That‘s what number 2 should be.

You can put an NVME into a SATA enclosure easily.

The rich love to spend on luxury services. Gardeners, drivers, cooks, artists, nannies, cleaners, accountants, personal trainers, beauticians, therapists, guides, teachers, coaches, sex workers, planners, assistants, etc.

I’ve met rich people who spend thousands of dollars per day on this.

Deflation is terrible for an economy, because it would mean people would stop spending money. Money changing hands is what keeps an economy going.

Of course wages should at least increase with inflation, better overall productivity.

Rich people spend lavishly on luxurious homes, services, food, clothing, artisanal items, and such. They usually also pay for some art and culture they enjoy, keeping venues for performances and events open.

The rich leaving a city means lots of small businesses and artisans need to close or downsize. Service jobs get lost as well. The fancy bakery has to close. Restaurants close.

My cousin has a small restaurant. He makes the bulk of his money with catering for parties of rich folks. Without that business, the restaurant wouldn’t be profitable.

Luxury priced goods and services can be a bigger or smaller part of a local economy.

However rich people can also afford to pay a lot for stuff. Not all of them want to live in Dubai or Bali. They want to live where quality of life is high, exclusive, interesting, and high quality experiences are to be had, and where the other elite, interesting, rich, famous, and powerful people are. New Yorck City doesn’t need to worry one bit about getting less attractive to the rich.

Rich people and their capital move independently from each other around the world. For capital most of it will go to places where profits are to be expected. A smaller part will go to places the capital owners just prefer for their personal reasons.

That’s the capital owning class. It’s a little different for the professional class with high or very high income like some doctors, engineers, elite artists, elite athletes, and other specialists. They have actual income that can be taxed directly. These are also internationally mobile and can be attracted by high incomes elsewhere.

Talk about „the rich“ often confuses these two or doesn’t differentiate. A specialist doctor with a dozen employees, two homes, and two nice cars is certainly well off. Does he count as rich or not though?

The way „tax the rich“ is often implemented targets the upper middle class harder than the far richer upper capital owning class.

The more money you have the easier it is to circumvent taxes by setting up a series of companies that buy from each other.

Having been around actually rich people, what I found most surprising was that they often didn’t need to pay for stuff directly at all. I‘ve been taken on expensive vacations, where my host didn’t have to pay for the lavish villa we stayed at, or the boat, or the driver and car that shuttled us around. A lot of it is informal favors, vouchers, points, miles, and so on. That‘s also a way to obfuscate their real income.

That said. A strong middle class and well paid working class creates a far better economy and provides enough opportunities for artisans, and some quality luxury services.

Gothmas is the closest. I have an asatru tree for Yule.

The introduction of SwiftUI and Liquid Glass has made these kinds of gore more ubiquitous and made the usability worse.

How do you know he’s Muslim? Lots of Arabs are Christian, some non religious.

DEFCON is the better version of this game.

Mastodon is great if you follow people you have have actually met IRL.

Same. Mastodon is pretty good and useful. Lemmy is pretty meh.

This is only true if your birthday is on the 1st of January .

Dialog suchen. Angesprochene Probleme ernst nehmen, statt zu verleugnen. Praktische Umsetzung von Lösungen in der Migrationspolitik und Dänemark als Vorbild.

AfD und Vorfeld haben es geschafft sich eine eigene profitable Medieninfrastruktur, unterschiedliche Organisationen und Unternehmen aufzubauen. Die Ausgrenzung hat zur Entwicklung einer Parallelgesellschaft geführt. Es ist noch nicht zu spät das aufzubrechen.

Lots of European countries want to reform immigration or execute related policies. Starmer might find supporters for this in other European countries.

Populist is hat Mandant is good

This lecturer used his class to give political activists a platform to speak instead of actually teaching his class. Reason enough to fire someone.

Die Strategie der Abgrenzung funktioniert seit Jahren nicht.

Here’s the argument made against Ms. Rachel. https://stopantisemitism.org/as-week/ms-rachel/

It’s not my job to educate you.

Something happened before this video starts. The cops likely had a reason to arrest that young woman. The cops are walking away from the crowd continuously and don’t attack it.