The camera modules and display modules are even semi-standardized, with no widely adopted standard for the form factors, but standards like MIPI CSI and DSI allowing any phone processor to connect to any phone camera or display. The eMMC interface is equally standardized; while phones generally have it soldered in, some SBCs do have it socketed.

That modularity is similar to the modularity in software libraries and APIs. It significantly reduces engineering complexity by allowing a single design to be reused until it is outdated, instead of needing to design everything from scratch every time.

There's also cross-platform VMs, like Java and Mono.

I've always wondered why people wear 1920's period attire to weddings, funerals, courts of law, and while giving presentations. In the 1920's, did people dress like 1820's dandies on those occasions?

Also, how do you thrift a T-shirt for $30? They're that price new, and like $5 at the thrift stores near me.

For someone who is retired or incapable of working, property taxes can far exceed the cost of food and utilities, and income tax deductions do them no good.

Of course, there's no guarantee that anyone will own their own property, but making it an option for retirement planning makes a self-sustaining retirement much more likely, especially so for those who have to retire unexpectedly, due to illness or injury.

The only problem is that people tend to care about marginal carcinogenicy more than they care about deadlier things, like wet floors, stairs, and mosquitoes.

Fortunately, there's enough safety equipment and procedures that bone-dissolving incidents are extremely rare and residents rarely care if there's semiconductor fabrication facility nearby, caring much less than if there's a facility simply running a bunch of semiconductors that are already built.