The bigger concern is that we've steadily been going from a circa 4:1 ratio of worker to non-worker to closer to 2:1 ratio. For an economic system based on workers paying the way for non-workers that is toxic. We've royally screwed up immigration, which could have helped, so all we have left is hoping for a hail mary huge productive boost or might as well shut up shop and figure out a new model
Healthcare employment’s guaranteed to keep rising until they’ve soaked up all the would-be inheritance from the Boomers.
Millennials are a large cohort, too, so it may stay steadily high for a good long while after that, after perhaps a small dip for X. Depends how much money they have for the healthcare sector to scoop up. Savings-at-same-age has been really bad for them relative to boomers, so we’ll see. May see healthcare employment shrink even as need (sans the dollars to back it up) grows, next time a demographic “lump” gets old.
Not sure why they bundled education and healthcare together. As far as higher education is concerned, the job market is terrible. Many state universities have hiring freeze as they are tightening belts due to the lost NSF and NIH fundings.
Bring your whole self to work, at this point, is the term you use to criticize this policy, not to describe it.
Maternity leave is a version of BYWSTW. As are PRIDE/ethnicity related activities as work. Should we jettison those?
I agree it can and is taken to far, but I'd prefer to read an article about actually navigating an office with different types of real people. For example, for example, thermostats preferences, volume preferences, "we a family/team" vs "just a job" preferences, etc.
Reminds me of a demo I played 10 years ago called swap box turbo. Designed for two players, it is a simple platformer where you and your partner swap positions and momentum every 3 seconds.
You can play it single player too and have an experience similar to this.
To be clear VTI is only US stocks and VEU is everything else. It is confusing because "Vanguard Total Stock Market" contains only United States equities.
Owning ~.00001% of a company feels illusory to me, more difficult to intuit values. So would Nvidia share owners rather own all of Nvidia instead of all of Apple? I suspect not. The marginal buyer of nvidia is either:
* MEGA-FOMO
* Betting on the singularity
* Momentum trading
Besides growth, Nvidia also has much higher profit margins. In Q1 2024, Apple's margins were 42% gross, 26% net, versus Nvidia's 78% gross, 57% net. May or may not be sustainable, but for now Nvidia's basically printing money.
Out of curiosity, would your (or anyone else wanting to chime in) answer change if there was a qualifier that you had to buy today, and were not allowed to sell for 8 years?
>Out of curiosity, would your (or anyone else wanting to chime in) answer change if there was a qualifier that you had to buy today, and were not allowed to sell for 8 years?
Yes, even moreso. What is the bullish case for Apple? I love them to death, and am a total fanboy, but there is simply no arguement to be made for them growing beyond their current (correctly priced) value.
> (I won’t talk about Magnet much here, because the proximate reasons for its failure are pretty simple: we ran out of money and the market fell out from under it. It might have - smart money says probably did have - other means of failure, but we didn’t last long enough to find them in any great detail.)
This has the same voice as patio11. Did he start this style? Is it new? Who else talks like this?
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