In America, welfare is designed in such a way in which it actually prevents the jobless from wanting to enter the workforce. They actually make more by panhandling and collecting welfare than simply getting an entry level job. The jobless understand this basic economic tactic well, so they end up permanently living off welfare and not trying to get a job. The government does not want to fix welfare to actually work (for example, with a negative income tax instead) because it would result in the firing and unemployment of many government welfare office workers.
That's not because of the processor. It's because the newest iPad Pro has a 120hz display and the other devices that you were comparing to have a 60hz display.
Poker can be considered work. If you actually truly learn to play it, it teaches you a lot about people, emotions, thinking ahead several steps, probability, and risk and reward.
It's more important to keep in mind that Amazon created hundreds of thousands of new jobs, raised minimum wage in many areas, and brought many people out of absolute poverty. No matter which way you look at it, a net positive rather than a negative.
There are several entire companies whose core product is a security camera that cannot get a security camera to work "well". At least 50% of it is making the user experience smooth and loading times extremely low. You would think that the product managers are responsible for this would take responsibility for it and make sure it works perfectly. However, there are very few great product managers out there. Most of them fail miserably and end up giving even the good product managers a bad reputation. At the end of the day, the guy who wrote this could possibly be just a single poor plonker in his mom's basement who never stood a chance against the most discriminating of users like us.
And is this rainy-day fund working? I am seeing that the human feces pickup-patrol in SF is costing taxpayers up to $184k each and SF is becoming an even worse homeless-friendly dump with California's extreme liberal policies.
I am just wondering if the PE ratio became extraordinarily high because high growth tech companies now are a major part of all of the large indices. Did you ever think about that?