Because that's only open to nepo babies.

If you're wondering why Hollywood movies suck so much look at who is making them and who their parents are.

Never ask a man his salary, a woman her age or a Hollywood screenwriter why his parents' names are blue on Wikipedia.

Yeah of course people from high income families get better paying jobs. They can hold out longer for better pay and are less likely to take the first thing that comes along, they have a lot more connections and family that can get them better paying jobs because it pays to be a nepo baby and they can afford to take more risks in their career jumping from job to job for better pay because they know that they have family they can fall back on if all else fails.

All this study did was discover the phenomenon of generational wealth.

Completely removing internet anonymity. There was just a story of some dumb racist commenting on a black woman's Facebook and since Facebook has real names she tracked them down and drove to his place of work.

Now it's all well and good for some racist asshole, although that's a really dumb thing to do this since you never know if he has a gun, but increasingly internet anonymity is the only thing we've got to push back

When that piece of shit Charlie Kirk died multiple people lost their jobs for doing nothing more but either quoting what the man said or just saying he was an asshole which he objectively was. Also funny to watch after decades of the right wing complaining about cancel culture being happy to use it to attack their enemies...

It's like nobody around here remembers the McCarthy era. Did they stop teaching at the kids in schools or something? I mean we stopped teaching slavery was bad so...

A good chunk of that is labor and environmental regulations. China doesn't have to pay for either of those things. We know damn well they have slave labor in their supply chains. And you can Google the phrase cancer villages and start reading.

American businesses cannot compete against the government that abuses its people as badly as China does.

This is not to say that the Auto industry doesn't have problems with affordability. They've gotten used to selling $60,000 SUVs as a base model and that's not really going to fly. Hell a base Honda Civic is 25,000. A low mileage used Corolla is 20K... Also doesn't help that I'm using Japanese car companies as my example because American owned corporations employ fewer Americans...

So yeah the American Auto industry has problems but at the same time make China follow the same environmental regulations and clean up their supply chains and we will talk.

From a technical standpoint your are correct. From a practical standpoint there is something we all are not seeing.

The industry has customers that place a lot of value on relative anonymity. There isn't anything inherently illegal, immoral, or wrong with 'dark money' either it really isn't anyone's business what anyone else invests their personal wealth in. (beyond basic tax law enforcement etc, which yes privacy does complicate)

The industry also must certainly be aware they make quite a lot of money off players who are in fact sanctioned, using their platforms in complex laundering schemes and the like.

I don't see anyone who is running and IB, brokerage, or exchange wanting to just make all that go away. Maybe I am to cynical but if the people in those positions were really the types to say "hey we are willing to make less money, for the greater good" well there are at lot of things like know your customer standards and the like they'd have beefed up voluntarily already.

So I am left with there is a plan here we have not seen yet, like charging premiums for coin blending services or other various proxy ownership games like invite only trading of in house assets off chain.

One thing I am certain of nobody is trying to give the SEC radical transparency out of the goodness of the big hearts

 

If nothing else, solar and battery might have an opening for people to go off grid. I have one friend who powers his entire house, shop, and radios of his solar setup. He notes the big difference is his expenses come in chunks, replace a battery here, upgrade an inverter there. But overall, he's saving money. If the AI energy sucking places cause electricity prices to soar, it makes solar/battery the economical and better uptime option.

Finally, If AI needs gigawatts per super center, it just isn't sustainable unless the super center has its own solar/battery install. And reopening shuttered nuclear plants might seem an option, but reviving an end of life station, staffed by people and organizations that have profit over safety orientation, the situation might get interesting.

Is there some place I wrote anything like that? I wrote about one specific demographic. People who live in mountainous areas with fluctuating weather, especially in winter. Especially when crossing the mountaintops. Not certain of your point.

That's kinda the entire point I was making before you decided that for some unknown reason that I was trying to note otherwise. There are many different demographics out there.

Were you thinking I was advocating really big vehicles? With the exception of the Grand Cherokee and the Grand Wagoneer, the line isn't large. Some like the Renegade, are quite small. My present ride is a Jeep Compass Trail Hawk. It is fairly compact. It's a demographic within a demographic. Higher ground clearance, different transmission, heavy suspension, heavy duty brakes. Sacrifices around a mile per gallon gas compared to my wife's Cherokee. It is made for people who might find themselves in challenging places, but is also a comfortable ride. Suits me fine. Definitely not for everyone. Not even the regular FWD drivers. Definitely for me.

