It’s not delusion, they know it is not a real product, not real value, etc. but they are paid for companies whose entire future has been built on the emperor’s new clothes. Rich powerful people get news interviews, people who don’t want to keep up a profitable facade (however temporary) do not.
How revolutionary. They’re going to upend the world of finance by trying to give loans to people who can’t structurally afford to pay them back in all likelihood? Isn’t that the entire playbook for wage slaves to those who are otherwise of sound mind and body?
Maybe they try to just continue with the current (awful)status quo without the psuedoscience? Course then they’d lose out on the fascism.
Sociology is one of the few majors that Florida is trying to cut from public school programs. They apparently think it radicalizes people to educate them about the way the world works.
Also, 20x the price of the original item.
Have you tried accommodation, no consequences and tolerance? Works every time toward fascists.
The bubble was accelerated by people assuming prices would always rise, often their own greed and flipping or becoming landlords, and this was only possible due to the financial engineering that made lending to these folks posivle, but all of that droce the value of the underlying assets down significantly.
You claim there wasn’t a bubble…look at home price values in the sunbelt in 05 vs 2009.
TF are you talking about there wasn’t a bubble
You’ll note they always use “average”(mean) rather than median savings/assets to mask that it’s really a small portion of boomers that are living the easy life. Still better off as a whole than later gens but to your point, no warfare but class warfare. I read a recent book , “work, retire, repeat” looking at the life crisis that has been built with insecurity and poverty driving most people, regardless of age to work too much and work until they die. Your point is the best one; billionaires and their lobbyists and owned politicians are the real problem.
There are many boomers with nothing, who did not have or get a pension, who didn’t or couldn’t accumulate wealth through housing, who may not have gone to college because (and the article leaves this out) they didn’t even need a degree to move up. The book mentioned above calls out that only 8% of people working past 62 are doing it because they really want to be and have a job they enjoy. Many are still working for healthcare, to service debt, concerns of future unknown/instability/inflation, social security being threatened, and also it notes they many keep working because they have kids or other dependents they see struggling in a tougher world and want to help/ensure they aren’t another burden.
I’m not a boomer or discounting the relative advantages they had, but it’s the concentration of wealth to the owner class/.5% that are by far the issue not an age group.
Damn, appears I’ve whooshed it
“WMP” is not exactly the delivery you want if you’re bragging about typing, unless you’re specifically trying to prove your error rate in the same claim.
There might have been some important information in the thread above me but I can’t be bothered to read and comprehend it so I put it into my AI and it said I should vote for Musk and jello was purple.
I think the ability to search and filter will start to be restricted as well. At this juncture people are still under the illusion AI will be an annoying bolt-on to their experience; it won’t be. The “dead internet” will not just be searches that don’t show what is truly available on google; websites themselves, rather than offering robust tools to find and understand and review products will begin to force you to use their AI funnel, which as you said will just be a paid delivery funnel for 1 final product. Many won’t notice the change, but there will come a day.
The video iteration, the Ready Player 1, will be where people actually start plugging themselves into a physical matrix. Reality will be too terrible to bear when you can literally plug into a better life.
So annoying! The world doesn’t have to suck, we just have to have the guts to take it back.
Tariffs seem popular with the right, they voted for them and seem to love they’re paying more for products so don’t count on it
For any Americans that don’t know, China is taking over Europe as we speak and legacy companies are about to gut their companies to try to compete
Well that’s unsurprising since they have the largest population and trends usually scale.
I think it is important to note they have been moving more toward republican votes over the last presidential elections, which if anything shows why Newsom is a symptom, not the cause–and I say that not liking the dude.
Despite much ignorance and ado, California is politically moderate. Their own voters shot down basic protections for unsecured laborers for private equity-backed driver services who are then wards of the state; no workers comp, no unemployment, no flsa protections…these are the bare minimum of a society that doesn’t eat children. The states voters did this after the state just went through the clear and costly lesson of a mass layoff situation due to covid and it was clear these predatory companies were designed to screw workers and the state to maximize returns to shareholders, even beyond how bad a standard worker has it. If the states own voters arent anything more than moderate, why would the hope be the governor of the state would be?
Anything to the left of Pinochet is being labeled as anarchist left wing terrorist by fascists who are actively dismantling government, legal, social protections.
Did you look at the markets Friday? They was probably mostly tarrif response but it’s also lots of articles in the last month about everyone acknowledging there is a bubble, lack of other gov data being released, it could come any day or be a few years away. Altman said 2 months ago "yeah there are a lot of bad AI companies that money is being wasted on, that was my current to retreat to some more conservative assets. Have a bit of exposure still but more than ready to stop hearing about fucking AI.
The analytics are overblown, and coaches need to get back to the big picture. Stanford traded Hollins at the deadline for Wu, but picked up the player option on Candell for the 4th year. The performance bonus if they make the all-star team should provide enough motivation to ensure they don’t get saddled with a mid-career ball hog. Team chemistry will be key, hopefully during the preseason they can get it together and not have any niggling injuries interrupt. There is concern about the defensive strategy on set plays, their specialist Franco just had their contract waived and stretched under the current contract, so the team may look to the transfer market mid season when it opens, or potentially to move up in the spring draft to fill needs. Still can’t believe they traded Simpson and pay 2.7 per year for Johnson.
Universities run by MBAs and academics operating like sports franchises.Meanwhile, they’re arresting students in campus for protesting genocide and fascism.
Seems legit.
Meanwhile news announcing how apple and Google are adding “epassports” to their phones.
Enjoy that shit suckers