If it doesn't work, we can always go back to the pre-finance retirement model - raise lots of kids and live with them during a 'retirement' in which you continue to work as much as possible.
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In our era where foodies exist and some number of them have effectively no spending limit, I wonder if any business raises sandpipers for use in a truly rare dining experience.
https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2020/12/the-curious...
1) It makes parenting easier by letting the parent be more present. 2) It allows parents to buy houses with more bedrooms and more greenspace further from expensive cities. 3) It allows workers to stay in one location for a long time, helping form community.
And it's low-carbon to boot.
This seems pork-barrel-y. It's reminiscent of the recent Canadian government plan to spend 12 million dollars to kill 900 non-native deer in BC, ignoring that locals would do it for free.
...which partly-happened via licensing in the article, but they didn't realize the full value of the working operation.
That doesn't seem to be available online. However, there is a scan of another Hughes story from a year later that they posted from their archive. (Pictures on page 4)
https://documents.latimes.com/flight-spruce-goose-huge-craft...
May 2024: 742 / 422 (1.76)
May 2023: 502 / 366 (1.37)
May 2022: 835 / 274 (3.05)
May 2021: 919 / 235 (3.91)
May 2020: 685 / 324 (2.11)
Apocryphally, a Las Vegas taxi driver was asked how the city had changed and said 'When the mob was running things they were happy as long as you were making money. Now that MBAs are running things you need to make as much money as possible.'
The visibility is different. The jets take off from a private terminal, the yachts from a private marina. The houses are obscured by trees, and the general public can't see them. There was even just a law passed to prevent jet tracking, so no one knows if a billionaire is taking a private flight.
To back this up, here's a quote from people who are building a new ornate masonry building:
"We originally wanted to bid out the stone carving," explains Brother Isidore Mary, the 30-year-old monk in charge of construction, "but when we heard the cost, we almost had a heart attack. There was no way we could afford it, so we decided to figure out how to build the monastery ourselves." In 2013 the monks purchased a Prussiani [CNC] stone carving machine. After several months of trial and error, they began carving ornate pieces of stone.
https://www.arizcc.com/post/carmelite-monks-of-wyoming-use-t...
People in 1024 -> This dazzling new cathedral is a testament to the majesty of God and a point of national pride.
People in 2024 -> This indulgent new cathedral is made from the exploitation of the masses and is a symbol of a something-phobic regime. Seize their assets!
This also works on an individual level, especially online - being novel makes you a target, so instead everyone chooses to be boring.
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
"The mean age of death for tattooed persons was 39 years, compared with 53 years for non-tattooed persons (P = .0001). There was a significant contribution of negative messages in tattoos associated with non-natural death (P = .0088) but not with natural death."