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Fact: The percentage of people that are in poverty is significantly lower than it was multiple decades ago.

If you only care about ideology and not actual people that are suffering every day, then yeah, giving up and letting other people solve the problem is the best thing you can do.

I think some conservatives are exactly that, yes. They advertise and brag about it constantly.

You are just wrong. Absolute numbers are not relevant when discussing trends because, guess what, the population of the whole world has increased in the last 70 years. Shocking news!

Povery rates are approximately half of what it was in 1958, when the Census bureau began tracking data. The rate bottomed out in 2019 but then went back up in 2020 (bet you can guess why), and is now trending down again.

https://www.debt.org/faqs/americans-in-debt/poverty-united-states/

so what is your solution, vote for the GOP and pray they will suddenly decide NOT to gut every social program they can find?

So, yes, the blockchain doesn’t make files smaller, but it could work to verify their authenticity, and that they have not been tampered with.

As with every other suggested use of blockchain, there are already better ways to verify contents. It's called hashing, it's been around for decades, and we do it all the time.

So instead of videos being hosted on 1 server, videos could be downloaded and made available by anyone to anyone at any time.

This is going to run into all kinds of bottlenecks. Individual users may have a fast enough Internet connection to stream HD video, but uploading is often much slower. Even if not, one user could only co-host maybe 1-2 other users. Also, ISPs sure aren't going to like all the increased bandwidth!

People always vastly underestimate the bandwidth requirements for smooth, streaming video.

Are you referring to the concept of capitalism?

So what, why does society care about two people getting into the same car together?

You clearly have an agenda in asking the question. There's no problem with that, but pretending you don't is... weird.

Union can decide scabbers can't join union later, more news at 11.

Apple would be a better custodian of Disney content than Disney themselves, at least.

Yeah, it's the old story of the immortal who refused to cross the street. The kind of risks that someone expecting to die by 80 would take are much different than risk assessment of someone expecting to live--comfortably, with their mind and body intact--to at least 160.