I don't even like large vehicles, FWIW. If I lived in a city and my driving was entirely in urban/suburban areas, I'd be happy with a city car. But not my demographic. Lotsa demographics out there.

For Republican voters to piss away the Constitution and states' rights. Just one fat orange turd who said nasty things and got away with it and they would burn everything in the country down.

It really shows a complete lack of any principles on the part of Republican voters. That's the problem with the right wing they have a hierarchy not a belief system let alone principles.

USAID was horrifically corrupt

The cuts to USAID are projected to cause 14 million extra deaths - a large minority of those children - by 2030. And USAID engendered massive goodwill among its recipients

But no, by all means kill a couple million people per year and worsen living conditions (creating more migration) in order to save $23 per person, that's clearly Very Smart(TM).

And I don't know how to inform you of this, but the year is now 2025 and the Cold War and the politics therein ended nearly four decades ago. And USAID was not created "to smuggle CIA officers" (though CIA offers used every means available to them to do their work, certainly), it was created as a counterbalance to the USSR's use of similar soft power to turn the Third World to *its* side.

They can go back at any point if they don't think the conditions and salaries offered are worth the job. What matters is that they remain free to leave, with no "catches" keeping them there (inability to get return transport, inability to communicate with the outside world, misinformation, etc etc). Again, there's a debate to have over what conditions should be mandated by regulation, but the key point is that the salary offered - like happens illegally today en masse - is lower than US standards but higher than what they can get at home.

What on Earth are you talking about? Nobody is trying to make other countries poor and dangerous. People come to the US from these countries because even jobs that are tough and underpaid by US standards are vastly better than what is available at home. Creating a formal system just eliminates the worst aspects of it: the lawlessness, the sneaking across the border in often dangerous conditions (swimming across rivers, traveling through deserts), "coyotes" smuggling people in terrible conditions, and so forth. The current US system is the dumbest way you could possibly handle it: people wanting to work, US employers wanting them, the US economy benefitting from it... but still making it illegal, chaotic, dangerous, and unregulated for those involved.

Or, more concisely: Countries should aim to be poor.

To be fair to the nutballs, their proposal will actually slow it down as compared to not limiting immigration. That is, from their nutball perspective the proposal is an improvement, just not a total solution. For a total solution, they need to go full right-wing nutball and also ban women from working so they'll stay home and have proper Swiss babies.

If you pay attention to who's pushing basic income it's a handful of extremely wealthy people with connections to billionaires. The goal of basic income is to replace all other forms of civilization and society with a blank check so that you can blame people when they are completely crushed by the systems in place. Monopolies alone make basic income pointless since they will just suck up the money.

American farmers are extremely well off. They are no small farms left. If you see something that looks like a small farm odds are it's just somebody's tax Dodge. We had decades of running small farmers out of business that process is basically over. The people who are left love Trump as long as he cuts them those checks you're talking about. Those big farmers want cheap labor or better yet slave labor and they want zero environmental regulations and Trump will give them both of those things.

As for direct health insurance payments the health insurance industry sucks up half a trillion dollars a year and private equity is buying up all the hospitals and doctors offices. You can't just cut people checks in it that environment just like you can't just cut basic income checks when you have monopolies.

Everything you're suggesting is bullshit put forward either to benefit Rich assholes or by Rich assholes who want to make you think there's an easy patch or fix to keep the system going so you don't have to think about any actual changes.

It's not your fault that's just how our media works but it's not a solution it's a scam

It's real annoyed when idiots pull in front of him because it takes him 3 football fields to come to a stop.

The economy is like that. Capitalism is like that. It's a big fucking thing that takes a long time to come to a stop. And you just pulled out in front of it. And your little Geo Metro...

Now my buddy is smart and he knows how to drive around idiots. But we didn't put smart people that the wheel in this economy we put the dumbest motherfuckers we could find for the dumbest motherfucker reasons we could come up with.

So when the economy needs to stop and can't because you're dumb ass pulled out in front of it it's going to go right through you.

Unfortunately this is where the analogy breaks down because it's not just your little car being splattered you're taking all of us with it