Lee Kuan Yew:
“Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency."
There is a popular narrative that in the US only the super-rich are doing well, while Europeans are better off than Americans.
They are not. Americans, excluding the top 1% and even the poorest 20%, are much better off than their European equivalents.
Sorry Europe, try harder.
More billionaires and how they made their money:
Lionel Messi, soccer: $1.1B
J.K. Rowling, novels: $1.2B
Taylor Swift, music: $2B
Michael Jordan, basketball: $4.3B
Oprah Winfrey, talk show: $3.2B
Steven Spielberg, movies: $7.1B
@martincarrizo_ Tiene perfecta y absoluta razón. Es un gremio que trabaja para sus propios intereses en primer lugar y que afortunadamente será pronto reemplazado por IA.
@Viejoguitarra@carod2015 Así como la La Matanza se formó con la migración interna del plan quinquenal, debe darse una nueva migración al sur productivo. Y los que no, IBU.
@CarlosLamiral@SFGaliani@FernandoDVaca A la tasa de extracción actual de petróleo (aprox. ≈ 630.000 barriles diarios récord en la Cuenca Neuquina), la vida útil máxima teórica de los recursos de shale oil en Vaca Muerta se estima entre 75 y más de 100 años.