trident5000

Its not like theres more rich people today than in the past. If anything theres less. I think this just demonstrates a gutting of the middle class more than anything. People are like "why are these so expensive!" not realizing they are in that bucket. People will get to do less nice things in the future.

Another explanation is that the internet has simply increased information flow and therefore competition for luxury goods which has then increased prices.

More like people slowly finding out their quality of life is going down in the US. You get to do less fun things now and going forward.

Dont have kids if you're poor.

Putting my sci-fi/apocalypse tin foil hat on:

Someone engineering an airborne bacteria that lives off plastics would probably collapse the world economy and kill half the population.

PC gaming today: pay absurd prices, take time setting everything up, sit in an uncomfortable desk chair hovering a mouse.

Console gaming: cheaper, plug it in your tv and you're done, sit on your couch, use a controller.

I use a PC for a lot of things but gaming will never be one of them. The console looks great as it is.

China has access to US users while the US does not have access to Chinese users. Thats the issue at hand.

Lol FB and all the rest you mentioned do not have access to anything in China.

Thats the difference.

I would be willing to bet special financing is distorting the numbers. There are companies that front borrowers cash to help them compete with real cash buyers.

The reasons stuff like this happens is because there are no punitive repercussions such as jail time for the officials that oversee the programs. All that happens is a judge eventually strikes it down. This needs to change.

Do you think the food you eat is not grown in the ground or something?

And yet you have nothing of substance to say to retort anything mentioned

Worked well for Detroit

I had a cab driver that was from Brazil last week. He said SF was a shit hole and more dangerous than any place in Brazil which is why he left and moved to another state. Thought that was interesting.

Protein is not all you get from meat. If you want to replace meat, fine. But dont act like its just a protein swap. For instance you're not getting creatine and all the amino acids from beans amongst other nutrition.

I also dont really understand the full appeal as mono-cropping has devastated forests and animal species. And those harvesting machines kill many animals in the fields.

"I don't really see what specifically Truth Social would miss out on"

Virtually all accessible users. Your average consumer is not tech savvy.

I think this is absolutely part of what causes the phenomenon. Broadly speaking boys need male mentorship.

Controversial opinion here (maybe?) but I think the purge of men from education has had a real impact on child behavior and learning.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/02/the-ex...

"...men continued to make up most of the high-school teaching force until the late 1970s"

Humans are still largely primal and male presence tends to instill respect and behavior changes in younger people; I suspect the absence of it has not helped the current situation in many schools.

Most likely realistic outcome is biology will be forced to adapt to plastic and its side effects rather than the genie goes back in the bottle.

yes

"Your mistake is giving too much credit to the average human" again the government are just humans. You seem to think its a single point of godly knowledge and wisdom void of mortals. Its just a small group of people who control a larger group of people and they have private motivations often times not in the public interest.

The government (small group of people with outside interests) is constantly wrong and biased on many topics, I would never want them to have a monopoly on free speech or decide what is truth.

I think this is a really naive view. Attempting to expand the "fire" in a crowd limitation to many other speech areas is reckless. The government are just humans, and humans are conniving and motivated by politics. That road leads to an obvious end.

You list small examples of when free speech goes bad but I can assure you not having it goes bad in a bigger way for many more people.

This gets said out of context too often but I suspect this is actually unconstitutional. Demanding a private company silence someone is right up against that line and very likely over it.

You dont want the government silencing people. You dont want to go down that road. Eventually it leads to you.

The way you combat these people (and I didnt look deep into this persons views) is to call them out and provide truthful information. And then people have to decide for themselves. You will always have a fraction of people who are fools (on any topic) but most people will side with rationality.

If they sold well they would be built. People would rather rent an apt that uses all their disposable income than level with reality that a tiny 2bd home is what they can afford to buy. "but the amenities, location, and view in an apt" I can assure you an expensive home has all of these.

"when investigating land slated for a housing development" what happens to the owners/developers when this type of thing happens? Are they reimbursed by the state?

We bottomed out at 0% and have obvious bubbles even now. It would be really dumb to do that but I'm not saying they wont.

Directionality is the easy battle, actually getting to 2% is going to be more difficult. Powell said its important to hammer inflation before the psychological effect takes place and it becomes a spiral. I dont think they are going to let up as long as were above 4%.

2%. Getting off 9% is not hard. Getting below 4% is where we will see what they need to do to hammer it down.

Shoot you're right.

Edit: wrong math, disregard

Not to downplay this issue (its important). But I sort of dont believe the estimates. Theres 4.6 million fishing vessles globally. That would be 22 tonnes per vessel or 46,000 pounds. I dont see 1 vessel producing 46k pounds of plastic waste per year unless they are literally dumping their fishing nets into the ocean purposefully and repeatedly.