Emma_Gold_Man

Knowing the "average" is all well and good, but doesn't give that clear a picture. Does anyone have a source for the the median age, or better yet an age distribution graph?

There are actually several straight lacing methods:

Straight Bar

Straight Easy

End Shortening

Commando

Why are we posting corporate advertising in News now?

That's an easy one - no. You can look back to various periods during middle ages Europe for examples. An even stronger one would be China from about 400 CE-800 CE

Of course, those weren't capitalist economies - but they were economies. Capitalism's instability is what requires constant growth to maintain. The better (and harder) questions would be what to transition to that avoids the issues of feudalism and how to transition with a minimum of societal upheaval (violence and death).

Because it's a shit job with minimal pay, physically demanding, and the hours are usually cut in the off-season.

A less euphemistic term in English is "regulatory capture"

The cost-of living crisis is so bleak that some Gen Zers ~~genuinely fear becoming~~ are homeless

FTFY

That would be silly when they have last year's sales numbers to go off of.

I didn't (and wouldn't) down vote it, but I'll bite.

1. To the extent that the US tax system is progressive, this would be putting the most money into the pockets of the portions of the Black community that are suffering the least from the latent effects of slavery and racism. This is truest of income tax.

2. Waiving sales tax would be better targeted. Unfortunately, it would most affect states and localities with the highest Black populations, with the side effect of reducing services to the exact people it was meant to help.

3. Even if sales tax is addressed (unlikely), this would probably be in the form of tax rebates. This probably means a once a year infusion of money, subject to all the same exploitation that currently impacts income tax refunds. (Edit: Also, sales tax rebate would likely still take income into account, and thus also be regressive. If it assumes all income is spent for determining the amount to rebate, it would be even more regressive than income tax exemption.)

4. Unless issues of structural racism are addressed in conjunction with this - issues like food deserts, differences in rates of home appreciation in predominantly black vs white neighborhoods, pollution burdens in predominantly black areas, education funding which is tied to those home values, and many other issues - the existing racist systems will suck that money back out of the Black community in ways that minimize the building of Black wealth. "Mission Accomplished" will be declared, and the political will to "do something" will need to be rebuilt from scratch.

5. Direct cash payments (monthly, like social security) come without the drawbacks of 1-3, are simpler, and will build up a type of immediate feeling of support that will be harder to withdraw at the end of the stated term, while also proving the case for universal basic income later. That would have knock-on effects for other exploited communities (LatinX immigrants, neurodivergent, deaf, disabled, etc).

It's actually even worse than that. It's once a month for the rest of your life, because studies have shown that you gain the weight back when you stop taking it.

That wasn't luck - it was best practice backup strategy.

Probably, but unsurprisingly the far-right influencer went to a right-wing mouthpiece media outlet to tell her story. OP probably doesn't want to drive traffic and advertising revenue to them.