here comes the shocked Pikachu face when these companies can't find competent mid-level software people because industry wide they didn't bother training them.

Just another fine short-term profit driven boondoggle by PE and the tech industry.

Yes, living off dividends day to day can be done. I'm semi-retired at 47 and doing it now. However to make it happen there is an important piece of the puzzle that these folks miss: You have to have a lot of cheese saved first. As a very rough rule of thumb, you can get $1,000 in dividends a month from evern $100,000 invested. Now keep in mind a yield like that will most likely sap your portfolio of any fund growth because it's all going out the door as cash.

I don't know that most of the young people trying to follow these influencers has anywhere near 100k saved. And if they do they'd be dumb to put the whole nut in a dividend play and not diversify. The solution for these brokeass dividend wannabees then is to chase even bigger yields which over time will erode their principal.

The only tried and true solution is time in the market long term. I have around 2 mil saved and am getting 18 - 20k a month in dividends. It can be done but for me it took decades to get here.

And indeed, a lot of the "financial influencers" pushing this shit are advocating for extremely high yield (in some cases 20 percent or more) funds that erode their NAV rapidly.

Ticketbastard, a private company, set up certain guardrails and EULAs (i.e. private contracts) limiting purchases.

A company circumvents said guardrails and violates said private contracts and purchases tickets for scalping.

Ticketbastard should be suing to enforce. It is not the job of the FTC to enforce private contracts.

"amazingly favorable unit revenues"

They are openly celebrating their new found ability to fuck customers in the ass.

In theory, yes. In reality it won't work because all the airlines will be doing this soon too.

Open standards and self hosted camera DVRs for the win.

On my I-phone I'm at least two OS revisions behind due to that exact concern. The older shit works for me so for the moment I'm not upgrading.

Ah,I didn't know there was a bankruptcy involved too.

Didn't Verizon sell its FIOS division to Frontier just a few years ago? Now Verizon is buying it back?? What the hell?

Huh. If only there was an alternative between two all or nothing extremes. Like if someone were to make rules, "regulate" if you would, who can use the money and under what circumstances. We could even call these potential rules "regulations". Oooohhh and then we could task someone else to check up on how the money was spent, an "audit" as the fancy financial people say. That person who we could call something clever like an "auditor" can then report back on how the funds were actually used.

Eh, fuck all that. Processes and oversight are for fags amiright?

You're tying yourself into a pretzel trying to come up with a line of reasoning even half as compelling as the plain interpretation. And the rationale you went with is bad even by Trumpain FCC standards.

I don't believe you, Waymo.

"Hey Europe, which snooping spying camel nose do you want under your tent? Ours or theirs?"

The proper response for Europe should be "None of the above".

.....and run in the opposite direction:
1) "I wouldn't lie, I'm a christian"; and
2) Meritocracy.