My presumption is that the person selling sandwiches is pretty damn likely not to be rich.

The rest of your reply is just more absurdity. No one is forcing the rich guy to buy from a specific sandwich guy, if they have a more favorable arrangement they are free to do so.

Now, we'll hop out of the analogy. Countries like Cambodia, Fiji, Vietnam, and many more all got tariffed because Trump stupidly perceives a trade deficit as a loss despite how out of touch with reality that is. None of those countries could afford to buy from us as much as we buy from them.

If you wanted to generate more favorable terms, Trump version 1 took an ironically smarter approach as those tariffs were far more targeted. It was still stupid and put a crap ton of American farmers out of business as trade wars do have knock on costs. Targeted tariffs have been successfully used many times but they only work in small doses, all large scale uses of tariff have resulted in economic catastrophe and that was before a globally integrated marketplace was fully established. The effects will be far worse this time around.

The world produces enough food to feed the entire population multiple times over and yet millions still die of famine, I say yes, it does indeed cause their deaths.

It is not the only cause of their deaths but it is a significant contributing factor. It is also just one example out of thousands. Look at vitamin hucksters trying to sell vitamin A to "cure" measles only to maim and kill others from liver failure after consuming too much vitamin A. The same crap happened during covid with Ivermectin which is a fantastic product for killing parasites, but in no way does it kill a virus.

IBM killed many employees by protecting the chips they manufactured from dust and other contaminants while not protecting the bunny suit wearer from the extremely poisonous chemicals in-use.

Erin Brockovic became famous for similar reasons and the examples go on and on and on.

Unfettered capitalism will only care about capital, it will externalize everything it can in that pursuit. Look at Boeing, once the pinnacle of engineering prowess. Late stage capitalism kicked in, management only cared about capital and profit growth, safety and quality suffered. Story as old as time, hucksters have existed for hundreds of thousands of years as you so kindly pointed out. In those times famine largely had other causes, it is entirely optional today however, capitalism keeps it going and will continue to lead to more deaths unless we can provide some safety rails.

That is the main problem today, we used to do trust busting and actually regulate industry, now we have companies too big to fail.

Feeding a troll I know, but BMWs are made with parts that are imported from China, Germany, Canada, a whole host of countries. Retooling your factory does not fix the problem because the tariffs are still killing your demand. Now you also have to pay for reciprocal tariffs that are now being stood up in response to our tariffs.BMW has already laid off people as a result, they will continue to do say until there is some change in head winds. Stellantis is doing the same and we're only in the beginning here.

Trump thinks tariffs can replace income tax and that is a whole special level of stupid to support if you're not ultra rich.

Let's also keep in mind there was no tariff on Russia with a bs excuse that trade is so low its not working setting a tariff. Meanwhile we set a tariff on Fiji which has even lower levels of trade.

I'll accept that the Russia tariff may be used as a bargaining chip with the war in Ukraine, but it makes very little sense to leave them out. Israel even removed all of their tariffs and we still slapped them with tariffs due to trade deficit which I'm convinced the administration thinks it means something entirely different than it it.

That is some of the major irony of cutting USAID, a lot of those problems were targeted to give U.S. businesses more customers abroad. Given how long they were talking about tariffs they are remarkably not well thought out in their execution. I could have accepted valid arguments for targeted tariffs, but this bs is a whole other level with the largest tax increase in history on American citizens and all to fund tax cuts for the rich.

Good lord, that is quite an absurd statement. If a rich man buys a sandwich from a poor man, the poor man isn't taking advantage of the rich man by not buying anything in return.

9 million people a year die from famine or famine related disease. This is caused by capitalism and just one way in which people die as a result of capitalism.

How many people die each year because they can't get needed healthcare? How many people die from pollution caused by deregulated capitalists? How many die on the streets because they don't have homes?

The reality is that people die either way, its just a lot slower and just as needless a death. Lots of isms lead to the same outcome, it just looks a bit different. We live in post scarcity world today, we can produce enough to feed everyone handily but we don't because of the constructs around capitalism.

I do still believe the base idea is probably the best starting point, but it also cannot exist without proper regulation. As wealth disparity continues to grow it only leads to one place; another French revolution, this time on my a much larger scale. The ultra rich would do well to understand that you can't just bleed your customers dry, eventually they have nothing left. When they have nothing left they will start to take by force. I don't wish to see things devolve like that, which I why I support strong regulation and getting money the hell out of politics.

Strong regulation still requires it to be meaningful and actually regulate the thing you're trying to regulate. Calling swimming pools a body of water is quite silly, we live in a time where some bad regulations lead to people going crazy and saying no regulation. I wish nuance wasn't so lost in all the noise these days.

Agreed, its quite astonishing to me the difference in what happens when you take a risk and fail if you're wealthy versus if you're poor. In one circumstance you are often bailed out at tax payer expense I might add, and the other you end up homeless depending on the severity of misfortune.

Hell, I personally know a fairly wealthy person that has sold the company they inherited twice now, and twice he has bought it back at pennies on the dollar after the private equity firm hollows it out.

Failure looks a lot different if you start out with a lot.

You've been burned by averages my friend.

