I don't understand why people like Starbucks so much. Their coffee is nasty and so is their food. But people are addicted to it. All my relatives have the app and spend like $50+ a week there.

Only reason I ever go is because I'm roadtripping at 6am and it's the only place open that early. The indie coffee shops don't open until 8am.

His show is entertainment first and foremost. That means glorifying stupid bullshit for the entertainment value of it.

Most hard science is boring. Most fringe theory thinking is dramatic and thrilling.

proper gun ownership turns you gay tho

the open web isn't as profitable as the walled garden where we can shovel ads and algorithms at unwitting consumers to extract money from them.

yeah when he became president again 6 years ago.

It always has been, it always will be.

I don't get why anyone is surprised by this sort of thing. Money is the supreme value above all others in USA culture.

It comes before God, Country, Mission and personality morality, always.

I'm an IT professional but I find most IT communities to be full insufferable people and full of useless and irrelevant information on obscure systems and practices that don't apply to the average IT job which is sys admining windows/linux/mac.

Would love a community that was chill and not full of people trying to one up one another about how amazing they are or how hardcore their lab is.

Yep.

I worked at one for a few years. It had an endowment of like 750million... larger than most colleges and universities. It employed 20 people, 1/3 of whom was solely to manage the investment of the endowment on the stock market and who were paid 500K salaries to do so. Rest of us made barely livable wages. I was 22-25 and making 30K a year.

It was under the guise of 'economic research' but all we really did was reward five or six figure grants to rich and powerful professors, lawyers, and politicians for 'furthering democratic values.'

It was a just a way to shuffle money from the ultra rich to the merely rich and everyone got to pat themselves on the back about how heroic and brave they were for 'the greater good'.

This is also the bullshit way that most rich universities justify their horrendous hording of wealth. That it's for the 'greater good', but all they are doing is enriching themselves and top echelons of the admin/professors, while the 99% of the rest of the employees who do 100% of the work are getting barely livable wages.

Bigger cars are more profitable. Small cars are not.

The average full size suv buying price is 80K. the average car buying price is like 30K.

this is also the same reason new starter homes are like 3000 sq ft today. and one from 30 years ago were 2000 sq ft.

the cost to produce a huge suv is not much more than it is to produce a small car, but the suv is commands 2-3x the price of the small car.

There is a quote from Davos awhile back where someone asked the elites how to prevent an uprising they were worried about, and the economist told them 'raise wages'. and the elites just looked at him and ask him for a more practical answer.

spez is going to bail on reddit the second his stock options vest.

all he has to do between now and then is make reddit as bullshitty as possible so idiot investors line up to buy stock.

People have fridges and cell phones, big tvs and nicer cars, yes.

But they don't have education, healthcare, or housing. Things that were far more accessible 50 years ago.