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Well I'm glad we're in agreement there's no objective measure of value of these workers.

> if those types of workers vanished, Amazon would not have any value.

I disagree, in a world with only higher wage workers, a business like Amazon's would be even more important since they have such a focus on automation. Look at what happened during COVID. A lot of low wage work was shut down and who took their place in the economy? A few large companies.

Who's to say that those jobs are providing the value though? You'd have to do a much deeper analysis than looking at Amazon's profit margins given the fact that they have all sorts of automation their employees didn't pay for.

> Consider what would have happened had we actively helped developing countries become developed?

Have you looked at what happened in China over the past several decades? Amazon definitely had a hand in that.

Bacon and other processed meats are listed as a group 1 carcinogen, along with smoking and asbestos. This is due to the nitrate content (which gets converted to nitrosamines during cooking).

I think Betteridge's law of headlines still applies here even though the question is answered in the title.

Yeah, he's just one health crisis from complete bankruptcy. What if he goes to the hospital complaining of a headache and they charge him $182 billion for an aspirin?

Personally I've always planned to be FI by the time I was 40, so I wouldn't need to worry about depending on a job.

And "applies to everyone" should mean "applies to the entire market for GME". If you halt trading, you halt it for everyone.

Couldn't have anything to do with RH only allowing you to sell the stock, could it?

Or just that you have some kind of disposable income.

Nobody would be complaining if they lost a ton of money on a stupid trade. In fact they would be posting loss porn on the front page of the subreddit and laughing about it. In fact, some WSBers did short GME and lost a bunch of money.

But when the hedge funders get caught then for some reason it's bad and Reddit or Robinhood or the government needs to step in and fix the situation. Instead, we should all be laughing over Melvin Capital's loss porn.

So is any group of people, including hedge funds and the government as we've seen over and over and over again.

Some self-acknowledged idiots making a few million on the stock market isn't going to have any measurable impact on the entire economy. And it'll be balanced out by a few hedge fund millionaires having to sell their third yacht.

Or just buying 10000 shares at $3 and selling them at $200

People don't always have to be improving themselves at work. At a certain level of skill (say average), just doing your job is enough. Now sure, if you want to get ahead at work, then it's a good idea to go the extra mile, but not everyone cares about that or needs to care about that. They have other aspects of their life that they want to focus on at the expense of their work life.

About the same

Moderate

Software engineer for a large bank. Pays well enough, though not at Silicon Valley levels, but I have a house in a nice neighborhood and a Tesla and lots of retirement savings. We get 4 weeks of vacation, health insurance, 4 months parental leave, and other benefits. I don't work much overtime and don't feel stressed about deadlines. It seems like the team leads and directors above me might feel some pressure, but I'm not really looking to take on management duties myself since I already am happy where I'm at.

...in mice. Still pretty cool though

Its not just about reserves, though I believe you about the stockpile. It's also states not administering fast enough.

I asked this same question yesterday. Unfortunately they seem to be taking their sweet time.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine...

You mean the vaccine against the virus that has already killed 300k people in the US? Its very clearly desirable to get all of the elderly and people with pre-existing conditions vaccinated as quickly as possible since they have such a high probability of dying of the virus. Even if we did just that we could cut the death rate way down.

Interesting. I've always valued higher pay over other benefits and I'd like to retire early so job security doesn't matter much. I guess I would prefer being non-union too.

And get people vaccinated as quickly as possible instead of sitting on stocks of unused vaccine.

Or it could be neither. Perhaps that revenue isn't being generated in the first place.

This makes it sound like there are a bunch of vaccine doses waiting on the sidelines? Is this the case? I would hope they are being administered as fast as they can be produced at this point.

Admittedly I don't know much about work relations in Europe but are SW engineers unionized there? A union could 1.)allow workers to aggressively collectively bargain for more money 2.)add additional requirements (licensure, education requirements, etc) to keep down the supply of labor. I'm not saying such a move would be good for everyone, but it could be good for those who become members of the union.

I'm mostly just looking for a brief, clear overview, rather than a bunch of links and questions. Thanks!

Or the lung cancer causing particle emissions.

It's an interesting idea. Can you give a TLDR of how it would work in practice? Cowboy justice?