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Four charts to overcome your pessimism about how recent generations are doing economically
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Islamic terrorist attacks are just blowback from America’s GWOT, which was just blowback from 9/11, which was just blowback from America supporting Israel, which was just blowback from the Ottomans fighting against America and Britain in WW1, which was just blowback from Britain seizing Egypt and supporting Greek freedom from the Ottomans, which was just blowback from the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople and hundreds of years of oppression, which was just blowback from the Crusades, which were just blowback from the Seljuk conquest of Anatolia, which was just blowback from the Byzantine Empire’s expansion into Syria under the Macedonian dynasty, which was just blowback from the Arab conquest of Byzantine Syria and Egypt and North Africa and repeated siege attempts against Constantinople, which was just blowback from the Byzantines no longer paying Arab tribes to defend the frontier against Persia, which was just blowback from an extended Persian invasion of the Byzantine Empire, which was just blowback from 700 years of warfare between Rome and Persia, which was just blowback from Alexander the Great’s conquest of Persia, which was just blowback from Darius and Xerxes’ invasions of Greece, which was just blowback from Athens supporting the Ionian revolts against the Persian Empire, which was just blowback from Cyrus the Great conquering the Ionian Greeks of Anatolia, but before that everybody in history probably got along.
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In today's headlines: - "NH hasn't raised the mimimum wage in 16 years" - "NH average hourly pay is higher than most states" It's almost like you don't need a government law to raise wages — you just need economic freedom, a skilled workforce, and capital investment.
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15 Jan 2025
'Immigrants take jobs' is a common refrain (and was a big debate a few weeks ago!)!- but what if that's completely backwards? The data shows high-skilled immigrants actually CREATE jobs through innovation and entrepreneurship. It's not zero-sum - it's a win-win for everyone. In partnership with the Economic Innovation Group.
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19 Dec 2024
Folks won’t let their kids ride bikes outside of the driveway and this guy thinks that free markets would make parents send their kids to the coal mines.
18 Dec 2024
Whenever I forget why capitalism needs to be regulated I look at this picture.
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18 Nov 2024
The real shame here is that coffee shops can’t afford to raise wages enough so they don’t have to employ awful people like this.
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24 Nov 2023
Imagine if we didn’t all do our part this Thanksgiving to make sure this never happens.
22 Nov 2023
We’re lucky turkeys would never do this to us—you don’t have to do it to them, either. Art by @freebison
Community note
Turkeys are not vegetarians. Turkeys eat mice, lizards, frogs, and just about anything they can fit in their mouth. If turkeys were larger or had the technological means to farm and eat humans, their current diet reveals they likely would. ipm.ucanr.edu/home-and-lands…
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4 Aug 2023
This is the attitude that keeps Mexico from being completely ruined.
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It was 1950 and George Orwell had this final message to our era.
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27 Apr 2023
Inflationary and insane. We settled this in the 18th century.
27 Apr 2023
As we rebuild America, we’re going to continue to buy American. Every federal project is going to be built by American workers, with American products, creating American jobs.
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7 Apr 2023
King should call the village green society.
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31 Mar 2023
Someone smarter than me should do the hard work to see how America going on a diet would affect inflation. Massive reduction in healthcare costs and food prices to start. Ripple effects from there.
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9 Jan 2023
A king needs a(2) castles.
9 Jan 2023
Nicolas Cage blew $150 million on a dinosaur skull, pygmy heads and 2 European castles. (via @CNBCMakeIt) cnb.cx/3X5Gl2s
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1 Dec 2022
Society shrugs.
Nearly 50,000 academic workers picketed ten University of California campuses for a third week on.wsj.com/3FjDUDJ
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The current unrest in China started last week when blood was spilled on the iPhone factory floor. Now Apple is working with the CCP to restrict airdrops to stop protests. Serious Q, what do the "S" and "G" in ESG really mean? -- Vanguard’s ESG U.S. Stock ETF largest holdings.
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29 Nov 2022
Raytheon in disbelief.
The man's got to eat!
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19 Nov 2022
Lol, elites…
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9 Nov 2022
Craigslist is top exchange in USA.
9 Nov 2022
I’m thinking about when to buy And then I’m thinking about where I’d even feel comfortable to buy And that makes me just not wanna buy
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