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[TheLastOne36]

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prescient.

Today I learned that Venezuela is actually in the future.

 

[Monsterzuma]

some places take longer to catch up than others.

by which i mean places other than venezuela

 

[Hygro]

If Russia's economy is weak because of misallocated demand this war excursion might prove to be a boon. But if not, then their timing is real, real bad.

 

[Cutlass]

Russia's economy is weak because they're a kleptocratic petrostate. The petrostate part is the main thing really keeping them afloat. They blow that, and that's when the real problems start.

 

[Tahuti]

Well Russia's economy wasn't good to start the Cold War in the first place and that didn't stop them.

Except that back in the day, the world economy in general was more revolving around industrial capacity.

 

[Hygro]

Russia's economy is weak because they're a kleptocratic petrostate. The petrostate part is the main thing really keeping them afloat. They blow that, and that's when the real problems start.

That's economically very easy to reverse. Socially/politically is different of course. But economically, that doesn't sound like someone on the verge of collapse but someone on the verge of being able to resume prosperity.

 

[Cutlass]

That's economically very easy to reverse. Socially/politically is different of course. But economically, that doesn't sound like someone on the verge of collapse but someone on the verge of being able to resume prosperity.

Plutocrats very rarely give up being plutocrats voluntarily.

 

[El_Machinae]

Since 1953, when the fusion program started, the total spent on fusion energy in the US, both Magnetic and Inertial is $22.4 Billion dollars.

Adjusting for inflation [year?], total fusion spending is $29.1 Billion.

That&#8217;s for 57 years of fusion funding. (To get a sense of what&#8217;s been going on these 57 years, check out this Gary Weisel Article.)

That&#8217;s an average of $393 Million a year - adjusted to $510 million per year in the US. This includes NIF as well as Tokamaks and alternatives.

http://focusfusion.org/index.php/site/reframe/wasteful

 

[peter grimes]

Odd that the url file is named "wasteful". I think ~$400m/yr on potentially game changing applied fundamental physics is small peanuts.

What is the Pentagon spending these days again? What's our GDP?

 

[El_Machinae]

I can assure you, the website is pro-fusion research!

 

[El_Machinae]

I did some back of the envelope. The US will spend about as much (adjusted dollars) on the Apollo program as on fusion research (all else being equal) in about 70 years. At the current rates.

 

[tokala]

Ouch:

From this article:
The Myth of Working Your Way Through College

 

[KMRblue1027]

Ouch:

From this article:
The Myth of Working Your Way Through College

Yup, plus no one will hire college students because of the limited hours you are available.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Might not be such a bad idea to take off a year for work then.

 

[Whomp]

Those in their prime years still a big percentage of the unemployed.

 

[Mise]

Wow, what a waste...

 

[Whomp]

Right...I've read how boomers view school, work and retirement patterns different than their parents who were much more uniform.

 

[Cutlass]

 

[Arwon]

The entire lower 90% are middle class? What sorcery is this? Does it just suggest the upper class temporarily expanded past 10%?

 

[Cutlass]

Here's a .pdf with the full report. http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/SaezZucman2014Slides.pdf