WanderingThoughts

And if you kill it, money still finds its way somehow but the others don't. The problem is money.

Let’s just say I’ve never seen any real union pushback.

The places that pushed back got retaliatory outsourced and automated until pushback stopped.

Because lobbying is also done be environmental groups, neighborhood groups, consumer activists, ... Ban lobbying would deprive a large set of the population of their voice

I've seen that story before. It's a very old tale, but now with different means to screw yourself over if you don't know what you're doing.

But first they'll make it work air traffic control and social security.

Voting isn't a Rorschach test like they seem to think it is. It's giving a blank cheque to one guy so you better have some trust what's he going to do with it.

Since the whole tariffs thing lead to boycotting of many American products, visiting the nearest version of Tortuga is downright patriotic

That too is very realistic

If you have two cats, that's a sign of split personality?

Many societies also develop a system of redistribution or debt forgiveness. It's known that too much debt accumulation in too few hands cause increasingly bigger issues or that circumstances change. But there are always those that need to learn the lesson again.

We told a friend who was always up to an hour late that the event started at 3 instead of the real time of 4. He arrived exactly at 4, just when the rest rolled up too. He was so mad when he found out.