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His trips to Costa Rica, were they thought to be related to this real estate business?

I’m the only person that has to like my decisions

Damn right! Cool AMA, btw. Glad you did it.

I was following along somewhat-positively until that line lol. Whether it’s a cult now, idk. But insular communities tend to get a bit cult-y when you don’t educate the kids lol.

EDIT: In all fairness, they explained the comment a bit more on one of the other questions. It sounds less terrible once he elaborated. I’m still unsure what “unschooled” means, though. Like..No formal classes? Or there are literally children with no ability to read or write?

EDIT2: In case no one reads further: unschooled doesn’t mean “no school” it just means it’s unstructured, from my understanding

To make your point more explicit: There doesn’t really need to be anything wrong, as long as consumers think something is wrong and adjust their spending downward, a recession will occur.

You could be rocking along at full blast, but if, for whatever reason, consumers as a whole decide the end is near, the end is suddenly near. That’s not really a likely thing to happen, typically there is a catalyst that causes consumer confidence to downturn, but recessions are not caused by some “law” of economics or finance. They’re caused because consumers stop spending money .

Conversely, your economy could be built on a house of cards, but as long as consumers aren’t aware or don’t care, it can continue indefinitely. Again, unlikely to happen because people will decide to pull their money, but entirely possible within the framework of an economy.

It seems a bit pedantic, but it’s a useful way to frame the discussion, IMO. I don’t think everyone realizes the distinction.

Edit: Oh lord, I didn’t mean for this to be a political dog whistle or some attack on the media.

My friend has a story from a concert/festival he went to with John Mayer on the line-up. Basically, Mayer breaks into a guitar solo of some kind and some idiot next to him screams something like “You’re not fucking Van Halen!”

Uhhhhh....John Mayer is pretty fucking close to Van Halen lol. That’s like arguing where to put Shaq and Kareem or Peyton and Rodgers.