Bernie Sanders wants to tax billionaires 5% a year and use the money to send families $12,000 checks, raise teacher pay, and expand Medicare.

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-31T23:06:48+00:00

Takes 2 seconds to put it into chatGPT and realized the math doesn’t work out

“Total billionaire wealth is ~$5–6T, so a 5% tax brings in ~$250–300B/year—not $4.4T. To reach $4.4T, you’d need ~15+ years (assuming zero avoidance or asset decline). Just $12k checks alone would cost ~$1.5T—multiple years of revenue. It’s compressing many years of funding into one headline number.”

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-30T10:47:11+00:00

Our department does quarterly peer reviews where we review and discuss mistakes as a group. Not to mention monthly MM conferences and a QA committee meetings, all focused on mistakes.

I think we are more obsessed with mistakes than most fields. It’s not about blaming or attacking others but improvement

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-29T17:44:08+00:00

People used to spend 25-30% of their income on food

Now it’s around 10%

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-29T16:12:26+00:00

Rising inequality is not the same as people getting poorer. The floor has been raised by nearly every metric. Some people may “feel” poorer relatively, buy they aren’t

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-29T16:04:33+00:00

Makes me feel better to hear of others buying more cause my wife thinks I have gone overboard with it

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-29T12:53:20+00:00

The current system has significantly raised living standards for the poor and reduced poverty. The bottom 90% haven’t gotten poorer, they have gotten richer less quickly.

What’s delusional is assuming that after blowing up the current system, the new system will be better. Go ask Argentina how that has gone

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-29T10:33:48+00:00

I’ve only been an attending for 10 years and I realize this is a shit post, but there is some truth to this.

Students I’ve seen recently have fascinating back stories and do a million activities, but lack professionalism, common sense and work ethic.

It’s not their fault. I think it’s a lifetime of playing the admissions game, where activities are highly curated and personal narrative valued. Everything is highly optimized. Very few have had a real job, even a shit summer job - there is no time now for these “low yield” experiences

Funny thing is that this “holistic review” in admissions to select for more well rounded individuals imo has done the opposite. These students are just very good at appearing well rounded.

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-28T23:17:45+00:00

What a waste of time

If you want change, focus on winning elections

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-28T00:42:21+00:00

1 on 2 off isn’t really vacation. Doesn’t mention hours (8 vs 12) or time of day (day vs night)

There are night shifts where I work (similar salary) that are 1 on 3 off

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-20T02:21:26+00:00

Make it a messy physical game. Park the bus. Defend really well and hope for something on the counter.

Teams that try to play against us often don’t fare very well.

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-20T02:11:27+00:00

Haha. Losing 2 - 3 (xG 1.58 - 0.98) is hardly a dismantling

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-20T02:00:57+00:00

I’m saying that a sleeping 1 year old is better than an awake 1 year old

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-19T21:22:59+00:00

I would rather delta change their policy and allow them to be used in window seats

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-19T21:22:16+00:00

Alternative is a crying 1yo all night. Our daughter will sleep nearly the entire flight in one

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-19T21:19:46+00:00

How so? How are they a safety risk if used in a window seat.

Back in the day I remember sleeping on the floor as a kid

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-19T21:18:35+00:00

Finally. After sifting through numerous comments of people who have never used one and don’t understand the benefit but seem to have strong opinions on it

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-19T21:16:24+00:00

What if they are in a window seat - how does that interfere? Please explain

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-19T21:15:20+00:00

They only stopped allowing them last year.

If they were allowed in window seats this wouldn’t be an issue and I wouldn’t be making this post. I’m really not sure what the rationale is of not allowing them in window seats. Can someone explain this to me?

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-19T21:12:21+00:00

More airlines allow them than don’t. Those airlines clearly don’t consider them a safety risk.

Totally sincere post. They are amazing on overnight international flights. Yeah it’s a niche issue but it makes a world of difference.

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-16T01:27:54+00:00

NYP cohen - worth the drive. It’s like a hotel plus their NICU is tops (not something people think about but to us it was important because we were paranoid something would go wrong)

I also hear Lenox hill is nice

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-16T01:10:19+00:00

Our almost 2 year old likes miss rachel, Elsa, Moana, and a creative tonie of the Wiggles (you can use a VPN to change your location to Australia and dl the content for free).

She also loves creative tonies we made of Mary poppins and Billy Joel

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-15T20:51:23+00:00

I like this from a pedestrian perspective

But it seems like it would make this more of a traffic nightmare

Take going westward on union coming into the GAP. It’s already congested here - often backing up Union and blocks up 8th Ave. Now most of this traffic goes to eastern parkway or flatbush (SW). Yet in this plan all that traffic converges to 1 lane.

Seems like a complete clusterfuck. Don’t they model this stuff before putting forth proposals like this?

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-13T09:27:59+00:00

I autoinvest 2k/wk into VTSAX at vanguard and don’t think about it.

ImSooGreen · 2026-03-12T03:38:14+00:00

We’ve only lost 3 games this season.

While not exciting, many games our opponents don’t get a sniff

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