It was kind of an epiphany in my understanding when I realized that “the market” is not exclusive to capitalism and has existed as long as goods exchange and that socialism, doesn’t mean ignoring market forces or value.

Impossibly good.

Do it again!

A delightful abomination

Iceberg dead ahead!

Wait for the rebrand to xXx

Just wait, this hurricane season is going to be a wild one. If NC gets flooding like it did in Florence, we’ll be contaminating all those flood waters again.

It should double for each additional offense.

I can tell you that even tesla’s direct ev station installs can sit on hold for over a year after the final construction drawings are done and permitting has been approved. So, this isn’t a huge surprise to me, and should get better with time.

Might be useful to index this to the state’s median income.

The founding fathers would have been disgusted but not surprised by this behavior.

Abandon the the two party system and first past the post, vote local, get involved.

Surely they have digital records

To no one’s surprise

On the east coast Raleigh, NC and southward is snowfree (snows maybe once or twice a year, tops).

Hi, I grew up in CNY and have been living in Upstate SC for the last 14 years. It is more affordable on the tax side. Our housing costs are catching up to NY (still less taxes). Job opportunity is very industry specific, and generally tough everywhere.

Moving is hard work (physically), but less of a hassle than switching your primary email address. If you have time, vacation to areas you think you might be interested in. When you go, don’t be afraid to be a tourist/outsider, ask for help/directions/opinions of people you cross paths with, it will really help you get a sense of the area and community. Some people might value a thriving board gaming community, while others are looking for climate/mountain/beach opportunities. If it’s something your worried about, also take a look at a natural disaster map to get a sense of what you might be in for.

I have found that most of Appalachia share a culture/ethos. There are a lot of similar attitudes and ideas among rural people in NY and rural people is South Carolina.

AMA.

Seems reasonable, 40k/yr is more than most can afford.

Can you point me to a time when capitalism did happen? Where governments and outside forces weren’t picking winners and losers in the market? In such a time what was the plight of the common worker? Did we see overwork, workplace safety, and child labor issues?

Third wave communism doesn’t seek to abandon the “free market” (which is free within bounds), it instead favors democracy in the workplace. Where all members of the organization are employee-owners including ceos and middle management and the “Board” is dissolved into either a representative or direct democracy made up of employee-owners. In this way one increases the incentives for each individual to perform and see the company perform well. This also mitigates much income inequality by allowing the workers a say in the compensation of middle and upper management.

One of Turner’s Burning of the Houses of Parliament is at the Philadelphia MoA, if you have a chance, go see it in person.

If only we had a functioning government interested in protecting the people, we might avoid a lot of suffering/bloodshed.

We haven’t noticed because prices are still high. Cooling inflation, is just a decrease in the rate of rise. That’s not something most people are going to intuit. Especially when most people would interpret that phrase to mean a return to pre-inflation prices.