He dreams of cutting taxes for the rich, and paying for it with tariffs on Canada. It’s his only dream. He has no clue how to run an economy. He has been bankrupt several times.

The boundaries changed, plagues came through. But politically it was mostly stable-ish of sorts ¯_(ツ)_/¯ as an economic system

Other system are more stable, Egypt lasted for thousands of years, the Ottoman Empire was fairly stable without growth for a 1000. Capitalism is the the system were part of the profit is reinvested into new machinery ‘for efficiency’ to undercut competition. Once we do not have competition because there are only 2 or 3 companies (Coke and Pepsi), they fix prices and work to corrupt government to become an Oligarchy. This is why people make the state that we are entering a ‘post capital’ world.

Good. We need to depopulate by 50%. The earth can’t have 8 billion people. There are less than 30,000 polar bears in the whole world.

The other issue is, nobody is trying to take on Facebook. Not really anything in the FLOSS community like it.

All other western democracies use some sort of parliamentary system akin to what the English have, a party appointed Prime Minister with very limited power. Presidential systems always devolve into fiefdoms.

I don’t think data and studies should ever be buried. I do think we need to do a better job of exposing this data as nothing more than scattered tea leaves, with no validity to it. Just because someone spent lots of money collecting numbers, doesn’t mean those numbers reflect anything real. And yes billions of dollars and hours of time can be spent collecting ‘data’, but the cost doesn’t mean it’s reflective of any truth.

‘Data’ is not neutral! The point of collecting data on teachers and schools was always about control, pushing down pay, cutting benefits and cutting funding. That’s why these monitoring programs started, and continued to exist. A few naive people think that they might have some use in monitoring standards between schools, THEY DON’T. Pearson, Springer, and the other large education companies suck up much of the funding…not to the benefit of classrooms and students.

Don’t live in an political bubble. For years lefty teachers fought rankings, standardized testing, and the standardized testing industry. It doesn’t help schools, or teachers. Don’t be a knee-jerk reactionary, automatically saying that everything Musk does is wrong is counterproductive.

I don’t like Musk, but this is good. School performance tracking is voodoo math. Everyone knows that good schools are in good neighborhoods and bad schools are in bad neighborhoods. You don’t need $900,000,000 in research, and the yearly publication of random lists. This just hurts individual teachers.

I also suspect that because so much manufacturing is in China, what we think of as the world’s stock market is just a small fraction of anything. Does an index count if an index doesn’t measure much?

Trump is putting a tariff on Canada and Mexico to pay for his up coming tax cuts. He’s not smart enough to see that this won’t work and will cause a disaster.

Trump just killed the N. American auto industry. You can’t remake all the supply chain lines overnight. Some parts cross the border multiple times, meaning way more than a 25% tariff in the end. Asian car companies are going to take over.

No one wants American trucks, you can’t export them to Asia, Africa or Europe. Americans barely want American trucks.

Now not even Canada or Mexico will buy American trucks. Canada and Mexico will double down on buying from Asia. There goes America’s final market for its trucks.

While American factories try to rejig everything in the production line and supply chain, Asia car companies will step in to fill the void. Another blow to American manufacturing.

The stupidity of this election was off an scale. Shows how much dumb propaganda got spewed through X, Facebook, etc.

Someone not brave enough to take a COVID-19 shot, is the type of coward that will run away in a battle. This significantly weakens America.

Don’t you worry, this will also be retroactive! People will have their American citizenship taken away.

After Trump’s presidency the USA will have to open up its constitution for a rewrite.

This is how stores have historically looked https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2M98MR3/general-store-early-1900s-corner-store-old-fashioned-grocery-store-2M98MR3.jpg Things behind counters and clerks helping people.

Stores decided to have fewer employees, and used publicly paid police for security. Socialism for the rich. Now we have police that take 30% of almost all city budgets/public budgets.
Stores should hire more clerks. Public police should not bother investigating anything left out of a counter.

Stores should lock everything behind cabinets to prevent shop lifting. Police should never investigate any shoplifting if a store does not lock up merchandise. Stores should have enough staff to hand you things from behind a counter.

Walmart has download police to municipalities, it costs tax payers billions a year. Socialism for the rich. We need fewer police.

Historically stores have looked like this https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ARHMCUO6N7MRYV8S everything locked up, a clerk serving people. Police grew, as stores decided to not lock up stuff. They didn’t lock up stuff because they could cut back on staff and rely on public police.