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  • It makes more sense when, every time you hear "x is good/bad for the economy" from a corporate outlet, you replace 'The economy' with 'rich people's bank accounts.' Nobody with a pulpit gives a rat's ass about the economy of the 99%

  • Don't forget the shitty political views that fucked up the environment and the economy. If my parents want grandkids they can adopt, I can't afford any of that shit and I won't put someone else through this hell if I can help it.

  • I mean, that is effectively what's happening to workers now, in a sense - worker wages have stagnated to the point that they are receiving much less of a share of overall profit than they were in the 70s and 80s, while executive compensation has skyrocketed.

    The reason executives can't do what you're suggesting is because workers are already just scraping by. The wages as they are now are unlivable, if they're reduced any more, people will walk off in droves. I suspect if by some miracle it passed through both houses and the executive desk without a billionaire yanking it, and land were taxed to hell and back, they'd probably just eat it because it would still be more profitable than letting it sit fallow.

  • Interesting, but as always, the issue is scale. A suitcase-sized device that can produce 4-6 liters a day 'cheaper than tap water' is promising, but I'm skeptical because the infrastructure for tap water already largely exists. If you can either hook it up to the pipes localized to a dwelling, or if it scales up to the size of a plant that can distribute it along the pipes in place, maybe. Even then, it relies on sunlight and evaporation to work, which means variable, possibly insufficient output in the colder wetter months.

  • Admittedly, I am one of those people taking a plane well over once a year, although I really rather wish I weren't - I haven't had a personal trip in over four years, it's all onsite implementation.

  • I'm guessing here because I don't sit on Epic's board of directors, but I would imagine their angle for consumers was mostly to grab new markets with the appeal of free games, which would also establish a library that would be a pain point if they ever wanted to move away, coupled with some of those one-year exclusives that would peel people away from Valve if they wanted to play them day-of.

  • I did, right around release date, and all the equipment was a lot more vendor trashy - I think it was built directly on Witcher 3 code, with items having leveled attributes and some having level requirements the same way that game handled equipment.

  • Yeah, no fucking shit. Businesses love to wave the 'tax-exempt' flag on their HSAs like they're not to actual goddamn insurance what 401k's were to the pensions, they act like this is good for anyone but people trying to get out of paying their fucking taxes.