@japan_nobunaga Video game analogy.... The US is Europe, but on Cooperative Mode without damage immunity. Europe is on PvP mode, but they took away everyone's weapons so the OG players would stop being merced. Now they all are at risk from lvl 1 rats.
@fxevolution Lol, this is why I bought 1 share of SPCX in the make bad decisions account. That's there to remind me in 2 years to buy more at a better price.
The only administrative staff needed are the IT people and the maintenance people. Consolidating that at the County level is probably reasonable. So non-technical admins should be no more than principal, vice principal, secretary, and assistant secretary per school. Superintendent and assistant superintendent per county. Everything else should be related to maintaining the infrastructure.
@CynicalPublius The only thing unfair about Elon being a trilionaire is how average Joe was locked out of investing in the company before it went public. That's the Government's sin, not Elon's.
@tuuu28283 I think they keep it around so people can take pictures of the parking lots full of police cars. That's always been hilarious for some reason.
Do the business executives suffer personal consequences if they violate the attestation? This is all great, but until the decision makers have personal liability they're not going to change. That attestation should put any Green Card, Visa holder, or naturalized citizen at risk of de naturalization and deportation if it's violated. Promises aren't sufficient, they're better than what we have now, but the level of fraud and abuse we've seen requires hard consequences.
MAGA wants to shut down immigration because of overwhelming evidence that the immigrants are supplanting meritocracy with corruption and favoritism. "Fix what's wrong with me" is fine when the hiring process is merit based, it's a useless sentiment in the face of corruption. I'm personally doing just fine, I found a way despite the challenges. Most of my concern is for my kids. Most of the things that allowed me to succeed despite adversity have had the ladders pulled up or are blatantly hostile today.
Look, when I harvest okra I make Gumbo. The thing I do in the pan to start Gumbo is not gravy. Hell it's probably not a roux either, but we're all a bunch of hillbillies here at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains. We checked with each other. We like it, we're going to keep doing it, and we're going to keep calling it Gumbo that we start by making a roux.
It's the abundance argument. If it all works, and it's a huge if, the price of almost everything will start going down. Elon's businesses are collectively building systems that will be capable of automating the bulk of manual labor. The upside over the next 30-50 years is hard to truly imagine. Also, it's an IPO so it's probably going to be valued at 1/5 or 1/10 of its debut over the next 1-3 years. That's just how things sometimes go because "emotions". I don't have a clue what the stock will do over the next 3-5 years, but in 20-30 years I have pretty high hopes.