The rich have way too much cash and desperately want another recession so they can buy cheap assets. Consumers, the overall job market etc. Are trending the other way and messing up the cycle of boom/bust. In this particular instance, I am fine with the layoffs... as long as they keep paying the people they laid off. Paying people whose jobs are automated should have started at least as early as the industrial revolution.
I arrived in Hong Kong from the US on 9/11 (so 9/10 in the US). Turned on BBC in the evening... and didn't sleep for a few nights. Extremely weird way to start a year teaching in China.
Melinda convinced Bill to start the BMGF foundation about 23 years ago. They put up what I think was half of their net worth, or $30,000,000,000 (30 billion dollars). Buffet promised to match every yearly expenditure, so roughly another $30 billion. They intend to spend it all down by the time the last trustees dies (probably Melinda). That is like the Rockefeller foundation (still around because compound interest) spent all of the money on charity before he died.
I kind of accidentally started intermittent fasting. Never ate much breakfast, got really busy for a while. I ended up eating one big meal late afternoon. My kids eat early, and after cooking and the late meal I'm just not hungry. Now I can't even eat a big meal (usually). 30 lbs down and most of the time it hasn't felt like a sacrifice at all. I eat whatever I want for about 4 hours.
Younger than me. You may have missed the chain emails that are the same as the fbook posts, "post this on your wall and you will get everything you desire. If you don't you may suffer."
Of course it's in Vancouver.