TronBronson
@TronBronson@lemmy.world
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 4 days ago:
Well considering we had a huge head start, I really don’t value the comparison that much anyway.
Let’s look at it a different way, is their middle class growing while ours is contracting? Let’s consider the trend and not the specific point in time.
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 5 days ago:
My aunt and uncle went on a state sponsored trip and got the impression that they have a stronger middle class than we do. From what I can piece together I’d tend to agree. But ya I guess we’ll know for sure with more hindsight.
Gotta love the two biggest economy’s in the world and you can’t find/trust good data
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 6 days ago:
Umm do you want to break those numbers down for the bottom 75% or earners? Or the median? I believe that is just the billionaire holding up the statistic that the Fed is presenting. Also, those numbers were in billions representing the whole country not an individual in thousands……
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 1 week ago:
How much money do you think the median American takes home these days with cost of living and suppressed wages? -2000 in credit card debt once the budget gets tallied?
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 1 week ago:
The Chinaman is not the issue dude.
And please Asian American is the preferred nomenclature
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 1 week ago:
Think about this, we made major advancements politically and culturally during 2006-2016, especially in regards to LGBTQ rights and then the voters turn Trans people into a single issue ticket and vote for trump 12 years in a row. They turned you into a woke boogie man and campaign against you specifically and now we live in a fucking Nazi hell hole.
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 1 week ago:
Na that’s a pretty common reaction to the SWJ language policing. Most oppressed minorities want their equal rights; not a mob or privileged kids virtue signaling and alienating them further 🌈
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 1 week ago:
I would say “the Chinese invented many things in the last two millennia.” And “China is constantly posturing against Taiwan” to separate the people from their government.
“The Chinese” doesn’t have to be racist it can just include all the people of the region across all times. It can be a bit ignorant but doesn’t flag maliciousness
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
Thank you! I’m working on ditching adobe and apple currently. one day I’ll be a real linux boi. I have hard drive space just no time to do the transfers and file hunting. If I wasn’t over worked, underpaid and exhausted I would have used a better example. An ASML lithography machine costs 400 Million dollars. So idk how anyone is going to produce chips and be worth less than a billion dollars. OP example needs better numbers.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
I was in a world before enshitification I vividly remember the hopes of the 1990s. Watching hand held cameras get into the hands of the masses, expanding art and culture of the time. Watching that turn into YouTube and regular people getting paid to entertain regular people. I remember all the dead promises friend. Supply chains are too complicated to place an arbitrary market cap of 1 billion dollars. it doesn’t make sense when companies now serve billions of people. I’m not going to be able to open up a small business of producing iPhones. That requires an insane amount of resources that you probably cannot fathom if you think a billion dollars is a reasonable market cap. I just wanted to point out that a lot of things you enjoy wouldn’t exist in this imagined rule.
So id love to hear how you reorder the global economy and supply chains under a “1 billion dollar company max valuation” How do you get things like iPhones and server farms that hold a billion peoples data?
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
mmmm the touch of money and privilege really numbs the senses.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
If you’re a great artist who’s work does not exist in a commercial space (gallery or Facebook platform or website or whatever) and it gets thrown in a dump when you die, did it express anything at all?
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
holy cow haunted typewriter is punching way above its weight class. Phenomenal.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
they get eaten by a hungry mob of people while hiding in a bunker?
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
clutches pearls “Muh factornios!!!”
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
Financial engineering, and they are one of the biggest producers of computer hardware for a long time. There’s more business and personal consumers than ever. Everyone’s getting online now, and the AI purchasing frenzy is helping a lot.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
to be fair amazon has revenues of 700 billion a year. apple is like 400. You can tax the profits down to nothing but like, we can’t all get iPhones if apple is worth 1billion. im not even sure if they can make an iPhone with 1 billion
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m doing my part!
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 2 weeks ago:
Technically if you took out a bunch of bad loans the government would be bailing out the banks. Like 2008. Let’s ride!
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 5 weeks ago:
Give it a year or two of food shortages and unaffordable health care
- Comment on The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard 1 month ago:
Wow a massive ass McMansion with no thought placed into the architecture. That tracks
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 1 month ago:
Most people use this trick when they have friends or family and the rental is a mutually beneficial situation. but when you get into larger homes and commercial redesignation, we’ve turned a lot of old mansions and warehouses into 4+ unit condos.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 1 month ago:
Varies by town ordinance; but if it’s within standards usually you can get a deed for each unit and it becomes a condo association basically. Part of the zoning reforms we are fighting for.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 1 month ago:
Also you could still rent a house back in 2008 for like $400-$1000 so the living with the parents thing wasn’t a necessity back then. We’d have 4 dudes in a 2 bedroom housing paying 2-$300 a month
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 1 month ago:
Right, but you’d try to find a distressed duplex for the same price as a single family. If you’re gonna risk buying a shitter and fixing it, might as well get an additional income.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 1 month ago:
Yea I hope I put enough emphasis on the 2008 crash being responsible for his luck. I think he paid around $100,000 for a condo in California.
I grew weed for 20 years which was the only way I got on the housing ladder at 26. I’ve been forced to downsize already but haven’t fallen off yet
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 1 month ago:
I think the non-college route yielded better than college for my age cohort. First dude I knew who bought a house was like 19 and he’d been working at Costco for 4+ years. 2008 happened and suddenly this young man had a stable job and savings and looked great on paper 🥲
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 1 month ago:
No…. It’s substantially worse in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, umm I’m sure more but I read about theirs most.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 1 month ago:
That’s probably the best strategy. Or buying a duplex and renting half of it. Either way now-a-days in America you gotta be willing to put ALOT of sweat equity in the get a shelter
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 1 month ago:
But not for trains or public transit??