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The private equity disease strikes again.

You give Thiel too much credit. He is less stupid than Trump.

Isn't their slogan "shop like a billionaire?". This tracks.

We don’t really have castes in the US. But yes

I'd argue the US does. Things such as zipcode and skin color determine outcomes and are inescapable. Economic mobility doesn't exist as it does in the myth of the American dream. Sure if one is really lucky and works very hard, one can move from living in or on the edge of disaster to being a few paychecks away from disaster.

I was speaking more in terms of infrastructure and public assistance. For example, I was able to get a student loan and an education in the States. I have clean, potable tap water. Dependable utilities. Those sorts of things.

I'd argue that's not true either. Again, it depends on your zipcode. So many places don't have potable water, reliable services, or functional infrastructure. One's ability to get student loans depends on what zipcode they're born into.

And the sad thing - even at its worst, the US is still a better place to live than 80% of the world.

I'd say it depends on what you value. If one is born of a certain caste (or above) and wants to accumulate stuff, I'd say you're right.

Forget what it says on the tin. To truly understand a society, look at its institutions.

Education isn't valued by the sociopaths that run the US.

There can always be more!

Ads as far as the eye can see... and more!

To people in the real world, it sure seems like it. I think the people managing the product (middle management on up) live in their corpo bubble so far from reality, they don't feel/hear or have to deal with actual state of things.

Short term profitability over all else seems to be the mantra.

This revision actually makes sense. The former timeline was outrageously optimistic given the capability of SLS + Orion, the new systems and tech, the state of the lander portion of the program (it exists on paper?).

One of the contributing factors to the success of Apollo was the relative simplicity, even by the standards of the time. The complexity of Artemis scares me.

I'm an outsider looking in so I could be totally off the mark.

That'll teach him.

PA-27-181 eh? That's a typo.