For every example like this there are a million examples of poor people staying poor.

Social mobility is much less than we like to pretend it is.

Everybody works hard. If hard work is all it takes to deserve billions, why aren't all the rest of us billionaires?

Because she got help, that's why.

"Wage" is rather poor wording then.

I think it would be a lot more reasonable to expect undocumented issues. They have a lot to lose and it's controlled by a billionaire. As if they're not going to try to cover it up.

Pretty sure the people insisting on using Japanese names on English websites designed for English-speaking audiences are the ones gatekeeping.

"Oh no, they're trying to teach me about grammar! I must resist knowledge!"

Both the bread and the circuses used to be free.

Now people pay out the nose for all of it, and think it's a great time.

The UK using the lion is the funniest shit to me. It just seems like such a sad cope.

You know what uses three times the amount of water per acre? Corn. And almonds use about ten times more water than corn.

And we get food out of that input, unlike a golf course where you get nothing of value.

And people have only just started caring about lawns, that use two orders of magnitude more water, fertilizer, and land than golf courses.

Have you seen a golf course before? They're literally lawns.

Too bad this isn't tech support and it's the landlords job to show up and troubleshoot it himself. The tenant bears no responsibility here besides informing the landlord there is a problem.

Shunning the school canoe? You'd better believe that's a-shunning!

That's 150 years away, nobody's going to do shit until 2181, and then the whole world will freak out saying "why hasn't anyone done anything yet!?"

References: climate change, housing collapse in Western countries.