Healthcare is the literal example of inelastic demand my prof used to teach us the concept. If you die without it, then there is no price where a reasonable actor can choose to stop participating in the market.
I do not understand Amtrak at all. The Keystone has been the absolute best thing about moving back east for me. $25 to Manhattan, grab a bagel, see a show, $25 home. And the Keystone is the crappy commuter train, the Pennsylvanian is way nicer. I've done it tons of times and it's only been late once, and no leaks on the rain.
Getting to DC costs hundreds each way and isn't any faster than driving. I'm better off buying a ticket to Baltimore and then taking the $7 commuter to DC...
Not sure about that last bit. Caffeine just makes me better able to deal with other peoples' bullshit. I can drink a cup at midnight and go right to bed with no problem whatsoever.
I work for for a health insurance company that tries to be a market disruptor that brings prices down. I vote to put myself out of a job at every opportunity, and realize that if my company goes under my only skills are for evil.
This is the thing. There's a spectrum between eschewing Botox and freezing your whole face, or between ignoring your skin and adhering to a 26-step Korean regimen. The problem is that when someone crosses an imaginary line and does something "noticeable" that everybody starts tut-tutting, but the line is not the same for everybody.
Pharmacy Technician is a weirdly useful certification that opens up a lot of doors. I have my current job as a healthcare analytics manager because in college I had a part -time job at Walgreens and they had a spot in the pharmacy open up. Now I manage a roll-up of 16 analysts at a charity hospital, only a handful of whom have formal degrees (and most of them got their degrees on the job so they could qualify for promotions faster).
Going to a World Cup game was on my bucket list all through my young adulthood. Now there's going to be matches a 90 minute train ride from my house and I never even considered buying a ticket. I'm going to go to a Banana Ball game instead...
It was actually Dr. Oz in the Senate race. I voted for Fetterman and don't regret my vote. However, I'll never vote for Fetterman again, and I'll likely be registering Dem just to support whoever his primary challenger is.
Powerful lobbies are surpressing the number of doctors practicing in the US. If a foreign doctor wants to emigrate and practice here they cannot until they pass TOEFL (reasonable) AND finish US-based residencies, of which there are few. I know a Russian dermatologist who has been a receptionist for years because she cannot get ECFMG certification. Some states are wising up and waiving the residencies, but way more need to do it.
People's health is the textbook definition of inelastic demand. It should never have been allowed to be a free market and we should require health insurance providers to be registered non-profits at the BARE minimum.
Woodworking. I want to refinish my dining set and build a Murphy bed in the basement. These things seem well within my theoretical abilities but the tools are expensive and I'm afraid those items will look bad. I put some chair rail up and there's one spot I joined poorly and I can never unsee it.
I honestly think it's because in measures of distance, a US American could be considered well-traveled without ever having left the United States. Living in DC and visiting Florida or California is a big trip logistically. I love to travel and have moved a LOT and I have just barely been to every state in the US (some I only drove through, fuck rural Nebraska). While I disagree personally, I think that most Americans just don't see the immediate utility in learning other languages.
Not learning Spanish in school as a requirement at this point is just racism, though.
I think if the decision had been going forward instead of backward, I would have felt better about it. Saying any descendents born after 2025 will not have assumed citizenship is very different than saying "Lol, your citizenship wasn't real."
Now I feel like the fact that I decided to learn Italian and work out an emigration plan before applying bit me in the ass. I should have started the process 15 years ago when I was as you say.
Do you just hit an age where you stop being able to comprehend you're out of touch? Is that going to happen to all of us? I feel out of touch all the time already and I'm nowhere near the Congressional average...
Healthcare is the literal example of inelastic demand my prof used to teach us the concept. If you die without it, then there is no price where a reasonable actor can choose to stop participating in the market.
Thank you for figuring it out, I was stumped.
I do not understand Amtrak at all. The Keystone has been the absolute best thing about moving back east for me. $25 to Manhattan, grab a bagel, see a show, $25 home. And the Keystone is the crappy commuter train, the Pennsylvanian is way nicer. I've done it tons of times and it's only been late once, and no leaks on the rain.
Getting to DC costs hundreds each way and isn't any faster than driving. I'm better off buying a ticket to Baltimore and then taking the $7 commuter to DC...
Not sure about that last bit. Caffeine just makes me better able to deal with other peoples' bullshit. I can drink a cup at midnight and go right to bed with no problem whatsoever.
I work for for a health insurance company that tries to be a market disruptor that brings prices down. I vote to put myself out of a job at every opportunity, and realize that if my company goes under my only skills are for evil.
Yeah I'm drunk right now, why do you ask?
This is the thing. There's a spectrum between eschewing Botox and freezing your whole face, or between ignoring your skin and adhering to a 26-step Korean regimen. The problem is that when someone crosses an imaginary line and does something "noticeable" that everybody starts tut-tutting, but the line is not the same for everybody.
Pharmacy Technician is a weirdly useful certification that opens up a lot of doors. I have my current job as a healthcare analytics manager because in college I had a part -time job at Walgreens and they had a spot in the pharmacy open up. Now I manage a roll-up of 16 analysts at a charity hospital, only a handful of whom have formal degrees (and most of them got their degrees on the job so they could qualify for promotions faster).
Going to a World Cup game was on my bucket list all through my young adulthood. Now there's going to be matches a 90 minute train ride from my house and I never even considered buying a ticket. I'm going to go to a Banana Ball game instead...
It was actually Dr. Oz in the Senate race. I voted for Fetterman and don't regret my vote. However, I'll never vote for Fetterman again, and I'll likely be registering Dem just to support whoever his primary challenger is.
Just paid $500 for the privilege in PA ($250/yr, paid upfront).
It's not subtle. 😂
Rick Scott is the senator of.... Which state was it again?
Powerful lobbies are surpressing the number of doctors practicing in the US. If a foreign doctor wants to emigrate and practice here they cannot until they pass TOEFL (reasonable) AND finish US-based residencies, of which there are few. I know a Russian dermatologist who has been a receptionist for years because she cannot get ECFMG certification. Some states are wising up and waiving the residencies, but way more need to do it.
Jesus, the shudder this comment just elicited gave me a crick in my neck... Someone distract the mango before he gets the astronauts killed...
People's health is the textbook definition of inelastic demand. It should never have been allowed to be a free market and we should require health insurance providers to be registered non-profits at the BARE minimum.
Woodworking. I want to refinish my dining set and build a Murphy bed in the basement. These things seem well within my theoretical abilities but the tools are expensive and I'm afraid those items will look bad. I put some chair rail up and there's one spot I joined poorly and I can never unsee it.
I honestly think it's because in measures of distance, a US American could be considered well-traveled without ever having left the United States. Living in DC and visiting Florida or California is a big trip logistically. I love to travel and have moved a LOT and I have just barely been to every state in the US (some I only drove through, fuck rural Nebraska). While I disagree personally, I think that most Americans just don't see the immediate utility in learning other languages.
Not learning Spanish in school as a requirement at this point is just racism, though.
I think if the decision had been going forward instead of backward, I would have felt better about it. Saying any descendents born after 2025 will not have assumed citizenship is very different than saying "Lol, your citizenship wasn't real."
Now I feel like the fact that I decided to learn Italian and work out an emigration plan before applying bit me in the ass. I should have started the process 15 years ago when I was as you say.
Salt Lake County's voting process is straight up fire, Sherrie Swensen was amazing. One of the only things I miss about Utah.
Do you just hit an age where you stop being able to comprehend you're out of touch? Is that going to happen to all of us? I feel out of touch all the time already and I'm nowhere near the Congressional average...