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From what I've seen it's mostly related to just losing weight in general (less weight -> less musculoskeletal stress -> weaker bones and muscles). Weightlifting can counteract it.

My hot take is that wealth inequality is the least bad problem we could have, if it is even a problem at all.

What people are actually experiencing is not wealth inequality, but cost disease. Vital things (housing, healthcare, education) are more expensive - and that's mostly the fault of state action.

History shows that the "fundamental change to power relations" is just a shift from moneyed interests to political/bureaucratic interests. Which is worse because while moneyed interests have power money can buy, political/bureaucratic interests have the power of state coercion.

"They will go as far as to kill people for this" is rich coming from someone preaching Marxism, for which millions have been murdered.

I'm not more "in the know" but it makes sense that new drivers could require it. New drivers, after all, are pretty much always written for newer platforms that Rust has support for. The main issue with enabling Rust (let alone requiring it) is that Linux still supports platforms which Rust does not.

This reverses causation. Investors are involved because prices are going up, not the other way around.

"Investors buying up housing" is a common explanation alongside "short term rentals taking over" but neither make up a large enough portion of the demand to explain prices.

the slow and unproven trickle-down effect of market-rate housing

Slow and unproven? Supply and demand is the most reliable law of economics. Cities like Austin that are building market rate housing are actively seeing affordability improve.

Furthermore, even if it wasn't sufficient, abundance YIMBYism would still be helpful and necessary.