Find a local special interest group that gets together to practice. Check meetup.

Uh-huh. Don’t push sources known to be at best questionable.

Well, just because our leadership is reprehensible, does not mean we are all like that.

Do what America did until recently: welcome those who bring value to your society regardless of their origin. Many awesome people left horrible leaders to become huge assets to their new homes.

For example: Einstein, half of Hollywood between 1933 and 1945.

Our leaders are throwing away one of our greatest strengths. Don’t make the same stupid self defeating mistake.

All that trauma led to the Marshall plan and is why American currency is the world reserve currency.

Our top tax rate was 90% until the mid 60’s to pay for that and the cost of the world war we initially wanted to avoid entering.

Like it or not, the reason the U.S. system dominates now is that we built it at great cost (investment) to connect and support the developed world after massive devastation initiated on Europeans by Europeans.

The goal was to connect everybody in mutual benefit in order to avoid another such war.

We are all culpable for current conditions and faults. Sure, we benefitted from that aid to Europe, but not at the expense of the other participants and not without sacrifice.

We learned from the aftermath of the first world war, when we collectively punished Germany to the point of their desperation and enabled the rise of Nazism as a response to crualty.

Yes, the victors’ revenge and punishment brought forth hatred, cruelty, and unfathomable horror.

Now those Germans are the backbone of European wealth generation and upstanding members of the world community. I’d say that’s a rather good outcome of post_war policy. Similar is true of Japan and Italy.

First, rolling unused 529 funds into an IRA was only achievable with the passage of the SAVE act in 2024 (just 2 years ago) this function hasn’t been around for a long time.

Fair point. However, $35k invested at age 21 in an IRA has a very good chance of being hundreds of thousands by retirement, and education expenses are lifelong costs as well.

It could be FOMO. Personally, I see value in keeping social media from children. The problem is I don’t believe this is all about that. As usual, it’s all about surveillance.

It’s the next wealth tier up from up to now, I think.

Which, by the way, is achievable with a 529 account, which has been around for a long time. Any funds not used for education can be rolled into an IRA in adulthood.

He is doing nothing new, but is putting his name on it. I guarantee it will encourage investments in private equity/credit and crypto.

He does nothing for altruistic reasons. If it appears to benefit others, it is either a side effect, or a useful illusion.

Another reason to move to Europe.

Why bother telling us if nobody is going to do anything about it? I’m tired of the rage “news” that is never addressed by law enforcement.

There is no justice. There is no point in being angry, no point in demanding resolution. It never comes. There is no hope for this “civilization”.

Prove me wrong.

Ow.

Use AI, learn the methods, tools, uses. Then keep working through the process yourself like you do now with AI as a partner who sometimes flakes out.

Remind yourself of the tenents of critical thinking regularly. Never just accept what AI tells you. seek proof behind the answers. Think through those answers to ensure you understand the logic behind them.

Fight complacency.

We can’t ignore this. We need to know how it is done if we want to earn salaries. Reality rarely makes a dent in the corporate herd until years later.

By then, careers are obliterated.

There are ways to protect your mind in the meantime.

Anecdotal evidence is misleading. You need to look at the large scale productivity statistics.

The company I worked for during the pandemic was strongly behind work in office culture because they believed it was better for productivity. By the time restrictions were lifted, they said to their surprise productivity increased, so they let people continue working from home.

The call back to the office is about justifying lease expenses they are stuck with for up to 10 years, plus perception of control issues in managers. You see, if they can’t verify you are working directly, then they assume you are slacking even if the work is being completed. Their surveilance is much more complete in an environment they control, too.

Yes, I couldn’t find one when my old LG from 2012 died. I did not activate wifi, added TV antenna. I already have Chromecast TV so I’m tracked enough, thanks.

The cost of using a phone. “In love” is what I wrote and the keyboard decided I meant involve. Just to write this, I had to correct the corrections twice.

Ask a finance pro why they went into finance. If you don’t get the same answer, they are lying.

Anyway, I fell involve with computers and programing at 13 years old, and nothing else appealed to me, so guess what I became?