PowerCrazy

Universal Paperclip (free at above url) Start by making paperclips, end up as a sentient AI sending Von Neuman probes out into the universe looking for more materials to create paperclip factories until you have converted the entire universe to paperclips.

Universal Paperclips is a game I just finished. Can be completed in an afternoon and it has some interesting mechanics you can engage with, there isn't a ton of "skill," as is typical for idle games, but if you do some thinking you can make more optimal decisions which will allow you to advance quicker.

One of the most important aspects of a game to me, is that it needs to end. Because of the nature of math, you can always bolt additional mechanics on to them to make the number higher, or increase the scope etc. Additionally the quintessential idle game starts with the player doing something, usually clicking. This is fine, but a good game should have the clicking portion be replaced pretty quickly with a different mechanic that is much more efficient then clicking, because clicking sucks.

Other (free) idle games I'm aware of.
https://candybox2.github.io/candybox/
https://alpha.shark.tobot.dev/

Some other goods ones that you need to pay for are Magic Research, and the even better sequel Magic Research 2.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2311680/Magic_Research/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2864890/Magic_Research_2/

The idea of "student loan forgiveness for entrepreneurs" is something I noticed 10 years ago during Hillary Clinton's uninspired campaign for president, even before Trump entered the arena as a serious candidate.

Looking at a few search-engine hits filtered for only 2015, and I see the following article. There are a few other derivative articles with same idea.

https://www.nbcnews.com/better/careers/helping-millennial-entrepreneurs-conquer-student-loan-debt-n408636

But basically the idea of this group of young "entrepreneurs" who were saddled by student loans deserved special government attention. Especially from the Clinton campaign.

Kind of weird, but they had a campaign full of weird shit, like Russian Drone submarines, or a no-fly zone over Syria, or the declaration that universal health-care "will never ever happen."

But then 4 years later after Clinton was humiliated, we have her heir-apparent Kamala Harris talking about the same oddly specific policy: "According to her plan, Harris intends to give student loan debt forgiveness to Pell grant recipients who successfully open businesses in underserved communities and operate those businesses for three years."

https://psmag.com/news/kamala-harris-student-debt-forgiveness-plan-part-of-proposal-to-support-black-entrepreneurs/

And now it's 4 years later, and we have a very old representative of New York City, Nydia Velázquez introducing the same policy!

https://democrats-smallbusiness.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4769

Who the fuck is pushing this policy? Who is it for? Why are Democratic Politicians so fixated on this fucking worthless extremely narrowly targeted policy? It's been 10 years, and this policy keeps coming back almost as a slogan. Why?!

Garbage Island full of garbage people thinks cars prevent sexual assaults.