It’s possible the unemployment rate among you adults is historically high, but I haven’t seen data on that. I doubt it, based on the overall unemployment rate.

edit: looked up the current data. Age 16-24 unemployment excluding trainees and students is 12.8% which is about double the current overall unemployment rate. Haven't found historical data on this cohort yet. We might expect youngsters to be less employed than experienced people, but double does seem high on the face of it.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn05...

edit 2:

Found it. Youth unemployment is currently at about the (eyeball) median rate for the last 32 years.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotin...

I think it's important to put numbers in historical context when saying or implying that we're in some kind of crisis.

Youth unemployment sucks for the people involved and the people around them. Every one of them has my sympathy. We are not in a period of unusually high youth unemployment, according to the UK government data.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotin...

One million is a lot of people, but that's from a population of ~70 million.

In any case, dividends are taxable in the current year, and unrealized stock gains are not.

In case the difference doesn’t seem like a big deal, consider that if you die without selling the stocks, your heirs inherit them at the prevailing price, and no one ever pays tax on the gain they made between when you bought them and when you died.

Rich people who need neither dividend cash or stock sales to pay living expenses prefer not to get dividends so they can pay very little tax.

This enormous loophole for the rich brought to you by your US representatives.

It’s easy to see if you imagine there are only three shares and one of them is torn up. The other two now own the entire company.

It’s a way of giving money to shareholders without the value being realized in the sense of being immediately taxable.

Just skip it if it’s not for you.

Having to go abroad when a visa/PR has already been granted is totally pointless. Green cards are mailed to your home in the US right now.

They might as well mail it to your home. That’s what happens today.

I'm not sure why you would assume to the contrary.

The very wealthy are paying very low effective rates on their investment gains. Various billionaires have publicly described the truth of this. This is not 20% on top of 35%. They are paying a marginal rate of 35% of deliberately minimized taxable income and zero on deliberately maximized unrealized gains. Then 20% when realized, but as we all know by now there are ways to make sure it’s never realized.

I don’t know what the best approach is here, but I know this framing is nonsense.

Call your government reps.

The engineers whose expertise you assume away are actually debating corner cases like the one we saw of someone carrying a bicycle on their skateboard.

In fact the companies run test campaigns in shitty weather all over the country on purpose, at great expense.

Apple's Liquid Glass comes to mind.

The design exec responsible suddenly left Apple for Meta, a company rather less esteemed for design, and Apple still hasn't acknowledged this failure or backtracked.

https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-annou...