In other words there is no reason for them to pay you?

Losing money isn't a reason? They probably can't raise prices without increasing unsold inventory, so cutting production it is.

Not a problem it's a feature. There huge numbers benefiting from fraud in one way or another, possibly the majority of the population.

The biggest growth in employment after industrialization is government, money taken a gunpoint, nothing to do with economics. But we're seeing that government can't support the economy much longer. AI will learn this the hard way when the electric grid goes down.

How does inviting poor people fund senior care? Maybe the rich Japanese need someone to change their diapers, but it really doesn't matter, it's game over.

COVID was an excuse that allowed governments to print something like $30 trillion, that fake money is still being dumped. It was a huge scam, people just let them get away with it, just like they accept paper instead of gold, a tax on everything, enslavement. Imagine a farmer sweating in the field to produce crops and livestock, and trading them for decorated paper! Who cares how many 0s are on it?! Insanity is the only thing keeping us going, insane people can be more active and strong than if they thought rationally, but they don't survive for long.

With the water and electricity shut off the problem solves itself very quickly. Being alive is abnormal in this universe.

Lots aristocrats and slave owners didn't have to worry about working. Mostly were unremarkable or degenerate, though it's true some did have some accomplishments. But this is more like the first time people won't be able to work, and hunting, gathering, and subsistence farming are largely out of reach. A never ending economic depression. If they're lucky like the Irish there will be someplace your grand kids can emigrate to instead of starving.

Indoor plumbing and electrification improved people's lives lot, everything before and after that not so much.

That's when you realize that 75% of young American men being unfit for military service didn't just happen, it's a government policy.

So she's working 10x more than other teachers...is that smart?

Then why are other countries upset about it?

Probably a worst case scenario estimate. 25% is just a small stick to get Apple to start the years long investment process, otherwise the tariff could be raised or their products simply banned. The USA needs to be able to build a million drones per month from scratch if necessary, if Apple wants to be a Chinese or Indian company, then they can sell there.

The Eugenic Protection Law of 1948 made Japan one of the first countries to legalize induced abortion

First world governments have been culling their populations for decades.

They don't, they use money from university endowments, sovereign wealth funds, insurance, pensions, and take a big cut if there is a profit and let the suckers take any loss.