once currency has no meaning.
You really think those bunkers are filled with cash Scrooge McDuck style? They’ll have food, guns, and likely lots of gold. They’ll also very likely be sustainable.
Keeping the mercs fed and happy is a trivial thing.
Unfortunately their house of cards is built on a foundation of wealth…and not just fuck you money, but literal centuries of fuck you money.
The fortune 50 I worked for could literally stop doing all business and maintain their current spend for a century and still be solvent.
This isn’t unstable at all…it’s built to last for 100s of years…the current leaders to their grandkids will be safe.
To further that…the 1% have private armies and well stocked bunkers to ride out any social uprising. That’s the really scary stuff.
We are all fucked though. Enjoy the hunger games.
It’s the natural end for a free market. The big players take over and squeeze every drop of blood they can from the consumer class until the inevitable collapse or B&L buys the government.
Centrist views are shunned by the internet at large. Both sides hate us.
Meh…embrace the toxicity and get off the internet. Be a gentleman and don’t worry about it.
Renting was probably a better choice in this market.
You don’t really even have to save money if you’re smart with the first time homebuyers credits and grants.
I was one of the downvotes. Clusivity, as described in your article does not apply to y’all. It’s You All…it will never include the speaker.
It’d have to be something like w’all to apply.
No…not really. It’s just as polarized here as the rest of the internet.
Think about this…ever been to a large sporting event in a huge arena? Think of a sold out NFL game. The stadiums are designed to get people in and out quickly. Lots of people in a out quickly.
It’s a fucking disaster, every game, every time.
Now imagine doing that daily just to get to work. That’s what you’re proposing here.
No…no it doesn’t…where does your eutopia actually exist? Does it have a growing population center?
This is where someone says the Nordic countries usually…the problem with that example is the US is what…20-50x bigger.
You’re not biking across your state…more or less the whole of the US. You also might want to take a harder look at their cultures and see how they deal with no homogeneous populations…it’s not pretty.
The conclusions in the article are bizarre. The widening worked, and as the population increased, the congestion increased in those areas.
The solution is stop upping population density in population dense areas.
You just can’t pack that many people in per square mile and make it work, regardless of if we are using cars or not.
I’ll take the average immigrant’s reading level over the average conservative’s reading level.
Top hit on google: https://www.crossrivertherapy.com/research/literacy-statistics#:~:text=Top 10 U.S. Literacy Rate,literacy below sixth-grade level.
Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/08/02/us-literacy-rate/
There’s a bunch of other studies out there that back that number…It’s always generally 20% can’t read at all…50% can’t do critical analysis of text.
It’s really ugly…Those people all vote, and I think it helps explain how the most vile ridiculous demons the R’s put out there get 30%+ of the vote. It’s extremely hard to refute lies when the person consuming and believing the lie can’t read.
It’s only going to get worse. 20% of the US is illiterate. 50% can’t read above a 6th grade level.
Read that again.
1 in 2 people can not read above a 6th grade level.
That is a fucking insane statistic.
That may have been sarcastic, but I appreciated the info. It beats having to take a shower.
the separated from the toilet kind.
I don’t understand how those work at all…seems like that would be a recipe for poop tracks from the toilet.
You’re reading that article completely wrong…the numbers you posted are medians for upper income earners. The median US worker does not have 6 years of higher ed. I think only 20-30% even have a bachelor’s.
The median income in the US is 50k as of 2022. The 90th percentile is 120k-130k.
Those are disgustingly low for not having universal health or any social safety net like the rest of the industrialized world.
Upper middle class is the top 10%…So yea, 9 out of 10 people aren’t doing so great.
Google is a Trillion dollar company. Fleecing the YouTube users for another 10m a year is pure hardcore end game free market capitalism.
Fuck them.