler "Hey Google, play some chrismas carols on living room stereo" and it'll fire up a playlist without me having to stop whatever else I'm doing.
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...