I don’t think so as far as purchasing power in this limited case. This assumes capitalists would adjust pricing to soak up the cash. Giving people ~$30k would be almost guaranteed go to bills and food, maybe some would buy a used car or something. Few would save the money. This hypothetical isn’t an annuity, so hiking prices would likely be local and predatory. Scumbag landlords hiking rent. Debt collector vultures. Shitty used car businesses hiking prices. All the usual scumbags preying on the poor. I don’t want to get into the weeds too deeply, but the buying power issue would absolutely be a problem were we to implement something like UBI because businesses like apartments would absolutely jack up the prices and wreck the buying power of the lower income brackets.

If you push that to the bottom 70-80% and not the top % brackets who probably aren’t in as bad a spot it probably does even better.

They’re all Rittenhouse-ers. Deliberately not avoiding or walking away from escalating situations. Then they get the support from their “I woulda shot the fucker, too” network of gun nut pals.

Sack of hammers looking for a nail. They’re cowards steeped in fear. Always subscribing to that hyper-readiness doctrine spread by self-defense wingnuts that have you looking out for “bad guys” everywhere you go. Because you never know. They could win the “I defended myself” lottery when some rando argues with them on the street over a public parking spot they wanted, gets in their face and out comes the gun. Because you never know, he might have gotten violent.

Slopya Nadella.

“Numerous students”

Gotta love that completely nebulous and undefined number. It also sounds like a non-zero number simply have to be instructed to read the clock in order to understand it. Could be like 20 kids out of a school of 400. Oh noes the education system has completely failed!

As much as I enjoy the fact that swearing in on the Quran rattles the cages of conservatives, it would have been more progressive to choose a non-religious text rather than a regressive one associated with things like keeping women down or anti-lgbtq laws.

Any plugin or config that can prevent this?

Congrats. A human spider.

Unfortunately a non-zero percentage will just say we need to keep doing the same shit except more and harder.

I’ve been hearing about re-growing teeth for 20 years. Still nothing. It’s right up there with nuclear fusion.

Tesla whined about it citing all the crap they’d have to work around in their design in order to make a normal mechanical linkage. Funny how no other upper tier manufacturer has trouble with all the power windows and window power pre-offsetting for interference fits. They manage to have mechanical linkages.

There’s a reason people went to the shitty cities. Urban life wasn’t easy or better either, landlords extracting rent and labor from the lower classes keeping them poor was a thing there too.

It’s tough to build a middle class.

More like: “My solution only applies to people like me.”

Think she wants a McD’s back of house cook to get what she gets? Of course not.

Late to the party? A little slow? Where have you been, author?

Yeah. A vehicle known for trapping occupants when damaged, then burning them alive. Are you sure that’s the kind of vehicle you want to be in when it gets shot at?

“Sigh”? Really?

Why not both, both macro and micro. Targeted ads and demographics, politics, whatever.

Gotta be a giant circlejerk with all that tracking. The same old info being bought and sold over and over again.

They’re idiots. They’ll be kings of a shithole if things implode and they actually need a bunker. Yay, you lived! Now enjoy a horrible land.

Create artificial scarcity to drive up prices thanks to foolish venture capitalists dumping money into GPU- and RAM-hungry AI vaporware. Free money.

Consumers get hosed due to high prices, major investors make bank on overinflated stock value, eventual crash, everyday consumers and investors get hosed, companies get bailouts while employees get laid off.