Prices on goods rise when demand for goods stays sufficient to support the price going up. The less everyone buys, the less things will cost.
Prices for goods have almost nothing to do with the price of rent, but the mechanisms there are the same - it's just that you have to encourage building rather than "live somewhere less" because the second option really isn't tenable, for obvious reasons.
If you want rent to come down, campaign for, vote for, or even run for office to be the candidate that will change zoning laws and encourage building multifamily housing.
I've made more as a server than most Americans make doing "appropriately compensated" work. Hitting median wage for your area as a server is easy in 95% of the US.
Their employer is treating them like a tipped employee, which is so embedded into society's fabric that we have a separate tax code for it.
You not liking that is not any different from you liking a given law. You're free to not participate, but expect there to be consequences, and one of those is for people to assume you're intentionally being an asshole, not protesting a perceived injustice.
Dude what's neat about this is Oxygen on Venus is like Helium on Earth (less dense than most of the atmosphere, so rises naturally) so your balloon doesn't even need to be hot, just really sturdy.
Nope. It was about as left-wing as Lemmy and if you said something that was demonstrably bullshit, 8 different people would tell you to fuck off
Early reddit was not left wing. It was techbro-libertarian. The famous Ron Paul "It's Happening" gif comes from reddit lol.
I'd love for this place to be as openly welcoming as early reddit.
I understand you don't like when normal people come into the frontiers, but that just means you'll constantly need to find new frontiers.
Such is life for people who move to the frontier to be alone. You're not unique, this has happened throughout all of human history, and it'll happen to the fediverse too.
You'll always have Hexbear tho. For want of a frontier, it's easy to have an island.
Even removing the terms "surplus wealth" and "extracted" - which I don't necessarily disagree with in all instances but which isn't going to win anyone over - this still is not some undue burden.
I'd like to see this tackled as a simple conversation between discretionary and non-discretionary spending. A poor person struggles with even sales tax increases because they have little discretionary income. A rich person has vastly more discretionary income and thus is the least burdened by new taxation of any sort.
Gets around all the "fair tax"/"flat tax" arguments right from the jump.
That's true about their upper atmosphere, but we're nowhere close to being able to capitalize on it (as in, no missions even planned). Closest we've got on paper is an orbiter by the early 30s.
Hopefully in my lifetime we see an upper atmosphere balloon or something. That alone would be unbelievably cool.
Venus is significantly more hostile than Mars, so while we definitely want to do more with Venus, Luna and Mars are clear next-ups for manned landings.
While all of Mars is hostile to human life, Venus is also incredibly hostile to equipment, and thus requires a different approach to even unmanned launches.
Current maximum lifetime for any unmanned craft in the Venusian atmosphere (to say nothing of the ground) is only about 2 hours.