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Very little about the War on Drugs was/is legal let alone moral. But just like "Torture" was gifted a pass during the Bush years, we ignored the reality of the "War on Drugs" in order to pacify the most frightened and ignorant among us... Oh and enrich the makers of fear, weapons and armory.

Unless you signed an agreement that states otherwise... Most employee and contractor and user agreements fall into this category.

No, they need to show user growth. This is the problem with the public markets. Companies must grow, QoQ or they are a failure. Its at the root of so many of our issues. Some businesses should not grow, or need not grow. Stability is good for the market, but not good for today's Wall St pump and dump where the goal is to fleece others, not to build a viable, reliable business.

Toxic hubris. The man is high on his own supply and he's acting like a spoiled child. I have no respect for this kind of stuff from a mature, capable person. Its trolling and it's destructive.

I have been trying, unsuccessfully for 2 years to validate my account on Coinbase. I have over 100k in ETH stored in their wallet, have the highest levels of access to their services but CANNOT trade because they have NO HUMANS available. Their systems DO NOT work and there is NO contact info nor any way to actually reach a person.

So I have been trading with others and will never use CB for anything but cold storage. (Which they're great at)...

The company is the worst I have ever dealt with. There is no way to interact with a person. So if something does happen, you have NO RECOURSE.

Based on my experience, they will be bankrupt. This is a certainty. You cannot have a financial entity that has ZERO human interaction or service. No trust, none at all...

Your definition is incorrect. Maybe that's a problem? When one is focused on an incorrect thing, they'll always end up with an incorrect conclusion.

The future of Social Media is no centralized social media entity. Everything these sites/companies do, you can do yourself. No need for a centralized service, just connect directly with your friends, share what you want, directly.

So yes, saturation has been achieved. What comes next is the methods of how we as humans connect. (remember, FB was just a condensed and easy to use version of the Web at large), they just made it really easy to post and share.

Do you really think we'll need a centralized service to do this in the future?

Define news. Is it anything new? Is it factual information? Is it any information by anyone?

News, as its meant in the lexicon, is factual based reporting. Twitter is the opposite. Its a hodgepodge of everything. You have to mine the data to find the gems.

Very few people (percentage of the pop) are on Twitter. People hear about Twitter via other media's amplification. So on its own, its a small platform with oversized influence.

UPS was founded in 1907. Bu thanks.

Fred was trained by the US Gov to fly, went to the most exclusive schools and inherited 40million in the 70s! That's 250million today... You can think this is a story of a selfmade man but you'd be wrong. He may have built a business, but he did it from the highest rings of the ladder having been placed there by his privilege.

The value of Twitter is the amplification by media. It has very little actual traction in the whole, without the amplification its worthless to anyone but narcissist and PR folk.

One solution is to charge users $1 to tweet. Charge users with over 10k followers 1k a month per 10k to Tweet to their followers.

Its a PR machine, not a news source. Treat it like one and its value will both rise and fall...

Marketplace is a mess. Absolutely unusable. The sheer volume of paid ads mixed with volumes of scams and really, really obnoxious creative (think borderline porn)makes it impossible to use with any clarity. Or even to use to find something specific.

It shows how awful FB is at design and UX. They really are the Fisher Price of the web. Its seems as if they build for stupid people who have no tech skills... In other words: the majority of people...

Not me, but yes. Ads are the reason everything sucks. Adtech and its PPC / CTR have destroyed the world. Everything, in every media, is now clickbait.

Not fully. Nor are the air traffic control costs paid by airlines. The entire ATC infrastructure is government run and funded and most of the airports are run by local governments. Very few airports actually make money or are profitable for the agency that runs them. They are subsidized. Done with the idea that they are essential for communities and are a part of our underlying infrastructure. \

Also: look at what FedEx pays in Fed taxes. Its zero most years.

FYI FedEx ground is a separate company. They are actually locally owned / individually owned franchises that pay FedEx to route and ship their packages. The routes are owned by individuals. Its a great biz as many are making very good livings managing the routes.

It is not his success that I find problematic, its his current assessment of the Gov, the politics and the imbalance that exists in today's "Socialize risk, Privatize profits" environment. He's suffering from hubris.

The fact that he comes from money makes this whole thing even more ridiculous. He did not build anything from scratch, he literally started on 3rd base and was handed his field position before he even started...

This also seems to ignore the fact that UPS existed decades before his company, a company that he intentionally named Federal Express to fool people into thinking it was a government entity...

Interesting interview. He is yet another extremely wealthy man, who built his fortune on the back of Government that now claims that government is the problem... Very few businesses are as subsidized as air travel. Fed Ex could not / would not exist without the government aide it is provided. Air traffic control, airports, etc.

This toxic hubris is a big part of what is wrong with our society. These men no longer look at their fortune as a series of lucky breaks, good timing and countless hands-up by others and their government. Things that are only possible in a society that paves the way ahead of them... Instead they think they and they alone are the reason that they're successful.

The fact is that everyone "stands on the shoulders of giants".

It seems that the concept of giving back and paying forward is absent in these men. Instead, they believe they're special and anoiteted by God to drive us in a particular direction. What a change from the 19th century Robber Barrens who gifted us institutions and built the very foundation of a reasoned society (schools, libraries, research institutions etc..). Today? We get personal rockets, politically motivated think tanks and awful narcissistic ideologues who want to rule over us...

For every Gates, there are a dozen Zucks masquerading as royalty and proving that absolute power (money) absolutely corrupts.

Half of Americans cannot read beyond an 8th grade level.

Millions of lawyers, accountants and bookkeepers exist only because the US tax code is so ridiculously complicated.

When you print more money in a year than in an entire century, its going to cause inflation. Trump printed 3+ trillion and gave most of it away to the banks and Wall St. That money found its way first into the bond and stock markets, then mid last year into consumer assets. We are never going back. Trump's tariffs and his tax breaks will be with us until your great, great-grandkids are 50... Electing a idiot who lost his entire inheritance, is not smart. Be smarter America.

The Internet commoditizes everything.