Companies being multi-billion (let alone multi-trillion) dollar entities is definitely an issue. Throwing that much weight around would definitely destroy whole states the size of mid-sized cities. Voluntary coordination between sovereign entities would have to exist.
That's what the United States of America used to be and was supposed to remain. Thank the first civil war for that change.
That's far too epic a name for a rodent 😂
I like the idea. States ought be much smaller by orders of magnitude. 100k people sounds about right. Small enough that you could definitely approach the nearest representative and give him a piece of your mind, and sending troops to your door in retaliation constitutes a measurable portion of their non-effectively-infinite budget, yet large enough that the proceedings can do real work.
I like using the term "free market" over "capitalism" since Marx himself came up with the term, and "free market" is more descriptive and precise to our meaning. "Capitalism" as a term is additionally ambiguous as to who gets to be an owner of capital, and the communists will accuse the free market advocates of promoting exclusivity of rights.
This is my reality. I got an engineering degree from a good, private school. I believed the promise that it meant I would always earn a good living. Instead, the job market has been messed up for my entire adult life, and my field is oversaturated.
I switched career paths, and I like what I do, but meeting an entrepreneur is tougher than being an engineer.
Read the fine print. When your bank has your money, is theirs. Bank runs are necessary until we get rid of fractional reserve lending and bank-owned everything.
I hate one size fits all life recommendations. What works for some doesn’t necessarily work for all.
I hate the common tendency to reject a good rule because some exceptions can be found.
If one doesn't actually mean it when she said "til death do we part," did she actually get married?
The vow's legitimacy is essential to the marriage's validity.
Every dollar spent because mom's out working is an extra dollar thirty she and dad has to earn.
Or, the other way around, every dollar you save by working in the home is a dollar thirty you don't have to earn.
Dual income is a scam, because Uncle Sam gets to tax mom for the work she does outside the home. He's incentivized to make her want to work outside the home.
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I remember when that number was only $43k/citizen and thinking that was insane
I will immediately buy BTC with my CBDC stimi (if it's not banned). Then, immediately self-custody it.
DJT endorses BTC
😂 I edited it, but I used ChatGPT to quickly write most of it 🤙
So, the speaker of the house, McCarthy, just got booted. Talk about installing Trump. What if that happens? 😂 that would be amazing!
In addition, what would happen if we orange-pill DJT? Now THAT would be great!
> Well, let me tell you folks, Bitcoin, it's a tremendous thing. Really tremendous. A beautiful thing, okay? It's stateless, decentralized money. The best money. Believe me, the best.
> First of all, you can't just print more Bitcoin. The Fed, they like to print money, they love to do it. But Bitcoin, it's limited, it's limited, just like your favorite Trump Tower suite. There will only be 21 million Bitcoin, and that's it. You can't inflate it, you can't mess with it.
> And the Fed, let me tell you about the Fed. They love to inflate, they love it, but with Bitcoin, they can't touch it. Can't inflate it, can't devalue it. It's a beautiful thing, really beautiful. With Bitcoin, the American people are in charge of the government again, and the swamp can finally be drained, because you are in charge and you don't want any more swampy congressmen and women.
> And it's decentralized. No one person or government controls it. It's like a great, big, beautiful wall of financial security. No one can tear it down. No one can mess with it. It's for the people, by the people, and that makes it great and that's the power to make America great and keep it great.
> So, folks, Bitcoin is the future. It's the American dream of money. Tremendous. Just tremendous. Believe me.
I don't smoke often. Sometimes weeks or maybe a month between, but sometimes I find a pipe or cigar is exactly what I need to temper the stress and take on my responsibilities with greater ease, pleasure, and strength. Moderation is good. Indefinite abstinence may be necessary for some, but not all. Prayers for you, father, as you struggle against your habit.
Francis is really doing a number on the Church. Scandals left and right, and this one is a truly egregious one.
I listened to Tim Gordon break this news. He could use some tact, but he is right about Francis. Truly ridiculous (in the proper sense of the word and in the exasperated sense).
Ramen was only $0.25/pack just 20 years ago, and now it's roughly double that. I bet most of that is in the last five years, though.