One could certainly speed up the other

I think decentralization of power is a nice feature too. Billionaires are power centers outside of the government, judiciary, or military. They exist as a result of lax control on the markets by the government. In countries without capitalism and property rights, the billionaires are the government and the judiciary and the military. So, even though it might seem like nationalizing their wealth would decrease inequality, if there aren't good safeguards for decentralizing government power, it would result in a less equal society.

Part of the existence of billionaires is the ability to actually determine which money is theirs. In autocratic governments, you can't really say who owns what because you never know what the government might decide to take.

I don't defend billionaires, I think power should be spread more fairly, but eliminating them via the government needs to be done wisely in order to maintain decentralization.

Then that's great! Don't let anyone shame him for being skinny unless there are pressing health consequences.

Not latest, but prioritizing and promoting playing on their own.

Good point, you might only need to knock off a very small fraction.

No one mentioned "Smoke on the Water"! If you can't play smoke on the water then you have my permission to smash the thing.

I think on the desktop version many years ago the downvote button was hidden, but if you visited from anywhere else you could downvote.

Look into cost plus drugs maybe. Apparently they are trying to shine a light on all the scummy stuff happening in the industry.

Once you get this far down the thread you realize how complicated it actually is and why most people have no sweet clue how it works.

Why are you so sure the gift is for you?

It seems like we are slowly trying to turn around outsourcing everything to China. I wonder how far and how expensive it will end up.

I think everyone (90% of us) understands it at this point.