EVs would be residential, not wholesale, pricing.

Big AI Data Centers would be wholesale pricing.

I'm more on the fence - I think AMD has a far superior CPU these days, but I still vastly prefer nVidia graphics hardware, even though I try and go back to AMD every few years. There always seems to be something just hideously broken with new features on the AMD side. Keep in mind I don't use DirectX, I use Vulkan and used to use OpenGL because I need to cross-compile. Sure it gets fixed when I file a bug report, but I shouldn't be their product tester, lol. I think AMD tests exclusively on Windows, then uses mac QA for macs, then lets Linux users be guinea pigs for the Linux driver.

I guess I should clarify. In addition to "just the W2" there's also a monthly, quarterly, or yearly payroll tax report that goes to the IRS, along with a whopping large check for the withholding, as part of normal payroll processing. Different companies do different reporting standards, of course. But they're getting the data a lot more often than you think, just from the money paid in *during* the year, before the return is filed for.

#2 is already happening, that's what the Internal Revenue Service *does*.

50% revision from a survey is not consistent or predictable.

But we do know the answers- just use the information reported to the IRS from every employer doing business in the United States instead.

Maybe we shouldn't need to report the same data to multiple agencies? Estimated taxes, 1099s, and W2 information is already available from the IRS. You don't need to "survey" anybody, you can get down to the penny reads on the entire economy.

Mediterranean resorts do quite well, as I remember

Is there some racist reason in South Carolina that poor people can't move to Appalachia on the other side of the fall line?

Or, gasp, abandoning non-viable coastal cities.

Wouldn't it be better to relocate the people rather than build the sea wall, and just depopulate Charleston which is no longer viable as a city?

There is no privacy, and privacy apps are only used by scammers and criminals anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection SAI certainly does have more promise than most I've seen. Thank you for the link..

I'm all for replacing coal with nuclear, deep water siphons, tidal generators, wind, solar, and ground loop air conditioning.

All the better if it's done for the right reasons- and in a way that takes advantage of the ambient energy of the earth, rather than fossil fuels.

I just don't think you're going to stop global warming that way- at all. We've done too much damage, and it's out of our hands now.

There are sound distributist economic reasons for switching to ambient energy, not the least of which is that the grid is based in fraud.

America actually jumped the gun and killed its new nuclear development in 1994, for all the wrong reasons (well, ok, proliferation was a valid concern, but everything else was wrong). The IFR was pretty much no chance of meltdown, almost no waste, nearly all fuel used, on-demand power.... yeah.