Cum Rocket

That was in response to places you could work and do "just enough". Work on being less consistently wrong. Love your passion though.

Good God you're dense. I've never once said anything about teachers yet you keep bringing them up. And I'm not saying all government employees are assholes. I've focused much more on them being lazy. You get so hung on what you want to say, you're not even paying attention to what you're responding to. Take a deep breath.

Equating public and private sector efficiency is so obviously stupid, it's not surprising that you're doing it. It's exceedingly hard to get fired from a government job. Any idea what effect that has on performance? that's the difference in your supposed 20/80 split. As MIA pointed out, a large amount of government employees could not get comparable jobs in private sector and are unfireable. Again, guess what happens?

Do you know why most people go work at the VA Brisket? So they won't have to work as hard. Won't have people pushing them to get things done faster.

I didn't say every government job. I know there are important ones. I mentioned the DPS office and VA hospitals. I haven't worked at a DPS office, but they seem to be lazy af with little accountability. Next time you go, notice how they're talking about they just got off break or when their next break is while they're checking you out. I've worked at a VA hospital. They're notorious for being staffed by some of the most inefficient, lazy, unmotivated people you could imagine. I stand by that. Not everyone, but if that's your goal you'll fit in great there. I'll throw in the TSA. They fucking suck and never accomplish anything safety wise. Unpleasant, doing the bare minimum. If you want to Stan for the TSA, then have at it Brisket.

Lol this is the correct answer. Captain should work for a DPS office. Or maybe at a VA hospital. He’ll be surrounded by people putting a lot of effort Into doing the bare minimum. With predictable results. It sounds like the kind of work culture you would thrive in @Captainant

Good God man. Striving to do better is how we advance as a species. It's how you achieve personal growth.

Just shining a light is all. There's another thread about how unhappy young people are. A lot of reasons, can't afford home, can't afford higher education. The best way to beat inflation even on big ticket/high inflation items has been and will continue to be BTC. Maybe that's part of why I rest easily. Kind of sad how angrily people react when you aren't as stressed or neurotic as them. Going back to the original point, going to be pretty incredible when we get to 1 BTC=median house. People have had years of warning to get to 1 BTC. You wanna be at least a wholecoiner if at all possible.

MMMMM. The Lord's chicken. Never leftovers at our house.

These graphs explain a lot of this board's general vibe.

You're a hot mess. Kids don't have "fresh memories" of that. Again, no kids are acutely aware of, or worried about that, unless their parents or other adults bother them with it.

Oh he was definitely part of the problem and I include him. But way to jump to conclusions guys. Good job.

The people that ran covid response fucking wrecked this country. Good thing they're being held to account!

Just for fun here’s the chart of McDonalds earnings per share over time using it as a simple proxy for fast food prices/business. Has gone from pre Covid peak of 7.88 to 11.56. A 46% increase. CPI cumulative increase in that time is mid to upper 20s I believe. If you count CPI as bulletproof then that's a difference in the upper teens, percentage wise. Is that gouging? Judgment call I guess. If you think cpi underestimates inflation then definitely not. Either way, burgers don't cost $5 to make.

Lol. Remember basic sustenance should not be a profit center! Let's take the business out of producing mass quantities of food for the population. Maybe even hand the power over to the government. Not a bad idea. Has anyone thought of that before?

Cantillon effect. They're closer to the money printer. This really isn't hard.

It's a perverted version of capitalism, if that. Central banks and governments printing money continuously to bail out big banks or other big industries isn't capitalism. The root of this stuff really goes back a ways. But then shutting down the global economy for Covid and printing trillions of dollars really got the ball moving.

Four car garage and you're still building on. Sounds like it's time you got back to the basics of love.

A thread in DT that touched on housing and cost of living reminded me of this tweet I saw yesterday. When you visualize it, it's clear that every asset imaginable is trending to zero in Bitcoin terms.

These predictions have been made for our entire lifetimes, Greta. The climate is everchanging, and in the past it's been warmer than it is now. See Medieval Warm Period. Ok, comrade. The current monetary and financial situation is unsustainable. When does it break?

Agree with all your points. I will say reaching the endgame of our debt supercycle is also crushing to many young people. Elevated cost of living, wages not keeping up, the ridiculous and still rising cost of college, can't afford a house. A lot of problems there. Oh, also they've been beat over the head about climate change for most of their lives which seems to have given a lot of people existential dread, unnecessarily.

Imagine the victim mentality it takes to feel as though right wingers "control the airwaves". Just not even close to being true.

see 2020, same thing. Like, it's literally repeating itself at higher valuations each time. Zoom out, look at the chart. It's kind of hard to miss once you really look at it.

I don't think anyone here is a dick. I think FirstTimeCaller has it right. The next big milestone (after 100k) is gold market cap. Will it get there this cycle? I'm not sure, but gold bugs are going to get rekt relative to bitcoin. Bitcoin is more easily movable than physical gold, it's easily divisible, it has a set supply. The main knock on bitcoin vs gold is a big one. History and convention, but every year that passes that means less as trust is built in bitcoin. It will be interesting to see the breakdown in a year or two between how many investment funds or etfs hold allocations to bitcoin vs gold. As for nations and how they value gold... This is a big deal and I've said before that I think a "real" country comes out in the next year or two as holder of bitcoin. I think it's most likely to be what they've gained mining. Oil and gas producers are known to have interest, many are mining with flared gas etc. So that's your list of countries to think about. To me a sovereign or multiple sovereigns mining now explains the explosion in hash rate despite decreased prices through 2023. What happens when Saudi, Qatar, or duh duh duh Russia come out and say they have large bags. We as Americans will scoff at it, but the world will take notice. The big pie in the sky numbers come from what's after gold? If bitcoin is entrenched as valuable asset/property, then I think it's feasible it takes some of the store of value market away from real estate, maybe bonds. Large markets. Think about it. vs Real Estate pros-more liquid, less hassle from maintenance, tenants cons-no income streams, RE better tax treatment vs Bonds (especially longer bonds) pros- not being paid back in debased currency, possible appreciation cons- no coupon like bonds, bonds backed by governments This is all a long way to say I'm not sure what is the ceiling. Something like this has never been created before. The ramifications are pretty fascinating. True story. Before ETF passed I decided to rollover my 401k from old employer to self directed IRA. It's at Vanguard, so no ETFs allowed. Instead I bought MSTR. It's been unbelievable, the last couple days notwithstanding. I just think this bull cycle is such a clear bet I couldn't look at the employer retirement in SPY etf and leave it. I plan on having some hard decisions in about 18 months about withdrawal of large sums vs waiting 15 years to pull it out, but that's another discussion.

I think you have an elevated opinion of journalists. They're all people with biases that come out through the selection of stories to cover (present to audiences), or their framing of the stories. Of course it's always been that way, but with the passage of time and more access to information it's become clear that is the case. And I hate to break it to you but appeals for credentialism are much less effective than before as well. This especially accelerated after COVID.