If given the choice between owning a small home and renting a large penthouse, it's surprising that most people don't want to pay rent.

We can all pick lettuce, it's not like we're going to see any further farming mechanization while our agricultural industry collapses under abandoned trade deals, embargoes, and tariffs. Looks like China is willing to grow their own soya and buy beef from Australia.

Operating at lower margins smells like trouble with tariffs to me. But cutting executive salaries could shore up profits and make those revenues stretch further for real business growth, such as development, expansion, marketing, and hiring.

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Consumer protection laws would upset our corporate masters.

YT has really gone down hill. The algorithms show kids some real trash by default.

I don't get the obsession with IPA, even though it's about the main beer/ale I drink. But I don't go around chasing some "elevated" IPA experience. Tried a bunch of stuff, most of it is terrible. These days I have one I like (Sierra Nevada Pale Ale) and primarily drink that one, if I drink at all. Everything else I've had from Sierra was not to my tastes. I'm not a snob though, I like Ballast Point Sculpin as well. Their grapefruit Sculpin was interesting but not actually an improvement over the original.

Finding something local that doesn't get bottled and shipped all over the country. But is just sold at a location or two, possibly sold in a growler, is generally the more interesting way to live.

I didn't say all American beer. My father made some rather nice beer at home, and my friend makes a rather nice cyser. And if you dig around the shelves of Bevmo you can find some pretty nice stuff.
But as a country we produce some real terrible swill on an industrial scale.

P.S. I've been at 3 keg tapping events of Pliny the Younger.

Surely our masters will allow us to have electricity for up to 5 days a week for most of the off peak hours so that we can attend mandatory company meetings at home.

People drank small beer in the Colonial era like it was Coca-cola. Popular among women and children especially.

What happened to American beer and ale and cider was a 20th century catastrophe known as Prohibition.

Despite our terrible beer, we have quite a few good cocktail recipes. Again thanks to Prohibition for that.

I don't see any reason to let data centers run their own wind mills, solar, and nuclear power on-site. Your justification that we (hand waves) used to do it is flimsy at best. That reasoning disappeared half a century ago when much of industry was connected to the grid. I mean seriously, why did my grandparents have to let the power company run 3 phase lines over our property if every factory could have just setup their own on-site power. Technically feasible, but such a stupid idea.

If you do most of your business in Ireland, then you're a foreign company. Cut them off from most federal contracts, require them to be double taxed on imports. Remove their access to US work visas (H1B). Those are for American companies.

If it is done fairly it isn't corruption. It's the self dealing and big enough to avoid consequences that is the problem

It is illegal to do it blatantly. But these companies try very hard to do it in a legal way.

If your profits are mostly in another country, then a reasonable law could treat your products and services as imports. Having tacking a tariff on MS office365 subscriptions would give actual American and European busineses a fair competitive playing field in their respective markets.