Sure, but if we resolved these economic issues today and redirected wealth from the top to the bottom income brackets, even minorities could have a minimum standard quality of life like the rest of us.
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I've used F-Droid without unlocking the bootloader or rooting or Google Play services integration. Developers are free to use F-Droid, most just choose not to. Hopefully it becomes even more popular as gplay has more issues.
Side note: here at the airport you check your flight information by just walking up to a screen and it uses facial recognition to instantly pull up your flight information, gate, seat, etc. lol. Completely different comfort level with cameras here haha....
True except it's a little different than equity investments because of the ease of leverage. No one is going to loan me a half million dollars to invest in the S&P500 but they'll have no problem giving me a house to rent out (if I can prove income).
At the risk of sounding like propaganda myself... Just because you don't witness poverty and crime doesn't mean it is propaganda. US has a major homeless and drug epidemic that is getting worse. It is easy for those with money to put it out of sight and ignore it.
I'm visiting China for the first time right now for 2 weeks and I must say I'm very impressed with how clean the cities are and the lack of homeless and drug addicts.
In the US my old house in OKC has been broken into twice by homeless and my parent's house in Miami twice as well, and their car stolen twice. Walking to work in Brooklyn, people are literally sleeping on the sidewalks under trash bags every night as everyone walks past like they aren't there.
Even in my my home town in Vermont, population under 10,000, there are always homeless people out in the cold begging and sleeping in tents in the woods. These people have given up on life, or given bad luck, or addicted to drugs.
I haven't seen any of that in China so far. Sure there are some areas outside the city centers that are more depressing looking, lack much personality, and have run down buildings but at least everyone has a home, a job, and is taken care of. People here seem to have more respect for themselves and for others. It is part of the culture here.
Everyone I talk to here says it is incredibly safe. In fact, today I saw my first 2 police cars on the highway for the first time a week into my trip. And we've been driving an average of 3 hours per day everywhere between Shenzhen and ChengDu (visiting factories ). There are many cameras everywhere but there isn't a need for hundreds of police to patrol the streets non-stop like in every city in the US. I haven't heard a single siren the entire trip either - in cities of 20 million. You won't find that in NYC which has half the population. Just some thoughts I wanted to share, thanks for reading.
Neither do it, it's more about enforcing federal label laws and truth in advertising. Why let corporations lie when they could simply be truthful? If we allow them to lie a little this year, they will lie more next year. That's how product packaging used to be until these things were actually enforced.
I'm not even saying that Reeces deserves to lose this case, but I think it is fair for a judge to rule on it because it does seem deceptive.
The FTC has extensive federal labeling laws for products sold in the US. Products cannot be misrepresented to consumers. It is not up to me to decide where to draw the line of what is going too far, but I welcome the opportunity for a judge to decide if Reeces overstepped that line or not.
It is important to challenge these cases or else corporations will lie on packaging more and more. This is not a hypothetical, this is a real problem that the FTC has faught to gain control over for decades to get to the point where we are now where consumers more or less trust packaging to be a fair representation of the product they are paying for.
Right, they seem like the gateway car to ride people over until a full EV and the charging networks are more competitive. I would love an EV but they just aren't convenient enough for my work travel schedule. A plug-in hybrid would solve that concern and allow for my non-work driving around town to be electric.
Imagine if 1 million people bought $5 worth of candy...
More importantly, they'll learn to be truthful in advertising. Raising prices doesn't always mean more profit if it results in lower sales. They'll have to think more carefully in the future which is the entire point.
Isn't it more frivolous for the company to intentionally falsify the images on the packaging to increase sales? They deserve to be held to the same standards as all other companies or else the false advertising will only worsen.
True, but that's not necessary today. There's more than enough money to feed and house everyone if we distributed it fairly.