I'll give you an example, Arizona, we spend about $10k/pupil today which is less than the 15k national average. Those numbers are all quite a bit lower than your reference. New York state in comparison spends almost $30k, that is quite a discrepancy. Somehow killing the department of education is supposed to make this problem better.

In 1980 Arizona was spending about $2600/pupil which accounts for $9618 in today's dollars. So we have 10x the population and yet barely providing additional resources. Teaching 5000 kids is considerably more costly than 500 by the time you include cost of facilities, transportation, administration, teachers etc...

Education has not kept pace, ironically Abbot Elementary seems to get that pretty right for a tv show. We've opted to make education a non-priority, that's why advanced education isn't free unless you manage to get scholarships which almost universally requires parental involvement which is happening less and less as parents have to work more and more to keep a roof of their heads.

I would say erosion of non-work time is playing a part in this. Hard to have time to read books let alone properly parent when you are regularly exceeding 40 work hours a week. This is coupled with the fact that both parents generally need to work to survive and keep a family housed.

We're seeing that as our productivity rises, our free time only shrinks. This is having a cumulative affect on child rearing and personal development. The pendulum has swung us back to the robber baron era.

I'd say start by limiting how many properties commercial entities can hold on residential properties in any given city. Some are necessary; a good rental market can be beneficial. Companies like Black Rock are making home buying and renting expenses take ever higher chunks of a paycheck and I think that is the main driver for the need of two income families.

I'm not sure why all the hate of sharepoint. In terms of a secure place to store files it is loads better than a typical file server subject to ransomware. The data is encrypted by default. I'm not yet sure if it was a social engineering breach or simply not following least privilege access principles.

This is not an indictment of sharepoint, it is an indictment of not following best practices. An account without MFA and shared credentials sounds like it was used to gain access to this, that means a conditional access policy was created to specifically allow this to happen, that basic DLP policies were not enforced . MS is tired of this trashing of their service so they are going to make the policy mandatory starting in October and for good reason.

Accessing data of any level of sensitivity without MFA? That's a paddling.

If your world is that black or white then its probably not worth working for you.

Impromptu phone calls are not as efficient with people's time. Teams or Zoom calls are usually more worth it as you share content instead of explaining what's in front of you, its a waste of time. Impromptu phone calls also break concentration.

Nobody is averse to talking on the phone when its scheduled however, that you jump to the conclusion that all voice calls are out the window says a lot about how you view the majority of people working today and you should probably stop telling kids to get off your lawn.

Even the CEO of the company I work for will send me a message in Teams first to check if I'm available or mid-task. He naturally gets prioritization so the only time I'll delay is if I'm dealing with an outage and when that's happening you better believe he's already aware. If he still needs to chat to triage we'll do that. It is far more efficient to chat in Teams than to call me on the phone randomly.

These days, with callerid being spoofed so much its also not as secure to talk over the phone.

Both Microsoft and Crowdstrike had the ability to mitigate this problem with a simple sanity check. When a kernel module loads and causes a BSOD, that information is logged including the module which caused the fault. Microsoft could have said hey, that module has caused us to bsod, let's not allow it to load next time and throw up a prompt and trigger events to let us know that software is malfunctioning much like they do with usb devices today.

Crowdstrike had even more ability to mitigate first through actually testing their software, but second through a similar sanity check. We have all kinds of methods that allow us to handle errors in the modern era. This problem is not that hard to solve for.

From MS perspective I could see being pretty selective about the types of software that should have that sanity checking given that there are all sorts of old drivers that cause all kinds of problems but people still use them because that microscope costs a few million dollars or that check scanner doing 40,000 checks an hour has certifications so particular that these machines often go unpatched for years until the manufacturers re-certify.

It's worse than that. Most Crowdstrike environments actually do have ways to test roll-outs. You can have one group that gets the updates as soon as they are available, then you have the majority of your install base on N-1 meaning they are always one version behind.

This however doesn't apply to definition updates and that's the rub as I believe it was the definition update that borked the whole process just like the Linux version did a few months prior.

That is the reason a lot of customers are looking to jump ship, they clearly had a problem, knew about it in April, and fell into the same trap in July. For a security company who's main currency is trust, that's simply not acceptable.

The hard part is that you have to have trust in your security vendors, Crowdstrike lost an enormous amount of trust in a single night.

At least with their Linux bug it didn't cause a kernel panic, it was a relatively minor issue. Microsoft literally cannot close 3rd party access like Apple due to antitrust rulings of the past.

It does seem like MS could relatively easily perform some sanity checking, the bsod process ran as it should, showing us the logs indicating it was csagent causing the failure. You would think after a certain number of failures MS could disable loading of a failing module and attempt to start without it.

Naturally this ignores that the single worst greenhouse gas is methane, and the single worst offender for methane emissions is the oil industry. If they properly capped wells and managed the process of extracting oil a significant reduction would be achieved, this could happen very fast. Since the oil industry owns most governments however, they will not be forced to clean-up this process. In reality they could do it, but it would indeed hurt their profits, we'd still produce and use oil in the all the ways we do today but it would dramatically slowdown the warming process.

Of course we should prepare for what we know is coming as well. The problem is that, building a civilization that routinely deals with 130+ degree temperatures is very difficult. That is just a few degrees warmer than Palm Springs is currently experiencing.