We also now know the brain doesn’t fully mature (particularly the forebrain responsible for predictions of the outcome of actions) until about 30. It was a consequence of drafting 18yo kids, something we should try to reconsider in the future.
Profits only go up according to supply and demand; if all prices are going up, that’s not greed that’s inflation. Ask yourself why someone who earned $1/day in the 1800s could live on it, but had they buried their money (a store of wealth) under their mattress they’d have nothing of equivalent value today? Who’s in charge of the money, and why isn’t it’s value stable (or better, increase in value as those who built the country should have a larger share of the value today)?
The problem is fiat currency, allowing government manipulation to hide their spending with the “tax” falling mainly on those too poor to hire money managers. I blame FDR for ending the convertibility of dollars to a fixed weight of gold, (in fact, making it illegal to hold gold at all) and Nixon for ending the “gold standard” once and for all.
Remember, back in those days, people were much shorter. I’m surprised the government eugenics programs don’t try to eliminate milk from the diet and breed shorter people again to limit resource consumption. Smaller houses, smaller portions, …
I’m no fan of Trump, and will never vote for him or any MAGA for that matter, but the idea that this is a white supremacy nation for which we have to embrace a different brand of racism and Marxism is a non-starter.
Particularly private universities, which don’t need to allow such protests.