Publish the USAID database Pause all payments for 100 days Every single transaction under the microscope; let the daily wire, NYTimes and everyone in between into the offices to see where the money has been flowing The country is on the brink of insolvency, sunlight on all spending until the budget is balanced — at then going forward

It's incredible that French people have about triple the income as the average person on Earth, but produce basically the same carbon emissions. Nuclear is a hell of a power source.

this is especially rich considering this "entitled generation" hasn't been able to buy homes largely because BlackRock buys up all the homes and jacks up rents (which is also the biggest source of inflation).

I know this isn’t what people want to hear but building more housing to lower housing costs is about as effective as adding lanes to a highway to ease congestion. (It doesn’t work)

Contrary to what I expected, the average salary for an H-1B is relatively low—slightly under $120k this year. Given that much of the H-1B debate pertains to tech workers, I (incorrectly) assumed the average would be higher. But this is the beauty of data, right?

Inflation occurs when employers raise prices. Profit drives their decisions. But they dare not publicly admit that reason. Instead they blame gov't or rising wages or "shortages" etc.: anything/anyone but themselves. Dont be fooled. bbc.in/3FGyfFY

Inequality is out of control. Our new report #InequalityInc finds that the 5 richest men doubled their wealth since 2020, while 5 billion people were made poorer. Thank you @RBReich for sharing.

It's 2589 BC. The Egyptians are building the Giza Pyramids. You are immortal. You have $0. You decide to save $10,000 every day, never spending a cent. 4609 years later, it's 2020. You only have only one-fifth the average fortune of the 5 richest billionaires. Tax the rich.

Many politicians believe that when someone with a disability is married, it's the job of the spouse to pay for their disabled spouse's survival and thus PwD lose their SSI checks as a result of marriage and thus often "choose" to remain unmarried. Basic income would change this.

Yeah, all right, let's talk about James Damore. It's been eight years, and I really doubt Harj (who was my boss at the time) is the only person for whom it was a formative experience. For those of you who have no recollection of any of this, either because you are wisely an offline person or because you got outraged for five minutes and then forgot all about it, James Damore was a Google software engineer who wrote a memo arguing that, while diversity and inclusion were good goals, bias was not the main reason there weren't more women in tech, and differences in personality between men and women probably explained a lot of it. There was a lot in the memo that felt like a distraction to me, or where I had a nitpick, but fundamentally it was not only basically correct (women are less likely than men to become software engineers, and this is not only because of bias), but also Damore was saying this for the sake of having a more productive conversation about how to get more women into tech, a goal that everyone around him was fervently espousing. The memo has a painful-in-hindsight quality of earnestness: "you want more women in tech, and I think you're mistaken about how to get there! if I show you some published psychology research we can actually design better means to your goal!". Anyway. The internet was outraged. He got fired from Google. And he applied to the tech hiring startup I worked at, Triplebyte, which offered background-blind screening to anyone who wanted to be a software engineer. We really believed in the mission, at Triplebyte. I think I ended up kind of badly calibrated about how earnest to expect people to be everywhere else. We found people working as janitors and line cooks and homemakers who could code, and we got them 6 figure jobs, and we were proud of it. James Damore did very well on our tests. I got assigned to write him a profile for our companies. And then people freaked out. A lot of them had the impression that he would create a hostile environment for any woman he worked with, and thought that trying to help him get a new job was tantamount to endorsing everything in his wildly controversial memo. I didn't even like the memo that much, but I was kind of horrified, because - it's one thing to get fired for talking about politics at work in a way that causes a massive national firestorm. I kind of expect that we would all get fired for that. But it is another thing entirely to get effectively blacklisted from your industry, to have people decide on the basis of your political opinions that we shouldn't even put you up on the platform and let companies decide individually whether to schedule interviews. Tech jobs were not that hard to come by in 2017 if you were really good at your job, and Damore was. Firing isn't that threatening to software engineers. Blacklisting is terrifying. I'd been at Triplebyte for like six months at this point, it was my first job after graduation, and I was honestly way out of my lane, but I made a pretty big fuss internally. (It helped that I suspected a lot of people agreed with me but I was a woman and it was safer for me to say it.) I said that we were not in the business of deciding who had good politics, that we shared this country with many people who profoundly disagreed with each other, that companies could assess for themselves if he worked respectfully with female engineers, and that we should put him on the site and let them decide. We did. And then Harj was immediately contacted by recruiters from companies we worked with that were horrified that we had. They felt that by not banning him from our platform we were endorsing his memo, that we were showing values not in line with their priorities. Harj talks about this more in the linked podcast. James Damore was egregiously wronged. To my knowledge he's a good software engineer with extremely reasonable, approximately accurate opinions about the reasons there were fewer women in software engineering, which he shared in good faith, and a lot of people who should've known better really did try to drive him out of the industry for it. It was wrong. If it is done to people on the basis of any other political opinion it is also wrong then. We need, as a society, the ability to live with disagreement, to dislike each other without trying to destroy each other, to find common ground instead of finding heretics; I believed that at Peak Woke and I believe it now.

Oh my god this Ethicist response is insane. How can they possibly think this is OK?

How come Japan gets cool shit like suspension monorail trains, and we don't? 😠😖

Canada did $2,000/monthly. The US is the richest nation on earth and a 2nd stimulus check is getting blocked bc GOP want corporate bailouts & austerity in “exchange” for it. Maybe if everyone in the US incorporated as an LLC, Mitch McConnell would actually do something for them.

Spending $400,000 on a house seems like the kind of thing to me that, intuitively, you do when you have like a couple million in wealth and make $400,000 a year.

Here’s who I would vote for: Bernie Sanders. /2

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani has announced he wants to implement government-owned supermarkets in NYC. He is literally trying to implement communism in New York. What is wrong with him?