Kinda hard to explain this concept to executives who have made their entire careers based off of dumb decisions like this. Problem is these execs never get fired or laid off, and instead get promoted upwards until all of Microsoft is doing the dumbest thing imaginable to their name. These people have never had consequence before, so are now destined to place those consequences on the company that’s kept them woefully employed.
Honest question - if you’re comfortable bringing up science, why not sociology instead of biology? Because there’s quite a bit of sociological studies done that proves why DEI is useful to societies. There any particular reason you’re pretending those don’t exist (other than the obvious?)
It’s not as hard as you’d think! 🙂 Mostly because of advances in HPM tech in the last couple years.
https://www.emsopedia.org/entries/high-power-microwave-hpm/
Even 9 years ago, you could build one from an old microwave, that could likely cause a lot of issues near a data center:
Nothing says billionaires are geniuses like building a giant multi billion dollar data center that can easily be taken out with a big enough EMP, and then choose to guard it with $300k robots that also can be taken out with that same EMP.
These people should not be allowed around money. Next they’re gonna hire Superman to guard their Kryptonite factory.
Well said! I just appreciate the visual of Fox News covering someone named Mario firing a homemade shoulder mounted missile into the executive floor of Twitter HQ. It’s funnier than ever now that it’s actually plausible.
Bingo. 👍 Well said. I was using the housing market as just another indicator of the exact problem you are talking about. Mostly because it’s much easier to understand in the context of determining Americans total “savings / net worth” which relates closer to the OP.
I appreciate your critical analysis and doubt, but from my perspective I’ve been watching this problem grow for the last 20 years and it’s indeed as abysmal as this article makes it out to be. (If not worse…)
In short, real wages haven’t increased in America in well over 30ish years. Federal minimum wage hasn’t budged in nearly 20.
People have so little money now, the average American is now buying their first house at the age of 40. (The average age was around 28 in the 80’s for comparison) 40 is now the new average age of first time home buyers in America, and I find that a far better metric to analyze in determining Americans current level of savings than what’s contained in this article.
As it goes to show that working for 20 years for the average American is now how long it takes to earn enough for a house. So that’s 20 years every average American is spending at work to save for the biggest “retirement” investment this article doesn’t account for.
Home ownership is literally going to be non-existant for Gen alpha at this current rate it is changing at. As in addition to wages not increasing in decades, costs for all the basics have been increasing in that same time. Insurance rates gave increased nearly 5x in the last 20 years. Rent has more than doubled, as well as the price of all American made cars. All expenses coming from a pool that hasn’t increased in 30 years of flat wages. Which is why it’s taking so long for most Americans to save enough for their first house, let alone retirement.
It’s far worse than what this article is saying imo, because there are far better red flags to analyze than how this article approaches it. I completly agree this article isn’t doing well at supporting their claim, but also encourage a look at alternate data points, as the picture is actually far worse than what this article and most others make it seem. Imo, that’s why this study left out assets like Roth IRAs and Homeownership, because it would have painted an even worse picture, not a better one. At least imo, based on the other facts I’ve provided (but admittedly haven’t sourced, going by recent memory, so feel free to correct me).
Can’t wait for the next Luigi to use one of these on an Epstein CEO. Polymarket, please let me make that bet.
It says I like making dogs like you do tricks for lulz. Responses to this comment are reserved for idiots, assholes, and cucks only. But no worries, I checked, and you’re already pre-approved to respond.
Says the dog I accurately predicted would roll in shit, and now are. Just because you can keep barking doesn’t mean it will ever be worth listening to.
I’m not. This is only my second response. Not OP.
I’m just responding again because your asshole nature compels you to be the last to say something.
So go on. Keep choosing to waste time saying something assholish instead of constructive. How long do you think it will take before you realize you’re appealing to your insecurities instead of your brain?
My guess is forever because your an asshole.
I don’t need a crystal ball to read your multiple comments acting like an idiot that doesn’t know what they’re talking about. I can just read them.
