Luxury goods will always be targeted cuz of how effective Marketing of luxury goods has become. If you convince the chimp troupe diamonds are magical, a large part ot what you end up spending on is securing your diamonds in vaults of ever growing complexity.
Calvin & Hobbes man thats all you need. No better example of the
smallest of dots and sqiggles having magical effects on people. Bill Watersom didnt go to a fine arts school. He just found Beauty in the simplest of things.
Very much so! Another artist who couldn't draw :-)
If playing at home: Picasso learned some classical drawing, and could do it, and moved on from it by age 12 or something (I kid. By a year or two.) Watterson, erm, less so - and it turns out did very well with a different kind of expression.
Most news websites have a ton of duplicated content. That info overload is dying to be minimized.
And news orgs are going to keep coming under assault cause they perform a similar function to search engine robots by surfacing new info. As soon as some one copies that info, the value of the info is 0.
There is already data saying most content created is never consumed by anyone just cause of how much copying and duplication happens.
Biden needs to move faster and not just with the debt jubilee but drastically change how much unnecessary cash American universities spend on bullshit. Visiting campuses in other parts of the world, I am always shocked how much they do with so little while keeping education relatively free.
The main problem with American higher education is the profit motive. As is often the case, capitalism eventually ruins everything, especially when it’s treated as the state religion.
It doesn't work because the state interfered. College is so expensive because of federally guaranteed loans. This means colleges can charge any price they want because the student has access to any sum of money.
I think the profit motive is downstream from the root causes. There are MANY issues with higher education at the moment. IMO, federally backed loans which can't be discharged in bankruptcy is the single worst factor.
Without this protection loans become more costly since you'd move risk to lenders. Where else can an 18 year old get an unsecured loan for this amount and rates? Nowhere, for good reason.
Schools most certainly compete for students, and a major factor is price.
Loans are not some boogey man whose simple presence suddenly throws out all cost consciousness.
If you look at surveys of biggest concerns about students (and their parents) selecting colleges, cost is the biggest factor (42% of them put this as #1 in the survey I'm looking at).
So no, loans are not letting prices run free by any means.
The Federal interest payments gave a stream of income to the lender.
But I thought in decades past someone used to assess the risk of someone not repaying, and limit the amount.
Or was it always a small amount no matter what? I remember not being able to afford even the state schools, even with the loans and meager scholarships.
Polygamy was the norm for most of ancient/imperial China, Ottoman Empire, Mongols, Ancient Jews etc.
I wouldn't go so far as to say it was the norm for most people at most points in history, but considering the populations of the above civilisations it wasn't uncommon either.
FWIW, in ancient China people strictly only have one wife in most cases. The others are called concubines (I think). They have very different social/legal status.
Islam prohibits more than 4 wives and obliges the husband to treat every wife equally, so much so that most men who are even rich enough to marry more than one wife don’t due to of fears of not being able to treat them equally. (rich enough: women need not work in Islam. Their husband, relatives, and the state is obliged to provide for them in this order) That’s the best solution.
What do you mean "to deal with"? There's a lot of misconceptions about marriage, having to "manage" your spouse is one of them. You don't, they're their own person, they can take care of themselves, and if they're dependent on you it's not a healthy marriage.
A healthy marriage of two people treating each other as equals takes a lot of communication, and that almost certainly can't be scaled 10x, nor do the same principles apply when someone is only getting 10%.
In traditional polygamy, the man with 10 wives would be the head of household for 10 wives with competing interests, so it does start to sound very managerial.
I recall reading an interview of a higher-up in the Saudi government. He was asked why he doesn't have multiple wives. He replied that he doesn't have enough free time for that lifestyle. His grandfather was a tribesman: they raided other tribes about once a month to get what they needed. His father was a farmer/grazier: he worked about once a week. He, himself, is a government official and works most days.
