Is this all the beginning of the end of the United States?

It's great that you have political ambitions, but do you really think you can beat the high school quarterback for school president?

You think this was work, or I didn't benefit from running it? I might not have monetized the place, but I still got satisfaction from keeping it alive.

That's the difference between what matters to you vs @Marso and His Boy Donnie.

meh-when the choice is do the extra duties or they'll get someone else, you do it and try to negotiate after.
That's the problem with arts gigs... lots of "spec".

Copy editing gigs, too. "Oh, we absolutely need you to commit a minimum of 10 hours a week at x-dollars an hour."

Me, thinking that's less than my going rate, but "Okay."

Them, after sending me 19 hours over three months. "I thought we agreed to [75% of what we agreed to]? Oh, and we won't be needing you anymore. Thnxbye!"

As for the number of writing gigs that fell out from under me because the editor took a sabbatical or the client chickened out...oy.

This is the type of thing that presents more of a threat to the US in its current form:



You're getting a whole generation coming of age who already faced big problems in the future, being presented with stuff like this which looks more like 90s Russia than a system of hope and opportunity.

That seems a little disingenuous, picking March 18 as the start date. That was two trading days before the lowest point of the stock market. A 4-month survey would probably be more representative.

Clicking through to the link it was the three months prior to when the article it appeared in was published, and that date was apparently the start because it was when Forbes did an annual worlds richest list.

Still, why don't you go back and check the wealth meter from JAN-JUN instead. It'll probably tell a different story.

That said, I think the guys on that list are definitely more part of the problem than the solution, both with the pandemic and the world at large.

Fiscal year for most companies, nor the US, begin Jan 1. That's the reason Forbes chooses the date they choose. For whatever reasons, the business world begins their fiscal year in ... March, I believe.

And the government in October. For reasons.