The only reason this is possible is because of the content those people created. This literally doesn’t exist without them. Not sure what you’re trying to say….
Right I guess the most realistic thing about this calculation is that people who make 15 an hour have no vacation cause they can’t afford to vacation. Let’s play it out:
After taxes probably looking at closer to 900K. After paying off a 30 year mortgage, probably left with 500k? For simple math let’s say I 400k over 40 years that’s 10k left over per year to cover food and all the necessities of life. They’re living on a knifes edge and an inevitable emergency completely derails them.
Making up information? The same can be said for most commonly used modern compressed video formats. Just low bitrate streams of data that gets interpolated and predicted into producing what looks like high resolution video. AV1 even has entire systems for synthesizing film grain.
The way i see it, if the ai generated HDR looks good, why not? It wouldn't be more fake or made up than the rest of the video.
Beoings relationship with the U.S. only barely starts at commercial planes. They support the U.S. mission militarily. It is and should be alarming but also not surprising. The gov cozies up with any corporation that can further its interest
If that's how they cut corners in civilian aviation, which is used by the public all the time, how can they cut corners when they deliver obscure military hardware that just sits in the warehouse waiting for WW3?
On the one hand, Boeing fucked up the project badly. On the other hand, the contract was written so Boeing ate the $5B+(?) in rework / deficiency remediation.
Reading more around it, Northrop Grumman won the initial contract with an Airbus model and Boeing complained, got the proposal rewritten in their favour. They had an official who passed them info and got a highly inflated contract written, who was then jailed for corruption, Boeing was fined and the CEO was fired. Yet the US is still going with them for the tankers despite the ongoing problems that still aren't resolved. The Airbus version has now been in service in other countries for 10+ years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC-X
From memory, without looking back through Wikipedia, the original contract award was killed. Then Boeing won the new bid.
Acquisition at that level is extremely cutthroat, so who knows what happened.
The broader perspective is that the current major aircraft contracts are:
- F-35 Lockheed-Martin
- B-21 Northrop Grumman
- KC-46 Boeing
- X-37 (Space) Boeing
- MQ-25 (Naval Refueling) Boeing
That seems like a pretty fair spreading of contracts among the remaining majors, especially if you had less faith in Boeing to produce combat equipment, but still wanted to maintain it as a company.
We do know what happened though. Boeing used an insider to pass information about their competitors bids and then gave them a high paying job with a large sign on bonus.
They got the contract killed because they knew they could work up a furor about a European design being used by the US. Of course it's fine in the other direction.
There's legitimate reasons to not want to depend on an ally for equipment but in this case it seems that Boeing haven't been able to deliver on it at all. Losing might have been a good kick up the ass to improve for the next time this type of contract comes around.
It’s not about who voted for Trump or not. There’s democratic politicians who just as likely take beoing money.
The crux of it is that more and more education is being eroded and the education we do get is funneled through the lens of what’s profitable. Americans critical thinking ability is being eroded. And we all know the systemic issues that cause this.
> Americans critical thinking ability is being eroded.
It's more nuanced than that. The internet has made critical thinking harder than ever. The search for engagement means headlines and half truths are pushed over deep analysis. And, once a person shows any interest in taking a side they are funneled into a bubble that's hard to leave. Even the best critical thinkers are going to have problems as AI takes off.
It’s kind of like humans: seed of two people and a random interest to pursue, what could they do?!? It makes poverty and children dying unnecessarily even more depressing.
It’s because corporations show time and time again to cut corners and do harmful things.
Everything should be de facto illegal and companies should have to prove that it should be made legal through research and data.
Things will move much slower but at this point I’d rather that than another Uber airbnb who “disrupts” the market but actually causes many negative externalities.
Real estate is investment and no one ever wants their investments to devalue. And the only way to slow stop or even decrease housing is to devalue it by building beyond what’s needed. No investor will ever do that.
It is capitalism in its purest form. And no kind of free market will fix this issue.
Anytime you think you have a simple explanation for a complex problem it should raise red flags in your head.
Developers absolutely want to build and sell as many homes as possible.
Private enterprise is literally what created all the shelter in the first place. Who else is gonna build shelter? It definitely isn’t gonna be the government…
I think you literally proved his point. It’s because capitalism that developers only build profitable properties. They will not build anything that devalues their own portfolio. That’s just capitalism for you.
I did not say 'capitalism evil'. It has its strong and weak points.
It is just that enlisting everything and everyone on the planet into a pure financial model that can be leveraged for rents and speculaion is what it is about.
