I don't think they can simply block the trade routes - surely people can route around it. In any case they protest against not being allowed into the country with their trucks, so either way the trucks wouldn't be running?
The Ambassador Bridge links Detroit to Windsor across the Detroit River at the southern tip of the Ontario Peninsula. The closest US-Canada land crossing is the Blue Water Bridge between Sarnia, ON and Port Huron, MI, 2 hours' drive north.
At least it can be rerouted. I don't know - I am not well versed in "protesting philosophy". The economic damage seems less serious, after all, the truckers could also just decide to not come to Canada to begin with. It is the mandates that make it difficult to enter that do most of the damage.
It may be true that politics have permeated the workplace such that in certain industries and circles it has become important to signal your support for the popular movements of the day for basic job security.
To the extent it is innappropriate, it is equally innappropriate is for the workplace to become the venue for those who hold less popular ideas to tilt at political windmills of their choice, even if they do work at a news company.
> it has become important to signal your support for the popular movements of the day for basic job security.
Since (we are told) America and all her institutions, private and public, are systemically racist and white supremacist, that means it's important to signal your support for white nationalism, right? And that gets you job security, and certainly not the opposite.
Does Ubisoft have to honor that Blockchain though by providing you services in perpetuity?
They might if they contractually agreed to honor it. But even if they were inclined to offer such licenses (lets say consumers everywhere demanded it), there's not many meaningful enforcement advantages of shoving NFTs in the mix.
As a consumer such a contract could (including transferability) could exist without an NFT, and be just as enforced by the (centralized) judicial system or consumers voting with their feet.
I've always wondered whether it would be possible to have some kind of compartmentalized bus.
Some kind of compromise between asking people to cram themselves like sardines against a bunch of strangers, while still allowing people to sit next to their family members and friends.
It's convenient to say a desire to not jam up close to strangers implicates its holder in some terrible character flaw of not caring for ones fellow human. But if you really want to get more people on buses it's a desire we'll have to accommodate and contend with.
You're describing a system that is operating beyond capacity. There's no special fix required other than increasing capacity, by adding more buses to existing routes or new routes. There may be political issues with allocating funding or getting authorities to acknowledge/address lack of capacity. But it's not something that requires redesigning the bus.
"And yet it was built and defended, with the still-unpopular argument that writers are in fact people, and they need to eat, too."
I understand "freelance writer," or "professional writer" as definitions - but in the age of social media, is it accurate to still think of "writers" writ large as a contiguous defined class of special people separate from the general public?
>”the still-unpopular argument that writers are in fact people, and they need to eat, too."
I hate hate hate this kind of sophistry. I really wish English had a concise word to describe this kind of underhanded rhetoric.
I don’t think the federal government should be employing writers simply to employ people who write. Therefore, I do not think writers are people, and furthermore, they do not deserve to eat.
Yes and no. Just like software, it's a craft and people that practice get better. Go meet a struggling writer and you'll see that for yourself. They produce, it's good stuff, and worse people get the good gigs by roll of the dice. Supporting people like that is great.
I disagree, I think the photography prices here are a good example of markets working as intended.
Prices reward people who do work that there is an unmet demand for in society. If society already has an oversaturation of professional photographers (so much so that clients feel they do not have to compete at all), the low price of $0 for professional photography work will hopefully encourage some of these glut of professional photographers (and others looking to enter the field) to pursue another profession where they can add more value.
If Netflix's contractor here has set the price too low, well then no one will apply, and they will have to set the price higher.
It might be fruitful to look at the inverted — Netflix is doing the selling here. They’re selling the intangible product of publicity (exchanged for labor) to a group of people who are struggling to evaluate the “real” value of the product. And the argument is of course that the product in fact has no real value — it’s a trick.
The problem then is the same as snake oil; the demand exists only because the consumers lack information. And then keeping in mind that market principles only produce efficient economies when information is available and known.
Alternatively, did Wisconsin public retirement funds make an enormous investment in AAPL right when it was about to become insolvent and had no other real options for raising money? That is, you can assume anyone investing in that circumstance (like Citadel into Melvin) would demand a huge stake in return.
As was reported, the capital raise Melvin received wasn't 30% of their total AUM even after the GME losses. And even if it were, it was also reported that Citadel and Point72 received non-controlling revenue share.
I'm having trouble finding specific numbers, do you have a source?
As far as I can tell they started the year with ~12.5B AUM, and have lost ~30% on the year and received a 2.75B cash infusion from Citadel et al, which I assume was at a discount given their position. So my rough estimate is around ~25-35%, given the uncertainty around those numbers.
