The Earth is not sick. The Earth is pregnant. Industrial Civilization does not belong on the surface of the Earth. We must birth Industrial Civilization into Space or it will die in the womb possibly killing mother Earth in the process.
So people can put numbers to it for their particular metro region or country.
Poor = less than half median household income
Working class = half median to median household income
Middle class = median to 2x median household income
Affluent = greater than 2x median household income
Rich = net worth greater than 100x median household income
@YIMBYLAND My favorite San Antonio fact is that from 2010 to 2020 it was the only city of over a million residents in North America that became less dense.
@coryfromphilly@YIMBYLAND Lt gov in Texas is independently elected separate from the governor and actively presides and sets the agenda in the senate as opposed to being a ceremonial role appointed by the governor like in most states.
@TakiVan1@romanhelmetguy Meritocracy just means there is a minimum set of requirements to legally do a job. 'Inherited Meritocracy' is a real sociological phenomenon where children of meritocratic professionals pass those requirements at higher rates than the general population.
@TastyDeaths@memeticsisyphus You're just mathematically wrong. We would need at least a thousand times more objects in space for Kessler syndrome to be even a remote possibility.
There could be a million times as many Starlink satellites… as in 7 billion… and there still wouldn’t be even twenty percent of the orbits available. The surface area of low earth orbit is 5.5×10 to the 8th power kilometers.
The human brain is just terrible at imagining really large numbers.
@JoelSchamber@theshellbelle Lt Governor in Texas is an independently elected official who determines the agenda in the Senate and is not appointed or answerable to the Governor. That's how you get this weirdness happening.
@miduma@LoewyLawFirm@GregAbbott_TX@DanPatrick In Texas, the Lt. Governor is an independently elected official not appointed by the Governor so can't be fired by Governor unfortunately.