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Curious as to other countries that have recently hit peak population.

I agree with this and that is why we are focusing on funding our child's 529 account to the max without endangering our retirement.

In financial planning, we call that life-time debt.

"...incredibly easy way score those imaginary points and followers which are the hottest commodity since sliced bread." This made me laugh - sadly true

Open data is the first step.

I wish I could do more business with my gov't (State and Local) through the internet.

"Copies of documents cannot be ordered through this website, by email or over the telephone." Only fax and snail mail... https://www.dos.ny.gov/corps/faq_copies.page.asp

This example took a life of its own.

Just wanted to clarify an irrelevant point to this discussion - Length of the pregnancy isn't 9 months.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777570/

You can still have a sole proprietorship but have employees. Sole proprietorship means that you are the sole owner.

I think what you meant is 1 person company with the owner being the only person working for the company... Agree with you on this point.

Are there any organizations I can support other than the ACLU that has fought for internet freedom and against government mass surveillance?

Total agreement on the market opportunity. I'm not technical in any way like most of the people commenting here. I run a small financial planning business and I'm paying "a lot" of money to Typeform and to Wufoo to gather client data. Both of them have their advantages and disadvantages but I'm ready to move on to something else if it fits my needs which aren't that complicated.

"Young now calls his wife "probably the single-most important contributor" to the initial success of Red Hat. "Without my wife Nancy's sterling credit rating, I wouldn't been able to raise the money that got us to profitability," he says."

I can relate to this.

Need to update my wife's Mac but she doesn't need a $1,800 machine.

the problem is that it looks like growth has stalled.

Big fan of the changing gender demographics. There are problems out there that are gender specific and sadly don't get as much attention in a male-dominated space. Remember, a large portion of the decisions in venture are "gut based" and are inherently filled with biases...

Fines are becoming a common expense, they should list them as a cost of doing business.

They aren't tax deductible for US purposes so you are taxed on pre-fine income.

There is a lot to dissect but I would focus on labor force. Our labor force used to be all human labor. Now it includes a large number of bots, both physical and software, that take care of business. The (output = labor . x) doesn't work anymore.

a) An attorney working on contingency and your description of maintenance are not very far apart. b) In this country, justice is correlated with wealth. That was clearly shown in the Stanford rape case. Having wealthy people or non-profit organizations fund lawsuits against corporations should be allowed.