For some reason it was exploding in popularity from the the 1900’s (as in the oughts, not the century) to 1930 in Finland.
It’s because everyone wanted to associate their kids with the English Queen Mary. Idk why. My Italian grandparents named all their kids after English royalty too.
This does raise the question “Does your age count when you’re in Valinor?”
Because it’s literally the undying lands. Are we really going to pull rank between two functionally ageless beings? Seems petty.
Christian Earth: 6000 years old
Middle Earth: 30,000 years old
Middle Earth wins again
Showing up in Alberta with your COEXIST bumper sticker and immediately getting shanked by a dozen MAGA heads with Nazi tattoos
Are you saying you disagree with the Biden’s Green Power expansion
I disagree with his fossil fuel expansion. The green power plan is being promoted, first and foremost, by market dynamics as wind/solar drop below coal/oil and the demand for AI continuous power reignites nuclear.
But our actual carbon emissions aren’t falling. We’re producing more carbon today than when Biden took office. And the demand for electricity means even more fossil fuel consumption into the future.
I can’t imagine being pro-wildfire.
Then you’ll love living in a desert.
Or thinking Biden’s actions 50 years ago are a negative mark on his presidency.
Asking the fox to guard the hen house for the fifth year in a row, hoping for different results.
Biden shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline
Biden protected forests made vulnerable by the previous Trump admin
Biden attempted three different times to cancel all student debts
Joe Biden’s Role in Creating the Student Debt Crisis Stretches Back to the 1970s
Etc.
Biden was a good president.
Counterpoint: No he wasn’t.
He didn’t do everything I wanted
He signed off on a handful of bills that reinflated a depressed economy one more time, while the quality of life in the US continued to decay. Then he threw vast fortunes away on Silicon Valley boondoggles and foreign military interventions, while climate change ravaged the interior of the country. Finally, he cemented a swath of Trump Era policy on immigration, Latin American foreign policy, abortion, and voting rights through a combination of continued reinforcement and inaction.
And to top it all off, he insisted on running in a virtually uncontested primary, then fumbled the nomination to his woefully unprepared VP a few months before the election.
One final point. If you look at states that have increased their reliance on revenue from fossil fuel extraction and you look at states that trended more conservative during the last eight years, you’ll find a troubling trend. O&G money has been powering the GOP since Reagan. But every subsequent Democrat in office has worked to make the industry more lucrative for businesses that conspire towards their ouster. Its been a recipe for defeat for a generation. Also, not terrible good for ecological conditions or foreign policy.
you being able to only get one internet service provider at that apartment, despite that being illegal now
Your option is the Mediocre Internet everyone uses or the Shit Internet that exists pretty much exclusively to fulfill this requirement. Fuck Windstream, somehow managed to be worse than Comcast.
Work more night shifts. Date more goths.
Cut the toxic diurnal people out of your life.
multiplying $5,000 a day by so many years is a silly comparison
Sure.
it ignores the dominating factors to building wealth
It ignores the existence of wealth by focusing on income. And it neglects where income comes from.
Billionaires shouldn’t exist but also they don’t exist because they stuff X dollars under their mattress every day.
Something of a joke about the modern billionaire is how much debt they’re carrying around. You don’t become a billionaire by having a high salary. You become a billionaire by getting access to enormous volumes of low interest credit, in order to monopolize a limited stock of productive capital. It isn’t like being an employee with a sky-high salary so much as it is a member of an elite club with access to amenities nobody else is allowed to use.
Gradually inflating the currency
Gradual inflation that happens under the national growth rate is fine. You need more currency moving at a faster rate in an expanding economy.
Gradual inflation in a contracting national growth rate is a huge problem.
Thomas Picketty lays this all out mathematically in “Capitalism in the 21st Century”, and builds a strong economic case for a high graduated tax rate as a means of tying inflation back to real economic growth.
Where are you getting 4% annual compound returns, though? That’s faster than the historical growth in global GDP over the equivalent time period.
Nevermind dollars. What about inflation? $5000/day in 1900 would be worth $187,000 today. That’s $68M/year.
You’d need, what? 15 years to get a billion at that rate. You’d also be accusing money faster than Rockefeller.
I have to wonder where all that wealth would even be coming from.
In '00s games, sure.
In '20s games, it would be part of the Pay2Win scheme and only available to players who have rich parents.
Teamwork makes the dream work.
Keep telling the DBAs that my company outsourced a big chunk of their tech stack to that its against company policy to work all the way on the other side of the planet, but they refuse to show up to the office.
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