USA should continue its manifest destiny, build a new artificial island off the coast of California or in the Gulf of Mexico, found an entire new state with a city designed for the modern era for the ground up.
At the end of the day if you’re not a plane-need who is motivated by building cool planes, you’re not going to be interested in making cool planes. Boeing got taken over by people who wanted to make money, not make cool planes.
Is it really such a stretch to imagine that maybe some people really don’t correlate those things? People aren’t research papers, we have multiple cognitive distortions working all the time obfusticating the truth, but tech like this can help bypass them
The issue is wealth inequality - DINK households with 2 six figure incomes massively dwarf what’s possible for a regular American family (one breadwinner, 2.4 kids) - they’re the top 5% which isn’t Elon Musk territory, but as a group it’s distorting housing way more than a tiny amount of billionaires would
Fwiw I don’t think there’s anything inherently “wrong” with it, the market is a brutal mistress
Storm in a teacup, 99% of users will never notice as they scroll past anyway. This story is getting pushed cause someone is mad they’re getting bypassed.
Inflation encourages investment because if you just sit on your money it gets eaten away by inflation. Once you’re Oprah-rich inflation is the rate at which you’re losing net worth. This is my non-economist understanding.
Yes anyone who doesn’t have the knowledge/time/motivation/cynicism to prevent themselves getting taken advantage of is basically asking for it, nay “deserves” it.
My own father, who is in his 60s, has said blatantly to me that he will be dead before the real problems hit, so he would rather not give up his cruises, large cars and international flights - he just doesn’t even care that his grandchildren will suffer, since he personally won’t be around for it. Completely dispicable, but ultimately, asking people to do the right thing out of altruism is never going to work. Democracy will not work either because these people vote.
At least he can admit he’s being selfish I guess. I think most climate deniers, especially the older ones, simply can’t face the idea they might be responsible for terrible things happening, and don’t want to change now, so the brain latches on to any explanation that spares them that psychological pain. Thus arguing facts is pointless with these people because it’s about feelings not actual truth (as many things are with our species). The solution is to hack peoples psyche to make them “feel good” about climate change, somehow…
You are owed a rejection letter but we shouldn’t shame companies for sending them, who cares what platitudes they give you, all that matters is you didn’t get the job and they are doing the courtesy of telling you. You would be surprised how many companies in other industries don’t even bother, they just leave you hanging
Have you ever stopped to ponder how your very existence actually does such damage to everyone else around you, eating up food that could be for someone else, probably by killing an animal, taking up space for your house which could be public parklands, creating waste products and other likewise negative outcomes?
How does changing the numbers in people’s bank accounts change whether or not they can put food on the table? We still have the same number of potatoes, same number of mouths to feed, and same pressures in place which will cause the same real economic outcome - I.e. I’ll swap 500 potatoes for a car, nothing less, money is just the medium of exchange. All that will change is that potatoes now cost $80 each
My point is that when you give the same money to everyone, you’re not making anyone more or less wealthy, you’re just fudging the numbers. Homeless people on basic income will still be homeless. Struggling families will still be struggling.