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Yes, with the political situation in the cities your scenario might be more likely. There is and always has been a huge advantage to population density, especially for the young. But at the very time those advantages are starting to be mitigated by technology the city elites are doing everything in their power to drive people away by making their cities expensive, over regulated, crime ridden, dirty, and just generally unlivable. A migration away from the large cities could very well take place and last for decades.

I almost wonder if long term this could be a positive. Companies need far less office space than they used to, but that means that you can fit far more companies in the same amount of space. In other words a city like NYC could just have to grow into its current square footage. Which, in the long term, could mean the same amount of office buildings, but more companies, more people, more restaurants, more retail, and a lot more residential. That's the best case, I guess. It will take a long time to get there, if ever, and the corrupt tax&spend politicians aren't helping.

Where that is true people are using the tech wrong and less efficiently as they could be. Since COVID my company (semiconductor industry) has gone trough a transformation. My team now has people in MA, NH, AZ, CO and Italy. You can put someone on a team if their skill set matches what is needed regardless of where they are located. I do go into the office a few times per week because I want to (usually 2 days on average), but even when I'm there only a couple of people I work with work in my location. Some people prefer the office and go in 5 days a week, others don't go in at all on average and have given up their cube. They use the hoteling in the rare event they go in. Like anything else, some will change/adapt and others won't. Some industries will need to adapt and others will not have to. I don't think things will ever go completely back to pre-covid days when almost everyone worked at the office 5 days per week. I've noticed that when I get contacted by headhunters now every job is either remote or hybrid. You just never saw that at all pre-2020.

Are they just stupid or are they deliberately trying to destroy the cities? Buildings Are Empty, Now They Have to Go GreenRising rates, falling occupancy and new carbon taxes hit building owners or archive.today version: https://archive.ph/YLu3p

I just heard that Joe Rogan has a new 2 hour interview with him. I haven’t listened to it yet. https://open.spotify.com/episode/68AVuziUVdUJhJZkClegOZ?si=ZnatZFaeTKCigHLZMgBUWA&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk

Wow I didn’t realize that brokerages would give you access to margin on an empty account based in a deposit that hasn’t even cleared yet. Sure most people aren’t scammers, but that seems risky. The guy only claimed to make $50k/yr and they were advancing him $200k.

Yeah, this guy’s the real deal. Just singing from his heart. Not a political hack with an agenda. I love how he disses the GOP for trying to co-opt his message and at the same time the D’s for trying to discredit him and twist what he’s saying.

Does this address belong to anyone here? https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/bc1ql49ydapnjafl5t2cp9zqpjwe6pdgmxy98859v2 Someone accumulated $3B worth of $BTC in the last 4 months.

LOL. I have very little sympathy for these people. Yes, the concept of an NFT is an interesting and potentially useful idea. Putting titles to property on the blockchain where they can be traded more easily and everyone can see who owns what. No paper title or registry of deeds needed. But a title/deed to a piece of property is only valuable if the property in question has value (a house, a car, land, valuable art). How anyone thought that a digital picture of a cartoon ape would ever be valuable is beyond me. Some saying that come to mind: Stupid is as stupid does. A fool and his money are soon parted.

I just finished watching “BEEF” on Netflix. Really good show!

I think so. A lot better.

They/them seems like an interesting person. Should be quite a show.

'Rich Men North of Richmond' Artist Turns Down $8 Million From Stunned Music Execs, Says "Nothing Special About Me" https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/rich-men-north-richmond-artist-turns-down-8-million-stunned-music-execs-says-nothing

Usually I would agree, but on the road we were on it was very curvy and a double yellow line. There was no safe way to pass anyone.

I think just the opposite is true. The state pretending to do these things and doing them badly gives everyone a pass to not worry about them. If people knew there were hungry people out there who needed help and didn't think "oh well the government takes care of that sort of thing" they wouldn't be able to just live as they don't give two shits about anyone. You would look for ways to help or at the very least for charities to give to. You would want to know that the organizations you were giving to were doing a good job, because you would have the option of putting your money elsewhere instead. Government is the excuse people use to not give two shits about anyone. "I pay my taxes".

I agree with you 100%. We need an absolute separation of school and state, medicine and state, science and state, etc.... I'm glad you are coming around to my side.

Agreed. I think he was trying to place on emphasis on exploiting welfare, but that isn't really possible without grouping them together and bashing them. That part of the song raised eyebrows for sure, also agree with the food part, when I first came to this country I remember trying to eat healthy, cost me upwards of ~$6/meal minimum and this was peak inflation, eggs were like $20/60eggs, McDonald's Chicken burger was literally 2 for $1.99, guess what, I put on ~60lbs. Slowly losing it now but I get your point. The 2 of you are missing his point completely. No one cares what anyone eats, it is that we shouldn't be taxed to provide it. If you are 300 lbs you don't need my money to eat, whatever it is you are eating. Go to google type in the word "starvation" then hit images. Almost no one collecting food stamps in the US looks like this. Now type "300 lb woman" and hit images. There are plenty of people on the dole who look like this.

We know exactly who he is talking about. There is one major city just north of Richmond.

Bitcoin can be divided into 100,000,000 units (commonly called "satoshis" or sats). I have no doubt if more decimal places were needed that would be a non-controversial fork to make. Yes, this makes BTC forever a deflationary currency and this will change the way things work in the stock, bond, money markets. Money will be more expensive than it is now as the average person can just hold onto their Bitcoin and realize a return on their real spending power rather than invest. Eventually the real value of Bitcoin will grow every year at about the rate of economic growth in the economy.

Added a little to SE, this is the lowest I've paid for it. Lower than my original buys in 2020. And of course BTC (which I add to just about every week).

That belongs in a thread "what do you wish you were buying today"

I have no idea if @Dave86ch can prove you wrong, but I am 100% certain that time will.

Exactly. No one has to bet against China. I haven't bet for nor against China and my portfolio has done just fine. I will continue not to bet for nor against China. There are plenty of ways to make money without owning companies located in communist countries. With recent election results if I wanted to invest in a communist country I'd be far more likely to place bets in Argentina than China.

I agree with you there. Nothing worse than bad drivers. A few days ago this guy in front of me on a 1 lane curvy hilly NH road was doing 30mph in a 55 zone. I was behind him and a whole line of cars behind me. I was just thinking he was the worst jerk in the world when the Porsche behind me tried to pass both of us as another car came around the corner in the opposite direction. I had to go completely off the road so the Mr Porsche didn't get it head on (like he deserved). I really hate people. Luckily I just ended up in some grass and could pull right back on the road with no damage other than the stress.

Yeah. I wasn't always like that, but the older I get the less tolerance I have for other people. Like why can't you shower? You live in a 1st world country, I know you have running water at home. When I was poor, I showered every day and would buy halfway decent clothes at a thrift store. Never did I go out smelling wearing my pajamas.. Oh, well. I'm a wuss.