Yes, but his net worth only went down because of a concentrated campaign against him (cant have govs use trump property anymore, etc). His worth could have gone up in a normal world.
Money isn't the problem. The love of power is.
“There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters” - Daniel Webster
....but DeSantis was corrupt when he had $340,000. Why do people blame the instruments for what happens instead of the people?
Guns kill people. Not people. Money corrupts people. People aren't corrupt and then use money.
Hey! Teeth kill sheep. Not wolves.
The RIAA Metallica Madonna etc bunch was a joke. Like right now, if InBev came out and blamed "maga white supremacists" for their budweiser brands decline.
Thats what RIAA did. A few years after their soulless homogenization of music really started to eat into their profits, they saw that dumb kids where sharing music online and used them as a scapegoat for their ineptitude.
Then theyd go and take life savings of families because their ten year old was fucking around on a computer and downloaded a few albums. So, $45 of provable loss turned into a $15,000 payday. Their excuse was always "We'd have made hundreds of billions of more dollars if not for these assholes. We deserve it!"
It was never true and their response was like electing Biden parent of the year.
The government has to look good to its recipients. It'll never be the conservative estimate. ;)
2700 a month? What? They take about $280 per month from us.
Man....there are so mamy fucked up things going on with kids, these days, that saying vaccines or glysophate or whatever pet peeve is just missing the point.
On the mundane side, some of that growth is recognition and handling. In the 70s, you were called a late bloomer and youd be stuck in a waitress or stocker job until 26 when you finally caught up to your peers.
Parents also expected you to grow the fuck up and made you live with the consequences of your actions.
Now, you take your kid to the doctor, get pills, be a helicopter/lawn mower parent, and your kids still wait until 26 to catch up to their peers while being assaulted by peeverts teaching them that they are really sixty genders and their parents are horrible people for not going along with it.....
Oh, and now the parents are not just going along with it to fit in, but are pushing it on their kids, too. And in some cases, 8f they don't go along with it, they will be arrested. Don't forget that part.
There is pretty much not a single aspect of life, today, that is in anyway similar to what kids in the 70s experienced. No one is protecting them, everyone is trying to fuck them, figuratively and literally.
Problem is, the ones that promote "healthy' seem to either be bean poles or calvin klein model levels of ridiculous.
The average man is built like a running back, with quite a few lineman friends. The average woman is built like Mrs Butterworth with quite a few friends like Aunt Bee.
100 years of seeing the coke-fiend levels of thin from the Cleavers to Sex and the City as "what is healthy" has completely warped peoples perception of healthy.
Splinters and eyes. You first.
Some did. Others didn’t. Even some of those that made it into the bible and helped corrupt it.
But what was included and kept out wasn't, as you decry as an image, men sitting around a table. It was politics. Some churches had books that others didn't. These churches fought for supremacy, much as the Catholic churches did through the middle ages. The ones with manuscripts that lasted were the ones that were closest to Rome with the most political clout, not necessarily those that were superior historically.
Thunk about it like the modern day: Ivermectin vs mRNA vaccine. mRNA didnt win out because those guys knew what they were doing, its because it won politically. Had they succeeded, the victors would have burned alternative accounts and contrarians at the stake. Realize that the Vatican spent over 1200 years actively seeking out alternative sources and then hiding them while keeping the politics they required going.
No one at the time 'just knew' what was good and bad, they only knew what they grew up with. Failing the Roman political apparatus forcing a single doctrine to coalesce, we would have seen the early church splinter into regional shards, much like happened with Catholicism and protestantism hundreds of years from the 300s.
So, the argument FOR inclusion with canon was that the story of young Jesus was written by an eye witness of the resurrection?
What was the substance of the arguments for those advocating inclusion with canon?
I have read extensively on what was culled from the bible, and I disagree. There was an entire book that detailed the life of young Jesus, for instance, that was far more than 'a few hundred letters'.
