Contrary to popular belief, it wasn’t slaves who built the pyramids. We know this because archaeologists have located the remains of a purpose-built village for the thousands of workers who built the famous Giza pyramids, nearly 4,500 years ago.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyramids-built-by-slaves
While I think the evidence they cite is rather weak it’s well agreed upon that the workers were paid and enjoyed elevated status in society
CC companies have a really easy retort in that they operate in jurisdictions where these things are illegal
Age verification checks seem dumb, all they have to do is get rid of the community side
In my backyard
Build upwards instead of outwards
Replacing all forms of power generation with nuclear would protect a lot of land but war exists and blowing up a nuclear plant causes longer lasting damage than a solar farm
People willingly provide enough tracking of themselves already
While this could have military applications, the need to generate a profile of the person you want to track makes this less of a concern for your average “carries a phone everywhere” person
I was under the impression that the president was above the law
It makes their opponents look bad when they refuse
They can process it locally to your point and send txt files of passwords/sensitive info
However, they don’t have to send anything while such a terrible feature is new. They just have to wait until enough retards accept such a feature
It’s not really a consensus, it drives higher inflation (people are spending more) and a lot of stimulus vs tight purse economics are just doing the opposite of what they did in response to the last crash
What I think they are talking about is UBI which in limited pilot projects haven’t impacted inflation
The real benefit of uplifting the poor is that it creates a safer society for everyone and faster innovation in that society because people have time/money to do things. When flying was in it’s infancy a lot of farmers in the US had hobby planes and gliding/eventually flying was built off being accessible. Aviation laws get in the way but it’s completely foreign to think of some poor farmer in rural USA being a hobby pilot today