If they understood personal finance, they would know that the best thing they could do right now is focus on getting a good education. Not only is education itself important to becoming a well-rounded member of society, but when primary education falls to the wayside because you want to make child-level wages today, you are likely dooming yourself to a lifetime of low-wage replaceable blue collar work.

Loose child labor laws rely on the fact that many children do not yet know this. Employers find it much easier to take advantage of kids who don't know their rights, feel intimidated to speak up, and accept lower wages because $7.25 per hour seems like a lot to a kid.

It's fascinating how you're so deeply invested in other conspiracies, yet you cannot see that the biggest supporters of union busting and child labor are greedy elites who want to screw the people over so that they can make more profit.

This is your brain on union busting: "I'm okay with expanding the extent to which a business can use child labor."

The only people who think this are the companies' managers, HR, and of course owners.

There is a direct correlation between the decline in labor union participation rates and the shrinking of the middle class. There is so much data to show that emplpyees represented by a union are better compensated for the hours that they work. Countries with strong unions enjoy much better labor protections and benefits than workers in the US get.

This does lower housing costs though. Somebody who makes a lot of money can live there. If these units were not built, you would be competing against those rich people in the rental market. Your landlord chooses not to renew your lease so he can give the apartment to Mr. Moneybags, and you need to go live somewhere else.

Less competition among renters is always good for renters. Just because these particular units are expensive doesn't change that.

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Yes, the lottery and casinos are also taxes on stupid people and people with addictive personalities. Statistics tells you that you're going to lose; some people don't get that, and other people get hooked in a futile attempt to reclaim the money they've already lost.

Maybe I just don't get that part of it. I watch sports because I'm interested in the game itself, not because I have anything riding on the outcome. Even then, why not just bet among your friends to avoid the taxes and casino profit margin, or get an app that lets you place mock bets using fake money? Are you sure it's fun to put $20 on the Superbowl coin flip when the odds are -105 heads, -105 tails?

You'd be surprised what a NIMBY can come up with if you give them an outlet. In this case, I've mostly seen complaints regarding traffic implications. Not unfounded, since while it is right next to the mall and decently close to the red line, the surrounding area doesn't look all that walkable. But we can't keep accomodating the every whim of car drivers, the cost of housing is just getting too high.

I hope we don't get inundated with ads and marketing. Sports betting is a tax on stupid people but it's also a tax on people with addictive personalities.

But why are these restrictions so widespread and fought for so strongly? It's because people who already own houses have a financial incentive to restrict the creation of new houses. If the supply of housing stays the same but demand increases, the value of what they own skyrockets.

The monetary incentive which leads to NIMBY zoning policies arises from the fact that housing is a commodity.

Nasty crunch time in order to hit deadlines is, from everything I've read about the video games industry, extremely common.

>Expect the same typical, predictable 'BuT WhUt aBoT CaRz, aNd 30,00o TuNs oF DeAth mAcHiNeS' responses and excuses in their defense

Um, huh? Aside from health conditions such as cancer and heart or lung diseases (which cars are certainly doing no favors for, since they promote a more sedentary lifestyle and pollute the air with tailpipe emissions), motor vehicle accidents are one of the most common ways to die. That's not an exaggeration at all, car crashes are seriously one of the deadliest things in our society.