Holy shit is that reblog of a blog post facetious. Have you looked at the original research cited?
Curiously enough, that blog post doesn't bother to post the charts of the immensely high market income gap and consumption gap between men and women in New Zealand. Those wholely explain the tax gap, because well, men are earning and spending much more, 50%-75% more for most cohorts.
As for the income support gap, the authors themselves explain that the gov income support is for poorer women who need the money to supplement their own or their spouses' incomes, especially during child-rearing years.
You seem to be correctly noticing some symptoms, but you're misdiagnosing all the problems at hand.
It's still a serious problem, but it seems like the $1 trillion outflow number is the authors' projection for the next year, based on their estimate of accelerating Q2 outflows.
Regarding the past year, the article simply says that "the cumulative capital outflow over the past five quarters [is] $520bn."
While the above parent tree of comments is mostly correct, I can't help but feel like the commenters are just regurgitating sound-bite memes. I wish there were less of an echo chamber around here.
News is bad because it focuses on the sensational and misses the actionable.
That's actually what frustrates me most about this article. For people who do plan to continue following news (likely including most readers of the article), the article isn't very actionable.
I would love to see a few smart people work together, look through the author's points, and outline a few ways to mitigate the legitimate problems summarized in each point. The article might be useful for other people who haven't considered these points before, but in its current state of merely spreading awareness, it's not very useful for me.
I remember from intro bio that there is a category of plants (ones using the CAM metabolism pathway) that close their stomata (openings in the leaves) during the day to save water. So all the oxygen release and CO2 intake occurs at night, and photosynthesis still occurs during the day.
I'm guessing that the plants noted in this article are in that or a similar category; Wikipedia/Googling would provide a lot more info. Cheers!
Anyone have statistics for admittance/denials for different categories of travelers?
I keep seeing these anecdotes get lots of attention on Hacker News, and all the comments just respond with more horror story anecdotes. But I worry there might be an echo chamber effect, where people who like to comment on articles of this topic are also the people who are already accustomed to, or feel confirmation bias satisfaction at, hearing about these kinds of horror anecdotes.
It's definitely a terrible problem; I'm just wondering if Hacker News commenters are overstating the prevalence of the problem.
Just curious: which aspects of this elementary math education would you say could be taught by automated high-quality means, such as the combination of interactive games and questions that many people are working on right now? I assume that video lectures would not be effective at that age.
Curiously enough, that blog post doesn't bother to post the charts of the immensely high market income gap and consumption gap between men and women in New Zealand. Those wholely explain the tax gap, because well, men are earning and spending much more, 50%-75% more for most cohorts.
As for the income support gap, the authors themselves explain that the gov income support is for poorer women who need the money to supplement their own or their spouses' incomes, especially during child-rearing years.
You seem to be correctly noticing some symptoms, but you're misdiagnosing all the problems at hand.