The electric car is the solution to save cars, not the environment. It still makes roads bigger than they would otherwise be and divides cities

I hate carrying my new tv everyday twice a day on random times, but I do what I must

There was a new development in japan less than a year ago. Downside is all your teeth fall out and all regrow

That’s how it starts… A year later and you are starting your fifth army and you haven’t finished painting the first one

Configure it to have limited access and your kid will know everything in a week trying to unlock it

Hue

This debt in part (an ever smaller part) represents created value.

Quick explanation is: produce more > need more money, otherwise deflation > fed prints money > feds “buys” bonds with the newly printed money (to make it available) > gov spends the money in the economy.

Problem is every day money is printed much faster than the economy actually grows, so instead of avoiding deflation, it causes inflation.

If we (saying “we” because every country does the same thing) strictly printed money to follow economic growth, then economy would slow down significantly. Is that bad? I don’t think so. We already make several times more than we need. Any new thing we want can still exist in slow growth.

They are honest, but not very clear. We could rewrite that as “we assigned monetary value to your privacy”

Counter point: I loved osaka and kyoto, would skip tokyo before them. On kyoto we went up to the main temples using side streets and small foot paths and down on the main road.

We stayed in a regular neighborhood in osaka, drank and had fun on small 5-people bars with the locals and visited the city center occasionally. Made me appreciate the quiet japanese life even in a big city. Very charming city

This is basically what happens in Brasil. We have a government funding program for a few decades now. The big names (ie. Friends and family) get up to a million to make their bad movies and the small folk never get approved.

I worked in the ministry of culture. We were petitioning for funding on EU programs to open libraries in small cities (50k EUR) while singers got that from the ministry for a single performance. Not to pay for the stage and lights, that was just the singer.

Every publisher has to send copies of every book to the national archive. There isn’t enough budget to catalogue or correctly store them, so they lay in gigantic warehouses gathering dust and being eaten by mites. It is so bad it is considered hazardous environment so it is super expensive to fix it.

But the famous director gets hundreds of thousands every year to make shitty movies nobody sees, because that one time 20 years ago he did something good.

Oh yes, the grocery store commute. You can clearly see in traffic that every car is full of groceries and people everyday at all times, and is rarely one person alone

Depending on road size, it is for trucks to be able to turn

I didn’t see a single top level comment be the devil’s advocate so I will give it a try.

Humanity moves forward. Standards are always shifting. New technologies and needs are created everyday and people want to raise their standard of living to accommodate for new things. Also, global population has been growing since we stabilized food production in the 1800’s.

If companies don’t grow at least with population, that means tomorrow we will have less than today. If companies don’t also grow with raising standards of living, that means someone stays poor. If companies don’t also grow to match the complexities of producing new technology, that means we stopped in time technologically.

In a competitive system such as capitalism, you don’t wait for more competitors to show up and fill this new ever-growing demand; you take that demand for yourself. So everyone seeks growth.

When a society does not grow (i.e. japan) for too long, capitalism doesn’t break down immediately, but you clearly see it stagnates. Japan’s population is not stable and their economy is facing major problems.

Whether growth is organic or fabricated is a related, but different, topic

The end goal was always to deprive us of alternatives

If I was doing something wrong and could say “no u” to whoever complained, I would too

Northen portugal is H

First buying russian oil, now israeli investments… Is the goal to get associated with murderers?

Also called Pix. Instant payment, every single bank supports it, can register your phone number, email address, business number or get a random key to your account so anyone with one of the those details can pay you. Tiny catch is you have to be in Brazil (Btw I heard we are exporting it to other countries)

He has to hire 100 new people everytime, 80 to actually do the work, as before, and 20 to fix what AI broke

A tariff is not a tax on exit, it is on entry. US decides to charge tax on the coffee