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#Space
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My waiter had dementia and forgot my order.
I visited a cafe in Japan that ONLY hires people with Dementia. It's called the Cafe Of Mistaken Orders.
Sometimes the servers bring you the wrong food, never bring your order, or sit down and join you instead.
But the point of this cafe is to be a place for dementia patients to feel needed and have purpose.
And this cafe is working. Japan has discovered that being socially connected actually slows down the progression of dementia.
So now there are 8,000 dementia cafes all over Japan!
The U.S. should be more like Japan. We should keep elders out of nursing homes, find ways to give them purpose, and part of society until their last days.
A Chicago high school is receiving widespread praise after removing a student from its graduation ceremony and withholding her diploma after she twerked on stage while accepting it, with the student claiming she is being “discriminated against.”
Roughly proportional to the working age people?
Does having fewer kids not actually make you richer?
Are kids the actual source of the wealth at nearly a 1 to 1 ratio?
🇪🇺🇨🇳 The European Union's share of the global economy has fallen from 30% to 17% in just 17 years.
That's roughly the same relative decline China experienced during the Qing Dynasty.
The difference?
China took about 50 years.
Europe did it in 17.
For decades, Europe helped shape the global economy, global institutions, and the rules of the international order.
Now it's increasingly adapting to a world being shaped by others.
The real question is whether Europe still knows how to stop it.
Source: legrandcontinent, Counter Intelligence Global (Telegram)
@JohnPapola And if the US takes on more debt but provides GDP that is GREATER than the debt taken on its ability to borrow money actually INCREASES and the interest rates DECREASE.
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China is on trace to 4x the USA in essentially EVERYTHING. They are already 10x to our 1x on steel production. We have a real chance to drop to 25% of our current living standard in the short term if China rules the world and we do not.
America is about to collapse unless MASSIVE changes are made.
2) This idea of people is silly. People will always have leaders and those leaders will always be partially corrupt and communists are mostly upset that they aren't the leader getting the corruption. The US government is the US people. And at least in paying off US debt it offset real $$ the people would have had to pay.
3) AI and robotics is a unique case. They present a legitimate existential risk greater than China (there is essentially zero chance that China would just murder everyone in the world). No matter what is fair or just to some people's mind the reality is if AI/Robots take all the jobs that looks like a genicide unless there is a fairly generous universal UBI that in the long run doesn't play favorites and even the winners in the moment are not assured to be the winners long term.
There will always be capitalism because AI will need to serve the human desire and some humans will be better at anticipating the human desire than others and we will want those humans telling more of the AI what to do than humans who are clueless. But that has very little to do with who your parents were.
But personal consumption should be more or less equal in the long term for "rich" and "poor" and for clueless and effective. All will get roughly the same for consumption (things you spend on yourself).
We already mostly live in that world.
iphone, computers, TVs, soda, clothing more or less is the same for rich and poor in a way it never was in the past. Add in housing and financial security and universal health care and nearly everyone will have the personal consumption power that Elon has (he can only sleep in 1 bed, wear 1 pair of shoes eat 3000 calories etc at a time.
That is what UBI needs to be eventually. Even the "poor" will have more than Elon has now.
What I mean with equity is US may have to pick who will provide the nuclear power and the US will invest billions of dollars in that company but if the US owns say 1/2 of the stock it is also getting that value back. The wealth they are placing in the owner's hands is equal to the equity they are taking. So the US doesn't lose the money (unless they fail to execute) it is just a kind of loan or investment.
The company worth $20M that is bleeding $5m a year gets to be a billion dollar company and all the present cap table gets 1/2 of what they would have gotten for winning but the "winning" is provided by the government. But if the US is both getting power and getting equity you could imagine the US elevating 2 companies instead of 1 so that while both companies lost 1/2 the fact there are 2 companies elevated brings that to break even (not for the individuals but for the VC class). But even for the individuals a 50% chance at 100% vs a 100% chance at 50% is also arguably equal/better. And 2x the power was produced at the expense of 2x the short term debt (at 2-3%) and a massive payout eventually for government (which would be above the 2-3% of government debt).
