That's not even the point, though. Those smart-but-not-techy people are not going to grow GDP at the pace that Satya Nadella needs them to in order to keep his KPIs going up and to the right, and he's getting pissed.
Only because enough people believe that's true, and then only because there are aircraft carriers that convince people in other countries that it's in their best interest to use them.
Inflation is value confiscation. It's a tax. It reduces the burden of the greatest debtor (government) at the expense of everybody who holds dollars and produces value.
OK: I believe authoritarians should be laughed at early and often. If anybody happens construe the people I mistakenly described as authoritarians as fucking authoritarian, please mock the motherfuckers.
Yep. Been reading variations of the same article for decades. Captain Planet up there says building bridges and moving dirt around causes inequity, though, so I guess we have to live with it.
There's the authoritarian collectivist power differential take! I knew you were coming, you little rascal!
Massive amounts of resources are being wasted on bad climate ideas now. Poor people have bigger problems. That certain patches of land might be squishier in 100 years isn't in their top 10.
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