Xerox did not give Apple permissions, however, to use it in their product. Patents apply whether you market a product or not. Whether it should, is a philosophical question.

Those two parts of your sentence aren't connected. Battery factories certainly reduce global warming. That is a good thing. Being done in the US has no clear benefit to climate change. In fact one could argue more batteries could've been made in another country further combating global warming.

And the programmers in the US could've made the software for those factories to be even more efficient.

The EU isn't exactly free of state aid. It gives a shit ton of subsidies to various industries about as much as the US. This includes tax breaks and deals for EV factories (Tesla Berlin, soon perhaps Tesla Spain), batteries, solar, etc. 21st century manufacturing. China is, of course, an outlier in how much State aid it gives to its domestic companies (a shit ton).

This ultimately isn't incompatible with globalism. States can pump what $$ they feel like into industries that it views as important to keep domestic. But States don't have unlimited funds (as China is finding out now). They can prop up some industries as a national policy, but not every one. Ultimately capitalism still wins so long as no State is dumb enough to actively cut off trade (Trumpers) -- only bias it via subsidies.

The history says no such thing. Not since computers were invented.

Tech jobs are contracting somewhat now (most layoffs are 5-15%). It nearly *doubled* during the pandemic.

Exactly how many movies these days are your level of evolved and sophisticated Mr High-Unicorn?

And I think I'd prefer having improved software/devices over yet another season of Oscar baits.

People made the same prediction in the 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's and 2010's. I guess maybe it'll be true the 5th time?

The same with outsourcing.

Sorry but linking to some opinion piece isn't "paying attention". Have you actually gone to University and experienced what they teach in, say, comparative literature in recent years? Hell, have you surveyed the majority of college classes on philosophy, art, etc. Looked at their course description and outline of topics that will be covered and seen a large portion of it veer towards "racism"?

It's pretty weird that conservatives who constantly lambast the "mainstream media" for making sensationalist stories based on anecdotes and opinions (which, to be fair, is a legitimate complaint) will grasp all of the sensationalist articles they see on their feed and believe it hook line and sinker.

Or you can do what other high-density nations do (cough China cough) and build out infrastructure so that people can move relatively freely from where there's plentiful housing to where there's plentiful jobs/stores/events.

Pretty sure you don't need a full 4-years worth of University education to have critical thinking skills. Most STEM majors include classes in the humanities such as writing, philosophy and literature. The same is true of grade-school curriculum (even STEM heavy ones).

When you get to the upper echelons of re-stitching the historical life of every day Parisians by reading Balzac, it's probably not something the masses need to learn. Realistically you just need enough people to fill the professor and lecturer positions as well as maybe some HS teachers. Which, if the market for teachers and professors is any indication, the US is not even close to lacking.

It's the same in the US. Zoning laws prevent construction on even land within a city that has all the infrastructure needed. The locals don't want more density because for all their "think of the homeless, lower carbon emission" rhetoric, they don't want to lose parking spots or deal with traffic as they drive 2 mile to work in a gas SUV.

Since we don't live in a post-scarcity society, useful is highly correlated with "helping others". The guy who makes cars or fixes a broken septic system or diagnoses a disease is helping his fellow man way more than the guy sitting in the coffee shop pondering existence and nihilism or flustering over Fitzgerald's flowery language.

$50 isn't the average cost of a round-trip ticket. It's probably the lowest cost if flying Spirit on sale.

I'd guess ASP for that particular route is about $100. Also, they're trying to capture the market of people driving to visit Vegas from LA. Which is a considerably higher number. Vegas has roughly ~40M visitors per year. I can't find data on how much of that is LA but given the proximity, I'd have to say quite a considerable amount.

CA is a net positive state when it comes to Federal taxes. It's citizens pay more in Federal taxes than the state gets in Federal funding every year.

I don't see a problem with it getting Federal funding in that context.

A train's capacity is way higher than a plane's, however. And there is plenty of demand for LA-LAS

That kinda points to how silly it is to pay for roads with gas taxes rather than simply out of a "general funds". But yes, EV's do take a higher toll on roads and that money must come from somewhere.

But then again, if we're going to quibble about "who uses more resources should pay more" then there's a whole swath of people out there who aren't pulling their weight.