Sì, ma, il mondo non va male solo per via di piccoli atti negativi di ognuno, ma anche perché gli atti negativi di alcuni vengono premiati al punto di portare quegli alcuni ai vertici del potere
Un minimo di teoria lì può servire, visto che quel potere si contrasta solo con un'azione coordinata e unita delle persone comuni
While all first episodes catch viewers off guard, Doscovery is a big jump, from the 2000s to the almost-2020s
And it definitely tries to do things differently. It's all a connected story, episodes rarely are stand-alone, and moral messages are mixed inside the story
That said, as you go on, you'll find wonderful ideas that would nave been awesome on the 90s too. Surely a few things will seem off, but the concepts are very startrek. At least to me.
People on busses: "OK this trip lasts 2 hours, we started moving at 8:15 so by 10:15 we should get there"
Same people while driving: "If I don't very slowly overtake this car that for the past 10 seconds has been driving slightly slower than I'd like to, I'll never get there"
To my understanding, Market cap is the total number of shares multiplied by its current price. To do an experiment, if we were to sell those shares, the price would start shrinking, and so would the market cap, way before we can get that kind of money
The market cap is just a reference value, not a count of sonething really happening in the economy. It represents sonething more like investor expectations.
The comparison to GDP is interesting, but it doesn't represent what it looks like.
GDP is, in itself, a reference value that represents a few things, this time it does stand for something happening in the economy, it kind of estimates the value added by the economy at current prices.
A better way to describe how important invidia is in the US, you could compare all revenues by all companies, and see how much Nvidia represents over that. I don't know if we have that kind of number.
But to give an idea, we would instead look at the number of employees in Nvidia in the US compared to the total number of workers in the US
We are looking at a total of 161 million employed people in the US
Poiché il fisco considera questi incrementi come veri aumenti di reddito, li tassa di più, generando il cosiddetto fiscal drag (il “drenaggio fiscale”): un aumento automatico del prelievo medio, che ha contribuito alla crescita della pressione fiscale complessiva.
Questo non significa però che tutti abbiano pagato più tasse. Il drenaggio fiscale agisce solo su chi ha visto crescere il proprio reddito espresso in termini nominali
1: il PD ovviamente si interessa del lavoratori dipendenti, che sono la fetta più importante dei contribuenti. Quindi se la pressione aumenta per drenaggio fiscale, perché i salari nominali aumentano in risposta all'inflazione, allora sì, tutti abbiamo pagato più tasse, dove tutti è inteso tutti quelli che contribuiscono alla tassa su cui avviene il drenaggio fiscale
2: quando il PD "confonde" che l'aumento della pressione corrisponda a un aumento delle tasse ovviamente lo fa apposta, esattamente come fa apposta a dire che il governo stia tagliando sulla Sanità. Tecnicamente il governo aumenta la sua spesa sulla Sanità ogni anno, ma rispetto al PIL c'è una riduzione, ergo il PD parla di un taglio
Spiegare cosa sia il drenaggio fiscale è un conto e pagella politica fa benissimo a chiarire. Dire a un partito che si sbaglia su un concetto del genere perché usa un verbo all'attivo per farsi capire direi che è fuori luogo.
Soprattutto quando nel frattempo il governo si vanta di stare aumentando i fondi alla sanità, cosa vera nominalmente ma falsa in valore reale.
Aumentano la pressione, si riducono i servizi fondamentali, ma ehi, "il PD sbaglia".
Omg I rewatched that episode last week and I didn't think of that, I assumed it was voiceover too, even thinking that is was slightly different than the normal Picard voice to fake it being mimicked 🫠
The sooner our society abandons individualism and goes back to community oriented structures, the faster these problems will disappear.
Mass media, mass religion, mass communication, they all included manipulation. From telling lies, to telling only part of the truth, to salience and propaganda. AI is the latest scary tool.
The issue is that we expect the individual to have the tools to defend themselves from this. That's not how it works. We need human connection, small family communities, where members help each others on the various aspects of life, including following public discourse and politics. When everyone has their sense of belonging to a place of care, the value of money and of the mass manipulations it uses falls and fails to accomplish a thing.
Let's also stop believing that people vote mainly based on how easy it is to manipulate them. People vote based on their culture, their experiences, their overall mood on how things are going. The turnout in New York should show that. No fake news on Mamdani had an effect that comes even close to people's connection to a grassroots campaign, people's dissatisfaction with Trump and billionaires, people's cultural affiliation to a young immigrant that speaks of affordability, nurseries, and pride to be one's true self against discrimination.
I had Mexican flatmates/neighbours during my master's abroad, and it was always funny to me how they casually insert English words while speaking, with a perfect American accent whilist talking Spanish
As an Italian I might do that too, but the accent is nowhere near, we just need the word in English but pronunciation can be whatever