The number of extremely loaded people that fly first class public everywhere even though they could afford a private jet might surprise you.
I work for private jet type clientele, and only about 10-25% of our clients actually fly private jets everywhere they go. Which makes sense, considering it is about 1/10th the price to fly first class versus chartering.
Ive noticed actually just in the last year there has been a major drop off in terms of people chartering jets. It used to be that you had private jet owners, people who chartered jets, and then people who didnt fly private. Now you basically have people who either own a jet or are flying public with no inbetween. Even though these people could still afford to charter, its an easy place to tighten the belt. Just a <1 hr connection from our airport to the main airport in the state is a cool $10k
St Louisans voted to legalize weed before most states in country ever did. DC I think was the only city that legalized it first. Then the state government overturned what people voted for.
St Louis also voted for a minimum $15 wage way before $15 was the crap wage it is now. The state government then overturned that too.
The MO state government has been tyrannical ever since the state turned from purple to red. Imagine where St. Louisans would be today if we had gotten a $15/hr min wage 10 years ago…
I love my city, and MO at large is a beautiful state if you can ignore the political bullshit, but I cant and its among the plethora of reasons why I live in CO now instead. It may be far from perfect too, but at least they recognize home rule as being more important than state government tyranny
Itd be pretty amazing if the Episcopal church turned all of its infrastructure for resettling migrants into infrastructure for sheltering at-risk migrants in the US and protecting them from ICE. Im just sayin’
All cities that rely on a tourism based economy should be paying at least one person, if not a team, just to focus enforcement on this particular issue.
All illegal STRs either would be paying proper taxes as STRs, or wouldn’t be STRs and instead would be long term housing, if these laws were enforced.
All tourist cities struggle with the same issue of lacking workforce housing, which means there are no real locals, which means there really is no real vitality to the area at the end of the day. Necessary services that a city needs to survive rely on a workforce that lives an hour drive away.
Taxes on STRs are often directed towards solving housing issues, which is generally helpful. Overall though, the dominance of STRs is the death knell for any desirable tourist town. The conversion of what would otherwise be normal housing into a STR might make business sense. For example many STRs in my town charge more per night than they would probably garner a month in long term rent. But its something that should be allowed only in extremely limited use cases, like people being allowed to STR their own primary residence only. I think what we are learning from STRs is that there is a finite limit on how much living space in a city can be for tourist use before the city itself can no longer function.
Unfettered it just destroys rental markets by removing otherwise available stock. The only way it ever generates more money is by squeezing stock out of the LTR market, pumping the value of land/rent in the general sense, driving up the value of what they can charge per night while real people are out in the street because there are no places cheap enough (or in existence) to rent for a month.
Towns have to stop acting like they are the CEOs whose sole job is to raise land valuations for their shareholders. If pretty much any town or city in the country had only focused on what produced higher land value since their founding, then they probably wouldnt still be around now. In fact, many of the worst decisions made in the history of American urban design were made chasing the rabbit of higher land values.
Paying people to enforce STR laws isnt just a good way to collect tax revenue, but literally a way to protect the remaining stock in the rental market. Hopefully it only becomes more important and we see a crackdown on STRs in general
It has brain health implications when ingested at levels way above the standard levels used in virtually all water systems in the United States. Stop spreading bullshit. The only evidence of negative health effects from fluoride is based on studies where people were exposed to over 2x the levels of fluoride in municipal water
Even if Lemmy grows to a point of being on the radar, theres still no hope for any real IP to lock down for anybody. The whole design is fairly antithetical to being taken over and turned into a cash cow of some kind, despite feeling very much like something centralized in terms of how we interact with it.
I agree with OP, and I think this can even become an even better repository for information than something like Reddit, because it’s more democratized and deters astroturfing or many types of malfeasance by design. Especially as it stands now, early on. Thats why I started a community for billiards. The reddit community for billiards, as well as old forum sites, are great wealths of information that is hard to otherwise find. It would be great to build something like that here over time
The reality is that the job is kind of irrelevant. We had a manufacturing economy then, and a service based economy now, but the real difference between today and back then were wage strength and social parity. Of course pensions existed too, but still.
Back in the day one man could make enough to support a family on a relatively entry level skill level income. Today one person can hardly afford rent by themselves anywhere in the US for the same skill level of work.
Instead of paying people any more than absolutely necessary, we pay shareholders. No pensions, let alone benefits for a lot of people.
We need taxes on the wealthy and higher wages, if not legally mandatory profit sharing schemes for all businesses
Im all for making the traditional market more efficient and transparent, if blockchain can accommodate that, so long as we can also make crypto more like the traditional market. At least in terms of criminalizing shit that would obviously be illegal to do with securities
Save this example for the next time some chud tries to tell you colonization is a past event and not an ongoing process right this minute