Capitalism with the unionization rate of that time would be much better than what we have today.
True. And the taxes: Eisenhower individual income above $200,000 was taxed at 90%, above $300,000 at 91%, and above $400,000 at 92%. That'd trim Musk Bezos etc. down to size, fund education, fund social security etc.
Corporate taxes topped out at 52% - the tax rate was 30% for the first $25,000 in profits that a company made, and 52% for anything over that amount.
Even with inflation taken into account - $300,000 in 1950 = $3,772,843.22 in 2023........ entire generations have been robbed by the right wing.
please enumerate the pro's from golf. The harms are manifold - everything from profligate water waste, terrible issues w/ fertilizer runoff, enormous amounts of land that could be used for housing, promoting a historically racist and classist sport, the harms are obvious and many. What pro's do you have that outweigh any of these cons?
Audubon International estimates that the average American course uses 312,000 gallons per day. In a place like Palm Springs, where 57 golf courses challenge the desert, each course eats up a million gallons a day. That is, each course each day in Palm Springs consumes as much water as an American family of four uses in four years.
don't merely consider the water used - think about the power used to pump it, the power used to filter it, in the millions of gallons per day, and justify this shit.
the hilarious irony is that modern trucks are often useless for hauling any decent loads because they're crew cabs and jacked up for no fucking reason. To purchase a truck with a large bed often requires a special order and weeks of waiting.
Sheer overhead. It's not a general purpose game engine, it's a hotrod FPS engine with all the visuals crankABLE to 11. But if you're not pushing for the high end pc/console FPS, adapting it to your game's flow and perf reqs can be challenging. And it's not the easiest engine to develop AR/VR or other new tech on, requiring hyper optimization and throttling lot's of the engine's gorgeous visuals. It'll be interesting to see where it goes from here though, unity has fucked themselves 8 ways from sunday on developer confidence and their own fragmented shit show outside the board room didn't generate lots of confidence either.
I'm a fucking rationalist and a realist. You're a delusionist apparently.
there's so many resources, we can spend them foolishly on bullshit that benefits few, or we can devote our energy, space and production to saving our own asses.
do the fucking math, and please, stop trying to convince me your milquetoast excuses are anything but "fuck you, I don't care" - because your indifference and petty justifications communicate loud and clear dipstick.
So you're completely aware of the harm being done to play a fool's game, the waste of space and resources, the impact to the watershed, and your response is "yeah well how does it compare to other pollution" - FOR A FUCKING GAME?
AND YOU WONDER WHY I INSULT YOU?
if we have any descendents that live through the next millennium, they're going to wonder why it was so hard to just stop killing the planet, and one of the biggest reasons will be fuckwits like you who stood in the way. for fucking games.
I'm pretty convinced Golf is Scotland's gift to mankind. It's a fantastic prank - fooling rich morons into spending their days whacking a ball up and down useless terrain, only whack it again, and again, while wearing ugly clothes and paying people to carry your bag of clubs. Scotland sold this joke so well the world bought it, and if it weren't for the ridiculous environmental impacts, I'd be all for keeping the joke going.
Because if you think golf is a sport, you're a clown, and probably dress like one. Good work Scotland.
Because of nitrogen and phosphorus runoff, you fucking ignorant dolt. This is a REAL FUCKING PROBLEM even for you fortunate assholes up in the mountains.
The fertilizers still run down stream into the Raritan Bay watershed, LIS, hell every fucking waterway in the northeast.
Some of these fertilizers are critical to growing our fucking crops to feed people, so set aside your FUCKING INANE AND STUPID HOBBY for a moment and realize we gotta keep using them, we simply can't keep spraying them on putting greens so it runs down to the creek, into river, on into the bay or lake.
True. And the taxes: Eisenhower individual income above $200,000 was taxed at 90%, above $300,000 at 91%, and above $400,000 at 92%. That'd trim Musk Bezos etc. down to size, fund education, fund social security etc.
Corporate taxes topped out at 52% - the tax rate was 30% for the first $25,000 in profits that a company made, and 52% for anything over that amount.
Even with inflation taken into account - $300,000 in 1950 = $3,772,843.22 in 2023........ entire generations have been robbed by the right wing.