If you already know what is wrong and just need a doctor’s note (and maybe antibiotics), go to the clinic. While their staff are significantly more skilled knowledgeable than the general public, their policies limit them to only simple diagnostics and treatments. Your medical knowledge is certainly less than that of the Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants that staff these clinics, but likely exceeds the scope of practice they are limited to by their employer. If you don’t know what the problem is, the clinic is going to refer you to your PCP or urgent care anyway, so you should only visit the clinic to appease HR or get access to basic prescription medications.

If something is bothering you, but you can tolerate it for a couple weeks, schedule an appointment with primary care.

If you don’t know what’s wrong, or you need something more than a note and a prescription, and you can transport yourself, go to urgent care.

The only time you should go to the ER voluntarily is if urgent care sends you there. Any other trip to the ER should be because someone dragged you there without giving you a choice.

Of course there is going to need to be a different set of rules for businesses with few employees, I never said otherwise.

Stop gaslighting.

You replied to a comment where I had presented the case of a small business, valued at $150,000 to $250,000. I presented that hypothetical small business as an example of unrealized gains.

When I asked your preference, you stated:

A moratorium on IPOs, and purchasing of businesses in any form.

After responding to an example of a small, $250,000 business, you used unequivocal language about businesses to demonstrate your point. You certainly did “say otherwise”.

But you’ve jumped to conclusions instead of asking and having an actual conversation about what this would look like.

My grandmother could make that “jump” in her wheelchair, and she died three years ago.

Your plan is not particularly well formed and/or you are communicating it rather poorly. Slow down, take your time, present it reasonably, and be prepared for reasonable criticism.

Thanks.

I distinguish between problematic wealth (financial assets, which entitle the owner to revenue ultimately produced by workers) and non-pronlematic wealth (assets ultimately purchased from workers.)

A worker who produces widgets earns his pay from the sale of those widgets. That worker shares the income from those widgets with the owners of the widget factory. That worker is better off when a rich individual purchases a $10,000 widget than when that rich individual purchases a $10,000 share in the factory.

So, we should tax wealth held in the form of factory shares rather than wealth held in widgets, to incentivize this rich person to buy widgets rather than shares.

You don’t seem to understand that the overwhelming majority of businesses are sole proprietorships.

You don’t seem to understand that the second most common type of business is a simple partnership.

You don’t seem to understand that what you are describing would require a prohibition on converting a sole proprietorship into a partnership, and vice versa. Once you organize a small, home-based business, you can’t later take on a partner, to share risks and rewards.

Worker-owned businesses are now prohibited, because workers can’t transfer their ownership to other workers when they join or leave. Co-ops are prohibited, same reason.

No, I’m afraid that you haven’t put much actual thought into this idea. In your zeal to tax the richest among us, you’ve just made it so that they are the only ones capable of starting a business with any chance of success.

What is your “preferred solution”?

The idea that businesses shouldn’t be bought or sold is not a solution at all.

You absolutely can have unrealized gains without a stock market. Build a business. Someone wants to buy it from you for $150,000 last year, someone else wants to buy it from you for $250,000 this year, you have unrealized gains of $100,000 from last year to this year.

What we can do is apply an annual wealth tax of 1% of all registered securities, (stocks, bonds, etc) and exempt the first $10 million of each natural person. You don’t have to sell your shares; the SEC knows how much you’re holding, and will transfer them automatically to IRS liquidators, who will resell them on the open market in small lots, no more than 1% of total traded volume per month.

Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk lose 1% of their empires per year until they are worth less than $10 million.

I’ve got a guillotine they can put to good use.

the thing that’s different is that social media has demonstrative harm.

Is that actually a difference?

Rock and roll causes harm: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580930/

TV causes harm: https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/too-much-tv-might-be-bad-for-your-brain

Video games cause harm: https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2000/04/video-games

Pretty much everything kids do that their parents didn’t has been “proven” to cause harm. Radio, cinema, comic books, even newspapers were “proven” to harm young people.

Authoritarianism is a far bigger threat than any of these.

A BMX bike without a rider will roll along happily. We called it “ghost riding” when I was a kid.

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Hybrid hard drive. Basically, a hard drive with a large solid state cache.

Actual shipping would vary depending on location, but sellers are padding the shipping charge so they can display a lower unit price.

Need to add shipping charges to the price…

Homonyms are where two words are spelled the same, yet carry different meanings. Both the possessive and contractive forms of “it’s” are now homonyms. I have spoken.

Agreed. The possessive and contractions should be homonyms, both carrying the apostrophe. “Its” would be the nonsensical plural form of an inherently singular word: “This “it”, that “it”, and those “its” over there…”.

The good news is that all words are made up. We can, indeed, use the same “it’s” for both the possessive form of “it” and the contraction of “it is”.

An Hero. Become one.

(That’s not actually directed at you; you reminded me of the meme. Don’t actually become an hero.)

Well, have a nap, then FIRE ZE MISSILES!

Don’t try sucking up to me now.

When it was time to decide whether to order DoorDash or go to the grocery store, you had enough fucks to get out the door. But when it comes time to put the cart back, you’re suddenly at bingo fucks and need to immediately RTB?

May all your shits be runny.

Baby Shark in my ass.