Whether you agree with its discard or no, its not as you are portraying it. Its also not going into how different comparing translations can make the Word come out.
Its functionally not available the way you make it out. The Protestant bible that most are familiar with has fewer books than the Catholic bible. The Catholic bible was shorter than the jewish and greek texts that preceeded it.
You can find, with some effort, an 'original bible', but most people have access only to the books and translations deemed "good" somewhere along the way.
I thought it was made from vegans. You know, recycling to avert climate change?
Just get a vegan egg. Its the same thing.
A complete recording of five drag queen events for children.
Those 30 yo managers are the symtom part of my argument. They are poison because they werent taught in their 20s, so now they are needing to learn from real failure that hurts a business.
Ill accept that im not hired on until theres problems, but ive seen a lot of smaller companies with the same disease.
Boomers netted all of the rewards, though. They bought houses when they were 6 grotes and a handshake, then gleefully sold them to their kids for 750,000 and 12% while telling those same kids that they were trash because they couldnt afford things after paying 2500/month. 'Maybe buy fewer starbucks, man.'
While I did pick the low hanging fruit, I opine that there's more than inflation, here. There's systemic erosion of buying power, systemic transferring of useful jobs overseas, systemic globalization, systemic erosion of education, systemic destruction of family units, systemic undervalue of labor. ALL of this while boomers were - and are - in charge and telling everyone that they are trash and that they were going to make things better.
Honest question: which companies would those be?
I have spent the better part of my career returning companies to sanity after boomers ruined them.
A lot of boomers who think they are all that, arent. A lot of bosses that think they are great are actually terrible.
A large percentage of people are bad at areas outside of a few specific skills - and this is across all jobs and age cohorts.
There are a billion reasons for this. The young today act as immature as you did at their age, but at their age you had the backstop of family, most gen z'rs have come from broken homes and if they cant pay their own rent, they cant crash at their parents to help them back on their feet. Millenials and Zs were both raised by broken AF generations - Gen X and Silents who were tortured by Boomers into Apathy and overzealous emotionalism, respectively.
On top of that, the businesses were turned into sociopathic vampires by those self same boomers, with some help by silents and gen-x's.
Do some comparisons of the world from 40+ years ago and now.
In the 70s, you could work at mcdonalds 40 to 60 hours a week and put yourself through college and go out for some reasonable fun.
Now, McDonalds wont give you more than 20 hours so they dont have to care about benefits, but also wont work with you to have three jobs just to afford a room in someone's house.
If you get in at a major company that isnt fast food, you have asshole bosses who dont give you a task to complete and resources to make you effective, they give you a robotic process and care more that you are 3 seconds slower than your coworker than the fact that you exist and have a brain that needs to be trained.
Time was, youd suffer in your 20s, learn the hard knocks, even learn from some minor failures all as part of being mentored. By your 30s, you had grown, were effective, and beginning to climb in your career.
Now, you get constantly berated. If you fail at a robotic process - even if you have a better process or even think you have a better process - you are punished for speaking out.
The war children 'just magically had it' and everyone else has sucked since. No ownership of what you let happen to the world, the business climate, the economy. Just rose colored glasses that ignore the fact that you were handed a golden platter and not only squandered it for yourselves, but let your governments fuck it for generations to come.
You use the same energy with paper and plastic money. This shouldn't be a consideration you take about transacting for goods.
You realize that the vast majority of people barely see paper money anymore, right? It's been almost entirely cards and trust in banks for 15 years. No ones even going to consider miniscule energy use as a show stopper.
Because "free energy" doesn't mean anything. You cant grow bananas with it. You can't use it to make anything - you can power the prodution, but that needs intelligence.
Free energy is a pointless addition to the mix u til that free energy means post scarcity.
Energy use is a fallacious argument. You have the same problem with every single currency.
How much oil did we have to burn to smelt gold coins? Print semi-paper cash? The chickens you traded for the pork?
All of them have an energy cost.
Because infiltration is how they bring companies to heel.