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Sidenote: I love Apple products, but to be honest Apple is not the best at making software. Recently, the quality has declined too. Their great applications are a few niche professional apps not designed for the average user. They have also gotten a lot slower at releasing updates.
If Russia performs a blitzkrieg like attack they would level Ukraine to the ground or destroy major infrastructure. Russia would have to pay to rebuild everything with a pissed off international community. That would cost a hell of a lot more than what they would gain. I don't see why they are surprised, after you realize Russia/Putin isn't trying to destroy, just conquer.
It appears like Russia just wants to take over the land, make it a puppet state, and benefit from its resources. Even the damage to civilian buildings look more of a scare tactic to get Ukrainians to surrender than to win by destruction. Countless sources have said that Russia didn't expect the pushback.
This whole thing is because Ukrainians have shown amazing resistance. If you look at military battles: Battle of Thermopylae. Battle of Thermopylae explains the advantages/current success of Ukrainians, hopefully with a better outcome <3.
The unknown is how Putin is going to save face after all of this.
Take into account that salaries are not rising at an equal level. This may be correcting itself: "minimum wage" jobs are paying near/over double to get employees. If this wage increase is temporary homes would be way overpriced. If it is not temporary "white collar"/"blue collar" jobs have to increase their salaries to be competitive; which would allow property values to stay or rise over time.
Increase new home supply. Given that the demand is extremely high and home supply is limited there will likely be an increase in new home supply. On average it will take a few years before new homeowners develop some equity in their homes. During those years are where new homes have a really good market. This would lower the value of homes faster. Especially in states that had the most migration during the pandemic.
Something that negate everything and allow house prices to sore is the upcoming wealth transfer from the boomer + gen x wealth transfer to millennials. This will hurt a lot of minority communities as they didn't have the time to develop as much wealth(segregation being a big hindrance for black communities, and a large of first generation unskilled immigrants who's kids are now starting to improve the situation). Ultimately, this may lead to a larger wealth gap which can destroy a lot of things and how civilizations fall.
Let me leave it with this: Millennials and Gen-Z are going to be living in very interesting times.
2. From the sound of it you hit the mastery portion of S learning curve in terms of technical ability. So no matter how much you "educate" yourself you will never hit the level of growth you experienced when you were younger. So staying current is the best part you can do in this section as that is how the tech world works.
3. There is a new skill set that you might still be in the early stages of and that is as a VP of Engineering/Managing people are getting the best of your team and being able to challenge yourself is this department. Technically no two companies are the same so this is a place where you can constantly challenge yourself. So changing the place you work at can lead to a lot of growth here, or possibly acting as a consultant for companies that don't need a "VP of Engineering" quiet yet.
3b. If being in management doesn't really interest you and you want to be an engineer, then working in another industry might keep you excited, like becoming a game programmer/iOT programmer, AI, Architecture, etc.
4. Could be changing careers all together because you don't feel challenged enough, you can use your current job to help fund your family and the learning for that new career.
5. Terms of Salary is all subjective to where you work and what the place you work. I technically take a 50k+ pay cut because I work for a small company. The current job gives me a lot of flexibility, less stress than I have ever had to deal with before. That piece of mind and relaxation is more important to me given some medical issues I deal with from time to time. So yes you can be underpaid, but is the great team and the place you work at worth it?
The end of the day these are my 2 cents on the matter, but what I will say at the end is to do what really makes you happy. Is it family, career, challenges, etc. Finding what truly makes you happy and doing that is the best career move you can make. I would say start with that :)
Everyone appears to be nervous because of the supposed search engine. I believe this was part of their initiative to improve Siri results; when the service was even worse.
I will say that 30% is a bit excessive, for most apps nowadays. Back in 2008 til about 2012-2014(ish) it made sense. Storage, bandwidth, and credit card processing were extremely expense. A million downloads would bankrupt small companies, especially free apps. Not only that when there were less apps in the app store, it did make marketing cheaper. That advantage is no longer the case with the oversaturation of apps. At the end of the day, Apple can do what they want to do as can developers(not provide their apps); which means that it is not anti-competitive/anti-trust. Also, iOS is such a small percentage of the market, and user's/developers have a choice to go to android.
Plus, most of Trump's policies of late with China has to do with the new Silk Road. The new Silk Road is seeing China expand(land grabs) into other countries, and take over strategic points. Since, a lot of China's economy is from foreign trade, the more US makes trade difficult the harder it is for China to expand. Time, will tell if this strategy works or not, when China becomes the #1 superpower/economy in the world(speculation, but is looking more likely).
Their intellectual capital is undervalued in my opinion and may worth more than $100 billion. No car company at this moment, can come close to Tesla, and they are all spending billions, to develop batteries, vehicles, self driving tech, and infrastructure. They are even working together as they can't cover the costs on their own.
Imagine Tesla selling their batteries/engines/platform/superchargers to every car company(like an intel for cars). They can sustain their revenue by providing the supercharger network(cloud service) to go with it; with a supercharger network being the new gas station, using clean energy(near zero cost energy). Then add their self-driving platform auto companies can lease.
When your spending 100k on a car you expect Mercedes type of luxury. Previously, Tesla didn't have to compete on that because the Model S/X were ahead of its time an proof of concept cars, with the release of Model 3/Y there is no reason to have one, unless you need the additional size and want to have an electric vehicle on principle.
I also don't know if they selling carbon credits in this category or not.