bbreier

Quick Google search turned this up, I don't want to go too far down the rabbit hole but this line seems relevant:

> Factors like race, gender, and educational attainment have an undeniable effect on people’s economic outcomes over time that unions do not necessarily flatten, but certainly helped to mitigate. For instance, macro-level data show that unionized workers, in general, see a wage boost of around 20%. When VanHeuvelen controlled for various demographic factors like race and geographic location, he tracked wage increases between 3% and 12.5% for union members.

I'd like my chances that will add up to more than $500 over the year if I were a union worker, and this does not take into account the other potential upsides.

This is absolutely a nit and does not disqualify your overarching statement at all, but generally these attributes are due to the constraints of technology-- for example, fitting large, high performance engines necessarily increases the frequency of maintenance intervals as well as the difficulty (and therefore, cost) of maintenance. If luxury car manufacturers could make cars with the handling and performance characteristics of their flagship models but with the maintenance costs and intervals of a Toyota Corolla, they absolutely would.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Seoul

A 1 bedroom apartment in the city center is about $742.84 USD per month, compared to $3,472.78 in San Francisco. That amounts to approximately ~33% of average net take home in Seoul vs about 50% in SF.

You are absolutely correct that their public transport is excellent, and not only does that parameter not apply to the Bay Area, it doesn't apply to any city in the United States. San Francisco also has a population density less than half that of Seoul. Population density and infrastructure such as public transportation to support it are a difficult chicken and egg problem, and I don't know how to thread that needle in the Bay Area, even if I strongly feel it is a needle which needs threading.

I don't know anything about Tennessee, but cities in Texas are not conservative. See these maps of 2012 and 2016 election results by county:

https://www.chron.com/politics/election/local/article/Map-co...

We haven't hit release yet, but we're pretty confident we'll have our Android version out on the Play Store within about six weeks.

https://tizemusic.com/

If it sounds like something you're interested in please give it a go! We're always working to improve it and open to feedback. (Android is coming soon)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Edit- To be clear, Korean primarily uses Hangul, which basically derives jack and shit from the Chinese alphabet, and Japanese uses a mixture of the Chinese alphabet, and two alphabets that sort-of kind-of owe some of their heritage to the Chinese alphabet, but look nothing like it. If they are talking about unifying these alphabets, then they are out of their minds.