Societal consequences obviously don’t motivate much of the investor class, but financial ones do.

I’m not smart enough regarding macroeconomics to know the right answer, but I feel like there has to be a solution that makes home ownership affordable for new entrants into the market without causing the value of existing homes to tank so hard and fast that we end up with a 2008-style crash again. I’m pretty confident that getting large-scale corporate investment out of the picture is part of the solution, and I don’t care if the method involved there hurts the corpos pretty bad. Maybe an oppressive rent-control scheme that makes keeping the properties untenable for corporate owners, forcing them to want to sell as fast (and therefore as cheaply) as they can. I don’t know what zoning laws are like in Canada (compared to here in the US), but I think merging zoning for low- and mid-density residential such that suburban NIMBYs can’t block multi-family units from being build is another necessary step. As far as everyday folks who bought into the housing system, I’d like to see them as protected from the fallout as possible, especially since (at least the US) government has been all-too-happy to let home ownership replace pensions as the primary way people are “supposed” to retire.

Nothing. It’s a pretty fantasy. Best I think we can hope for is a few monopolies busted up so some little guys can break into the market. That’ll buy us about 20 years until those little guys have become the new Googles and Microsofts and Apples, and then we start over. We need to entirely rewrite how we do antitrust assessments to account for both vertical and horizontal monopolistic behaviors (a vertical monopoly is a company that controls the entire supply chain where a horizontal one controls the market and customer base. Historically, the US has been more concerned with horizontal monopolies.) It’d be great if we could come up with a better measure of consumer choice that we currently use. If you have the choice between 2 ISPs but they both charge the same amount for the same service, you don’t really have a choice there…at least not a meaningful one.

I mean, 60B isn’t an outrageous amount for just the grain. 5% of the world’s grain comes from Ukraine, and Russia already has a rich history of using their resource exports to extort Western governments.

Walmart, McDonald’s…the same kinds of jobs people say “shouldn’t pay enough to live on”

If you know a guy to get weed from…you know a place to get a handful of seeds and stems ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

But I get what you’re saying…I didn’t know about the grape juice, that’s a fascinating little nugget of history. Thanks for sharing it

I mean, it’s pretty easy to grow a plant in your house too…easier, probably, than managing everything necessary to ensure safe brewing or distilling.

I’ve always wanted a zombie movie that focused on the absurd boredom and how you might combat it. Like setting up Rube Goldberg killing machines

I always feel like I’m driving in the future going through wind farms

I wear mine in the house because I have a collapsed arch on one foot, and both my knees are completely shot. Shoes keep the feet lighed up, and I don’t sublux my kneecap nearly as often.

Its gonna be so much harder for them than it was for me in the early 2000s. I know my generation’s parents expected most of us to end off better than they did, but I don’t feel like anybody who graduated high school after 2008 ever had a chance and it’s just fucking heartbreaking.

When my kids are old enough to be in that position, I’ll tell em to use it on debt first, too.

Fucking pre-commit hooks

I’ll start worrying about artificial intelligence when customers can generate requirements specific enough for actual intelligence to decipher.

Kinda hard to build a prompt when they don’t even really know what they want until they’ve seen what they asked for.

Domestic terrorism

I’ve heard a LOT of takes, but never “only cops should have guns.”

With a keg in the office comes great responsibility.

This is the way.

Guess you didn’t catch the sarcasm dripping off that entire statement? I wasn’t even talking about our incarceration problem, I was referencing all the anti-trans and anti-drag legislation the conservative states have been passing. Literally, the “small government” idiots legislating what clothes people can wear in public…

This is awful and wrong and a violation of the human rights of the citizens of that country. Thankfully, we don’t let the government decide what people are allowed to wear here in the good ol US of A…doesnt matter how many conservatives’ feelings are hurt. Small government and all that…