Agreed. 2 of my friends dads growing up successfully grew/sold weed back when it was illegal. Noone went to jail, but there was never any mention of how they got money.
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What will trigger it? Fan pages to Trump/Qanon? Antivaxxer propaganda? The German federal police paper on how to clandestinely manufacture heroin? Or maybe just a 20mb text file with the “卐” character?!
It’s also possible that a PRC agency or individual decided to take advantage of the situation and leak it to try and stick it to the United States as a geopolitical move.
I hope this isn’t true, but until we have additional evidence it would be impossible to rule this out entirely. Also the PRC needs to show that evidence to the world ASAP.
For some reason the media wants to call everyone that looks at the situation xenophobic and racist, which just leads me to believe there is more to the story.
If so google is actually scanning what is supposed to be private information.
If a ubi program is universal that means the wealthy can’t complain that the poor are the only one being it.
IMO this will taint the ubi experiment overall. Universal means Bill gates and Bezos also receive their $1000/mo…
What would happen if the USA and PRC China got into a hot war over the ROC Taiwan? That would destroy the economy. Much easier to just insult one another and play games with currency manipulation and tariffs.
Capitalism and the global markets interconnectedness will save us from going to war.
Why do we want to strive for an equal amount of parental leave so much? Seems like an obsession borne out of a political ideology rather than an increase in productivity.
Could it be that the reality is that women have a lot more stress under pregnancy and childbirth cuz they are actually the ones giving birth?
This would lead to a lot more time out of the workforce and probably reduced productivity whilst caring for an infant the first couple years.
What if we just removed all employment protections/protected groups/parental leave and replaced it with a universal basic income? This would solve our leave-inequality problem as you get the same UBI payment everywhere and the FAANG can’t use parental leave as a selling point anymore.
Also salary’s are much higher and taxes are a bit lower than uk/eu. Housing is not too expensive if you rent a room for a couple years, but this is different between a 22/yo and 35/yo.
The elephant in the room is that say you have $2MM in the bank and are living off that interest, or are a retired union/public service worker and then you look at how long it took at how long it took to achieve your financial success.
If you save 1/2 of salary in VTI (say 100k-150k range) coming out of a bachelors degree and work for 10-15 years at one of the large tech companies you will have 1.5-2MM USD, which is easily enough to retire on. And you'll be like 32-37years old and still be able to climb Mt. Everest, hike the PCT or AT and probably still have your health.
However if you are a teacher starting out in California, that would be a 44-50k year range https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fr/sa/cefavgsalaries.asp which yes is really low. Then you work for 40 years and hopefully are able to make enough pension contributions to be able to retire at age 62 and have a decent pension of that 5-6k/mo. By this time lots of people are starting to have health issues and will not be able to go on the adventures that a 32-37y/o would be able to. Also you kinda have to work an extra 30 years.
TL;DR: Incentive structure for being a teacher is not really there, also benefits are not really there. Maybe Scandinavian countries have a better compensation and work life balance?
Incentive to work in tech industry or similar high-paying jobs is there, as financial independence is readily obtainable within 10-15 years.
Police in other countries though…
Democrats should have immediately distanced themselves from this movement.
When I walk by the 2MM house on Capitol Hill in Seattle with the “yes we actually mean defund the police” it’s just a bunch of misguided upper class people who are too sheltered to really know danger in their lives.
I’m totally fine with police making as much as a software developer as long as they are competent and reasonably non-corrupt. Here is their starting wages, starting 70k without a college degree: https://www.joinlapd.com/salary should probably be a bit more if you want them to be able to afford houses in LA though.
Then another pr piece on how one of them is an art collector or saving the whales.
The United States and China are nothing alike. Try flying a Winnie the Pooh blimp (makes fun of China’s leader) in China and see how long before that gets shut down. We can also freely talk about what is going on in China/HK/TW/wugiwers here, where such speech would be prohibited in China.
Letting a bunch of kids from the ‘burbs play Marxist revolutionary while not responding to police was stupid.
Then the progressive element forced out the black female police chief and the “peaceful protesters” showed up at her house https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.q13fox.com/news/protesters-...
I don’t really buy the police brutality narrative pushed by the media either. Yes there have been some about of isolated incidents but crime has gone down as a hole and encouraging people to hate the police will just cause more problems.
Police are not the best solution, but when the alternative is the CHOP and gangland-style “justice” I’ll go with police 100% off the time.