Now that the weather is nice I got a helinox chair and a small goal zero yeti and with my a wifi hotspot I can go work in the park outdoors or on a patio all day.
It's heavenly.
I also love my bluetooth headphones with Noise Cancellation.
I can be in my own world at the gym, at work, at the coffeeshop.
> If you took every penny from all the billionaires in the USA it would fund the US government for 8 months
That's actually horrifying to me in the completely opposite way that it is to you.
That just a handful of people (<1000) can use individually at will more than half of resources that elected representatives of 300mln people administer in a year.
This is merely an attempt to show just how lopsided the wealth distribution is. Imagine being able to afford to run the US government for any meaningful length of time with your personal wealth. I'm lucky I can run my modest household.
Multi-billionaires are like black holes. They are capable of distorting the very fabric of society. Democracy has no meaning under these circumstances. We have a much more severe problem here than funding journalism.
yes, and some changes are not for the best. But for the real big global market of resources, oil, gas, steel, energy, high-tech.. some ideas are still valid imho, of course to be adapted.
And i notice that the lifes of 99.99% of us people has not even a fraction of the freedom of capitals and goods, and this is another side of the problem.
Looking at inflation-adjusted dollars or even fraction-of-GDP, Biden has spent more on stimulus and new investment programs than the entirety of the New Deal. So what gives? Maybe it’s not a capital problem.
An interesting thing I'm seeing happening in primary care is that doctors are being replaced by doctor adjacent professions like Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, etc.
A doctor spends a decade working 60 to 80 hour weeks studying medicine whereas an NP is a Master degree, I think which can be obtained online.
There doesn't appear to be clear results yet in studies on the outcomes of NP's vs MD's (see reference).
Another argument is that maybe all that medical school training is overkill in Primary Care and this is perfect setting for NP's or PA's. And also maybe most doctors are not ambitious and forget most of the training they're not using on a daily basis anyway.
I think it would be pretty funny if after more studies NP's showed no different outcomes than MD's.
The number "created" in TFA is just the delta in employed over the time period, with every person no longer employed in-state (for any reason) counting against the people newly employed in CA. Click the link in the article to see the graph of CA jobs, there's seasonal fluctuations but overall it looks flat over the last two years.
they're actually just covering for a funding problem.
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