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Many people I speak with in my generation (millennials) have a growing frustration with sending a large percentage of our paycheck to the already rich Boomers.

This is coupled with their self-centered politics which seem obsessed with them capturing as much wealth as possible and avoiding taxes at the clear expense of younger generations.

Won't happen, that's what campaign contributions are for.

They will get periodic slaps on the wrist, but this is purely for show. There is too much money to be made and spread around.

Generations before Boomers crafted policy that considered the future beyond them (children and grandchildren). Boomers do not follow that tradition.

Not TOO much loss tho, right?

I thought the cooling tower design helped maximize cooling and minimize loss as steam.

Beyond Gen X, does anyone younger consider BMW a luxury brand?

Exactly.

This is not a law to protect people, this is a law to protect entrenched special interests (Reservation and State-owned casinos).

Post-Jobs Apple seems paralyzed and unable to commit to any big moves.

It is impossible to overstate the success of the iPhone, but there are so many recent examples where they dipped their toes in only to fail or be left behind (autos, VR, AI, etc).

What will the next 20 years of Apple look like? Just more iPhones?

It sounds like you don't use Oracle, Oracle uses you.

Costco's genius is in building and maintaining trust with their members.

In the age of private equity takeovers and the MBA-enshitification of pretty much every product and service, Costco appears to be the only retailer that will stand on the side of their members against those forces.

They are playing the long game--which will pay off incredibly well for them as fewer and fewer companies care about customer satisfaction and quality.

I’m completely against factory farming, confinement barns, etc and always avoid meat produced this way.

But I do wonder what you mean when you say “cruelty” in the context of cattle.

Having lived in/around rural livestock production most of my life, I can tell you that most cattle operations I am familiar with take excellent care of the their animals. Minimizing stress is absolutely a top goal for them.

Pork, on the other hand, is almost always produced in a horrifying, cruel way. Confinement barns are terrible in every sense of the word. Pigs are treated without respect from cradle to grave.

Are new H1Bs a thing anymore?

Since the fee went up to $100k, I’m not aware of any companies still sponsoring hires who need a new H1B

I'm not trying to downplay their accomplishments, but how much of their scientific advances from the 40s-60s were due to capturing ex-Nazi tech (and scientists) or stealing from the US via their incredible intelligence efforts?

So in this version of the future, everyone lives in government housing?

> I don't know what comes after, but when you combine this with the Iran war it's going to be closer to economic depression.

I follow your extrapolation in the first part, but this is where you lost me.

Why is the Iran war guaranteed to have long-term net negative consequences? It seems far too early to predict the outcome with any kind of certainty.