Definitely put more of your excess in the stock market, like some low-costs ETFs (I know HamNo wrote about many of these through Vanguard but others have them too). Many mutual funds charge high fees, but ETFs are more passively managed and are therefore cheaper, like a S&P500 index fund. You’ll take on added risk,…

Guaranteed Minimum Income

I don’t know about tech—I’m thinking more about textiles and low-wage manufacturing like the article is discussing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does this sort of thing:

Yeah I don’t know. I feel like we’re getting into Grapes of Wrath territory when it comes to laid off manufacturing and agriculture jobs. These folks have been undercut or automated out of the workforce—education is one way back in but only for those young and wealthy enough to obtain it. I’ve never considered GMI…

This is a great article. I grew up in a small town about an hour away so all this is very familiar to me. What is most discouraging about the people who have lost their jobs is they don’t seem to acknowledge their jobs left because people overseas are being paid $1/hr for work. We can’t compete with that, nor should…

It just seems like getting punched in the head for a living takes a toll on your behavior.

you look silly when you, of course, don’t follow through

So he’s celebrating California’s vote to be annexed by Canada?

I think he’s dogwhistling those who would want to impose a racial caste system in the USA. You know, his supporters.

Beet poops are no joke.

I’m with Jerry on selfie hate. When I was in Las Vegas a few weeks ago I heard someone say “Here, let me take that selfie for you”.

Agreed—I’m well over 30, and when I first saw it I thought of the band FUN.’s hair (I guess I’m supposed to put a period at the end of that word). But then I remembered the thing about the white nationalists—this, combined with the fact it’s a commercial featuring 3 young white guys with the same haircut (shaggy…

So I HOPE this was unintentional, but those haircuts are currently the style among white nationalists:

glazed with Busch

Or Baylor! Football above all else, no matter how many lives are destroyed.

Also relevant: https://www.facebook.com/help/210081519032737

What a crock. That last picture looks nothing like Louisiana.

. . . and that, dear, is where these herpes came from.

Yep except for the $100k his boss stands to earn if Simmons works super hard in 19th Century American Literature while traveling around the country playing basketball.

I, FelixElix, would also like to take this opportunity to deny the rumors that I am Formula One’s new sporting boss. While I’m sure the committee will eventually pick someone supremely qualified and handsome, I have no further comment at this point.