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That's... odd. I don't remember the final EoR boss being nearly that tanky? Want to say there was a gimmick involved with the supporting more-or-less invincible stuff, but the boss itself wasn't bad if you kept on top of that.

Yeah, those are a thing in the US, too. Largely horseshit, though. Feck off with yer tax rebate or whatev', I'd rather just pay a bloody tax that pays for healthcare and leave yer vulture arse in a ditch.

It's a good one, at least.

Are we sure jif isn't just the forum itself's account? I mean, I know they've said things occasionally but that doesn't entirely rule that out.

Of course, we don't have a minimum where the poorest have food, housing, and health security; those are too tightly tied to employment.  The conservative side of me says they should be tied to some extent to employment, but you should not lose health insurance or your house if you are out a job for a week.

Eh... I understand the sentiment, but ultimately I don't think -- especially in the richest country on the bloody planet -- anyone should be going homeless, starving, or dying of preventable or curable health concerns, even if they don't work. The price for that should be at most a lack of luxuries, not fucking dying, or starving, or living on the streets, y'know? Nevermind that means testing and junk has largely been proven wasteful horseshit, maybe we should just be sparing some of that world dominating pile of resources to provide a bare goddamn minimum for our people, preferably without forcing them to make their lives extra shit to gain access to it.

Just. Food, water, shelter. Access to a doctor without it permafucking their lives. Whatever your condition or (lack of) employment. If problems arise from just making sure people have that, we can figure out where to go from there, a point where people have a chance to be healthy and not have to worry about fucking dying from some sort of privation or ruining themselves financially to avoid it. Can't imagine said problems would be worse than the shit we deal with now, if they even meaningfully crop up to begin with.

None of the above

It's a... webnovel, probably? Something like that. Am reading it, in any case. The name's literally in the first sentence of that post. Lord of the Mysteries. So far it's less shitty than usual for isekai schlock :V

Quote from: Max™ on December 12, 2019, 08:24:25 pm

Your chart is kinda sorta slightly outdated, and showing income, not wealth... which is a MASSIVE difference.

Uhh, your graph in fact backs up my argument, it doesn't refute it. Note the big asset wipe out in 2007-2009 in your graph. Also note that the steepest drop was the assets of the top 1%. They lost the largest percentage of their wealth of any cohort listed.

so you're skeptical that any bubble popping will wipe out the rich? It's exactly what your graph shows happened in 2008.

that wasn't "wipe out the rich" tho, it was "mildly inconvenience them while they proceeded to sup on everyone else's losses"

Nevermind their relative proportion of control seems to have barely budged and the bottom half of the population's share is so small you can't eyeball how badly they got fucked over lol

Though sadly Opera mostly sold out to Chrome's design choices and framework, so, uh.

Actually I could get behind some chrome opera. Cyberpunk opera work or somethin'. Probably be something in the vague direction of that scene from Fifth Element, which was pretty nice. Reminds me I've never gotten around to finding more stuff like it...