Old sci-fi also has computers with relais, like the computer clicking in Aliens when it’s thinking. People giving each other their iPad in Star Trek is still pretty amusing to me. Some books still describe punch cards and tapes in space ships. Hell, in Rebel Moon they were shoveling coal to power their space ship.

Because there’s always a region too far for helicopters and no landing strip for regular planes. In this twilight zone, weird things are invented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_violence_against_LGBT_people_in_the_United_States

That’s coming from the people that are ready to kill on the sight of rainbow colors on some fabric.

And McDonald’s countered with a statement Pricing Myths vs Facts where they compared 2019-2024 prices where the original study the infographic is based on compared 2014-2024 prices. A little FUD seasoning if your will to make it all look less bad.

That’s the same company that countered their wages being too low to live on by producing an example budget to show how you can survive with only a McDonald’s job. The first line in the budget is income from the first and second job. They costs are even more laughable today.

To upper management, it’s all fields in a spreadsheet anyway. That you need 3 cheaper juniors to replace that one expensive talent to in the end pay more for less is abstracted away and the source of many meetings to figure out why reality doesn’t match projections. That’s called the efficiency of private enterprises.

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15% of people make $100k in the USA. That means 85% care and a large part of them are not in a good shape.

Businesses that were too successful are also called monopolies, and have a chilling effect on entrepreneurship all in their own.

Median wage in USA is about $20/h, so the actual numbers say there are a lot of people being closer to having trouble making ends meet. Even then, the ratio matters a lot. It’s the difference between “we’re all in this together” and “some of you won’t make it but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”. In the latter situation there is a lot more resentment and sympathy for violence.

So you’re saying large corporations need to be broken up into smaller businesses I avoid concentrating too much wealth in upper management.

That’s actually been studied. Turns out that about 40 is the tipping point for most people, as in CEO earnings 40 times more than the lowest paid workers. Up to that point people think they boss earns it, above that resentment starts to grow.

They’re at 700. Yeah, that’s dangerous. People are very sensitive about relative earning for work. Fairness is just hard wired into all animals and it’s dangerous to ignore this, although humans react a bit later and that gives a false sense if security for those at the top.