Well if you just manage your money properly, it grows. I would argue it’s better to do that and give you money away rather than not manage your money properly. In the end, more money goes to good causes that way.

If they “stopped” that would mean leaving their money in a bank account sleeping. The only entity benefiting from this would be the bank.

He does actually. https://observer.com/2024/09/bill-gates-bernie-sanders-tax-wealthy/

He and warren are some of the smarter billionaires, they realize having infinite money is not actually very useful.

Not to say there’s any thing good about there being billionaires in the first place, but there is a spectrum.

That’s kind of irrelevant.

Nuclear handles the base power generation. Grid storage is meant to handle peaks. It needs to be cheaper than coal, which is also used for peaks.

Anyway, grid storage is already about 200$ per installed kw with lithium. If sodium gets us to 100$, a 1GW installation comparable to a nuclear plant would cost 100 million. That’s like 150 to 300x cheaper than a nuclear plant. And a plant takes years to build, decades even. A storage facility takes days or weeks.

Of course that does not count energy generation, but grid scale storage basically stores free excess energy from nuclear and renewables. So they actually improve the cost efficiency of nuclear and renewables, they don’t compete with them.

It’s basically solved. Sodium batteries are cheaper and much more durable than lithium batteries, and are currently being commercialized. Their only downside is that they are heavier, but that does not matter for grid-scale storage.

Barely made a dent commercially, but put the company in a difficult financial situation where build quality was a bit lower and cars a bit more expensive for a while.

The point of these punishments should never be to kill a company, but to hurt investors, who are ultimately responsible for setting the CEOs agenda.

And, well, VW stock is still down about -80% compared to pre-dieselgate. So I would say eurocapitalism working as intended.

No, what did it was removing headphone jacks and selling only crappy non-repairable headphones.

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.

shovel

We said stone age.

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.

Accurate.

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.

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.