It's the rate that women are getting pregnant. Circumstances and societal conditions can certainly curtail and slow the willingness of otherwise capable women to have families.
Chicken and egg problem. Cars are necessary because businesses/places to work are far apart, but they got to be the distance they were because cars are around. The US is a huge place, there was plenty of space to go around and the current situation is what follows from it.
English being a mess may be one of its charm points. Many languages in a trenchcoat, full of flavor and exceptions to its own rules and a headache to learn.
>Almost nothing is an emergency situation requiring your elevated tone of voice or physically rushing towards them.
Those are of course situations where immediate action IS necessary. It's a judgement call, but the point seems to be that if it's not a mortal danger, then don't overreact.
I would say they're so much ahead because they're so far behind.
True, in the US consumer rights are largely a joke, but on the same token doing business in the EU seems to be a huge regulatory mess for corporations both abroad and internal and it's quite hard to imagine any company in the EU reaching the heights of Microsoft or Apple, or even seeing more adventurous and risky endeavors like Tesla.
Pros and cons to both sides of having such rules. I'm certainly on the side of believing pro-consumer rights, but the lack of them may not be entirely a bad thing from a macro economic standpoint either.
>Right now, advertising is not part of Journal’s revenue plans, but that could change.
That's unfortunate, but at least it's honest. Looks neat otherwise. I can get Google-like search to my personal life right now using, well, Google. Is an option for an individual subscription based service an option being considered?
That's a big crux of the issue.
Why should a teenager spend X amount of hours on a volatile schedule to get a pittance of money that quite literally gets eaten up nearly as quickly as it comes in? McJobs have been a recurring joke for years, and now that minimum wage cannot actually pay for a living, what's the point?
I'm not sure people who would want pain emojis care enough to buy votes at the club.
Besides, at least as far as Discord/Slack goes, most people I've found just upload their own little emoticons as they are more meaningful and great for inside jokes on a particular server/team.
>not everyone will get equal (or any) additional income under a UBI scheme
Why call it universal base income if you can price yourself out of it like you can with normal welfare? I thought that was the entire point of the system.
While this is true, it is not magically funded, consider the average person. Taxes historically are taken out every pay check. This person is now receiving $X dollars a month "for free", insofar that it doesn't require any actual input on their end to receive this money. Rationally, of course it's not magical free money, but and the end of the day they do ultimately have X more a month to spend.
I'm not forgetting supply and demand. The supply increases, therefore demand would as well.
If there are more places to live than people who need them, then I'm curious where this place is. In populated areas where the rental market is already insane (SF, NYC, etc), then it could really only increase rent prices.
Rent is a big one.
For example, you charge your tenants $1000 a month now. UBI kicks in, everyone gets an extra $500. Why wouldn't a landlord up their rent charge to $1500, or even to just $1250? Who wouldn't want to do that?