I’m VERY excited for this. The entire Netflix universe was done so well, even if some things were better than others. The smaller, more grounded scale just makes it a more enjoyable story.
Whatever steps he could have taken to prevent it from happening (I’m not super familiar with crypto self management) aside, this still sucks for him. If I knew I had generational wealth right beyond my finger tips, I’d be obsessed too.
Mortgage rates coming down is not the answer. It’ll only drive up demand while supply stays the same. There is a major need for more supply. People will reply with the number of vacant units, but vacancy is a broad measure that ignores things like a house currently being sold and going through the closing process.
The country, as a whole, needs something like 6.5 million more housing units to meet demand at which point prices would come down.
It’s unfortunately not going to happen without government (local or federal) intervention.
This Freakonomics episode focuses more on rentals but the basic concepts are the same:
If you read the article though, it appears as though a more basic prosthetic would be covered, but the one with electronics to provide greatly enhanced stability will not be.
I’m in no way siding with the insurance company, but they’re not flat out refusing to cover the prosthetic.
The story on wages is more complex. They have gone up, but have been outpaced by inflation. The pandemic throws a wrench in measuring things, though, and gives both sides of the argument valid data to work with.
It feels like Zuckerberg is out of ideas and just chases the trends to stay relevant. He was all in on the “metaverse” until he wasn’t because the concept disappeared. Now, he’s all in on AI because everyone else is. Even the quest, before it became the face of the metaverse, was him chasing another big idea from someone else.
He and the company haven’t had original ideas in a very long time. Even the smaller ones, like Stories and Reels, are just ideas copied from someone else.
For like 4 people, at most.