Need is the key word, and why your argument is the sort of thing anti-education people keep throwing around. You don't NEED a college education, you don't NEED a higher degree. Yet at the same time, there is a definite benefit to society when people who know more about a given subject are actually around and in the community.

Your comment about what is needed ignores the benefits of having people with a higher level of knowledge actually interacting with and passing on knowledge to those around them. If you don't like the idea of having a better education, then you may be one of those people who just work on a farm and don't EVER try to come up with solutions for problems. Oh, something goes wrong, no one you know has a solution, you go in to town to try to get help, but everyone has that same anti-education attitude, so THEY won't be able to help you either. By having people with that higher level of education, MAYBE, someone would have been taught how to deal with the problem and then would be able to help you.

For those who already have a good level of education, having those with a higher level of education will also help keep THEIR interest up, and maybe, encourage them to learn more than they would if they were on their own. We can see what the lack of a desire to learn can result in, look at the people who have been put into the current administration in the USA, the least competent, the least likely to actually go to people with knowledge and understanding for help. They claim to be experts, but they know NOTHING, and have been proven to know nothing. That is what anti-education leads to, idiots like Donald Trump.

Linux by itself, is the kernel, nothing more, nothing less. You definitely have some drivers in there for hardware support, but the bulk of what people think of as Linux was primarily from GNU(GNU is Not UNIX). Things can shift, add packages, add this or that, but claiming what, the syntax used by the different shells, nope, they can't claim ownership of that. They can't claim ownership of anything other than SOMETHING that relates to individual packages, and they won't even be able to do that at this point due to the code itself having evolved over the past 30 years, so there is a huge question about if anything that would apply to copyright is still in there after all this time.

This lawsuit is entirely by non-technical people who just want to steal money that they did nothing to actually earn.

When you go to prison, we will know that you get to experience what it is like to be raped repeatedly. You might even enjoy the experience.

That's what you get when you have a party(Republican) that prides itself on religion being more important than science. You get a LOT of really ignorant people, and the people they elect are the worst examples of humanity, with Trump being at or near the top of the list for the most repulsive examples of the species.

Nah, how about putting the burden on the data center operators?

Since those data centers are a big reason for the cost of electricity going up, why not just make the data centers pay enough in local taxes to cover the utility price increases for government AND all the "regular" citizens? Give the people a tax cut for the amount they would get as a rebate from charging the data centers for what they are doing to the local populace.

What we need is for Mar-a-lago to be knocked down and replaced by a wind farm, and force Don the Con to watch as it happens.

So, a company announces they will shift production to DDR5 memory due to the shortages for desktop, laptop, and even normal servers(that don't use HBM memory), and these Wall Street people freak out because a single company isn't bending over backwards to support AI, and it causes all of this.

That is the story about why the wealthy have so much while those of us who actually work for a living do not. When you put 90+% of your income into your cost of living, you don't have the money to put into investing in the market.

Subsidized R&D and subsidized manufacturing make for products that cost less. If those Chinese companies weren't getting almost everything paid for, they couldn't sell those vehicles for prices that low.

And following that, a cabinet position in the Trump administration.

Time to build has two issues. If quality of work is the focus, then spending time to make SURE things like concrete aren't deficient in some way. Going with cheap materials might cause problems later. Being extra careful with quality is just a good idea. And then, you have the lazy contractor issue, where some politicians don't impose strict guidelines and rules. If the contractor claims it will be done in 2 years for XXXXX amount of money, then government should say, "if it takes 10 years, you won't get additional money just because you were goofing off. The only reason for timeline extensions should be if there are good excuses for the delays in completing the project, such as, "we had a huge storm that flooded the site, and it took six months or longer to get things cleaned up so work can continue"

If contractors couldn't get additional money because they take longer than their estimates, they might actually complete projects faster than 25 years.

You don't seem to understand the difference between government(and their supporters), and the people who live in a country. Trump and the current administration in the USA are clearly the worst examples of humanity, but the Chinese government is known for promoting manufacturing in China to the point where the government will promote selling products at a loss just to increase market presence in other markets. The US government may do that internally, but has not been paying companies so they can sell products at a loss.

The majority of Americans do NOT support this behavior, so while it is fair to say that the American government shouldn't be believed, most of us don't believe in that sort of manipulation.

Amazon is both an e-tailer as well as a logistics company that distributes products for other companies. Amazon for the most part does not MAKE products, though they have a number of Amazon branded products and a few like the Amazon Fire Stick that are their own products. Overall, that is a VERY different type of company that is there to create and sell products. With that said, you have the next piece of the puzzle, companies that sell products, and the cost of research and development will be the reason why companies will often start by operating with an overall loss instead of profits.

When the cost to MAKE a product is more than the product is being sold for, that's not due to it being a new company with higher costs to operate than revenue, that is intentionally running at a loss to gain market share, or because you have a government that is trying to undercut products from other countries. That is what we are seeing in this case, China as a nation is working to flood the world with products that on their own, are not profitable.

Here in the USA, we have a mentally challenged president who has been showing clear signs of dementia, so we have no true leadership when one party in power does what one demented old man keeps pushing for.

This administration is already doing this, because that is what fascists do. They want government to control the means of production in as many ways as they can.