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Have you ever heard of the Superdollar? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar
It is a cultural thing that is probably left over from the colonization era. Things will change but it takes time.
Wondering what all that stomping is for at 2am?
What I don't understand is why towns and cities can't lead the way forward?
Can't that be implemented at a state/local level?
Is it that congress has not appropriated the money to those accounts? I wish someone could explain me the technicalities of government funding so we as society can lobby our congressfolks to make adjustments
"People whose survival depends on qualitative “job assessments” by someone of higher rank in an organization cannot be trusted for critical decisions."
This is so true. People stop thinking critically and in my humble opinion, this is the primary differentiator between a good employee and an average one.
I get my eye exam checked every year for other more serious and complex diseases so I think there is a role for the more trained medical professionals but these exams need to be disentangled from the expensive professionals. That is the way to bring the costs down to a fraction of what they are...
As a professional investor, I only care about three things: - Long-term stabilized return on capital - Pricing (P/E; EB/EBITDA) - Long-term growth.
The list of companies that check all of those boxes are extremely small
The only remedy to this problem is to increase housing supply.
Good luck...
What does loving exploration mean?
There aren't many things worse to see than a child die with cancer. If you have either time or money, consider helping out...
There are a ton of ways to do good in this world and one of the most helpful life-changing ones is:
My wife is a physician and the stories you hear are unbelievably sad but most people don't fit the definition of disability by social security. Most people are able to perform another job, however, their training and personality limits them in being reintroduced to the labor markets.
The problem isn't a simple one but there are other solutions such as retraining
Not sure if I would use those numbers...