A mortgage gets you a place to live with increasing amount of property ownership as time goes on. It isn’t at 25% interest for one evening. You never get the money back from going to a concert, you do get at least some back on a mortgage.
No, I don’t believe you should do it if it is going to make you struggle more long-term. At what point do we just agree a given amount of money you don’t have is stupid to spend. If someone spent $1,000+ that they can’t actually pay on a t swift concert at 25% interest, yeah, maybe you’d be in a better situation for 2y if you avoided that extra few hundred in interest for like 4y. Preventing my own struggle certainly better than a few hours of entertainment and hearing loss.
I do believe people should be paid enough to afford joys in life without struggling so much but that’s not the system we have.
I love how easily people are strawmanning this into something I didn’t say.
I mean even if the show had happened it sounds like you shouldn’t have spent money you didn’t have.
There are laws about it for military stuff, they actually can just be legally nationalized if a CEO is being a traitor. I’m not sure about the timeline for that to be done but trying to do it at all would have been better than continuing with no consequences.
There are limited alternatives to starlink in war zones with infrastructure at risk like Ukraine, not to mention the government contracts that were signed to pay and use them mean switching isn’t the easiest.
That’s been true since slow-walking advanced equipment and allowing Musk to remain free and not nationalizing Starlink after he fucked parts of the counteroffensive.
Looking at a couple publications from the lab funding appears to be from a couple different foundations but nothing commercial. Pharma barely puts anything into basic R+D unless they’re a startup. Established pharma R+D is largely clinical trials and/or process development. If her work is patented by the university then pharma may pay the university to use her work. University would then give a smaller kickback to the lab/scientists.
NCI (national cancer institute-part of NIH) was the largest cancer research funder in the US, about 7B worth and even then less than 10% of proposed projects were being funded. The ACS (American cancer society) funds about 100M.
50 seems a bit high as a non-UK maybe 5-20 depending on how many swings you want to take at it?
The rich and upper middle. Most people can’t afford international travel as is. Tariffs and job loss only going to make that worse.
The international demand lost is well beyond what can be replaced with domestic demand. Tariffs are also going to keep prices high so even with a demand reduction that won’t matter to a lot of the supply cost.
The taxes are one thing but less profit and less demand=jobs being cut which has downstream effects. Any smart company doesn’t expect this to be short. Being advised against travel is not something that gets turned around easily.
The bad thing for the US is that its a lot of revenue to lose. This type of thing has knockon effects. America has a very large tourist hospitality sector.
Yes, it was promised but the people thinking it a good thing, who voted for it and are implementing it do not understand how the economy works.
Tell me honestly if you were added to such a chat would you think it serious or some sort of military larp chat?
Then tell me you’d be able to contact the houthis in less than 2h much less being trusted about it or any sort of secretive about it?
Already did that part. Hell he called himself an idiot for the nafta modifications of his first term. Senile narcissist is stupid af more for the next 3y(at least).
The bigger question rather than letting them step into that spot is whether it means we’ll let them take Taiwan and other contested islands in the Pacific without a struggle. I think they’ll be allowed because there isn’t another option while Republicans remain in power in the US.
They’ve got Russia very dependent on them now. Better if they remain dependent. They could also probably get the NK soldiers to be withdrawn back to NK.
Both. He knows it made him richer and he’s enough of an egomaniac to believe it does what he says it would do just because he said it. Now he’s richer and he’ll believe this was his plan all along because a narcissist is never wrong to themselves, hes already been blaming Biden about any negative economic news.