At age 6 I was obsessed with the idea that nuclear disarmament could be achieved by having Godzilla eat all the nuclear warheads.
Crazy thing is that I didn't even think of using Godzilla to make nuclear power more sustainable by feeding him all the radioactive waste.
I think growing up in a house with many pets makes one perceive any animal, even an imaginary 400-foot-tall fire-breathing monster, as a potential pet
I didn't really imaging Godzilla chowing down on piles of warheads; instead, I imagined him catching ICBMs out of the air like a dog catching a frisbee...
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@LittleKeegs0@JosephPolitano@ckrlft@TristamPratori1 The story since the 70s has been:
* Wages ⬆️ a little
* Hourly comp ⬆️ more
* Working hours ⬇️, so individual annual earnings only ⬆️ a little
* Govt benefits & investment income⬆️ so individual income ⬆️
* # of workers/household went up so household income ⬆️ a lot
The ratio of median home price to median personal income has increased since 1980, but only by about 15%.
Here you can see median home price and median income side by side, relative to their 1980s levels.
Home prices and incomes track each other very well until around 2003, then diverge, then come back again, then diverge a bit after 2012.
But also note that the type of homes people have been buying have not stayed constant. The median size of a single-family house, for example, has increased by about 13% since 2000.
"Americans don't have health care" is one of those things that, if you said it in real life, would cause people to look at you as if you were crazy, but which 1000 people will dogpile you on Twitter if you contradict
The truth is that Americans use lots and lots of health care, they just pay an ungodly obscene amount for it.
And this is not a technical or cute distinction; by far the biggest problem with American health care is simply its high cost, meaning that cost control measures are the most important policy that we need in order to fix the system.