my question in particular is why aren't all votes considered equal in UN on any matter in general? It's so petty of US, the most powerful empire in the history of planet to put embargo on a tiny island like Cuba.
Because they are not equal. The UN is a forum where countries can communicate but it holds no power/money and relies on member states. The US pays a lot more than Equatorial Guinea abd welds more power. They US and other powerful nations sit on the security council and can veto any vote that come up there. The general assembly vote is non-binding so anyone can ignore it.
The UN was setup to prevent world war III not police the injustices
You're mixing up this vote with the security council. The US has a veto in the security council, not in the general assembly. This measure passed, but just like the measures on Russia's war in Ukraine it has no binding authority to mean anything.
To be blunt, if reimbursing your employees for better working environment makes your business non-feasible then your business is based on exploiting workers and does not deserve to exist.
I just installed KDE Plasma+Wayland today on mint Linux. Working great so far, although I’m not noticing a large difference in performance, maybe my specs are good and load is light.
It’s funny how people are focused on “deterring china” than fixing problems at home. For a developed country our labor protections are poor, public transport is laughable and universal healthcare system is just non-existent. US has invaded more countries than china ever did. It gets me angry when $800 billions are spent on military(Raytheon/lockheed Martin), Apple is stashing their money horde outside US for avoiding taxes and we ask teachers and poor people in general to just pick up by their bootstraps.
China has definitely done bad things but definitely not as much as US. How about we take a page from their rapid infrastructure development and improving quality of life for most citizens rather than dumping money into arms dealers under the disguise of fighting “communism/socialism”.
I think they are motivated by their urge to micromanage and nothing else. It’s a fallacy to think the “great leaders” are infallible. The last couple of years is a proof that these leaders can be as dumb as rocks.
"having your parents pay for your education is hardly a rare circumstance" - What is your source for this? Why do you think the President wanted to forgive student loan if paying for education was not such a big problem?
Median American household income is $70k before taxes. Do you think this household can afford college tuition and expenses?
And the median family income of a U Penn undergraduate is almost $200,000 annually. Heck at Georgia Tech, where I went, it’s $130,000, and almost 1/4 of the students come from the top 5%. To put it another way—Musk’s level of family support is hardly unusual compared to that of the thousands of engineers who work for him.
Journalism at the national level is extremely competitive, and draws from a highly credentialed talent pool. The reason people with such credentials pursue such a low paying job is because their families are often quite affluent—they are often doctors, lawyers, etc.
Btw Musk had little to do with the success of X. The revenue of PayPal was merely $61 million at the time Musk was fired as CEO of X.com(later PayPal).
There's an unimaginable gulf between buying books paying tuition to college (especially back when that was affordable), and an investment in a business that's the equivalent of about $350k today.
Elon was never going to have to eat rice and beans, or go work in a cubicle for a big corp to pay the bills if any of his ventures failed.
You're reading that wrong. Elon is claiming his dad invested 10% OF a $200k round of seed funding. The actual amount was $28k. (See wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip2 )
I was being more charitable to Elon by trusting what he said himself. I know the $28k number. Almost 40% of the households with college age kids earn less than 70k before taxes. How many would be able to afford to give a $28k loan to their kids?
You weren't being charitable to Elon, you just either misread what was in the tweet or mistyped and claimed his dad invested $200k.
Median household income is $70k, so I'd expect you'd need to be upper middle class or quite good with money to loan $28k to your kids. I certainly won't argue that the Musks were poor, but there's a very big difference between "able to help their kids through college and loan $28k" and "silver spoon trust fund kids".
Makes so much sense. What do we even get after working like robot for 30 years? We don't have retirement benefits, we would've barely paid for a house if we could afford one. All this for making the CEOs and capital owners even more rich.
Also who decides the metrics of "Productivity"? If we listen to our bosses and CEOs we would ruin our mind, body and personal relationships while they generate intergenerational wealth.
"Goodbyes are always hard, especially when I'm the one saying goodbye. Today effective immediately I Gavin Belson, Founder & CEO of Hooly, am forced to officially say goodbye....to the entire nucleus division." - Silicon Valley
If anyone, Patrick P. Gelsinger and all the executives who made bad strategic decisions should be fired and not the workers. But of course that wouldn't happen because in US workers have no power. It's like presiding as a judge over the case where you yourself are accused.
