They dominated the market. Their model REQUIRES growth to continue for it to make sense (stock ponzi) so they need to find ways to promise profits to shareholders.
They can't easily attract new customers so instead they are obligated to squeeze existing customers.
They can't charge their REAL customers, the ad purchasers, as much without the ads being "targeted".
$14 is unrealistic and will never be paid, but it means that it's an option... So I'm guessing that people will be able to "opt in" to a free version with targeted ads.. This whole thing is probably just a workaround.
IIRC Singapore has a very specific and controlling demographic control system? Like regions have to have demographic breakdowns that approximate the national numbers or something?
There are a bunch of social engineering things you can do to reduce crime. But good luck trying to tell Americans where they can and can't move. Probably easier to just tax the super rich.
Reduce wealth and income inequality somehow. There's been no research on UBI reducing crime afaik and honestly I don't know that it would work for that. People need to feel like they are doing valuable work.
Cops on foot patrol in neighborhoods NOT to punish anyone but literally just to get to know the community and make eye contact.
Access to training and education to promote moving into higher income and responsibility jobs.
Mental health support (although people won't want help as long as they are Fighting against the system)
There need to be healthy, organic, non-crime non-drug non-gang groups for people to be part of. I don't know what is are into these days. Basketball? Dancing on Tiktok? Anything social.
My mom was complaining about some pyramid scheme get friend fell for and I explained how every business is a pyramid scheme.
You work, you produce way more value than you are paid, that money goes to paying other people and growing the business to make the shareholders rich. You aren't rewarded for your work, generally. Somehow this is normal. The only difference with a real pyramid scheme is that they generally lie about how much you could succeed.
My wife and I are both lucky and we bought our place mortgage free because we were able to save while paying off our old place.
While making the purchase we specifically talked about how if the market crashes by 50%, we're still better off. Because most likely every home will be similarly cheaper. And our earning potential would be similar.
The difference is that it's hard to predict what will happen in an economic contraction like that. There would be a lot of joblessness and a lot of hardship.
Foley has a degenerative brain disorder. He IS dying. His quality of life will continue to deteriorate until he dies. This might be sad, but it's just the fact. We need to be able to talk about these things.
The hospital cannot fix him. There is no acute care for his condition. It's just a matter of where and when. And this is EXACTLY what assisted dying is for.
The only recourse the hospital has to people refusing discharge is to charge them the price of their hospital stay. It's not coersion, it's just consequence. It's reality.
I'm not saying this ethicist did their job well. But without the full recording it's hard to know what the situation was. I've been in the palliative ward at the local hospital and I can tell you that people fight really hard.
The alternatives, depending on how much care he needs, are long term care or hospice. Both are subsidized but if he has money saved he would have to contribute to his care and a lot of people don't want to do that.
Maid is an option, and should be an option. People need to know about it. However, there are always other options. Hospice is subsidized. Long term care is subsidized. Homecare nursing us subsidized. You just can't stay in the hospital, because the hospital is for acute people in recovery.
There are absolutely illnesses that ruin your quality of life but don't kill you, leaving you to suffer. Their medical system is NOT designed to care for all of everyone's needs. It's specifically designed to provide life saving care.
The stupid part is that if a person is so sick that they can't care for themselves, and they get released home, they often just deteriorate and end up back in the hospital.
Their system beats our system, but it's not perfect.
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