How Donald Trump’s time in office benefited the Trump family:

Multiple investigations and news reports have documented that Donald Trump’s presidency created several financial advantages for the Trump Organization and the Trump family.

1. Increased revenue to Trump-owned properties:

Trump’s political position drove business to his hotels, golf clubs, and Mar-a-Lago. Political groups, conservative organizations, and individuals seeking influence held events at these properties. Trump’s own campaign and affiliated groups also spent money at Trump businesses, routing political spending into his private companies. Foreign governments and wealthy individuals with interests before the U.S. government also spent money at Trump properties.

2. Cryptocurrency and digital merchandise:

Reports estimate that Trump and his family made roughly $2.37 billion from cryptocurrency-related ventures, including branded tokens, meme coins, and digital merchandise tied to Trump’s political brand.

3. MAGA-branded merchandise:

Trump’s political identity became a major commercial engine. MAGA merchandise and related branding generated significant profits for the family.

4. Real estate and membership fees:

Trump’s political prominence increased the value and demand for his real estate holdings. Membership fees at Mar-a-Lago rose sharply after he took office, and Trump-branded properties saw increased bookings.

5. Influence money from wealthy individuals and governments:

According to reporting from the Associated Press, Trump family businesses received hundreds of millions of dollars from billionaires, foreign governments, and crypto tycoons who had interests before the federal government. This flow of money was described as unprecedented in modern U.S. politics.

6. Total estimated financial gain:

Across all revenue streams, analyses estimate that the Trump family made around $3.4 billion from Trump’s time in office. This includes crypto projects, real estate, merchandise, events at Trump properties, and political spending routed into Trump-owned businesses.

The problem with Trump is no matter how good it sounds on the surface, it is almost assured to be a grift that makes him money. His palm will be greased and the problem may end up worse in the end.

Who says what is a reasonable wage?

I think that happens with half the vehicles I have been in.

I could put full 8x4 sheets of drywall in my minivan.

I just keep asking why they didn't think about such an obvious thing in the first place.

To bad they look like they drove out of Blade Runner.

Ok so how does dopamine affect the signal? You can't know how they work without knowing all the influences. Maybe I'm wrong in a world where you can produce the answer. How many hormones are there that influence firing of neurons? It seems like you want to say that none of this has any impact on our thoughts, but they know it does. They just don't know how.

You are way overstating the amount they know about the brain. They have no idea what role any given hormone plays in shaping our thoughts. They don't even really know what dopamine is for. They have no idea how to cure someone whose brain is misfiring. There is no cure for schizophrenia, PTSD or bipolar disorder like replacing a video card. If we knew as well how the brain worked as we know about computers then we would make them instead of computers.

It's just not the fact that there is an evil empire. There is a character very close to han solo.

There is an Empire in the foundation series.

My point is that we created computers and know they are not capable of anything mystical.

Not understanding something does not mean it is mystical. Few people know how the H.265 codex works, but we all know it is not 'mystical' because it runs on a computer system and we know that the computer system has rules and the video is shown based on those rules. By extension, fewer people know how LLMs work. Maybe no one knows how LLMs work. But it still holds true that it is running on the same computer systems that are bound by rules so therefore it is not mystical. Our own brains may or may not be mystical as we don't know enough about the brain to create one, as we have created computers.

It sounds like you aren't actually doing your job and rather you are leaning on others to help you.

The flaw in your case is the fact that they can't just dump those properties and profit. They have signed long term leases and such. If they own the property they can't sell it until work from home ends and the value is back up.