The argument works with any service business that is shared by high income and low income earners: restaurants, transportation, clothing, housing, groceries, etc.
So is the orthodox economist solution: government, the biggest employer and biggest debtor in the whole economy (by far) starts printing money to pay its employees more, thereby using inflation to redivide the debt to the government, and then to its employees which then conveniently also forces every employer to increase pay.
Which means the productive economy gets a greater share of the wealth, by taking it from the rent-seeking part, whatever that may be.
Of course, billionnaires hate this, since their wealth is pretty much some percentage of that debt.
But pensions go down as well, because that's how the system was redesigned by large banks after the last time governments really did this. This was done so it would be as unpopular as possible. Of course, the whole "so what do we do instead" was left unanswered ...
And instead banks decided to lend the government money (QE, covid, ...) which is why governments are now in trouble. In the US, despite what you may have heard, just lending more to the government is quite possible in the US (because the government would still get substantial income for a substantial amount of time by lending more). However for a number of EU countries (reporting focuses on France but if you allow me to be 5% inaccurate let's just summarize that all EU countries except Germany cannot lend more as it would "snowball" in 2029 or 2030, which is within the next government mandate for those countries)
that's very virtuous of you. I'm not sure your mild contempt will make much of a difference if/when a profoundly retarded human gives GPT-69 access to "LAUNCH NUKES LOL" button.
Nah. That's just the lazy-ass traffic filtering policies of poorly-run end-user ISPs. [0] Every end-user ISP knows what IP address ranges it has assigned to each customer. It's fairly trivial to note when the source address of traffic coming from a customer's connection isn't in the range that has been assigned to that connection and drop it on the floor. This stops source address spoofing dead.
RFC 2827 (BCP 38) was published in May 2000. There's no good excuse for end-user ISPs to not be doing this for pretty much all of their customers.
[0] For the purposes of this discussion, I'm declaring that "cloud" providers are ISPs. They provide IP addresses and Internet connectivity to their customers, so they count.
Indeed. For what it's worth the spoofing aspect got better for a while then plateaued. [1] bcp84 / bcp38 adoption has pretty much stalled out. No idea what to do with the remaining ISP's.
Just found out macOS has it too. Created a .plan file and used finger on my user name and it showed the plan. There's no fingerd or anything listening on the port though, but it worked locally. Neat.
It's just a shell function so in this case if one had a terminal app that has a shell one could add the function. No idea how feasible that is on a phone.
My main email is not GMail, but I forward it to a GMail account to get free spam filtering, free backup, and free search. I encourage everyone to do the same.
You don't get spam if you use aliases everywhere. The few that actually get spam can be turned off.
Like I recently had to turn off alias for made4men.no. srsly, signing me up for spam and not removing me from the spam list even after i unsubscribed. You can tell it's a swedish shop that just happens to own a Norwegian domain.
I actually had to do the opposite. I have a filter that catches all messages marked as spam and unmarks them as spam. VERY rarely there's a spam message caught in there. Much more often sth super important that just would have landed in spam if not for my genius spam filter.
That is incorrect. "Astra" is Latin for "stars" (plural). The singular would be "astrum".
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