I already got a heat pump water heater and I love it! I'm totally in the market for a heat pump heater to replace our Heater/AC. the primary concern are three things: up front cost, and electricity costs for heating and…
i think it has to do with the vast oversupply of labor (at least for white collar jobs). employers generally pick people with degrees of people without because there's just too many candidates.
but he's back to where he started in the beginning. I didn't sound like there was any more self actualization, after he went back.
I ran the numbers average wages/big mac index. And it was showing a decrease in cost untill about 2000 but ever since then the cost of the big mac index has increased in the US, relative to average wages. Not that we…
I don't think food has gotten that much cheaper in the last 50 years. Don't believe the fake CPI. Just take the average hourly earnings and divide it by something like the big mac index or a basket of food commodities.
And yet, over 80% of the cost of food is the bringing it to market cost: everything from transportation, to permitting to marketing, etc. what you pay the farmer is just a small fraction. I think what's needed is a…
cost controls are a form of rationing and a good one, at least for the field of healthcare.
i'm just wondering how Meta will fair IF the metaverse doesn't take off the way they expect. I mean it's such a big bet. Google has made many bets in the past and some worked but most did not.
well, it's not the root cause. there's many reasons why healthcare is way too expensive in america. the fact is that employers pay a huge sum for healthcare in the US and this makes up a sizable portion of your…
I would say consumers should organize, and target a few of the biggest companies supporting this bill and boycott their products until the bill gets changed. If nobody buys another iphone for 6 months, I don't think…
i for one, hope that the AI will mostly stick to analyzing the content, rather than search intent because Google has had a history of misreading my search intent, quite frequently.
It's not useless at all. There are countries where the average workers earn 5 times less (even PPP adjusted) than our minimum wage and they don't rack up vast amounts of credit card debt, car loans, etc. We first need…
Failure of financial literacy is not because eduction has a lack of funding. The subject isn't even being taught, at least not when I was in school.
Crop diversity is great. And you also need lots of organic matter to go on top of the soil: to build life in the soil. that's much better than trying to duct tape the matter with fertilizer.
Well, that explains why our water is so high in nitrates. I've been looking into our local water supply. Out of the over 200 contaminants, the one that exceeds the EWG's limit by the most margin is nitrates which is…
Excellent point. Humanity has made all of our basic needs (shelter, food, water, land) inaccessible without lots of money. And, so we're forced into being slaves of govt and capitalism for most of our lives to earn a…
If AI can create the perfect executive summary, then why not? A good executive summary is better than just lead sentences.
I hate the fact that i'm forced to buy appliances with these circuits and nonsense apps in them. I dont need my appliance to be "smart". I just need it to do what I want it to do. a washer should just wash, and it…
There seems to be a knee jerk reaction to react negatively to anyone who doesn't read the article or doesn't read it in depth. i don't think the comment about TL;DR OR asking chatgpt is completely out of line. I could…
As the over supply of labor increases more and more, you're going to see more and more incompetent highering practices. This is a natural outcome of just too much talent chasing too few jobs. I would focus on companies…
I mean sure: the fundamentals all point to deflation: the aging population, the increasing debt and technology are all deflationary. But, in this day and age where the fed has sooo much power, it doesn't matter. see…
>> you can choose to go bankrupt or you can choose to pay it. There's another option. One that's far more politically favorable: You simply take out more and more debt, until finally the whole world sells US treasuries.…
His point is, the material standard of living is low as ever or even lower. This surprises people, but the bare necesities of the lowest level of maslow's heirarchy of needs are now more expensive than they have been in…
the point is everyone wants more govt spending, not necessarily handouts. Voters want larger government spending.
I have a theory. The last 100 years has seen govt spending as percent of gdp increase to ever greater levels. People are expecting more and more handouts and no one wants to pay for it. Without the ability to pay for it…
I already got a heat pump water heater and I love it! I'm totally in the market for a heat pump heater to replace our Heater/AC. the primary concern are three things: up front cost, and electricity costs for heating and…
i think it has to do with the vast oversupply of labor (at least for white collar jobs). employers generally pick people with degrees of people without because there's just too many candidates.
but he's back to where he started in the beginning. I didn't sound like there was any more self actualization, after he went back.
I ran the numbers average wages/big mac index. And it was showing a decrease in cost untill about 2000 but ever since then the cost of the big mac index has increased in the US, relative to average wages. Not that we…
I don't think food has gotten that much cheaper in the last 50 years. Don't believe the fake CPI. Just take the average hourly earnings and divide it by something like the big mac index or a basket of food commodities.
And yet, over 80% of the cost of food is the bringing it to market cost: everything from transportation, to permitting to marketing, etc. what you pay the farmer is just a small fraction. I think what's needed is a…
cost controls are a form of rationing and a good one, at least for the field of healthcare.
i'm just wondering how Meta will fair IF the metaverse doesn't take off the way they expect. I mean it's such a big bet. Google has made many bets in the past and some worked but most did not.
well, it's not the root cause. there's many reasons why healthcare is way too expensive in america. the fact is that employers pay a huge sum for healthcare in the US and this makes up a sizable portion of your…
I would say consumers should organize, and target a few of the biggest companies supporting this bill and boycott their products until the bill gets changed. If nobody buys another iphone for 6 months, I don't think…
i for one, hope that the AI will mostly stick to analyzing the content, rather than search intent because Google has had a history of misreading my search intent, quite frequently.
It's not useless at all. There are countries where the average workers earn 5 times less (even PPP adjusted) than our minimum wage and they don't rack up vast amounts of credit card debt, car loans, etc. We first need…
Failure of financial literacy is not because eduction has a lack of funding. The subject isn't even being taught, at least not when I was in school.
Crop diversity is great. And you also need lots of organic matter to go on top of the soil: to build life in the soil. that's much better than trying to duct tape the matter with fertilizer.
Well, that explains why our water is so high in nitrates. I've been looking into our local water supply. Out of the over 200 contaminants, the one that exceeds the EWG's limit by the most margin is nitrates which is…
Excellent point. Humanity has made all of our basic needs (shelter, food, water, land) inaccessible without lots of money. And, so we're forced into being slaves of govt and capitalism for most of our lives to earn a…
If AI can create the perfect executive summary, then why not? A good executive summary is better than just lead sentences.
I hate the fact that i'm forced to buy appliances with these circuits and nonsense apps in them. I dont need my appliance to be "smart". I just need it to do what I want it to do. a washer should just wash, and it…
There seems to be a knee jerk reaction to react negatively to anyone who doesn't read the article or doesn't read it in depth. i don't think the comment about TL;DR OR asking chatgpt is completely out of line. I could…
As the over supply of labor increases more and more, you're going to see more and more incompetent highering practices. This is a natural outcome of just too much talent chasing too few jobs. I would focus on companies…
I mean sure: the fundamentals all point to deflation: the aging population, the increasing debt and technology are all deflationary. But, in this day and age where the fed has sooo much power, it doesn't matter. see…
>> you can choose to go bankrupt or you can choose to pay it. There's another option. One that's far more politically favorable: You simply take out more and more debt, until finally the whole world sells US treasuries.…
His point is, the material standard of living is low as ever or even lower. This surprises people, but the bare necesities of the lowest level of maslow's heirarchy of needs are now more expensive than they have been in…
the point is everyone wants more govt spending, not necessarily handouts. Voters want larger government spending.
I have a theory. The last 100 years has seen govt spending as percent of gdp increase to ever greater levels. People are expecting more and more handouts and no one wants to pay for it. Without the ability to pay for it…