Pushing this sort of nihilistic, above it all fascism is so humiliating and juvenile. The space of reasons does actually matter, you're just inventing an excuse to feel better about being abjectly dim.
https://t.co/wcnDrn5Dkf
Every so often I think about how, in 2022, for $24B we could had "prototype vaccines ready for each of the 26 known viral families that cause human disease" so they can be deployed in 100 days if there was ever a need.
This effort was not funded. https://t.co/TJBuqp69Nn
Idk a lot of newer Chinese tech is pretty garish to the point that being a western guy that glazes all the shiny new Chinese plastic toys is just the left-leaning version of being a guy that’s aspirationally into Dubai.
Orthogonal to the broadly indisputable genealogy on display here is that it's nonetheless possible to encourage a tipping culture capable of loosening wage dependence through legal reform (by banning tip credits, and making tips the full property of workers for example)
Tipping originated following the abolition of slavery. After Emancipation, many white employers took cues from the sharecropping system and refused to pay Black workers—forcing them to rely entirely on tips to support their families.
The institutionalized reliance on tipping remains a uniquely American phenomenon, and Mayor Johnson is proud to be a leader in the movement to ensure working people receive the dignity and respect they deserve.