My new rule of social media: Unless I know and trust the person or the organization making a post, I assume it's worthless unless I double check it against a person or organization I trust. Opinions are also included in this rule.
Okay, so if giving a smaller group of people who earn minimum wage a 10% increase would cause these price increases, wouldn't it be far worse to give everyone a flat 10% personal income tax cut? Surely that would make inflation go absolutely bonkers as greedy capitalists all raise prices to gobble up the extra money flowing into the hands of the people and leave them no better off right? How about we raise taxes instead and the opposite happens, people can't afford these things and corporations and landlords are forced to drop prices to meet the new "supply" of general wages, making no material difference to the individual person but instead clawing that money from the capitalists back to the government who can spend it on public works like infrastructure, welfare, even subsidized housing for low income earners?
Why does the cost of living go up by the same amount though? Yeah some domestic industries that rely on low income workers like food and agriculture would have increased payroll costs, but how are other major living costs like rent, foreign made goods, and transportation tied to minimum wage?
I love asking them to explain what negative consequences raising minimum wage would have for inflation and the economy, then asking them to explain how lowering income taxes wouldn't be even worse.
Again, I'm no Elon stan. You don't have to convince me he's a dbag, and I wish some other competitor would come along with something better.
That's what the government should do then, help create a Canadian competitor... 🤷
I sure hope those 2nd amendment fanatics can afford the naval vessels and foreign military bases they're going to need to get involved in the South China Sea! 💸
Military spending in 2023 (in billions of US dollars):
United States: 916
China: 296
Russia: 109
India: 83.6
People who own a "don't tread on me" flag: 0*
(* Rounded to nearest significant figure)
Oh hey look, we have the real world Firecracker!
That's a really big rug they put in there. Would be a shame to everyone else if they were to pull it out suddenly.
For context I'm running KDE Neon on an Intel/Nvidia desktop. When KDE 6 first came out there were a lot of weird issues caused by the switch to Wayland like windows having flickering or strange rendering issues, but as the months have gone by almost all the issues I noticed at first have been getting fixed and disappearing, with only occasional new ones popping up.
The post mentioned a wireless mesh network, so it sounds like the ISP/provider already has a bunch of wireless access points set up to cover the whole building. One of the problems with high-density living spaces is that there are only a limited number of communication channels WiFi can use, so if everyone living there also runs their own wireless networks they use up all the available channels and have to cross-talk over eachother, leading to everything slowing down.
Money corrupts absolutely everything: science, politics, people...
When a corporation or private individual uses their large pool of capital to subsidize an unsustainable business model that undercuts and disrupts the competition until it can establish market dominance, that's called venture capitalism. When a government does the exact same thing, that's called communism.
The typical American mindset of "corporation good, government bad".
Before Elon acquired Twitter, the platform enforced an one-sided policy of censoring right-wing points of view. It even started actively shielding the left from any criticism, such as when the Hunter Biden Laptop story was blatantly censored so as to not affect Joe Biden's presidential campaign negatively.
What's funny is that there are a slew of articles from 2019 to 2022, before Musk's takeover, talking about a study that found Twitter's algorithm actually had a right wing bias because conservative opinions generated higher engagement (both positive and negative) so it boosted them more than liberal ones.
Also Elon has censored many news stories about himself and his companies since his acquisition. He hasn't stopped censorship, he merely took control of it.
A handful of citations:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59011271
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/twitter-musk-censors-turkey-election-erdogan
https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-journalists-free-speech-mashable-matt-binder
Good Old Projection: The Republicans are already using X to cheat the election and they don't want competition.
They don't have to because the domestic manufacturers are already in bed with the oil industry. They could make cheap EVs, they just don't want to.
And before you say: Oh but they couldn't because China's cheap labour and poor regulations... Well what stops a company like GM from making cheap EVs in China and selling them elsewhere? They already have plants there and in many other countries with cheap labour and poor regulations.
Face eating leopard says they have to continue eating faces because there is nothing else to eat.
It's because this fight isn't about the EVs themselves, it's about the oil industry needing to stop the transportation industry from moving away from fossil fuels at all costs to keep their extremely profitable cartel afloat.
This is why they want TFWs: they can't quit and will do almost anything to avoid being fired because they risk being deported. Modern day slavery.