MSFT goes up a tiny fraction when you buy. That means MSFT employees with stock grants get a tiny "raise" courtesy of you and with no cost to the company. Microsoft can also use their more expensive stock to make acquisitions. So you are contributing to the company's productive use in at least 2 ways if you buy its stock.

Buying MSFT doesn't meet the criteria to be called gambling, for me.

Historically most farmers were some form of serf. So I think it was common.

And the recycling center I went to was right smack in the middle of South Bay. Not inconvenient.

I once brought my cans to a recycling center and got paid. This was in the Bay Area. For the cost of driving it is uneconomical unless you bring hundreds of cans. Someone with a bike and trailer could make it work.

Most consumable parts can be excluded from lending. Batteries are trickier.

If I relied on the tool library for those, they'd be checked out all month when I most needed them to put on or remove winter tires.

It seems perfect for cities without cheap taxis or fast public transit.

Disclosure: I'm a Googler but have no inside knowledge of Waymo.

Which one?

“As automakers were profit maximizing during the supply chain crisis era, you are going to prioritize the bigger vehicles, the more expensive vehicles with their higher margins,” Tyson Jominy, vice president of data and analytics at J.D. Power, told me. “Now we just don’t have” these cheaper models.

Do sellers in the US know how large your down payment is? AFAIK that's not a thing in Canada. Offers either have a financing condition, or don't. If the offer doesn't have a financing condition, the buyer might be paying cash. But they could just be trying to present an offer with better terms, gambling that they'll definitely find financing somewhere or the other.

$18 * 12 = $216

> there is no real wage theft occurring

I know you qualified it with

> Outside of top men's basketball and football programs

But that was my point. Where no one's making money, no one's making money.

Student-athletes in the serious football and basketball programs spend a lot of their time at practice. During the season, travel to away games eats up much of their free time. They're "encouraged" to take only easy courses. There are reports of grading corruption so their GPA is high enough to remain eligible to play.

The UK allows only 83 countries' passport holders visa-free.

I picked Singapore at random. Probably some other country is even more visitor-friendly.

https://embassies.net/singapore-visa-exemption

https://embassies.net/united-kingdom-visa-exemption

Edit: but even when money is being made, the athletes don't get it.