This is known as the cost disease. As manufacturing gets increasingly optimized, automated and cheap, the share of income that needs to be spent on everything else increases. For example, housing and services like live entertainment or healthcare.

And if you’re in France, don’t use TurboTax, use the official government website that calculates everything for you reliably every year :o

Definitely not on the menu. Most people don’t have milk in their coffee in France, and oat milk is even rarer. The default coffee experience, a small black coffee, is vegan on its own.

But I can appreciate the frustration. Oat milk is cheap and has low environmental impact, it would be good for it to be offered more widely, regardless of taste.

I mean we just vote on Sundays it’s a pretty simple fix.

They’ll make iPhones in India. Which is actually what they are doing right now. Or in Vietnam. Or Ethiopia. You can’t tariff everyone 140% if you want your economy to work.

Yes. This is called lying. This is what these people have been doing for a while now. I don’t think this will change soon.

Didn’t it ? Russia started imposing tariffs on Ukraine in 2012.

Trade breakdown is a clear precursor to armed conflict.

Nations that trade extensively with each other don’t go to war. Trade wars are an accelerator of armed conflict.

People talk about tech giants, but Facebook and Google are actually advertising giants. They pour much more money into their advertising than they do into r&d.

Many brands have a cost structure where, for each product sold, more money goes to advertising than to the person who actually made the product. Sometimes 2 or 3 times more. That’s where the battle for attention is taking us, a place where attention from customers is worth much more than the effort of the worker.

None of this is inevitable, advertising should be heavily taxed and regulated.

Because opinion is more important than fact, and choice is more important than logic.

Yeah interestingly I watched a video where a robotics specialist said they believed AI would take jobs long before the new generation of robots do. Robots are hard.

So that’s because the tariff was so high it reached 99% then reset to 0% because the system was coded by Elon.

Or you know, US are in the axis of evil now apparently.

Turntables and all that.

5 years ineligibility means she can’t run for president in 2027 or for another MP seat. It means others will take over and gain visibility over her.

And 2 years in prison is going to cook her career prospects too.

That won’t change things, another idiot will come along.

The only solution now is to topple him or render him powerless. Move your asses Americans, we don’t need you to speedrun the dictatorship game.

Have you never worked in an organization?

You can have as many preparation meetings as you want and still be on your ass when the day of judgement comes.