The operation was carried out by Mexico. US supplied intelligence, assumed location information. Characterizing this as the US murdering someone outside it’s borders is disingenuous and really just a false statement.

This is true, but it actually wouldn’t really address this problem at all.

The issue here is production vs consumption is out of whack. Taking money from billionaires and pumping it into the consumption side doesn’t fix the imbalance. There would still be the same amount of production and the consumers would now have more money to buy the same amount of things, so the prices of stuff would just go up (or the value of money would go down, depends on how you want to look at it). So you would just create inflation with the type of wealth transfer you implied.

The trick is to take the billionaires money and put it to use producing things, not consuming things. There are tons of ways to do this such as investing in education, small business loans, scientific grants, and big infrastructure projects.

Another solution is to increase immigration to make up the production imbalance. Good luck getting that through todays political climate, but most economists would agree it would help alleviate the problem OP referenced.

This was a fantastic ELI5. Thank you for your effort in writing this up.

Shorts are unintended low impedance paths.

it’s just an incredibly tiny amount

Indicates you are not describing a short.

Sure, there is technically current flowing, but it is small enough to be considered an open circuit for engineering purposes. There is leakage current for every insulator, we don’t call it a short.

I think of it as outsourced intuition. It provides a first gut feeling response to the question based on what the Internet would say. That can be useful if you need a starting point. It very rarely should be an ending point.

Capitalism is a zero sum game, for one to gain wealth it must be extracted from another

This is just not true. There are plenty of valid criticisms of capitalism, there’s no need to use false statements.

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In addition, the generation of knowledge is inherently a progressive trait. It acknowledges that we don’t have all the answers but with effort we can find them and that we will need to change our world view to accept them.

Conservatism is the resistance to change, putting value in tradition over novel ways of thinking. It is antithetical to knowledge generation.

This means institutions that are designed to generate knowledge will not foster conservative ideals.

I get the Expanse vibes from this. Rocinonte approaching the ring gate.

You are correct! Thank you for sharing.

Remember when that picture of a cop pepper spraying peacefully sitting protesters made news headlines and got people fired? Those were the days…

The whole sequence is great, but this one is stunning.

Now this is the kind of content generation I was hoping to find when I came to Lemmy!

The lowest donation in that tier is 240k, they could and are probably giving more.

The US’s position of economic strength is so fragile too. Most of it is in the financial and technology sectors, both of which can be moved relatively easily because their value is in non-tangible things. China’s economic power is in manufacturing - being able to build tangible things. Factories are much more stable.

Really unfortunate the only public figure that has stepped into the void left by this DNC is not eligible to run for president.

Same, I’m keeping my dual boot for one multiplayer game that I play to keep in touch with friends.

This graph makes sense when you consider the main cost of these goods/services. The ones that have raised in price are very labor dependent and human labor is expensive (as it should be). The ones that got cheaper are items whose manufacturing can include a lot of automation. What this graph shows is that human labor is expensive. That is obviously not the only factor, but I feel it is a good explanation for the trends shown.

Very true, but as the movie says it’s a symbol. “Symbols are given power by people” and Guy Fawkes as a symbol is no longer tied to his historical actions. It symbolizes the character V, revolution, and the power of people to make change.

This cat’s a juggalo fo sho.