Maybe I am behind the times as a gamer, but I don't recall a single time where my gamer friends and I gathered on Steam to hash out our next gaming plans.

This might be the dumbest panel yet.

People would often talk about driving by a road construction site and see eight people supervise a single person shoveling a hole.

This is how I see the let's focus on creating more investors and less work being done.
I don't see how an economy can actually function.

I mean, every Call of Duty story line is unconnected. You could call "Hart's War" Call of Duty 2 or whatever.

What is even the point other than calling a war movie, "Call of Duty?"

I am going to agree with you on some level. Yes, economy bad, but then again, we built a terrible economy with the idea that the population wouldn't stop growing. Unless we get additional places to move to, off of Earth, that isn't going to happen.

Creating an environment where raising children or providing care for children becomes too expensive coupled with discouraging immigration to this country is a recipe for population decline.

I live in the Midwest where we have OB/GYN deserts. We have healthcare deserts on top of that. Our life expectancy is decreasing. Maternal mortality and infant mortality is rising due to abortion restrictions.

What do people think is going to happen?

This was something that was supposed to start under the Biden Administration but for some reason or another the Trump Administration is continuing down the path. I agree, cancelling any sort of subscription takes way too much work and cancelling a subscription should be easier than signing up for a subscription.

Yup. I predict this guy's job will probably be next on the chopping block.

That's just like my opinion man.

If you aren't saying that in a Dr. Evil voice, you are seriously missing out.

The orbiters on the STS program cost 10 billion to make in 1981 dollars. That would be about $50 billion today. Now, I know that Elon is doing what he can do to drive that cost down, but there is only so much you can do. We are comparing a reusable rocket vehicle that made it to LEO vs one that is going to Mars.

Granted, Elon gets billions from government contracts. I don't think this extra billion is going to do much if he can't deliver HLS

That's the stupidest take I have heard in some time but it's one that I have heard repeated quite often.

Some people do have loyalty to this nation and their job over a paycheck. Just ask any teacher. Is it true we could pay some people more to retain talent? Definitely. At the same time, some have a sense of a higher calling. We do need adequate pay because as with my other example, teachers, that field is getting left behind. Is it only about pay? Nope.

I see some already talking about how it was easier/cheaper when the state paid 80% of the costs. This is true. We also saw colleges and universities being told to run themselves as businesses, that was to grow and focus on the dollar rather than the product.

I watched as my expenses grew every year. I was able to keep up but only because I took a few hours ever year until I was done.
At the same time, I watched how international students filled the graduate programs and that became the more important programs of the university as they made more money.
Next the online programs started to become more and more popular which drove down people moving to town to live and get the college experience. So you have remote students not moving to town and you have an administration doing everything they can to deport and deter international students. You will never guess what the end result is going to be for this small country town.

The writing is on the wall as the anti-intellectuals are in charge.

Yet, you're going to have to have people who setup the welding robots and jobs to maintain the robots. Then you have to have engineers who make alterations when the program changes. You also have to fund people to feed the robot unless you fully automate the production. Then again, this only works if you have a model that doesn't change that often. When you have product lines change rapidly, it becomes more problematic to have welding robots create a production line than it does the use manual labor to do the job. AI will help change this some, but you still have human labor involved in setting up some of these tasks.

There will continue to be jobs, they just won't be the same jobs. In some cases, these jobs tend to be higher paying jobs for people who are specialized in fields that don't quite exist yet. You're going to see people migrate and train in these new fields just long enough to become relevant and watch the fields evaporate because corporate found some new hotness.

If you like fixing other people's shit with how way to scream at them for their incompetence, this is the future for you!

Good.

We need to rid ourselves of the rot economy and get back to making things people want rather than focusing on number go up.

Every day I look into the eyes of my daughter and feel like I didn't do enough to protect her future. Meanwhile my parents continue to post fossil fuel propaganda to Facebook, yet they gush over how they tried to protect my future.

It is the greatest sin that I must ask more of my children than I could ever ask of myself.