This must be an Onion News article. Because right off the bat CDC cannot tell me an American Citizen with inalienable rights to not gather. As the law stands today. If you don't like the law, change it.
Unfortunately, it's probably not. But it's another case of someone not being able to tell the difference between a law and guidelines from a public health agency. (Or someone ignoring the difference so that they can be "outraged".)
These are recommendations. A private company can fire you or kick you out for disobeying their terms of service, whether adopted from the CDC or the Contributor Covenant.
Trial lawyers are salivating over all kinds of constitutional and civil rights infringement. I can't wait to see them go to town on the woke employers mandating experimental vaccines on the sheep.
Not going to happen. I am not going to risk my life and my family's life on emergency use experimental vaccines. Typical vaccines are multi year efforts 5 o 6 years atleast multiple rounds of trials over longer time horizon to identify the side effects.
No I believe I along with my family have already been exposed to the virus with various interactions. We live in a crowded condo with central air and people piling on in the mail room. Everyone in the building including me ordering takeout. There is no reason for me to be in lockdown.
The risk has to be balanced with the rewards. So I wear masks when asked to and wash my hands often. And take the 1/1000ish risk of contracting covid a few times a week. Trusting that my low risk of it having lasting complications means that it costs me something like 1/million chance of really bad outcomes to resume most of my normal life.
Just like they stopped shipping chargers with phones on the pretence that they are saving the environment. Former Government hack Lisa Jackson announced this by tethering herself to the sloping Solar Panel roof of Apple headquarters [1]
They still sell the powerblocks on their website for an extra $19. So they are “saving” (assuming they cost 2 bucks to make ) $2*150MM units = 300MM thats not a small chunk of change.
No one i know saves power blocks like they are bars of gold. They wear from use, break and are lost so as a new buyer i expect a charger to included so i don.t have to shell out an extra $19 to buy from the same company.
Now looks like someone is not falling for their BS [2]
Why does this amaze you ? More than half of Startups are Ponzi schemes played over a longer time horizon and more artfully. They start with a product or service that barely generate profit in the real world, polish it up with Pitch Decks, sell the idea to investors who then sell the idea to other investors and on and on the scheme goes until they IPO it if it goes that far. The banks get ahead of it and eventually the retail investor and 401k are usually left holding the bag.
That's not a Ponzi scheme, and you diminish the fraud of real Ponzi schemes by equating them with a frothy venture capital market. Very few startups deliberately commit fraud by paying out old investors with new investors. Just because seed and Series A round investors can liquidate earlier doesn't mean it's a fraudulent operation.
Former fraudster here. It's a stealth ponzi scheme. An advanced ponzi scheme should not look like what it was centuries ago. A ponzi scheme can be polymorphic and stealth.
It's like saying you are not a human because you're not white. Ponzi can have same structure and look legit perhaps play longer.
I don't really care if you're a former fraudster or not. I am still outright rejecting the claim that the venture capital industry is engaged in, or equivalent to, a systematic Ponzi scheme. If you want to critique it, fine, but don't commit an abuse of terminology.
At this point I've worked for, worked with or invested in over 50 different VC-backed startups. I have been brought in to see their code and the internals of their products. Yeah sure some opportunistic sociopaths like to raise stupid seed rounds on a fugazzi pitch deck. And the industry is frothy with fundraising. But you can't categorically classify the industry as fraudulent.
There exist many varieties of high risk investments with a long time horizon which are not fraudulent. Everyone knows what they're getting into. Cases like Theranos are not the norm, which is why they received outsized attention when they're uncovered.
The only legal difference between an MLM and a Ponzi scheme is that the MLM has a product. It might be closer to the truth to say startups bear a large resemblance to MLMs.
There are a lot of anti-MLM people who think they should just be called Ponzi schemes. I'm on the fence about the terminology, but I think both should be illegal at any rate.
