The problem isn't shareholding per se, it's that the 401(k) completely shifted economic incentives away from dividends and into share price. You accrue the tax advantages by living off the sale of the stock, not by the dividends. But this then means the stock is only any good if its price goes up after I buy it. I don't really care about the dividend at all, only the share price. Profits barely even matter any more. Dividends have given way to stock buybacks. Add into that low interest rates destroying bonds as a source of income, and the entire economy is a giant casino. It wouldn't be conceptually hard to fix, but there are too many vested interests who will not allow the system to change.
If there was a way to filter out those that bought stocks just to completely tank the company and still make money, there might be a way for these more public companies to bounce back, and for a more natural growth/shrinkage to happen.
I really think the future is privately held companies.
Then prepare to pay more for everything you buy that isn't online. Payroll is the biggest controllable expense. If you increase it then you either charge more or operate at a loss.
He's being set up to run for president as Barry 2.0 and considering the economy is systemically fucked until the boomers die he may just get it.
Now they're going to college and not learning anything because they just use ChatGPT to do their homework. Back when I was in school, you had to pay someone good money to do it and not get caught.
He can’t run. You’ve gotta be born in America to be eligible.
You sweet summer child. Rules for thee and not for me applies here. The Supreme Court just ruled this "country" is an economic zone and not a country at all. You really think they are going to let a little thing like place of birth stop them? We already had a president who wasn't born here.
A guy on my hall skipped an entire class and used AI bots for his homework and tests, even exploited the jeet lockdown software somehow. Got an A for it.
Someone made this point in the thread which talked about Karmelo Anthony, but imagine being on trial in 2050, and your "peers" which make up the jury are all Gen Alpha fully grown adults who can't read and have had their attention spans nuked because of TikTok and Instagram Reels.
There was this one girl in my economics class who scrolled through AO3 all day and when it came time to do a presentation she just used ChatGPT to do it, in the same class period the presentation was due.
1. Imagine boomers paying their employees more. About time.
Nigga that shit is baked into the constitution, the articles, not even the amendments. Have to be born here.
I can't believe in 2026 people still think this matters. Biggest reason the right has lost for the last 70 years prior to Trump. The constitution is a piece of paper. The left does not believe what is written on it matters and that it is subject to change. The constitution says "shall not be infringed". Go try and buy a standard M4 Carbine now. Somehow "shall not be infringed" hasn't stopped people infringing on your right to bear arms. Imagine that.
5 golden manbabies for this highly accurate simulation of a Leper's Colony entry.
It does matter. The left not caring is the reason why we're in this mess. Either we fix what is broken or die as a civilization. Fuck you.
School isn't useless. It's the "current year" educators who are. It so simple to teach people and teach them well that we've done it reliably for thousands of years. New technologies have never been this disruptive; not the PC, handheld calculator or even the smartphone. And that's because in the past we mitigated the methods that these could be used to disrupt the learning process. The educators of today have all the tools needed to adapt to the modern disruptions, but they choose to do nothing.
