I hear she wore a tan suit just like Obama

This is a few years old but gives a lot of reasons, plus clarified it would help a lot if people

• https://www.epi.org/publication/why-america-needs-a-15-minimum-wage/

Even If you’re trying to be coldly logical, ignoring the health and wellbeing of those millions of people and their children …. Take a look at the section near the end about how much states pay in poverty assistance to people making near minimum wage. This is effectively a subsidy for those businesses paying low wages. Why should state governments be subsidizing those companies? A higher minimum wage means more people can support themselves and the government pays less to support them, less to subsidize those conpanies

Think of how many pieces of Avocado toast you get for $763/month: these people are living the life!

Fwiw - subjunctive verbs are key to your intended meaning

• https://www.grammarly.com/blog/grammar/subjunctive/

Even if everyone there was were a gang member

Change to subjunctive to describe an imaginary situation

US street signs are standardized so you can see at a glance without reading. I understand the EU does similar but with a different standard.

But street signs are not the only signs. There are place names and ads and directions and telling you where to line up for what and how much the subway costs and how to get from one part of Paris to another and directions for the theater, etc, and most of those are localized

How about gps directions to navigate an unfamiliar location?

Or for travelling: there already is a phone app to translate signs but it would be so much more to have that live

Yes, I swear that’s the biggest benefit of the Apple Watch. For the things it does, it’s so much more convenient than dragging a big old phone out of your pocket. From reading texts and notifications, to payments, to exercise and health data, to 2fa,to using a voice assistant, even checking time and weather.

Then again that’s a high bar of convenience for ever lower marginal improvements for the goggles to try to build

AR goggles and AI: two hot technologies that go great together. They need each other

Arguably just gps instructions and step tracking superimposed on reality would be a great use of AR

This could also be the breakout app for AI. While AR glasses obviously need shape recognition and manipulation, the real world has many many more things than likely to be codified. How do you deal with that? AI. How do you do arbitrary summaries of whatever you’re looking at? AI. How do you interact with the glasses and the real world? Speech recognition and AI.

You heard it here first, folks. Two hot new technologies with no real use yet will find each other and turn into something useful

Maybe it’s as simple as the next big product. When smartphones were new, nobody foresaw just how huge they’d become. Nobody could have foreseen what a force they’d turn Apple into. But now improvements are simply iterative, the market is nearing saturation, there’s not much room left to expand what’s next?

Maybe AR. It’s a really cool technology just now becoming practical to implement. Think of them as where smartphones were 15 years ago. Maybe they won’t go anywhere but imagine if they did! Imagine being the company most associated with the next hit tech product!

Apple risks stagnating if they don’t find a next hit product

Yet. Reduced trade is a leading edge metric while most economic indicators are trailing edge. Just because it hasn’t yet filtered through to trailing edge indicators, doesn’t mean it hasn’t already happened. Everything is still in stock at normal prices but shortages are looming. And we’re riding the bus with no brakes down a steep road leading to a cliff …… just because we haven’t died yet doesn’t mean we’re not doomed

Your argument is similar to one against climate change. Greenhouse gas levels are a leading edge indicator, or cause. Just because you didn’t see global warming doesn’t mean it hasn’t already happened. And now it is visible to all. And we’re riding the bus with no brakes down a steep road to the edge of the cliff.

The great thing about trumps first term was the rule of law generally held, and constitutional checks and balances weren’t entirely worthless

Every speech was full of promises to. Whoever he was speaking, even when the next speech completely promised the oppisite

That’s wishful thinking

• Japanese manufacturers may have started driving toward the party but they’re way late and lost along the road
• US legacy manufacturers will stick with gasoline trucks, and are rolling back their EV efforts
• Rivian and Lucid are promising but still in the business of a small number of niche models. Rivian may change that in the next couple years but it’s not a given

So, Hyundai/Kia. And we’re wondering why Chinese companies look like they’re about to take over

That may no longer be enough. It won’t matter if people no longer boycott them but

• huge money loss in Cybertruck
• investment in robotaxi won’t pan out for years, if ever
• in US, batteries are mostly from overseas and heavily tariffed
• all the US protectionism won’t be enough if they lose China and European markets
• other companies are finally catching up, while they wasted their efforts
• semi has potential, but that’s a very conservative market and environmental regulations are getting rolled back so there’s no longer that push

There’s going to be blood at that company. A huge reset, in addition to musk leaving, is what they need

And yet they’re not just going about it the most boneheaded way they can think of, but have been actively killing off Biden era incentives to do what they claim they want.

If they actually cared about manufacturing locally, they would support those incentives, and support the infrastructure bill

At the time, news reports credited the scandal with forcing VW to start investing in EVs. Without that scandal, they’d still be struggling to get started

You understand a consumption tax is even more regressive, right? All of us living paycheck to paycheck taxed on everything. Inherit an emerald mine and only a minuscule fraction of your income is taxed

Another method of control: exceptions to whoever has the biggest bribes, personal favors and enrichment. Tariffs for everyone else