this is exactly why many people, who have money & land, hesitate to donate their property to their municipality for public lands.
there will be many thanks & gratitude publicly expressed but then--a few years later--the municipality can find a way to break a contact & sell the property to the highest bidder which is likely to be a data center.
Not one comment is about how "this movie glorifies stealing" like the rightwingers said when coming after I Love Boosters
Its cuz there's been yrs of hysteria built around shoplifting, framed around black & brown folks as a way 2 scapegoat them capitalism's necessitated poverty
The Trump admin is cracking open the trillions sitting in Americans' retirement savings.
They want to change the rules so that your retirement funds aren't just invested in stable savings — but crypto and private equity too.
The move could crush millions of retirement accounts.
Fifty-one Americans in the healthcare industry were included on Forbes‘ annual billionaires list.
Americans are paying more than ever for healthcare, and 51 people have become billionaires because of it.
The promise of the digital world was that things would last. But that’s been proven to be a big lie. Entire archives are deleted in the blink of an eye each day.
This reader comment on a NY Times column where Ross Douthat ponders that maybe God is speaking to us through A.I. is an absolute fastball on the corner with movement, and deserves a column. "Lightening was once mysterious too; mystery did not make Zeus correct" is perfect.
Private equity takes anything that people love, makes it unaffordable while also making it categorically worse, and then the executives laugh in our face while enjoying their insane profits.
Private equity has been moving into the bagel business.
As bagels have grown in popularity, private equity started eying local chains.
Call Your Mother Deli, PopUp Bagels, H&H Bagels have all gotten major investments, or been bought out.
These investors reportedly see the bagel industry as having unfilled potential for growth.
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