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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • While I feel like the headline is also true, I know that no other people are anywhere near popular enough to win in the current system. Maybe I’m a moron, but I feel like if Gavin Newsom or someone else had the polling, Biden would love to step aside.

    Our system, and especially how Trump has sucked all the oxygen out of the room, how are the next generation supposed to get noticed and popular? Many many Republicans are certainly trying.






  • If you have no kids, a decent resume, and the desire to do it? It can be a pain.

    Imagine if you have kids, not the hottest resume or your skills are otherwise attached to a local economy (say tourism), and you rely on family for childcare. Or you own your house. Or any number of other complications that make it hard to just decide to move.

    Remote work has certainly made it easier. You don’t need to travel for interviews like you used to.

    Healthcare and ability to rent are both tied to work, so you can’t really just move to a new city and figure stuff out either.







  • Interesting.

    The idea of the government telling banks to change people’s bank values is a bad example, but I think the core is accurate. The government has a role to play in the economy and we have only decided arbitrarily that taxes will fund coffers that get spent “responsibly”. But there is really no necessary corelation here. We have just sort of arrived here, at this metaphor, to make sure the government doesn’t do something stupid like buy everyone a puppy.

    For those who believe in markets, keeping the government largely operating within markets (taxes, expenditures, deficits, etc) is a useful proxy. But when the markets are so far distorted and the lives of poor and working people are at stake? Yeah it’s clear something has to change.