How about the basic problem that in taxing income we're taxing both consumption and saving? We shouldn't tax saving, because saving is a precondition for investment, which is a precondition for improving productivity, which is the whole enchilada.Tax consumption. If you must, add your redistribution after that, so that the poor can consume too. One can even run monetary policy through a vat instead of banks, but that's another story.

So clearly you've left the US, for all those other countries that wished and got what they wanted. Stagnation.

Slaves can't quit their master, but employees can.

Not everything can be made to succeed. It's totally possible that the buggy whip craftsmen and their managers didn't get the memo about autos and other consumer taste changes.

So who is providing the value to get these gaming studios off the ground if not investors (including the founders' sweat equity)?

According to https://www.usinflationcalcula... for the period from Jan 1978 to Jan 2025, college price CPI went from , CPI for college was 60 in 1978 and 937 in 2024, while CPI overall went only from 63 to 318.

No. College price inflation has far exceeded CPI for decades. Only in the last few years has that changed.

If the train was privately owned, then it would handle the situation. Private businesses wouldn't let a few bad actors destroy the experience of using their services.

AKSHUALLY, let patients rate doctors. Or, more importantly, let patients pay more to the physicians they choose, and let those patients talk to each other about their results. You have your country do it your commie way, with its resumption of an "expert class" with infallible knowledge imposed upon the ignorant, and the rest of us will flee to the one where people dissent.

... to someone sufficiently intelligent. Educational attainment can correlate with this adaptability. Some argue IQ, measuring fluid intelligence, does as well. IQ is far less expensive to assess, but outlawed for hiring, because it's somehow deemed racist, incorrectly.

Don't say false when it's not actually false. The headline is about Caltech properly, not nationally. Many of us are aware of the fairly recent phenomenon of female approaching 2:1 academic dominance that's been going on nationally on average, but it's quite another thing at elite institutions with oddly perfect 1:1 balance where, as was widely reported in the recent Supreme Court case, how much affirmative action diversity acceptances really did change the goal posts based on things like ethnicity. It's not surprising given the comparative abandonment of boys that society has engaged in in recent decades, with educational and related institutions putting their define thumb on the scale to promote girl's development in STEM. As a male I was never explicitly targeted to do engineering but did it anyway, while we've practically begged our daughter to do STEM and have witnessed all the explicit institutional encouragement for girls in STEM. We also had to actively search for colleges that were not 2:1 female:male skewed, it seems almost everywhere, and it doesn't bode well for finding a spouse, which is where most educated people have their best shot at finding someone appropriate.

I think we need to accept that men and women really don't have identical interests on average, and really do want different things out of life.

The US had research collaborations with that Wuhan lab, so if COVID-19 can be linked to that lab, it threatens reputations, funding, and positions of anyone, including US researchers & politicians even tangentially involved.

What's being seized is information, which in 1787 was written on paper, but is now electronic. The constitution guarantees a warrant for such invasions of privacy, flouted by current practice.

"Textarea cache" extension for Firefox prevents exactly the kind of text loss you experienced.

This strikes me as a simple deep pockets argument, not an ethical argument. The person guilty of murder is not the knife maker. The person guilty of litter is not the paper maker. The person guilty of releasing carbon dioxide is the person who releases it, not the person who made the food (consumed by animals and humans) or fossil fuels (burned by consumers and coal fired electrical plants).