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Narrative violation for the "progressive" left: The American Dream is alive and well.
12% of American Families are now Millionaires "Perhaps most noteworthy, there really are a lot of true millionaires. About 16 million American families—just over 12%—have wealth exceeding $1 million, up from 9.8 million families in 2019. Nearly eight million families are multimillionaires, i.e., their wealth exceeds $2 million, up from 4.7 million."
Who are mini-millionaires? "They generally earn between $150,000 and $250,000 a year. Rather than being left behind as all the gains in the economy accrue to billionaires, they have in fact seen bigger wealth gains over the past three years than the top 10% of families."
Who saw the biggest gains in wealth? "Indeed, the biggest wealth gains between 2019 and 2022 were among the approximately 13 million families in the 80th to 90th percentile of the income distribution. Their median wealth jumped 69% from 2019, adjusted for inflation, to $747,000 in 2022." https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1718016818118553622
here is a snippet from the allinpodcast thats related.. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1VXuOAyBqz/
definitely worth the 2 mins
how does this work? Is it so I can mass subscribe?
Again.. its very cool.. love the ux
The stack is very rational.. and "easy-ish" but its not wordpress easy..
most groups..and social networks.. dont burst outside 500 monthly active users.. at best.. 5000~
most groups are small and doesnt need a sophisticated scaling system.
I often test out communities with a very simple wordpress install running buddypress... it suits most communities and its so easily movable to cloud...
anyway.. i love Forem the dev.to guys have really created something phenomenal
heres an update on Florida.. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-coronaviru...
Upon the declaration of a state emergency, charging "grossly excessive" prices for food, construction services, emergency supplies, or other vital goods or services. Subject to civil penalty of between $1,000 and $3,000 per violation.
The definition of "excessive" or "unconscionable" pricing is generally determined by looking at average prices in the affected area over a given look-back period prior to the emergency, typically six months or so. If prices are 10 or 15 percent higher (some states have different thresholds), then it may be determined that price gouging has occurred.
*He was making good money while the going was good.. --BUT-- he should've known the laws the surround his entrepreneurial endeavor. He should've known that he needed to stop selling over 10% ~ 15% when the state declared an emergency.
--- The system worked.
Now that rss feeds I like and newsletters I like are in wordpress as a post.. I have a plug in that sends an email digest of what's posted...
What I like about my ghetto setup is that I can easily search and get "related" articles..
1) "Some things you should care enough about to do badly." - Start as a hobby
2) “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.” - You work on it some more but you are still mediocre at it
3) "If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing." - You work at it, again and again and you have a ton of iterations
But you get tired and you question what you are working on; #4,#5,#6 creeps in your head
4) "If a thing is not worth doing at all, it's not worth doing well."
5) "If doing something isn't worth the effort, doing it well won't fix that."
6) "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
I see 4,5,6 a lot in "features". Techs spend too much time on features that no one really cares about. Its the same for crappy movies.. lots of talented people work on really crappy work.. 99% of the time its not their own passion project. In todays, work-world, we are forced to do great work on really vapid stuff.
I see 1,2,3 in really passionate people and what the world gets are iterations, variety and meaningful work. *the world is better for it - scientist, entrepreneurs and artist do this. Many variations and angles of an idea. A lot of times, the body of work becomes meaningful.