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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • The reason there isn’t a revolution in the USA is mostly down to atomization. Suburban growth directly leads to insular communities with no sense of responsibility to the rest of their brothers and sisters. Working class families in the burbs have functionally 0 ability to organize.

    To add that on, I like to underscore the gravity of the situation here with details:

    1. The top 10% of earners starts at ~170k/yr
    2. The top 1% start at ~820k/yr
    3. The top 0.1% start at ~3,300k/yr (3.3 million)
    4. If Elon Musk had 100% of his net worth in really basic bonds giving 5%/yr he’d be pulling in 22 BILLION dollars per year, forever.

    The interest on his earnings alone is equivalent to 130,000 workers at the start of the top 10%. That’s the entire workforce of American Airlines for comparison.

    If the average person was paid like the 0.1% for 1 year they could retire and live off 65k/yr forever.

    This chart is broken down by quintiles but it illustrates the disparity well imo.

    Half of the wealth of the top 20% here (excluding top 1%) is in businesses or real estate they own. Most of that will be their own house and a small business, though leeches “landlords” mostly fall in this category too.

    For the top 1% that’s more like 20% of their net worth.




  • Tbh it sounds like the core one is a good choice here. Look at tinkering as something you use the printer to do and less as something to do to the printer itself.

    I’ve got 2 prusas and while the XL has required a bit more work than my mk3s+ they both are excellent machines that I’ve run for thousands of hours with very little effort.

    Welcome to the hobby! CAD modeling is the absolute best way to make your printer useful. A good pair of calipers are all you need to solve myriad issues around the house.