NormenNomen

US constituent states cannot print money. This only makes sense at the federal level.

Yes, that's exactly the idea. This is called "mutual aid".

Or just set up 2fa and give the second factor to a third party whom the state has difficulty compelling. Granted this does require unconditional trust.

More directly, this is the number of electors in the electoral college.

I mean, yes? What's your point? Vancouver, WA is a nice town, too.

Isn't this forum all about markets? I'm sure you can put where I'm going with this together.

Anyway it's beyond rich describing half these companies as "profitable" in the first place. They're burning the cash at both ends to not get kicked out of california. I have no clue how you could imagine they're the people with leverage with a straight face.

I'm gonna need a big fat "citation needed" on the idea that this isn't a job to people. It doesn't square with, again, the drivers actually in my life. It sounds exactly like uncritically re-spewing the bullshit of these employers.

This could have been titled, "when operating systems (or computers) were different from each other".

Now it's just a cpu, peripherals, a flavor of Unix, some mild window management customization, and one of two browsers. Even windows is finally getting on the Unix bandwagon (not counting xenix....)

Err, is the "casual use of the gig economy" good? These are jobs, not hobbies, and people need to eat. This certainly isn't going to make getting bread on the table any easier except in the extremely short term—and that's assuming a collective, vindictive, corporate withdrawal from the state.

Given the legality of unionizing, I certainly don't see wages going up in the near future. It sounds like a lot of these employees weren't educated about their (lack of) rights.

You know I've lived in a place with 0% income taxes and the people it attracts are wholly worth paying to move away from.