Combo of energy and better capital markets and banking system

'better' is a funny word. Like I said in another post, it's due to a 'banking' revolution called 'shadow bank' (they aren't bank, they cannot print nor destroy money, but I guess it's close enough). From what I saw, its main effect is to decorelate GDP from production. A house sold 200k can produce 400k of GDP over a year if enough intermediaries put their hand in the pie. And I'm just talking about the mortgage here, not the house.

A truck driver in Oklahoma makes more than a doctor in Portugal

Doctor in Portugal has healthcare and won't die at 55 from a preventable heart attack.

Instead, OK guy gets to have a Ford F-150, so he can drive a truck when he's not driving his truck.

And he doesn't have to pay high taxes, which is nice because it means his kids only get school 4 days a week: https://okcfox.com/news/local/rural-school-district-district...

Of course that means he has to be thousands more in daycare, but at least it's not the gubrment!

The world economy would collapse *

It’s a better place to achieve something in than to live in… but how nice is Western Europe going to be to live in if it continues to be outgrown by the US and have to compete with Asia?

Marxism is not fresh

There's a new update to it.

E-Class surprisingly safe

Same thing?

Even with the downtrend, is it not interesting that half of customers that trued Tesla went back to gas? Wonder what the broader EV owner stats are… how many try EVs and go back?

Elder care jobs exist alongside starbucks jobs today. People pay for starbucks which lets them hire more employees. Governments have to pay for elder care by taxing starbucks and other companies that make money from voluntary sales. Most elderly will not be able to pay out of pocket for someone to care for them.

Yet the US has higher birth rates