Long before wages create affordability, they have to out pace inflation. It’s going to take a long period of wages slightly beating inflation for the public to be happy.

Or we could have another recession to make prices drop, but wages would lose ground to inflation when it returns.

Don’t bother, if they can’t leave a message, you didn’t want to talk to them.

They were on the phone with bankruptcy lawyers before dawn. That is the ones that didn’t just disappear into hiding.

I love Nic for making movies I’d love to actually see, except for the fact that he’s in them.

So basically remaking every movie starring Nicolas Cage?

The next most conservative generation is Gen X. All few dozen of us. Expect those with power to retain it with massive use of wealth to constrain the rules of democracy, rather than numbers of voters.

I mean, i haven’t actually been to Japan myself, but I’ve heard some things…

Well yeah I’m gonna let him out hustle me. That bastards on crack.

The best restaurants in the world are in London. Of course they don’t serve English food. The Brits just knew to bring the best stuff home.

Look at you with your color vision being all elitist. Some of us old bastards don’t see them pretty rainbows so much any more.

It turns out the specialized medical needs are kind of special, and they fly people to where there are facilities when they’re needed. And only affects a special portion of the population. For everyone else it doesn’t matter.

For fuck sake people crossed the entire US in a god damn wagon while risking being shot at by random tribes and eaten by bears. What’s stopping people now is that they can’t afford food or a place to park the damn wagon without getting harassed by the cops.

Moving to more rural areas is what causes rural areas to build hospitals, and doctors to open clinics and offices. There are plenty of jobs everywhere that just involve sitting on your ass in front of a screen, or standing behind a counter. Even in rural areas.

Growth doesn’t just happen. People have to go places and build. UBI would make that process a shit ton easier.

It’s a law that was used to bring down mob bosses. It makes it illegal to have other people commit crimes for you.

https://casetext.com/statute/code-of-georgia/title-16-crimes-and-offenses/chapter-14-racketeer-influenced-and-corrupt-organizations/section-16-14-3-definitions#:~:text=(5) (A) ",beverages in violation of Code

Hopefully that link works, the text of the law is fairly clear as far as legal texts go.

They’re playing on the latent puritanism in US culture. The only reason it’s done is because it pushes peoples buttons and draws interest. The other options are what you see over seas, where either free speech is harshly curtailed, or people get over it, and advertisers stop because it doesn’t cause concerned citizens to lose their shit any more.

I knew it was water, the actual name of it though I had zero recollection.