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Worse, many articles do not have the year in the date. What the hell is up with that?
Tesla has returned near zero to shareholders yet. I don’t think people understand this. Yes share value had increased but from an investment perspective, a company must return to investors in the form of dividends or share buybacks an amount equal to that of all capital raised plus some percentage to justify the risk and time invested. That has to happen at some point.
That doesn’t mean the company does not provide something to society but from an overall investment perspective, Tesla has yet to return a dollar yet. All that has happened so far is that many people gave a great deal of money to Tesla then a bunch more people exchanged money back and forth.
The CEOs of the fortune 500 companies are some of the highest paid people when their full packages are included. But their wages and compensation packages pale in respect to what Musk is taking from Tesla. With that package, Musk could pay all the compensation packages and wages for every fortune 500 CEO. Not only could be pay the entire amount, he could do it for the next 15 years.
That is such a lazy argument. More people then ever before are out of poverty in the history of mankind. Doesn’t mean there are not problems. In regards to COVID, we took millions of people out of the workforce while printing money and still paying many of them? Of course that will result in massive reduction of inventory levels that we will feel for a decade. That results in inflation as what do people expect when less items available to the same amount of people that want them.
Regards to qualities etc. That varies. We have more access to products then at anytime in history as well. And many of these products have come down significantly in price. But that also means quality products and their prices get compared to shit products at lower prices. What do you think people buy? Secondary, people do far less informal work and that effects your perception of income. Our parents and grandparents maintained their own cars and houses for example and grew far more food. Now every hires that out and buys all their groceries at a store. That leaves you with far less money.
Then there is one industry that has made gains but their costs has gone up ten fold. That is healthcare. You have access to some of the best medical procedures then at anytime in history. But some of those costs can be North of a million dollars. Our parents and grandparents simply did not access that and in some cases died. I am happy I have now options but this is coming at a huge cost of which much of it has to be paid for upfront before you retire.
You could kill off every billionaire tomorrow but that won’t result in much more houses being built or available. Wealth inequality is an issue but if more cogs are not manufactured, our standard of living will not change much.
From countries like Russia. That says a great deal.
Oil and gas is massively profitable. Western nations have crippled that industry resulting in countries like Russia becoming energy giants. The world is consuming new records in consumption this year and let capita, developed nations are nearly a factor more then emerging nations.
I work with a few hundred businesses and most have a good idea and know their product well. The majority that fail do so because of the administrative business side of things. Billing, expenses, tracking inventory and costs. A good idea is only half the work.
Don’t be discouraged but ensure you keep an eye on the business side of things. Beyond that, some of the suggestions here are valid.
Mostly corruption and stability doesn’t allow for business to develop along with the wealth that brings.
There are other factors but mainly you need good governance and free markets to allow for wealth creation. It at least that is the only model that has worked so far.
Then I started blasting.
I had to write to normal cassette tape.
They been around for some time. Sped up testing significantly during COVID but with COVID they have a massive data set to verify it’s safety. Likely factors more then most drugs. I am personally pretty confident in the usage of RMA proceedures.
Then why doesn’t Lemmy post and of that? Why doesn’t Lemmy post when local Palestinians handed over a girl to Hamas? Takes me to use whataboutism to show real hypocrisy.
No. No they don’t. Oil and gas was supporting and were going to cornerstone the construction of a nuclear plant in our area some fifteen years earlier and environmental groups along with public outcry got it shut down.
And water that is shielding mildly radioactive material and is not radioactive it’s self no less. You could swim in that water safely.
Actually I was just pointing out the hypocrisy in Lemmy. Off course that is whataboutism if you can not figure that out. The funny part is that Lemmy criticizes Israel for investigating it’s military members. They have jailed them in the past. Goofy group here. I would like to see Hamas do that. But no. They rape name of the women and kill the majority of them after. And the Palestine people often approve this.
Ya Hamas just rapes them kills their hostages. Israel is investigating it. Might be jail for some people. There has been cases in the past.
It funny you bring up r/conservatism. It use to be a fairly big sub and far more moderate until Trump got into power. But if you had anything bad to say about Trump, banned.
Now it is just an echo chamber with few members. Go there and given day and only a few posts with up vote above 100. Really mostly a bunch of pathetic people since the moderate conservatives left.
Lemmy can be a bit this way but on the opposite spectrum.
Same. And I like some disagreement as that brings discussion. Lemmy can be pretty toxic if you don’t echo back the expected.
Is good. I bet we would have some massive power failures as well.