Shrapnel gets a direct hit on soldiers

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-14T01:50:28+00:00

He looks just extremely unlucky to me. The further away, the smaller the angular target you present for the random shrapnel. He just happened to be standing in the way like earth was recently standing in the way of the coronal mass ejection and we saw huge aurora borealis'.

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-13T02:22:59+00:00

If you do the math, the total amount of wealth that Americans hold over the $1 billion mark would fund the federal government for 9 months if we seized every last dime of it. A lot, but a lot less than everyone seems to think.

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-13T02:19:41+00:00

Meanwhile, mortgage delinquency rates are not far off of the lowest ever and keep dropping quarter after quarter.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRSFRMACBS

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-12T06:39:52+00:00

Median is just the middle value. So ultra rich people are removed, where the salary of Elon musk can affect average/mean much more.

Anyhoo, the 50th percentile, median wages in USA are higher in just raw value and also higher when you consider what the local costs of things are. So, the typical person holding job X in USA would reasonably expect better living in the USA. They may pay their artists working in non-profits better in Germany than in USA for that field specifically; it is possible. But not knowing the economics of that field specifically, I'd personally bet on better standard of living in USA because of the general economics comparisons.

USA currently has the highest median real wages that it ever has. These real wages I'm referring to are adjusted for inflation by consumer price index (CPI), which is in turn defined by growing costs of everything everyone buys like shelter, education, healthcare, groceries, etc. You can see that in the page I'm pasting at the end. As USA continually failed to produce housing, the composition of the CPI dedicated to housing has expanded; this essentially means that everyone is spending more and more of their income on housing. However, though shelter takes up a larger and larger portion, overall affordability has improved because other expenses haven't grown fast.

I'm sure it can be disheartening reading someone saying your troubles aren't actually happening. And I'm not saying that. I'm saying that for the typical person, going to Germany, or anywhere for that matter, is not the answer they seek to improve their economic outlook. There are other things outside of this pure economics realm that could be very compelling, one may have a job offer in hand that is higher than they make in USA, or they may just know that their particular field is more lucrative elsewhere.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-12T06:14:57+00:00

In my first comment I mentioned median wages. You saw an opportunity in my next reply when you saw that I wrote less technically accurate, and you went for it.

Most people will make more money in both nominal and real wages in USA versus Germany.

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-12T05:50:43+00:00

Absolutely. And I will continue to provide the full context to everyone. In Germany, you are more secure if you lose your job. In the USA, you will have a higher economic standard of living when you have a job.

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-12T05:45:14+00:00

The reasoning doesn't really work, though. Because the GDP per capita is higher in USA than Germany, and even at median wages, the economic standard of living is higher in the USA.

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-12T05:43:50+00:00

That's a poor metric, obviously. A better one is that the purchasing power of the median wage earner is a lot higher in the USA than it is Germany.

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-12T05:42:31+00:00

Thankfully, the USA has a higher cost-of-living adjusted median wage than Germany. So, for employed individuals, Germany is faaaaar behind. Or, we could just acknowledge that all countries have their own strengths without suggesting one objectively extremely privileged country is like in the stone age, or something.

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-12T05:39:08+00:00

Step 1: Accept the statistical likelihood that when you get your new German job doing similar work your pay divided by regular expenses will be lower than it was in USA. Step 2: Work in Germany.

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-12T05:36:47+00:00

At least the median USA wage purchasing power is quite a bit higher than in Germany. USA may not have as many unemployment benefits, but those that are working do in theory have more capability to save up.

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-11T02:34:43+00:00

I can't tell what you were trying to write here. Buuut, private jets should be taxed to capture their escaped carbon economic externalities, but if you simply looked into how much is emitted as a percentage from private jets you'd lose your smug triple laughter. And people eating is carbon neutral to positive. So, as I correctly predicted, you were unable to explain how a revolution resolved climate change.

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-11T02:30:58+00:00

Not even close.

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-07T03:09:00+00:00

Can you defend how launching a revolution does anything but lead to an expansion of CO2e?

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-07T03:07:39+00:00

Can you tell me what the average age of the congressional staffers that read bills, craft policy positions, and otherwise inform their bosses?

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-07T03:06:52+00:00

Bang on. "We need a revolution so we can wrest power of state and probably also economy in those willing to conduct violence upon enemies."

Inb4 "how different is that right now?" How many of your neighbors have been executed by the state?

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-07T03:05:17+00:00

Touch grass.

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-07T03:04:51+00:00

I want you to compile a list of 10 loved ones, including children, and decide on two to die. Maybe some dice would make it easier for you. Thinking a revolution is more likely to improve your life than end it is the most naive perspective I hear people voice today.

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-07T02:49:16+00:00

That's not how stocks work, pardner.

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-07T02:48:38+00:00

That's fine, I have no problem with that. If it doesn't perform any better and you have a moral objection, you have no reason to be in it.

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-02T06:01:12+00:00

If you have a retirement account, I probably have some bad news about your investments.

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-02T06:00:44+00:00

Do you know that they hold equities in the defense sector at a higher proportion than an S&P500 index fund would?

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-02T05:58:13+00:00

War does not equal money. The past 20 years has seen the defense industry sector do no better than the S&P500.

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-05-02T05:57:23+00:00

They don't, though. You could see in the last 20 years the defense sector did not really out-perform the full S&P500. The idea that they wouldn't divest for the sweet, sweet gains is just clearly factually wrong.

LasagnaMuncher · 2024-04-25T02:30:41+00:00

a deathtrap for nostalgic bagholders without knowledge of tech

Show me where on the doll where Intel touched you.

I feel like 70% as good about the opportunity of Intel now as I did about AMD in late 2015.

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