Nope. The straw man is that US jobs are the only concern.
Thats a aloe and you know it.
Also you falsely act as if step 1, fabs, is somehow inherently the end of the process. That too is wrong.
You are the one that said: “There are bigger points.” Why do you lie so much?
I've posted this here several times in hopes of sparking a clue. Here is a graph and explanation of the US workweek from 1860 to 1940, when it declined from 60 hours, to 48 hours, and the today's 40 hours...
https://www.scry.llc/2024/12/2...
Here is the corresponding Cost Of Information theory...
https://www.scry.llc/2025/09/1...
You can describe the economic theory of equilibrium with two linear equations which describe the optimum balance of production vs consumption over time as the rate of productivity rises.
I'm sure the shareholders will be lining up in droves to accept your offer of 1/25000 of a cent per share.
In all seriousness, though, if bankruptcy is a real possibility, the idea of a public buyout of some of these old companies isn't a terrible one. Maybe even have the government buy it and make it free for U.S. citizens, but continue to make money on the property abroad.
This is why Medicare for all, by itself, wouldn't do anything to lower healthcare costs. It would probably reduce the cost and complexity of billing, which would cut overall cost by a few percentage points. To really reduce costs, it would have to force providers to lower costs.
Assuming M4A ends up being a single payer system, that would, in fact, make it very possible to force providers to lower costs.
Branded drugs cost 2-3X as much (though generics are often actually cheaper in the US) than elsewhere), which is an area that is obviously ripe for savings... but there's a risk there because those high prices fund a lot of research (pharma is also not terribly profitable; that revenue mostly gets sunk into new drugs).
Research should be funded directly, not by paying more for unrelated prescription drugs. That's the whole point of having grant programs from agencies like NIH.
The vast majority of hospitals in the US are non-profits, so that 50% figure is based on relatively thin data. However, those few for-profit hospitals compete directly with lots of non-profits, so their price and cost structures have to be comparable.
One of the biggest problems, IMO, is healthcare consolidation. When most of the hospitals in an area are owned by big chains, it really doesn't matter if they are nonprofit. Big organizations just naturally tend to bloat and waste tons of money at every level of the system, because they don't have the same incentives to keep things lean. Consolidation has generally resulted in higher prices and lower quality of care, from what I've seen.
The are to bigger points.
None of these points have anything to do with what he said. You are introducing strawman arguments.
Actually a huge difference, we are not funding Chinese military expansion and bullying of the region. We funding those who need assistance defending against China.
How does jobs in China or Vietnam create jobs in the US again? You seem to missed the whole part that where I said: " Not much difference when it comes to US jobs assembling those phones."
Meanwhile, every other entry in the feed is an advert.
Every other entry? Try every entry. Something like 1% of my Facebook feed is actual organic content from friends. 14% or so is from groups. The other 85% is ads. And I'm being optimistic when I say that it is only 85%. When I see about the first or second ad, I close Facebook, because it's just going to be ads all the way down after that.
I'll make an offer right now to buy it for $1,000 with the intent to release the entire catalog into the public domain (CC0) 28 years after its creation.
This seems dubious at multiple levels.
Solar panels: The roof of a trailer is about 450 square feet. In the northeastern U.S., you would average only 3.5 hours of full sun, so you'd get only a little over 13 kW per day.
Tesla semis are pretty efficient, and they use about 1.7 kWh per mile. So in an entire day, covering the entire roof of a trailer with solar panels would add a whopping 7 miles of range, or 15 minutes of extra driving — the equivalent of plugging into a Tesla Megacharger for maybe 30 seconds or so.
Let's optimistically assume that the vehicle can carry 48,000 pounds. If those panels occupy the full roof area, then at about 3 pounds of weight per square foot, those solar panels would weigh 1500 pounds, or about 3% of your cargo, all to reduce your fuel usage by as little as 1% if you're doing long haul at 65 MPH. And that weight number may be wildly optimistic. Trailers like that aren't designed to have weight on the roof, and would require additional structure to hold that extra weight. The real losses could be significantly higher. Unless you're driving less than a couple of hundred miles in a day, the solar panels won't break even. And if you're driving less than a couple of hundred miles per day, there's no reason you can't go electric.
Battery and motor on the trailer: I would expect most trucks to be used primarily for either short-haul or long-haul purposes, not both. If you're doing long-haul, you'd probably be better off with an actual hybrid tractor so that you get the benefit no matter whose trailer you're hauling. If you're doing short-haul, there's likely no reason not to go full electric.
I just don't get it.
Proposition 13 is about property tax. Newsom and Sacramento cooking up a HUGE meal of new taxes like Virginia because they've already run the numbers on how much of the "billonaire wealth" has already left. CA State gov is lookkng at a 30% loss of tax revenue instead of a $100 billion increase.
nope, they expected everyone to sit quietly to get plucked. CA budget is already in a hole now due to exodus, so now they MUST pass the tax to limit their losses. That's why they're floating a bunch more taxes now, the billionaire tax will probably create a permanent, net loss of tax revenue in the range of $50 to 100 billion per year.
https://www.scry.llc/2026/01/1...
Me, now residing comfortably in Florida on an $80/month property tax.
AI doesnt care about weather, clean air, healthcare, recreational opportunities, etc.
Good luck!
almost $1 trillion has left CA since that tax proposal was floated.
https://www.scry.llc/2026/01/1...
and most of the VC capital is AI bubble investment?
yeah, let's see how that works out.
Same thing. A distinction without much difference. This is the same as someone claiming that Meta isn't just some rebranding of Facebook.
Facebook doesn't have a separate C-suite (CEO, CFO, etc.) from its parent company. Waymo does. So while Waymo is considered part of Alphabet because it is a majority shareholder, you're kidding yourself if you think it is at all like Meta and Facebook. There may not be a hard line between them, but there's a definite line.
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
