You're ignoring one of the biggest things in the divide between the 'haves' and the 'broke': many of Gen-Z are deciding not to have kids, despite the negative effects that this profoundly selfish act has on society. Much easier to live a luxury lifestyle if you're not spending $50k/year on childcare, buying an extra 500-900sqft of housing, buying food for an extra 2-3 people, buying a car with a third row, and buying a never-ending stream of car seats, clothes, toys, diapers, shoes, books, gadgets, etc.
These same selfish people will be angry when any break at all is given to a colleague do to family circumstances (daycare closed for the day? kids have the flu?), but will expect to be taken care of just like the rest of us when they get old, despite the fact that they didn't contribute any children into the labor pool to provide for that care.
Very selfless of you to have children you didn't actually want in order to improve the labor pool for society. Do you tell them you only had them to keep the economy running, or do you keep that information to yourself?
Wealthy? No. Flush with rapidly devaluing cash? Yes. A family of 5 with with 2 parents and 3 kids under 6 years old got a total of $19,300 (counting the monthly child credit payments), provided they didn't go over any of the arbitrary income thresholds.
Very true. A family of 5 with 3 toddlers making $50k/yr got $19,300 in stimulus and expanded child tax credit, whereas that same family would have gotten considerably less if they had a $200k/yr income. It would seem that the benefit of the economic stimulus was rather intentionally concentrated at the bottom and middle of the income curve, obviating the need for private charitable contributions. Let's also not forget that those in the top 20% already pay nearly 80% of the taxes, kinda seems like they're already doing more than their share.
A family of 5 making $50k per year is one lost job away from poverty in much of the US, which was much more likely during the pandemic without assistance. They remain economically vulnerable, probably chronically. A family of the same side making $200k per year is not on the border of poverty anywhere in the US.
Meanwhile, the public facilities used by both families such as parks were underfunded with the loss of tax revenue during the pandemic (and often before). Charitable giving is an opportunity to improve them without raising taxes. Without those inclusive civic institutions, those with means can go to private or for profit recreation and cultural options. Those who don't have nothing.
It is disheartening to hear that emergency public assistance would be used as a rationale to "obviate the need charitable contributions".
Not sure where you live, but a family of two adults and 3 kids got $13,900 in stimulus checks so far in the USA, not counting the expanded child tax credits (which would be another $5400 if the kids are young, dispersed in $900 monthly payments for the last 6 months of the year).
Even a single adult with no kids would have gotten $3,200 so far.
The “astrobiologist” who claims sending tardigrades to the Moon is imperialism and colonialism is a counter-example to your claim that Earth already has intelligent life.
If you look at the blacklists they're using, they're going to hit basically all news that even touches on politics. That's bad, because it'll prevent news companies from informing voters. When blacklists begin including words like "Brexit", "Trump", "Crash", "Accident", etc. it begins to have a real impact on outlets that are reporting on current events. This leads to crap like "The 10 retirement mistakes that Millenials are making!"
It was a problem with the engine, not the airframe. The 787 ships with Rolls-Royce and GE engines - the GE equipped ones are fine. Boeing manufactures the planes, and then works with engine manufacturers to offer various options for powering them. The airlines choose which engines they'd like to install on their aircraft.
GE, for all of its faults as a corporation (the stock price is what, $9-something now?), makes very good jet engines.
Curious - what do the people making > 300k/year do? According to GlassDoor, even in San Francisco you have to be a director or VP to get that. Even Software Architects seem to be in the $150-$250k range, and that tends to be a high-paying post on the technical side.
Glassdoor is not presenting correct data; AppAmaGooBookSoft pay $300k+ at the “career level” for software developers, counting base, bonus, and one year worth of their equity grants. Every engineer who is not fired will eventually reach career level.
Software engineers. But that’s $300k+ total comp, cash + bonus + stock, with a good chunk of that being stock not salary. Base salary of $300k or more is a different story.
These same selfish people will be angry when any break at all is given to a colleague do to family circumstances (daycare closed for the day? kids have the flu?), but will expect to be taken care of just like the rest of us when they get old, despite the fact that they didn't contribute any children into the labor pool to provide for that care.