Buyer beware Homeaglow $19 cleaning is a complete bait and switch. They charge you $19 FIRST and THEN inform you that to use it you have to subscribe for their $60/mo service. They wisely have no social media presence or everyone would be screaming on it.
This is undoubtedly true and the only way we’ll have to deal with it is to cede judgement to another entity or AI. Scary is an understatement. Well need to trust in things who’s incentives are not aligned with ours.
Buyer beware @agoda creates non cancellable hotel reservations even when the hotel would otherwise allow them. You really are better off booking directly with the hotel.
Music venues should stop harassing people for taking pictures, and instead the rule should be to throw out anyone in the first ten rows able to stand who sit through the bands big hits, I don't care how much you paid, concerts are for fans.
As virtually anyone who’s spent time sourcing products in both the US and China can tell you, rebuilding competitive US manufacturing is a long term project. In most sectors we need to build an ecosystem almost from scratch, I applaud the folks doing it. @mHUBChicago
Everyone says they’d pay more for “Made in the USA.”
I tested it.
We make a $129 filtered showerhead manufactured in China. With tariffs surging to 170%, we explored reshoring. We found a U.S. supplier. Our costs nearly tripled.
I ran a clean A/B test:
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It’s an interesting metaphor. Now if he had a trade deficit with everyone he’d be in trouble, and there are times you should be doing things yourself, but this does make a good point. If you tax everything to the point there’s no commerce…
I have a 100% trade deficit with the lady that irons my suits.
She offers something way more efficiently and at a much better price than I can do myself.
And in exchange, I spend the time I would otherwise be wasting on pressing my suits offering financial services at 1,000x the hourly GDP rate as I paid her to afford me this time.
Am I getting ripped off by her?
Should I start steaming my own suits instead of offering financial services?
Would that make me better off?
Would I be richer because of it?
Ordered 2 shirts from @Macys and they sent me 1. They are literally fighting me over a refund for the shirt they didn't deliver. There's a reason @amazon won.
Ok I resisted weighing in to the H-1B visa debate but I can't help myself because the current framing IS SO DUMB and I NEED TO CORRECT THINGS.
People are debating whether we should allow highly skilled workers into the U.S. or prioritize hiring American workers only. But this misses a critical point (which is very obvious to anyone who runs a business): if American companies can’t bring the talent they need into the country, they’ll simply hire or contract that talent offshore. In an increasingly global economy, restricting visas doesn’t protect American jobs—it just pushes innovation and opportunities outside our borders.
So duh, of course we should allow highly skilled, pro-American values folks to come into the country if companies want to sponsor them. This is exactly how we create more value inside the country and ultimately *more* American jobs.
One of the things I find frustrating in all the discussion of the impact of the end of affirmative action in higher ed is the almost complete lack of discussion of increasing enrollment. We pretend this game of musical chairs is some immutable force of nature.
The product of higher ed should be an educated citizenry, it’s fairly central to the wellbeing of a democracy. The fact that we let them get away with “¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sorry folks, too busy managing billion dollar endowments to expand “ is a joke
It should be the law that any service that allows you to start service online should be required to allow you to cancel it online as well. Unfortunately, this is why we need regulations, there are lots of scumbag companies, hi @Xfinity !
I get tribalism and hip hooray for our side, but if someone tells me something incorrect even if it supports a view I hold, I still think they are an idiot. Maybe I’m old fashioned? I guess it doesn’t work that way anymore, we don’t care about nincompoops now?
Everyone seems to forget that for 200 years, up till 1976, presidential candidates were chosen by delegates, not primaries. FWIW, based on historians ratings, the primary chosen presidents are, on average, worse than those chosen by delegates
As an entrepreneur, I well understand the nuisance of over regulation, but the fact is some companies are just crooks. @Aetna listed my physician as in network on healthcare.gov & now refuses to pay. NBD here, just a check up, but what if it was your oncologist?