At the executive level, it is common to negotiate the terms of your exit before you begin working.
When times get tough pull the ripcord and move on. Take a long vacation, and polish up your resume: "under my leadership the business grew!" (don't mention that you bailed just before it cratered...those were market conditions beyond your control.)
Rinse and repeat. Or take your mountain of cash and retire.
No one owes you a job. If you do nothing for me that is of value to me, I am not going to give you money.
Grow up and take responsibility for yourself. Innovate. Create something useful. Build a business supplying something of value. Find a way to help others and charge a reasonable fee for your efforts.
Whining is not helping. It actually makes things worse. Playing the victim makes others feel victimized. It discourages people from trying to better themselves. It make them feel helpless and angry at the "others" who are successful -they must have cheated. It is how your hero convinced people to vote for him: "I've been treated so unfairly, and so have you. I will make it better. Just give me power.. I will punish them."
Take the same money spent on rooftops, invest it elsewhere and you could get literally twice the capacity with a higher capacity factor in a utility PV farm.
I don't own a PV solar farm, but my home does have a roof I can put solar panels on.
The US Supreme Court says it is not a crime when the President does it. It is a political matter and may be addressed by impeachment by the US House of Representatives with the matter to be decided by the US Senate.
The President is above the Law as long as Congress remains loyal. They remain loyal as long as they fear his power.
The more egregious his actions, the more they have cause to fear he will take action against them.
Just tax the wealthiest's income at 50%, remove the income cap rate on the SS taxes so all of the wealthy's income is subject to the tax like the rest of us, full fund the IRS to go after tax cheats, and leave the middle class and working poor alone you greedy self serving SOBs.
The wealthy do not have much income to tax.
They commonly are paid in shares or in options-to-buy-shares, which not being income are not taxed. They then take loans against these shares (still not taxed) to live off of or buy things with. Interest payments can be deferred and deducted as an offsetting expense when/if the shares are sold. When it is sold, it is taxed as capital gains (at a lower rate than income) or long-term capital gains (even lower tax rate). Shares can even be surrendered to cover the outstanding loans instead of ever being sold per-se... There are a lot of tricks to minimize taxes by treating payment as things other than "income".
Our tax system is very much slanted against those who live off of their income rather than their wealth.
To think that government employees would do their jobs! Using previously undisclosed software vulnerabilities to hack systems!
That's!
Spies gonna spy.
Don't do it as to get rich.
If you enjoy making videos and sharing them, go for it! You may develop a following and make enough money to pay for your equipment. Few will make a living at it. Most won't make anything.
Plan accordingly.
/Betteridge
Keep going back. The Roman Empire in ~135ad changed the name from Judea to Palestine as part of their punishment of the Jews second insurrection "to obliterate the link between the Jews and the province".
Wasting your points modding me down...
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The state’s nominal GDP reached $4.1tn, according to data from the International Monetary Fund and the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, edging out Japan’s $4.02tn nominal GDP. California now ranks behind the US at $29.18tn, China at $18.74tn and Germany at $4.65tn.
Along with the tech and entertainment industry capitals, the state, which has a population of nearly 40 million people, is the center for US manufacturing output and is the country’s largest agricultural producer.
The state has outperformed the world’s top economies with a growth rate in 2024 of 6% compared with the US’s 5.3%, China’s 2.6% and Germany’s 2.9%. This week’s new rankings come six years after California surpassed the United Kingdom and became the world’s fifth largest economy.
California is a major contributor to economic growth nationally, with the money it sends to the federal government outpacing what it receives in federal funding by $83bn, according to a statement from Newsom’s office.
Despite an enormous shortage of affordable housing that has fueled a homelessness crisis in the state, the population has grown in recent years.
Meanwhile, last year the state reported its tourism spending had hit an all-time high – though California has seen a drop in some areas.
/Betteridge
The mix for theater. Big spaces, many channels for separating the sound. Everything too loud.
At home, on a typical TV, that sounds like mumbling actors being drowned out by background music interspersed with window-shattering sound effects.
They could remix it for home environments... but they don't want to encourage people to watch films at home on cheap systems. They want everyone to go to the theater and "experience it the way they it was meant to be enjoyed."
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
