If we took all the assets from all the billionaires in the US, that total is something like $6-7 trillion if we pretend there's no asset price decrease in the selling of said assets.

Sounds like a lot, but we're nearly $40 trillion in debt. Taxing the rich heavily won't solve a spending problem.

The federal government specifically, and the admin class in general was a lot smaller during our parents' era.

I've just recently re-discovered the joy of writing my own songs, and playing them with (actual) instruments. It's something I get immense pleasure from, and for once, I'm actually getting some earned traction. In another life, I may have been a musician, and it's something I fantasize about regularly.

With all these AI-generated music tools, the world is about to be flooded with a ton of low-effort, low-quality music. It's going to to absolutely drown out anyone trying to make music honestly, and kill budding musicians in their crib.

I suppose this is the same existential crisis that other professions/skills are also going through now. The feeling of a loss of purpose, or a loss of a fantasy in learning a new skill and switching careers, is pretty devastating.

https://www.epi.org/press/a-majority-of-migrant-workers-empl...

God bless you and your family.

All those cars would have needed electricity from somewhere, and at the time, gasoline and coal were pretty cheap ways to generate it.

CDC snapshot July 22: https://web.archive.org/web/20220722141942/https://www.cdc.g...

CDC snapshot July 23: https://web.archive.org/web/20220723161304/https://www.cdc.g...

Notice the change to the "Facts About mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines" section.

However, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a machine with a better power-performance curve than the M1 (or now M2) machines. Reducing the electrical power needed for the same amount of processing power is absolutely helpful for the environment; the new chips are doing much more for much less.

Additionally, Apple tends to support old hardware far longer than competitors. My personal machine is still a 2012 MBP and it's just now starting to not receive the latest OS updates.

Places like Spain and France get the pleasant end of the stream that brings slightly warmer weather than they otherwise would have given the latitude.

Meanwhile, the eastern part of the US gets the chaotic middle portion that generates hurricanes.

It makes no financial sense to sell a property locked into such a low interest rate while rates are moving up.

Combine this situation with fairly stringent housing code requirements that make new housing difficult and expensive to build, and you have a recipe for low supply. Housing prices are exploding, and will continue to do so until one of the above situations change.

At the current rate, we will have an entire generation of renters unless they inherit property.