Someone has already pointed this out, but it bears repeating. For that to actually be true, they would need to cost more from the budget than they add to it through both direct taxation, and the tax revenue generated through the effects of their labor and other economic activity on the GDP. Virtually all studies show that they're actually a net benefit there.

Perhaps for the LEGAL migrants...but not for the ILLEGAL migrants...they are a burden on the US taxpayer.....they're usually paid under the table, off the books and are the ones clogging up our ERs and classrooms.

Farewell, mon capitaine. See you out there.

The sort of people who could turn Google into a profitable innovation powerhouse no longer work at Google. Google lives and dies on how tightly they can hold onto their existing advertising empire. That's all they've got now and it is all they will ever be.

Not the worst billionaire fashion choice.

Ellison's Paramount Skydance Warner Bros Discovery - and movies/TV can be very subtle in pushing a narrative or shaping public opinion.

As opposed to all the subtle (and lately not so subtle) narratives the current folks have been pushing for years now?

There will be winners and losers. And I don't think any of today's companies are necessarily going to be the AI leader 10 years from now.

Who will lose the most are the middle class with retirement investments that are mismanaged and put into these unstable toxic investments. And potentially bail outs for financial and chip companies when the market corrects disastrously.

Everything as a service has been the dream for the billionaire class for a long time. Creating a dependency for end-users (often called "consumers") is viewed as the path to stability and profit for a company. Having folks pay every month for health insurance, medication, vitamins, smartphone service, cable TV, internet access, streaming services, etc.

Millions of users don't have proper connectivity, they are stuck behind CGNAT and cannot self host or p2p. They are dependent on those walled gardens hosted by someone else.

The continued use of legacy IPv4 and slow rollout of IPv6 breaks that notion completely. Now you have a two tier system of users with full connectivity, and many millions of second tier users with partial connectivity stuck behind CGNAT.

These second tier users can't self host, can't p2p, and become dependent on additional third parties for things that first-tier users take for granted. Many of these third parties are abusive in various ways.

Back in the day you could host a low bandwidth chat server such as IRC, and high bandwidth activities like file sharing or video calls were direct p2p. Now many users cannot p2p so you need a high bandwidth and low latency server to relay all of that traffic. Only a few large players have the resources to do this.

Because there are so many second-tier users now this abusive system has become the norm, and many users aren't even aware of other options.

Escape from Pluto is much easier, and the Pluto-Charon distance is 1/20th of the Earth-Moon distance.

$99 billion in cash reserves will probably insulated them from most of the AI bubble pop.

None of the junior people can pass our interviews. And none of the seniors want a full time job babysitting an code-generation machine. Modern AI has turned coding into the equivalent of a mindless factory job watching things go by on the conveyor belt.

It's really tough to measure and interpret results, I don't fault anyone for struggling to have perfect clarity in outcomes and business results. But part of the problem with the corporate world is an unwillingness to question their metrics and call bullshit on assumptions that cannot be supported by evidence.

Using a definition for success that is not outcome-based turns out to be a giant scam!