And the board can usually tell you what part if you read out the error codes.
That's no different than the car, basically. Mechanics don't really independently diagnose stuff on modern cars anymore. They plug in the OBD scanner and the car tells them what might be wrong.
Some kids want to become actors, some kids want to eat people.
Why deny your grandchildren their dreams?
Oh, no. Far, far more than that.
1 billion / 50,000 a year = 20,000 years.
Musk's worth 214 billion / 50,000 a year = 4.28 million years.
I say 214 but apparently it's actually 214.8 billion. That 0.8 billion / 50,000 = 16000 years.
that's more money than you will ever earn in several lifetimes of actual work.
Imagine you earn 20 dollars an hour, ten hours a day, work five days a week, two weeks vacation so that's 50 weeks a year.
20 x 10 x 5 x 50 = 50,000 per year. All your expenses are covered for some reason.
To earn a million dollars you would need to work 20 years.
To earn a billion dollars you would need to work 20,000 years.
To be as rich as Elon Musk is now, you would need to work ~~3.7~~ 4.28 million years .
e: updated Musk number.
Life kinda sucks, wealth insulates you from the worst of it, and affords you more opportunities.
If you're rich you can become an actor, poet, artist, writer, athlete, journalist, doctor, academic, etc. No coincidence that people in these fields are disproportionately from well off families who were able to support them.
Without wealth, a lot of those careers and opportunities are closed to you, and you end up doing dead end jobs, even if you have far more potential. Not that surprising that rich people who love their kids (and grandkids) would want them to have that opportunity.
Of course, too much money can also fuck you over, so perhaps Bill Gates has the right idea in not giving his children too much, and donating most of his wealth.
It's also quite obviously not fair. Some fields are dominated by defacto aristocracy, and it is to the detriment of society that it isn't truly meritocratic, but I get why their parents want to give them that opportunity.
The b in "bire" is probably a capital D. "D I R E."
I think confusing July the 4th with New Year because both have celebrations, isn't the dumbest thing I've heard a kid say. Not the dumbest thing I said/thought as a kid either.
It is interesting how they've written a little conversation and know how to use quotation marks.
The cool thing about French manufacturers, is that they also make small/affordable electric cars.
Like the Renault Twizzy and the Citroen Ami. The latter costs something like 6k new, but IRC they're also (planning on) renting them out in cities or coastal towns. You know, like e-scooters.
Obviously, it's tiny and really basic, the range is relatively small, but that's all you really need in a city or for a commute.
What are some of your favourite pc games?
Trendy, expensive, poorly insulated, poorly suited, overly priced condos.
You can't easily convert open plan office space into suitable residential housing.
I currently have 1200 dollars and live in my mother's basement, because I'm her full time carer while she recovers from cancer. My current retirement plan is a rope. I have a master's degree in STEM, but you'd be surprised how many homeless people have those too.
Someone earning 150k would have to work thousands of years to become a billionaire, true.
The ultra rich are the true enemy, true.
But Jesus Christ, people earning 150k are not 'just scraping by'.
Seriously. Get a grip. How out of touch do you have to be to think that? No concept of what true poverty looks like.