Maybe the real question is why bother having children, to bring them into the world where they are really unwanted by the entire society?

Has to be the USA government, I mean 30 billion yearly... serious money.

It has been brewing for a long time, if someone declared to be Napoleon, he would have been assessed for schizophrenia. Today when a man declares he is a woman, he is be offered a way to transition (mutilate himself) and his experience is glamorized and presented to children as a heroic act of self discovery that should be admired and followed. It is not only that we don't treat mental disease, we celebrate it. What else can one expect from society that promotes body positivity as a way to justify unhealthy behavior? If someone is obese, a doctor should suggest that it is not healthy and propose a treatment plan, society should help, not goad the person into showing it off in a weird and sick exhibitionist parade.

Frequently these types of devices (don't specifically know about Brother printers) will have a second account, often with a hard-coded password) end users can't access that only the repair person is supposed to use. Of course those credentials escape into the wild almost immediately.

Multi-function printer/scanner/copier/fax machines have always had the crappiest security of pretty much any common tech device since their introduction. They're surprisingly capable, with massive storage, hard-coded passwords, insecure wireless and bluetooth, analog phone connection, and almost always running a years-outdated version of Linux. Just among the clients of my former employer the FTP site of one was used to host kiddie porn (customer wondered why incoming Internet traffic had spiked), and the wireless connection of another was an intrusion point into a client's otherwise secure network (the attacker sat in a car in the parking lot and got their customer DB).

Or you can join a cult and grift the grifters

Bitcoin is NOT clean money. Only truly fungible coins are clean. That is why 'Tainted Bitcoin' is a Thing but 'Tainted Monero' is a contradiction

Right, Bernie will have you believe that this means that the men loading trucks by hand became more productive, yet they are the ones who will not be working at all once their jobs are automated. It is always the company that becomes more productive, the people who own the company invest in new tools and by doing it they reduce their future expenses and improve throughput, this makes *them* more productive, not the people who used to do the work that is about to be automated. The company spends its capital, becomes more efficient. For whatever reason Bernie says that now, that the company is more productive, he will take the productivity gains away from the people who risked their capital to achieve it.

When the society discourages productivity, it loses productivity, this is why Americans lost their manufacturing sector.

When the society discourages capital formation, it loses capital, that is what America will find out as well.

Yep, for years. Keeps it to a manageable level but even infused with antibiotics it only knocks it down temporarily until it comes roaring back.

Oh, my goodness, so many excuses. Everyone I know, who runs their own business did it *against* odds, not because they had something given to them, like 5 day pay for 4 days of work. I know people who mortgaged their own houses, sold their cars to start their business. I know people who run multiple properties and they are doing all of the work themselves, cleaning, renovating. I know people who ran a successful business, sold it, started another business and again, it was a success. They complain about things, but they do them and nothing can stop them short of death.

This is not for allergies or simple infections, this is for the serious infections that won't go away no matter what. After going on 40 years of almost continual sinus infections I would take this treatment in a heartbeat if it works.

They're not being "inept" when they allow money laundering, it's an important portion of their business. Around a TRILLION dollars (yes, with a T) is laundered through the US banking system every year, we're the world's largest money laundry (mostly through banks, but also the stock exchange and real estate). They typically charge 10-15% for the service, which amounts to billions in revenue.

Under the Clinton Administration a sting was run against Banamex, the "drug smuggler's bank of choice", and they were caught knowingly laundering drug money and lost their license to operate in the US. His Treasury Secretary then resigned from "public service" to go run the money laundering ahem, "private banking" division of CitiCorp. He then engineered the takeover of Banamex with its valuable client list, and Treasury then restored their license to operate in the US.

That's how much the "regulators" worry about controlling money laundering.

That was the case three decades ago, but today when you give them the check and the teller runs it through their scanner they have the money within minutes if not seconds. The only reason to hold a check now is to take advantage of the float time.

And if the missing money causes overdrafts they charge fees on those as well, even though the overdraft is their fault rather than yours. They'll also jack up your credit card rate if the payment is turned down for NSF.

And they'll succeed.