Cowbell is a magnificent idea!

To be clear, I'm fully on board with a future where we live in a Star Trek utopia and all of that great stuff happens and is guaranteed to everyone, money doesn't exist, and work is done because we want to do it, not because we have to.

And the LAST person I trust to enact all of that is Elon Musk.

I mean, he’s the vector by which conservative reactionaries are getting a lot of what they want done - smashing government to pieces so private companies can profit, gutting regulations, destroying the lives of brown and black people, etc. They can live with him being awful and embarrassing

In response to Musk calling to “abolish” the European Union, the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski, wrote in Musk’s replies on X: “Go to Mars. There’s no censorship of Nazi salutes there.”

We were at full employment, strong demand, strong consumer, inflation easing and interest rates decreasing like nine months ago.

Ffffffuuuuuuuuuuu!!

Humans are born helpless and wouldn’t survive without empathic adults.

That we elevate the worst people with the least empathy to positions of power is clearly a bug in our collective operating system with existential consequences

Short term vacation rental platforms haven't helped either.

It costs about $200,000 per flight hour just to operate AF1. Add the Secret Service, pilots, advance teams, motorcades, and hotel bills, and a single multi-stop domestic trip can easily run $1.5 to $3 million. All to lecture people eating cereal for dinner about how great the economy is. 🫠

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Yea we kinda don't like kleptocrats looting the nation while we pay more taxes than billionaires while their companies don't pay us a living wage while also price gouging us to death for goods while also having military troops on our city streets

We kinda sensitive like that

And more companies are starting to only hire part time or contract workers so they can avoid paying for health insurance.