Reform property taxes to avoid squeezing out homeowners.

California has that property tax; it is not going as well as you would hope. It helps encourage communities to keep from allowing more density and freezes people in their homes as they will never be able to afford moving within their communities.

Lemmy was designed to be a place where communists would have a community. Some instances weren’t, but a lot of the original ones were.

That’s fine, but someone has to pay for it.

Nebula

I responded to someone else, but there is a reason why Grey isn’t a part of Nebula.

Him and Kurzgesagt were helping to build an organization for YouTubers with the current CEO. The first talent signed on was Wendover and Real Engineering.

Grey and Kurzgesagt were rather inactive partners when they should have been more active and were trying to build a much more exploitative company instead of what Nebula became. It is vague on how they left, but they left and the company became better for it.

Work because I use it at work for work reasons.

I feel like, if they ditched the hot wings, it would still be a good interview.

Buried into a lot of romcoms is a sense of fantasy. People don’t fantasize about being poor.

CGPGrey. I even listened to his podcasts.

For someone who tried to sell productivity tools at one point, he was very unproductive.

Also, given what happened with Standard and Nebula, I got to say I side with Nebula over him.

It is been a plan for a while in the USA to shift launches from government run to private run for over a decade. This is just an implementation of that strategy.

A lot of times in Star Trek, the being that gets omnipotent powers just kind of fucks off when they find the toys they’ve been playing with are no longer fun.

I never said people weren’t allowed, but there is this weird obsession about it on Lemmy.

Then cancel and move on.

The way that people talk about it here, a streaming service raising rates is the equivalent of a significant other dumping them.

Mega ad tier.

For now. YouTube is already starting to dedicate serious resources to anti ad blocking. I’m sure other streaming services aren’t that far behind.

Yeah. Netflix got really lucky with streaming for as long as they did and they knew it. Cable and broadcast subsidized their content and they were able to lease it for pennies on the dollar.

Of course, people don’t want to admit that the subsidy for their content is gone and they are pissed about rising costs.

What other company or government could do this?

The Chinese national government has a surplus, but the local and provincial governments are running massive deficits and have been for a while. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of these actions are to free up cash for the necessary wealth transfer to keep the popping of the property bubble from becoming too catastrophic to the retiring population.

The answer is slightly more complicated than that.

Part of the problem is that a lot of mass transit was built in the USA by private companies to make a profit. This went from trolley lines in small cities to large parts of the NYC Subway and almost all commuter and interciry rail.

Most mass transit systems ended up being built as loss leaders to develop suburban property. After the property was developed, the incentive to maintain mass transit dropped. Along with that, rail companies generally hated passenger service and preferred freight instead.

It eventually got to the point where the private company would collapse and there was little political will to maintain service. There was some lobbying done by auto companies, but a lot of it came from cities and states too cheap to make transit a public good with public funding.