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With 3D printing we may not need these functions as much in 50 years
So you think that the major part of plumbing is making the pipe fittings. Not so. You can buy any plumbing part at Home Depot for peanuts. But installing it comes with a high price unless you want to risk flooding your house. That will never change sioince Mr. White Collar ususally cannot even mow his own lawn or clean leaves from his pool.
Same with electrics: wire is cheap and printing your own wires doesn't get 220V service to your dryer.
To tackle New York City’s persistent racial wealth disparity, the city will create savings plans next year for every public kindergarten student that will have a minimum deposit of $100 in each account as part of a slate of economic justice programs in honor of Juneteenth, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday.
“Juneteenth marked the end of slavery, but not the end of systemic, structural racism in America,” de Blasio said in a statement. “To begin to repair (the) harms of the past, New York City is investing in the future and building generational wealth.”
While de Blasio called the new savings plans “baby bonds,” they are not actually bonds but 529 college savings accounts in which the city will invest $15 million in fiscal year 2022.
Sorry to have to be the inconvenient math guy here, but if every kid is given a savings account worth X, every black kid will have benefited B+X, and every white kid will have benefited W+X, so that if at the beginning B<W, at the end you will still have B+X < W+X and the "wealth disparity" will be exactly the same
Unless of course the white kids don't get any savings - you wouldn't be saying something like that, now would you Bill?
To tackle New York City’s persistent racial wealth disparity, the city will create savings plans next year for every public kindergarten student that will have a minimum deposit of $100 in each account as part of a slate of economic justice programs in honor of Juneteenth, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday.
“Juneteenth marked the end of slavery, but not the end of systemic, structural racism in America,” de Blasio said in a statement. “To begin to repair (the) harms of the past, New York City is investing in the future and building generational wealth.”
While de Blasio called the new savings plans “baby bonds,” they are not actually bonds but 529 college savings accounts in which the city will invest $15 million in fiscal year 2022.
I have no problems with teaching basic finance in kindergarten
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