You’re making this unnecessarily complicated. Whether you purchased shares of a company through an ETF or directly, through your personal trading account, that money only goes to the person or entity that you bought the shares from. Maybe with some trading fees going to your broker (uncommon now thanks to the trend set by Robinhood).
Another indication of nationalism on the rise. Globalism still slowly dying down. We’re in the middle of a major transition. I wonder if any of us will actually think life is better at the other end [of the pendulum’s swing].
While I agree with the sentiment, I need to point out your numbers are exaggerated. There are calculators available on these healthcare marketplaces. The calculator for my state shows I would owe less than $130/mo unless I earned above a particular amount ($36k IIRC). The next “bracket” would have me paying around $240/mo up to around $90k earnings IIRC.
If you were earning above six figures then your numbers may be correct but let’s be honest and not dissuade folks from doing their own research. Everyone’s goals are different.
True, but they’ve certainly been doing it much longer than ten years. I’ll never forget this headline [0] that struck me as purely devilish, especially in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election. Combine that with the knowledge that Trump has been anti-NATO since the 1980s [1]. Who knows how long Russia has been nudging him along. Who knows how many avenues they traverse? Take for example the letter to Senator Tom Cotton about Greenland [2]. What an embarrassment. I can only hope we are equally successful in our own PsyOps.
I was wondering the same thing about bio-tech years ago and never found one I trusted. Recently learned about “investment themes” offered by Charles Schwab, and I was actually impressed with their offerings and the ability to tailor your picks & percentages in a given “theme.”
In my experience a four day work week really gives space for work / life balance.
I worked that schedule last year and it gave me a great feeling of ownership over my free time. So much in contrast to these five day work weeks where I often think, “I wish I had just one more day off!”
I appreciate the final paragraphs which suggest a solid method for those inside the country and under this oppressive regime to remain connected without surveillance. I wonder how many are up to this, and what active resistance or movements inside the country look like these days.
Parent comment is describing a solid green light (which is/was equivalent to flashing yellow). Never seen a green circle around a green arrow - lived in VA 20+ years
Samuel Pepys is mentioned quite often in Bill Bryson's book titled At Home. I had just read this paragraph yesterday:
> By chance, a Cambridge scholar, the Reverend George Neville, a master of Magdalene College, saw Macpherson's passing reference to Pepys's diaries and grew intrigued to know what else might be in them. Pepys after all had lived through momentous times - through the restoration of the monarchy, the last great plague epidemic, the Great Fire of London of 1666 - so their content was bound to be of interest. He commissioned a clever but penurious student named John Smith to see if he could crack the code and transcribe the diaries. The work took Smith three years. The result of course was the most celebrated diary in the English language. Had Pepys not had that cup of tea, Macpherson not mentioned it in a dull history, Neville been less curious, and young Smith less intelligent and dogged, the name Samuel Pepys would mean nothing to anyone but naval historians, and a very considerable part of what we know about how people lived in the second half of the seventeenth century would in fact be unknown. So it was a good thing that he had that cup of tea.