arstechnica.com Study sheds light on why some people keep self-sabotaging
“Some people just don’t learn from experience; they fail to realize their own behavior is causing the problem.”…
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Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world pelespirit @sh.itjust.works 1978 Artwork by Hans Haacke called "Tiffany Cares"
The 9,2400,000 Unemployed in
The United States of America
Demand The Immediate Creation of
More Millionaires
ARE THE RICH A MENACE?
Some people think they are, so lets look at the record.
Suppose you inherit, win or otherwise acquire a million dollars net after taxes. That would make you rich, wouldn't it? Now what's the first thing you'd do? Invest it, wouldn't you?---in stocks, bonds or in a savings bank.
So, what does that mean? It means that you have furnished the capital required to put 30 people to work.
How is that? National statistics show that for every person graduating from school or college, at least thirty thousand dollars of capital must be found for bricks, fixtures, machinery, inventory, etc. to pu each one to work.
Now, on your million dollar investments you will receive an income of sixty thoughts, eighty thousand, or more dollars a year. This you will spend for food, clothing, shelter, taxes, education, entertainment and other expenses. And this
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Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world Quilotoa @lemmy.ca Designer makes torpedo shaped beer bottle for drinking on the beach
kenjiabe.com KENJI ABE DESIGN - Glass bottle on the beachDesign studio by Kenji Abe. Based in Tokyo. It is active from 2013. Mainly product design & industrial design & art & craft.
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Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world Balerion @piefed.blahaj.zone My mom found my great-grandfather's discharge paper from the US army. It's 107 years old.
I may have gone a little overboard with the redactions, but you can't be too careful.
When I showed this picture to him, my dad pointed out that my great-grandfather was demobilized a week after the end of WWI.
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Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world Nusm @peachpie.theatl.social I saw Elvis’s old jet…
I saw Elvis’s old, abandoned jet that has been purchased and turned into a drivable RV! It was going down the interstate, and it’s quite a sight. I tried to get a side picture, but I couldn’t.
More info HERE .
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Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world 5paceThunder @lemmy.ca bottle caps in France are designed to stay on
bottle caps in France are designed to stay on, in Canada the bottle caps fall off and pollute the Ocean's