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You also have to legalize other options than having a well-manicured lawn. Often, you'll get fines or the city will just come in and do things for you (and charge you!) if your lawn grows above a certain point.

A few more costs:

Risk of theft (employee, passerby, organized crime). Theft is way down largely due to lack of cash.

Convenience/time. It takes (paid) time to drop cash. And customer time to manage cash. And lost sales due to people not having enough cash on them.

Lower average sales. People spend more when using cards than cash due to psychological reasons.

Herd immunity kicks in somewhere less than 100% vaccinated (should start seeing some numbers coming out of Israel in the next few months). A sizeable percentage of the population has had Covid already and therefore has some level of natural immunity (not full, but better than nothing). Furthermore, kids have been shown to spread it less (and we're not vaccinating them currently, reducing the population 20-25%). So all that said, 100/100 is a pretty good short-term target. Yeah - we can and should do better in the long term, but ~100 should get us into a sustained decline (but not eradication - to your point about requiring more long term).

I'd think it's the difference between cooling 30F (100->70) vs heating 60F (10->70)

You want those jobs, but you don't want people to make careers out of those jobs. Someone in high school should be working those jobs, someone supporting a family or trying to build a career shouldn't be! Not sure how to solve this issue though... Age-based minimum wage? Something else?

This metric is income-only. Which is why it's so small - extended unemployment benefits (with the bonuses) have keep a lot of people above this line.

In reality, there are a lot more people than this who are just on the edge of scraping by. Some of their own volition (some people on the edge make $200k+ and it's because of a series of poor decisions), but even more people because the poverty line doesn't even pay for their studio apartment (I see you, California!), much less food or anything else.

The moral blame rests fully on the clinic, but the responsibility to fix the system rests fully on the government (in this case). It's really no different than a production line with a quality problem. You can yell and scream about the morality of the workers all you want, but you can't expect them to improve if you don't fix the system and incentives that cause the problems.

I think that also includes cars getting totalled early on in their lifespans? That would bring the average down appreciably!

The US is much better on this front than the UK. Not great for affording treatment, but there are curb cuts everywhere (in cities at least where there are sidewalks) and very few businesses are not handicap accessible.

It's right in the title...CARBON footprint is 0. That said, it's becoming more and more clear that wind/solar are less damaging than coal on a non-carbon basis as well. Nothing we do has zero impact...the goal is to minimize it. The only way to have zero impact is to wipe out the human species (and even then there will be some impact!!).

HF is used in boatloads for silicon wafer manufacturing. Not sure about solar. This might be what they're referring to?

But...(at least in the US), wafer manufacturing is highly regulated and focused on safe waste handling...

On a percentage basis. 1% of $1m is still way more than 4% of $150k

The thing is...we nearly have that dream already in many lcol areas. Take Cleveland, Detroit, or Pittsburgh for example. Wages at the low end are rising to the point where if you're making less than $13-14/hour, you're actively doing something wrong. $800/month for a 2 bed apartment in an ok location (or a 1 bed in a good location), cheap groceries, a not great but passable public transportation system. If you ignore healthcare(!), you can actually live on that pretty well and put some cash away for emergencies. The problems only come in when you have health problems or have a family (childcare).

To your point on wasting tax money, have you seen the defense budget lately? Can fix those two issues and them some with some moderate cuts. Capital gains taxed the same as earned income would help too, but won't make enough to solve the big issues.

Where can I get a 1br in SF for only $160k???

Solid point though. There are plenty of regions where you can live quite comfortably (and save for retirement even!) on wages that would leave you homeless in the bay area...

This just reminds me too much of this movie: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1034314/

Accident and death rates have been falling since the 70s, even through the past decade as cell phone usage exploded. Is cell phone usage really as big a problem as it's made out to be?

This probably has to be one of the least-controlled experiments I've ever seen published! It did the experiments at different labs with different non-GM feeds with what was likely different strains of mice. Also, sample sizes were rather small...

There's a chance that there are effects. However, this study proves nothing.