@Starlink I keep seen adds saying “Starlink now available in your area for 50% off.” After clicking and entering my address, it shows ZERO DISCOUNTS. FRAUDULENT ADVERTISING?
@igranderojo@CernBasher Gradual changes such as reducing working hours as costs decline without sacrificing quality of life.
This trend began decades ago and included more holidays, vacations, and even earlier retirement for many who saved a small portion of their earnings.
Sounds good, but the problem with distributing “wealth” that is tied up in productive assets (not $) to those who will liquidate those assets destroys the assets.
Example:
Farmer jones has 100 healthy milk cows. You force him to “share the wealth” and give 10 of his cows away. Those cows are slaughtered and eaten.
We just DESTROYED 10% of the wealth and have nothing left to TAKE AWAY next year. (Unless we destroy 10 more cows?)
@CernBasher Thank you!
We need more intelligent visionaries to think ahead of the curve and show how this is not a “winner take all” choice.
Even the “losers” will be winners if we don’t “muck it up” with greed, envy, political bias, etc.
@d_henry58862@Starlink The “value” is not in the “current stock price.” It is in the control of a company that can build for the FUTURE without constant law suits and stockholder meddling.
We were taught that Earth orbits the Sun in a closed circle. In reality, Earth has never returned to the same point in space once in 4.5 billion years.
Right now, the Sun is carrying Earth and every planet around the center of the Milky Way at 230 km/s (828,000 km/h), more than 18,000 kilometers every 80 seconds.
Because the Solar System is tilted 60.2° to the galactic plane and bobs up and down through the galactic disc roughly every 30 million years, the planets trace open 3D corkscrew helices across deep space rather than flat loops.
The last time the Sun stood where it stands today, one Galactic Year (230 million years) ago, the very first dinosaurs were only beginning to appear on Earth. Since forming 4.6 billion years ago, our Sun has completed only 20 laps.