Let the sun hit your chest, upper legs, butt, etc. Places that have suffered less skin damage over the years. And that you wouldn't mind getting a bit of sun damage since they are always covered in clothing.
It is unfortunate that the most clinically backed skincare treatment, retinols, cause so many problems for rosacea sufferers. Not to mention, the 1-month of breakouts people experience when they begin using them.
Most wealthy people spend another 1-2% of their income on property taxes and a bit on sales taxes, etc. I estimate I pay 53% of my income to taxes. I agree that 55% is unlikely tho
The 37% and 13.3% are on marginal income, as I'm sure you know. The effective tax rate is much lower.
California and some other states also have required disability insurance that is taken out with the state income tax. It's 1% in CA.
And I would count Social Security and Medicare too, equally 7.65%. But the SS part has a cap so the percentage goes down the more you make.
All put together, someone making $250K pays about 37% on that to various income taxes listed above. If you were making 1M income a year, that rises to 47%. For 100K, it's about 30%.
The employer pays the same social security and medicare taxes as the employee and also has a cap on the social security part, plus in some cases an unemployment tax.
If you want to include employer taxes, to calculate if the employer wants to pay you 250K how much you would get, then it's be about 42%. At 100K, it'd be about 38% since you don't reach the SS cap.
Of course, there's a couple other tricks in there, like the government can embed some tax into the healthcare costs which are required for employers to buy, but then there's also deductions that are hard to turn into a percentage like this.
I spent an hour arguing about taxes with someone until I realized that they didn't understand how marginal taxes worked. I bet you dollars to donuts that if you start talking about taxes in a room full of upper-middle class people, one will tell you about people choosing not to earn more money so they don't get "bumped" into a higher tax rate.
A hair transplant isn't extremely expensive, and price is definitely not the limiting factor on the result you can achieve. They cost around $10k on the low end and $35k from the most expensive doctors in the USA.
Elon was lucky to have great donor sites for the hair. Likely also started using finasteride, minoxidil, and a DHT inhibiting shampoo right around when he got the transplant if not a couple years before.
I've had 3 hair transplants myself, and have spent enough time in and around hair transplant surgeon's offices to know that the vast majority of cases don't turn out as well as Elon's. Most people just don't have enough hair.
I posted this above but then saw you have direct experience and thought I’d ask: am I correct in understanding that transplanted hair is done in random patterns but not at random angles, and so the hair tends to look “stiff” and unnatural, like it has hair spray in it?
The angle, orientation and position of EACH AND EVERY transplanted graft (of hair follicles) determines the final naturalness of the outcome. This is determined by the “stroke” of the surgeon’s hand while making the recipient sites and cannot be changed by technicians during placement.
A typical poor outcome from a “chop shop” or inexperienced surgeon will likely be unnatural due to a combination of a poorly designed 2-dimensional hairline shape as well as poor angulation of the grafts creating a contrived appearance—like the example you described, but there are many other pitfalls that can occur.
An artistic surgeon will excel at the nuances of hairline shape, variations of transplanted density across the recipient area, graft size (1, 2 or 3 hair grafts) and angles of growth to create undetectability AND coverage at the same time.
You are saying random angles, but that is definitely not how hair is naturally set. The issue is more like: vertical angle throughout vs. slight angle only changing uniformly in different areas.
In the US every company pays unemployment insurance. When employees are laid off, they receive unemployment benefits from this fund until they find a new job (for up to 39 months). Severance is the company "willing" to paying the laid-off employee more money than unemployment insurance.
Read the article and ask yourself which one of the things described would seem out of place in one of those sad gossip magazines targeting low-income housewives.
E.g. water mixed with Himalayan salt and lemon in the morning.
And since I'm mentioning it, Himalayan salt is not better than normal salt. It could also contain more contaminants and it has no iodine (that could not be desirable in some countries).
Himalayan salt contains iron, calcium, iron, and magnesium.
Lemons contain vitamin C, potassium, fiber, etc.
If you are fasting, it may be a good idea to get those electrolytes. Even if not, this seems like a healthy drink; certainly better what I people see drinking at my office.
People might not want to macro dose iodine, so that rules out table salt.
And as far as taste go, I can just taste the lack of iodine.
If I had to recommend an alternative, for those that are not doing IF, eat a kiwi (double the amount of vitamin c, way more fibres) and some nuts (magnesium and potassium).
“For 10 days a year, he sits in silence at a meditation retreat. Before getting dressed each morning, he experiments with using his home infrared sauna and then an ice bath, sometimes cycling through both several times before he leaves home.”
Salty lemon water? Why would that be lavaging? Perhaps if the concentration is extreme. Otherwise I doubt it would have more of that effect than coffee.
I dunno about this. Many medical professionals encourage heart and high blood pressure patient to drastically limit salt intake because salt causes you to retain water.
What does this mixture of himalayan salt and lemon do that causes the diuretic effect?
I don't think that there is disagreement on the existence of healthy routines. But we should be skeptical of the benefit of "Himalayan salt" and equivalents. Have you tried switching the salt to just common salt in a blind experiment? Have you tried only lemon water? Himalayan salt is a luxury, and there is not particular reason to believe that it does anything more than a placebo.
I drink just water in the morning and I am out to empty my bowels right after. I don't think that has much to do with Himalayan salt.