Ethan Stone

A very useful flowchart.

Americans have a day called "Tax Day" where they celebrate taxation and its benefits

Happy Tax Day. The top 1% pays 40% of all income taxes, the top 10% pays 72% and the top 25% pays 87% of all income taxes. Meanwhile the bottom 50% pays ZERO income taxes. For all of you actually paying taxes, do you think your tax dollars are being spent well?

They earned it. They deserve it. NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY! The golden age for seniors' golden years. 🇺🇸

The per capita tax burden in the United States is ~$16,600 Eliminate all social welfare and it falls to ~$3,500 The primary purpose of the United States government is violent wealth redistribution

President Trump appeared to accept a McDonald's order from a "DoorDash Grandma" before addressing the media at the White House.

Yep

How did American manufacturers fall behind so quickly with a technology they created less than 15 years ago.

If you are on a budget or just graduating HS or college, does co-living appeal to you? Gensler explored the feasibility of transforming vacant office buildings into co-living microapartments in 10 U.S. cities: Denver; Minneapolis; Seattle; Los Angeles; Houston; Chicago; Washington, D.C.; Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Phoenix. The Gensler design is to locate fully furnished rooms on a building’s perimeter, with windows. It also envisions shared kitchens, bathrooms, and laundry near the building’s core, where an office building’s plumbing already exists. In the 10 cities studied by the Pew/Gensler team, approximately half of all renter households are considered to be cost-burdened, spending more than 30% of their incomes on rent. In 2024, the Department of Housing and Urban Development reported a record 771,000 people experiencing homelessness in the U.S., an 18% increase from the prior year. There’s also a mismatch between the housing that is available and what renters need: There is not enough housing near jobs and amenities that is affordable for most workers. Many renters earn less than half the area median income and struggle to find housing in job-rich downtowns where median rents often exceed $2,000 per month. In addition, 40% of renter households nationwide consist of just one person; that figure was closer to 50% in many of the cities studied and reached 56% and 58% in Washington, D.C., and Seattle. Source: Pew Study

A typical data center uses about the same amount of water as a golf course, and the same amount of electricity as a steel plant. Yet for some people, they have become The Worst Thing In The World. Where does this motivation come from?

The average American identifies as moderate. The average American identified as moderate in 1974. The average American identifies as moderate in 2024.

Between this, the longshoreman, and what I know about elevator construction, I’ve become more anti-union than I ever thought I would be.