Stepping down in tech myself. My next phone when this one gives out is going to be a dumb flip phone. No smart device appliances, the IoT is a bad idea. No thermostat the local municipality can control remotely. If I were to put in a video surveillance system it’s be old coaxial cable cameras with a DVR.
Don’t know if it was serious or not but someone did a calculation of Smaug’s wealth and he’s on the lower end of the billionaire class. Like single digits compared to Bezos, Musk, and Gates. A literal mountain of gold is less money than they have acquired.
I question how well someone who knows they won’t keep their care for long takes care of it over the limited time of ownership.
I’ll never be out of my student loan debt, I’ll never own a house. At this point I buy to repair what I have. I have a small section I’ll buy new as a method of entertainment as that’s needed. Everything else though is useless fluff to me. Internet costs just went up for me, might be time to just go outside.
So I have a moral quandary here. Is a group of billionaires called a mistake or a buffet?
When they’re perpetuating violence actively and readily, the only response is violence through defense. But you seem to be coming here with a both sides view of things. Insert meme of a liberal thinking egalitarianism and genocide are the same thing.
Something something keep a CEO warm for life?
Social Security was supposed to float them after the time they could make a living. That’s drying up faster than water in a desert Nestle is siphoning from.
Remind me, what was one of the driving forces behind the French Revolution? Oh, it was something important everyone needed that the wealthy forgot was such. What was it…