Good to see that China is contributing to global knowledge. Sadly, it comes from its military, but still good.

If you can afford to pay for those crappy, plastic nails or your Friday night beerfest, you can afford to buy stocks. It's all about priorities and personal responsibility

Hit the back button and browse elsewhere

Only in the sense that the mugger who says "your money or your life" has given you a choice. In many American job markets, it's muggers all the way down.

I can't help thinking about a hidden agenda. Manufacturing moved to China so we now pay American prices for Chinese products sold by American companies. Due to the internet and business developments, consumers can sometimes buy Chinese products from Chinese companies at Chinese prices which are often a small fraction of the American price. Incidentally, Chinese products are much more likely to be repair friendly and have good availability of off the shelf 3rd party replacement parts.

I have to wonder how much of the trade war is American companies (or their wealthy owners) wanting to cut that access off wherever they can before this becomes common knowledge among American consumers.

Of course. You're not even allowed to criticize one particular group of people without being labeled.

There needs to be a way for the average American to become a shareholder so they can benefit from the business too.

There is. It's called buying stock in a company. No one says you have to buy 100 shares of a company in one shot. You can buy 1 or 2 each month and make sure to reinvest any dividends.

there are literally millions of engineers, researchers and developers putting out excellent work right now from windows machines.

All experience the same situation.

Nonconsensual. Meaning, someone is taking one person's body and slapping on a different person's face and touting it off as the person.

Coincidentally, it's almost always men doing it to women.

Most of the people protesting technology putting people out of work do so because they know the same people saving big with the tech will fight tooth and nail to make sure we do NOT adapt the economy. They want the displaced to go die quietly somewhere that is not in their back yard. Unless/until that changes, every displaced worker brings us that much closer to an ugly social uprising.

We need to look at UNDER employment as well. Especially on the west coast, a number of the homeless are, in-fact, employed. Some full time. But because our job market is ruled by supply and demand (rather than needs), a glut in supply has resulted in employed people that can't even afford a shitty apartment.

Many of the homeless I see are doing the "thorazine shuffle", a gait that comes from years of treatment with major tranquilizers/antipsychotics. So for those, mental health issues is a good bet.

The last time I needed any sort of "advanced" support from Comcast, the person in India had no way to escalate other than mark it on the ticket and hope someone called me back in 24 hours (they did NOT).

It turned out someone assigned half of my already assigned block of static IPs to another customer.

So step one, give the AI a way to ring tier 2 at least.

Why are you so fixated on 2020?

When the orange goon and his cohorts stop whining about a "stolen" election in 2020, then everyone else will. Until then, they're the ones who keep bringing it up.

Democrats have been screeching about stolen elections since 2000. ?

No, they haven't. No Democrat has been "screeching" about "stolen" elections. None. No one is out there every day claiming that in any shape or form. In fact, the ONLY time the issue was raised of irregularities, Republicans immediately went to court to prevent any vote recount by stating there were no evidence of fraud. And yet, four years later, that is all Republicans talk about. All the "fraud" they claim existed yet have shown absolutely zero evidence for it. In fact, when asked point blank by judges if their multitude of lawsuits were about voter fraud, every single time the answer was no.

When you're done with your lying, let us know.

The Neanderthal misanthropes want more legal immigration,

Exactly, just like the con artist was hiring all those legal immigrants to work on his failing properties. The same guy who doesn't hire Americans but always finds a way to hire an immigrant.

No, but instead go with the stats, that well over 95% of the kids that are "confused", grow out of it..?

Well sure. And when 95% of all statistics are made up, who can argue with it?

This is exactly what Tesla did for years. In addition to getting billions of dollars in socialist payments from the taxpayer, the company used regulatory credits to keep itself going. It didn't make money on its poorly designed vehicles.

Ford does not have the luxury of using those same credits so its numbers are more reflective of the cost to start up an EV car company.