Midwesterner here. Is this because of bad construction mixed with climate change causing stronger storms? I’ve been seeing much lower quality new construction up here and I’m curious if houses are just becoming total losses during storms instead of repairable.
They mention construction costs are partially to blame but I can’t believe that and shareholders are the only thing boosting it by that much.
People were scared. Layoffs were happening. Threats of layoffs were happening. At the beginning people were thankful to have steady income and some financial security.
Then corporations sold us on the “we’re all in this together” which bought some time until the yearly profits started coming out showing how much we weren’t all in it together.
People are finally at a breaking point. Either financially or socially. It’s not easy to risk it all. Especially when the corporations are willing to throw hundreds of millions of dollars at making sure you don’t succeed.
I used to do some coding in high school and early college. I’ve since moved on to other things but it’s fun to have ChatGPT write me a little python script or something and debug my way through it.
Pretty much the same story. Got pissed at an inkjet one night when my wife needed to print something for school. Still going strong 1 toner replacement later.
T-Mobile owned companies and data breaches. Can you name a better duo?