To qualify for some benefits you can’t have any assets. The state forces you to sell your assets and pay for care before they will chip in.

If we disallowed margin loans from brokerage accounts then the uber wealthy would be forced to pay more taxes. We can easily avoid impacting the middle class with marginal tax brackets.

I thought that most artists never made much from record sales, it was always live performances. The label gets record sales.

Those failure rates are nonsense based on theoretical limits. In practice: a few weeks ago I resilvered a 4 disk z1 array with 8tb disks at 85% capacity in less than 24 hours. I scrub the pool every month and it didn’t seem any more taxing than a scrub.

Astronomers predict that the nova explosion could happen anytime between now and September.

They didn’t suggest bullying is exclusive to capitalism, right?

Maybe bullies are more prosperous in particular economic systems.