I've worked for a couple startups and you're absolutely right. If you make a profit you pay taxes on that money, so startups like to spend most of the money they bring in. They also want to show revenue growth, since that's what investors like to see. You grow revenue by getting more paying customers. And you do that by doing what your customers want.
When you go public, your goal is to increase shareholder value. So you do this by reducing costs and finding ways to wring customers out of revenue. You find ways to nickle and dime customers out of revenue so much you develop an entire branch of law devoted to you suing your customers
Biden could strip bare ass naked and do the entire Aristocrats joke while defecating on the Resolute Desk and it wouldn't convince me to vote for anyone else.
Honestly, that would probably make me like him more.
There's a lot of fun cryptids in that region. Apart from the Pennsylvania White Bigfoot, there's the snallygaster and the dewayo. I think the former is because there's a lot of herons in the area, and the latter is your standard "omg a weird bear" cryptid.
There's activism happening around 4/20. My dispensary is getting folks to post their experiences with medical use, and getting them to sign a petition and giving out stickers promoting my state's recreational bill. Plus sometimes it's fun to have fun. Having a single day (and time) to make it a cultural event helps with activism by removing the stigma against it.
I don't celebrate 4/20 because I use it medicinally, but I'm glad it's a thing if only because it makes everybody forget Hitler's birthday.
People don't have to be okay with it. Just the 20% of the population who votes for these assholes. Our system of government makes sure a minority can rule as long as their population density is sufficiently low.
I remember downloading porn in the 90s. It would take me about a week, mainly because I had a 28.8 modem, but also because I had to schedule them to resume in the middle of the night so my parents wouldn't know I was downloading porn. It would boot up at 2am, download for three hours, and then shutdown at 5am, about an hour before my dad woke up for work.
Part of the (small) student loans I've since paid off went to pay for my Econ 101 class, so I understand that having a big portion of the economy tied up paying student loans is a bad thing for everyone.
Now the big problem is we've made college the default next step and we're running out of tradesmen while having a glut of college grads serving coffee and doing gig work.
Actually two of them. One that lasts three days and one that lasts two days. And I have to be there in person "so we can have conversations." And the dress code is business casual.
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Considering how humans evolved we're not that different from huskies. We're supposed to be walking 20 miles a day.