Not OP by the way. Just followed this conversation long enough to let you know that no crystal ball is needed to make such a determination of your character when the poor decisions you made leading to each of your statements already exist.
Maybe stop acting like an asshole that thinks people are psychic when they figure out your an asshole? It’s just obvious from your behaviour.
If there is no due process served than these people are not detained. So that’s not a detention camp. It has a different name.
Google, the point is we’re all worried that when Gemini actually places itself into a robot body that the resulting literal Terminator is what AI models think perfection is.
I’ve learned over the last decade that in 2016, it was actually: “fuck your feelings (we prefer ours)”
https://newrepublic.com/post/206023/how-often-donald-trump-mentioned-epstein-files
Donald Trump was mentioned more than 38,000 times in the latest batch of Epstein files, according to a New York Times review of the Justice Department’s Friday public release of some three million pages from the sprawling investigation into child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
The references include documents pertaining to Trump, his wife Melania, and their residence in Florida, Mar-a-Lago.
The president’s name appears in an FBI tip sheet several times in abuse allegations, including one in which an unknown source accuses Trump of forcing one of Epstein’s victims, presumed to be 13 or 14 years old, to perform oral sex on him.
38,000 times is more than Jesus is mentioned in the Bible BTW.
And thats just in the documents made public.
There’s not a single oligarch who champions Democrats or liberal policies for a reason.
The people at the top put the tyrant who’s a supervisor in place against all laws and reason. Your analogy only works if it’s a workplace instead of a government that’s been crippled to be as inefficiently nepotistic as a workplace. Entirely done by the one and only party that’s been campaigning for running the country like a business for decades.
Absolutley none of that is the same as managers (Democrats) and workers (every US citizen) now stuck employed somewhere they can’t leave because the whole company was sold to a team that gutted everything we all built together over a century to instead maximize our suffering for where it can be most profitable. Something the left has fought against for decades, and now gets blamed for “going too far.”
They clearly didn’t go far enough. That’s the only thing rotten about them. They didn’t rot as fast as the rest of the ship, and are literally the only ones now doing anything to at least try to stop the rot from spreading.
Not a single GOP member cares about this country more than they care about Trump and his donors money. That rot is far more visible and obviously worse.
We wouldn’t even have an Epstein class if Reagan didn’t cut their taxes so that wealth could instead be spent on setting up international child sex trafficking rings.
If you want to compare this country to a business then please stop pretending like that is something anyone but republicans have wanted for decades for the very reasons we’re now discussing as bad.
Both sides are now rotten, and that rot has almost exclusively come from only one of those sides.
One side is far more rotted than the other, as evidenced by Trump being mentioned in the Epstein files more than even Epstein.
Trump is now 100% the entirety of the Republican party. So that side of the rot has already eaten away anyything resembling reason and replaced it with the most horrendously inhuman decisions imaginable that have increased national misery for profit.
Democrats never wasted $200 Billion on a private army that can’t do their job without public executions happening weekly.
Don’t make such a stupid comparison when stupid is the reason it’s got this bad.
Oh you mean how the whole stock market is propped up by the earnings of 7 companies who are all at earnings highs largely due to suddenly having revenue from Tariffs that forced Americans to pay up to 100% more for the enshitified products these companies barely provide?
Complete mystery as to why nearly every company on the S&P 500 is red except those 7 holding the clown show up. As soon as the bullshit Tariff tax liquidity that was robbed from Americans runs out, that all time high in the start market is going to crater into an all time low. Only thing great in front of America is a depression greater than the last one.
The problem is addiction. Same as any other drug. It’s no coincidence that Facebook and X were rolled out as free services, with free accounts, where you can interact with anyone for free.
Before the digital drug dealers running each changed that deal. Needing money, running ads, and restricting what you can do that all used to be free.
These companies got us addicted to using tech in place of human socialization and then monitized that addiction.
People can’t leave because for some it’s the only human contact they have. Even if it’s artificial, they still want it to the point of it hurting themselves. Just like any other addiction.