At some point they’ll realize Putin is not running a car import business either and could maybe see through a bit of the fog, but they won’t. Willful blinders don’t come off.
They would rather deny their children schooling than admit they were wrong and foolish.
I hope more join them.
Amazing story, thank you for sharing.
Have you tried accommodation, no consequences and tolerance? Works every time toward fascists.
The bubble was accelerated by people assuming prices would always rise, often their own greed and flipping or becoming landlords, and this was only possible due to the financial engineering that made lending to these folks posivle, but all of that droce the value of the underlying assets down significantly.
You claim there wasn’t a bubble…look at home price values in the sunbelt in 05 vs 2009.
TF are you talking about there wasn’t a bubble
You’ll note they always use “average”(mean) rather than median savings/assets to mask that it’s really a small portion of boomers that are living the easy life. Still better off as a whole than later gens but to your point, no warfare but class warfare. I read a recent book , “work, retire, repeat” looking at the life crisis that has been built with insecurity and poverty driving most people, regardless of age to work too much and work until they die. Your point is the best one; billionaires and their lobbyists and owned politicians are the real problem.
There are many boomers with nothing, who did not have or get a pension, who didn’t or couldn’t accumulate wealth through housing, who may not have gone to college because (and the article leaves this out) they didn’t even need a degree to move up. The book mentioned above calls out that only 8% of people working past 62 are doing it because they really want to be and have a job they enjoy. Many are still working for healthcare, to service debt, concerns of future unknown/instability/inflation, social security being threatened, and also it notes they many keep working because they have kids or other dependents they see struggling in a tougher world and want to help/ensure they aren’t another burden.
I’m not a boomer or discounting the relative advantages they had, but it’s the concentration of wealth to the owner class/.5% that are by far the issue not an age group.
Damn, appears I’ve whooshed it
“WMP” is not exactly the delivery you want if you’re bragging about typing, unless you’re specifically trying to prove your error rate in the same claim.
There might have been some important information in the thread above me but I can’t be bothered to read and comprehend it so I put it into my AI and it said I should vote for Musk and jello was purple.
Bond.
Half of the plot points from all the movies have been enacted, attempted or discussed in the first year of Trump’s presidency by his cabinet, handlers, backers or string-pullers or funders. Fictional supervillains as entertainment are a distraction, dangerously so when the real thing is happening as we speak.
Just needs one more lane to fix it.
Done earlier, a bit more cleverly here;
I think the ability to search and filter will start to be restricted as well. At this juncture people are still under the illusion AI will be an annoying bolt-on to their experience; it won’t be. The “dead internet” will not just be searches that don’t show what is truly available on google; websites themselves, rather than offering robust tools to find and understand and review products will begin to force you to use their AI funnel, which as you said will just be a paid delivery funnel for 1 final product. Many won’t notice the change, but there will come a day.
Brad Pitt’a voice in Snatch
I’m not sure if it’s the Irish or pirates who are offended here.
Old Biff is eerily like Trump.
Shocked Pikachu who could have predicted
The video iteration, the Ready Player 1, will be where people actually start plugging themselves into a physical matrix. Reality will be too terrible to bear when you can literally plug into a better life.
So annoying! The world doesn’t have to suck, we just have to have the guts to take it back.
Tariffs seem popular with the right, they voted for them and seem to love they’re paying more for products so don’t count on it
Also, 20x the price of the original item.