That clipping is from a European publisher. Lol

Because people are a risk of messing with a company on purpose and with ill intent.

Besides, those lil trackers were badass and ones in good condition are still sought after. The one in the picture would probably sell for about $7,000 in that condition.

That’s a negative on pretty much all you’ve said. Companies will keep growing. More people at the companies will max out at how much you can earn. No one will want to give all extra money to just paying taxes. Instead they’ll take that extra money and it will get dumped back into the company. More buildings, expansion, more employees, higher pay and benefits, r&d, etc. they’ll spend the extra money. You’re talking as if someone who was making $5,000,000 a year would just be like “meh. Not worth doing this”

This was actually fairly close to how things where in the 1950’s when the US had everything going it’s way (if you were white, anyhow). Tax rates on the wealthy where over 90% at one point for over $250,000. Back when you could work at a grocery store and own a home and a car and not worry about drowning in medical debt.

My hot take: Greedy rich companies and millionaires and billionaires will always try to take as much as possible from the consumer. Raising the minimum wage effects people that were making the minimum wage, and is less and less beneficial to those that were making more than minimum wage. If minimum wage jumped up by $5 to go from $7.25 to $12.25, anyone who was already making $12.25 isn’t likely to get a raise to $17.25.

But because all these people are making more, the wealthy will up pricing of food and housing and utilities in order to keep making even more. This means inflation also rises faster. So while it helps things in the short term, it does nothing to help people in the long term, and it also hurts people closer to or already retired because the inflation will make their fixed incomes worth less.

So raising the minimum wage alone is a shit idea that only puts a short term bandage on things and the rising inflation means you’ll constantly be “behind the eight-ball” and playing catch-up to keep trying to raise it as inflation keeps rising because the rich keep getting richer.

The real fix needs to be lowering the top. Not raising the bottom. Tax the shit out of the wealthy with higher taxes as money made grows. Close the tax loopholes that let them hoard wealth. Make it so that so much of their money beyond like $5,000,000 in cash or assets increasing in value a year would be pointless to try and make because it would all just go to taxes. This will cut the legs out from under the wealthy and stop the needless ripping off of everyone else. If they can’t hoard money and increase their monetary value infinitely then the money will start going to the places it should. The inflation would stop, and upping the minimum wage could actually keep things livable.

But Beakman wanted to educate AND entertain. Plus, everyone should love Eliza Schneider.

I’ve never really cared for NDT. Every time I’ve heard him talk or be interviewed it sounds like he thinks he’s the most important guy ever.

Except the burrito itself is a wad of shell with like an ounce of hamburger inside.

Chasing perfection was my sanity back when I was a welder.

Not a whole lot. Only around $5 a pound. If there really is 3 grams of gold and you got the chemicals to dissolve and collect it safely, that’s worth waaay more. 3g of gold would be worth around $500.

They don’t just read plated. They’ll recognize scratches and dents on specific vehicles and also facial recognition. Basically complete human and machine tracking. Cities with flock cameras everywhere can track every move you make.

Back in my day we figured out how to take care of this without getting mom and dad involved. Lol

The non existent community moderation is by design and purpose. Valve wants it that way. They refuse to be any sort of gatekeepers in it.

You don’t know what jobs they cut. It was likely service offices and phone help and secretaries and maintenance people and commissioned sales people and such. They couldn’t have cut 30,000 programmers and hardware engineers.

No one deserves that much money and I’m not arguing in favor of what they did. I’m just pointing out that getting rid of that many people is way, way, more than $30,000,000 on a payroll.

I assume most of the layoffs were in support roles and not the main coders or hardware engineers. I assume it was a lot of secretaries and intern level stuff and phone rep and sales people supplemented by commissions and cleaning crew and maintenance jobs. Probably shut down some service offices too.

I just don’t really care for peanut butter.

Enough for 400 employees.

Lol. Gotta leave a little room down there for the “it can always get worse” section.

Unintentionally pressed my elbow into a hive if red paper wasps.

STRAIGHT FUCKING FIRE 🔥🔥🔥. Don’t recommend it. 3\10.