The focus is on increasing US production based on the reality that the US government is broke and owes $212,000 that they will need YOU to repay. And $212,000 for me and your kids, and your family everyone has a $212,000 debt that is the US government debt even babies owe $212,000.
But if we can increase GDP growth from 3% to 9% this isn't really a problem. If we can increase it from 3% to 15% it isn't even something we need to notice.
If the US can double or triple the number of successful companies produced and take an equity position in them the net effect is very much like printing money. But because you are printing goods and services as well as the money there is no inflation like there is if you just print money.
Hampshire Police Chief denies police are “anti-white” after officers handcuffed and arrested Henry Nowak after he was stabbed and falsely accused of ‘racism.’
“Do we have a two-tier type policing system? I would refute that. I would say absolutely not!”
@cafreiman No everyone needs to pay 10% tax.
Otherwise they just define the poverty line to be 51% of the people and tax the 49% and the 49% become slaves.
That leads to civil war.
Everyone must hate taxes.
JUST IN: Democratic Socialist Nithya Raman has surged to 47% in the race for 2nd place in the LA mayoral election, narrowly trailing Spencer Pratt.
The 2nd place finisher advances to the runoff in November.
🚨🇩🇪 GERMANY CENSORSHIP
Man SLAPPED with a FULL MONTH SALARY fine just for calling Chancellor Fridrih Merc “LYING FRITZ”.
Court ruled it’s an INSULT to a politician. Punishment = 30 days income, basically his ENTIRE paycheck gone.
“We’ve done the analysis, reusable rockets aren’t economic.”
SpaceX makes reusable rockets economic.
“We’ve done the analysis satellite internet isn’t economic. The antenna alone is tens of thousands of dollars. The cost to manage a constellation that size, the radiation, the space hardened solar cost…”
Satellite internet appears to be a very good business with antennas in the $100 range.
“We’ve done the analysis, orbital data centers aren’t economic. The radiators, launch costs, the radiation, the solar…”
You are here.
Elon Moon/Mars requires low prices to get scale.
Scale makes low prices sustainable.
I think you need to seriously think about making lunar surface operations break even initially or very small margin less than 15% etc.
If you make your money in LEO and make lunar operations break even and make your money on lunar civil engineering projects I think you still get crazy rich $10T etc but also maximize the odds of getting that crazy rich.
So
SpaceX launch to moon break even or 5% profit
SpaceX AI on moon normal
SpaceX solar infrastructure on the moon small profit.
SpaceX real estate grab on the moon massive profit.
SpaceX farming and housing tiny profit
SpaceX solar panel foundry nearly infinite profit.
SpaceX robot factory on moon nearly infinite profit.
The maximum wealth extraction comes from making aspects of the equation break even.
If you package that deal to the US government you may be able to get them to pay the fuel upfront and that makes the cost to Mars $7/kg or even $0/kg depending on how you do your accounting.
It is essentially impossible to lose money on Mars if your shipping cost is $0
And even if you provide Moon access for $25/kg you can make money if your fuel is free and you get to 808x reuse..
This is not an invitation to lose money. Just to pass nearly all the efficiency through to the customer in certain places. Even if that appears to represent the bulk of the money to be made in the short term.
You don't have to keep hunching over your trimmer every weekend. The Yeoman bolts on in three minutes and lifts your off-hand to chest height so your spine stays plumb. The kind of upgrade you
wonder why nobody made years ago.
🚨The BBC had just sunk to a new low.
On Newsnight last night, presenter Matt Chorley claimed Nigel Farage said people should respond to the murder of Henry Nowak with “white cold rage”.
Nigel DID NOT SAY THIS.
The insertion of the word “white” by the BBC is obviously designed to change the meaning completely.
It was no slip of the tongue, Chorley said it THREE TIMES.
He came prepared to defame Nigel and lie to the country.
This is disgusting from the BBC.
Why do they insist on spitting in the faces of the millions of Reform supporters who are forced to contribute to their salaries?
THE BBC MUST APOLOGISE IMMEDIATELY