Allowing CFOs to make product decisions is always a recipe for failure. Pun intended! The piece missing from the discussion of inflation is the 30+ years of depressed wages. The federal minimum wage is still $7.90 / hr. It was last changed in 2009 based on legislation passed in 2007. Many of our geriatric Congressional reps and senators have failed to keep everyday worker wages on par with normal inflation. While many states have attempted to rectify the problem, not having a federal standard means larger companies can move to low-wage states. I saw this when living in Vermont, where the anchor company in a small town moved many of their middle-class jobs to Texas because it was cheaper for the company but much worse for the overall health of the town. With the missing employees, they then proceeded to argue that their real estate was worth less and should therefore, pay less in property taxes. This in turn forced the rest of the town to pay increased taxes including many who had seen their jobs move south. Congress could address this by doing any of the following: - taxing CEO salaries at 80% when they exceed low worker wages by more than a certain percentage - pegging federal minimum wage increases to inflation - eliminating loop holes in the tax code for the incredibly wealthy & simplifying it for everyone else - staffing the IRS to go after the incredibly wealthy who dodge paying taxes - preventing Wall Street penalties for saving money. (During the pandemic, companies that made huge profits could not save them without being penalized by Wall Street. So they spent money in ridiculous ways and then laid thousands off as the economy sorted itself.) Reducing the size of the cake mix is a race to the bottom solution that will only depress sales of cake mix in the long run. View quoted note →

I mainly understood this level of surveillance to exist in the UK and parts of Europe. Unfortunately it seems to be global including the US.

404 Media

DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World

DeFlock has mapped the locations of more than a thousand ALPRs around the United States and thousands more around the world.

This is one of those “boring” problems that still needs to solved across Nostr on mobile. View quoted note →

An important read this week. View quoted note →

This man has clearly not traveled to British colonies. Otherwise he would be deeply embarrassed. View quoted note →

One year of tread wear on my trail running shoes. I don’t run but daily hikes have the same effect!

@Chomsky is correct on this point of maintaining the status quo. Would love to hear his ideas for breaking free of this situation. View quoted note →

This is great news!

Vox

You may never need to remember another password

Thanks to passkeys, a world without passwords is in sight.

The fall colors are spectacular this year!

It’s not the Anthropocene it’s the era of Grift. I suppose it could signal the end state of Capitalism- companies and governments allowing the grifters to run rampant… View quoted note →

Definitely worth a read. View quoted note →

The color this weekend was amazing!

A friend of ours stopped by today to harvest some spahgnum moss for a big he’s creating. The moss he finds here is the only variety he can get to stay alive and reproduce. He also came across club moss (pictured) which used to grow as tall as trees thousands of years ago!

If only all job descriptions were as straightforward and to the point! View quoted note →

“It appears she can’t even say “vote.” When she used the word in a caption across 11 posts, her average audience was 63 percent smaller.” https://wapo.st/48aXfnp

This is awesome View quoted note →

In Nashville this Friday? Go see @Ainsley Costello and others at the Cowen or listen live! View quoted note →

I can’t wait to see what they hack with these! View quoted note →

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