Your unsourced assertion does makes sense. WF isn't well positioned to survive any further SNAFUs — technical ones in particular. Plus I don't think of them as being primarily focused on their CC business in a way…
Most nascent lines of research probably shouldn't be used to make life choices anyway.
What's scary about it? The risk individual (natural) persons might be rude to each other based on political opinions? Dude — already happening.
Positive results for social policy. Questionable results for economic policy. Historically the latter has been driven by physiological particulars of a state — availability of farm land, coal mines, etc. Has anyone…
Lesser divisions of government don't run militaries that might prefer autarky in the event of large conflict.
While there's definitely signs of geographic stickiness nowadays, I wish someone would age-adjust those statistics — above a certain age people tend not to move at all, and we have way more people above a certain age…
The old CFO at my firm was awarded the first year of annual cost-cutting savings as his bonus. Executive comp can be weird, but at a public company it's probably not a loss-leader.
The cost to deploy most services does not increase linearly with the tax base. Usually it's capital expenditure. Maybe (but not necessarily!) the number of police can grow linearly with the growth in taxable property.…
Your unsourced assertion does makes sense. WF isn't well positioned to survive any further SNAFUs — technical ones in particular. Plus I don't think of them as being primarily focused on their CC business in a way…
Most nascent lines of research probably shouldn't be used to make life choices anyway.
What's scary about it? The risk individual (natural) persons might be rude to each other based on political opinions? Dude — already happening.
Positive results for social policy. Questionable results for economic policy. Historically the latter has been driven by physiological particulars of a state — availability of farm land, coal mines, etc. Has anyone…
Lesser divisions of government don't run militaries that might prefer autarky in the event of large conflict.
While there's definitely signs of geographic stickiness nowadays, I wish someone would age-adjust those statistics — above a certain age people tend not to move at all, and we have way more people above a certain age…
The old CFO at my firm was awarded the first year of annual cost-cutting savings as his bonus. Executive comp can be weird, but at a public company it's probably not a loss-leader.
The cost to deploy most services does not increase linearly with the tax base. Usually it's capital expenditure. Maybe (but not necessarily!) the number of police can grow linearly with the growth in taxable property.…