Right. Stocks and other assets are used as collateral against loans. The loans give them liquid cash, but they're not taxed on this.
There are probably a bunch of solutions to this, but the ultra wealthy enjoy this system so changing it has well financed opposition
Why are each of your lines wrapped in ellipsis?
…what many anti-fifth-edition positions miss is that it’s not about learning a new system, it’s about compatibility across a vast ecosystem of disparate settings and campaigns…
I don't think 5e is especially compatible with disparate settings and campaigns. It's not an actually generic system like Fate or GURPS. It's got underbaked or entirely missing whole RPG subsystems and mechanics (eg: social conflict, succeed-at-a-cost, metagame currency). It's highly opinionated in other regards- hit points, class and level, resting. You can hammer the peg into the hole, but you could do that with anything.
It's not a good system for modeling anything outside heroic fantasy.
It's certainly a popular system, but many things are popular without being good. But, if your top priority is going where people are, by all means stick to D&D 5e, reddit, facebook, etc.
Break them up.
Jail the leaders and seize their wealth.
The shareholders get nothing. I probably own shares via Vanguard-type generic investing but I don't care.
Sometimes I still see job postings that are like "MUST KNOW OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING" and I'm wondering who in 2026 isn't at least passably familiar with it.
But then again I also see job posts that are like "must know Java or JavaScript"
I can't speak specifically to gurps but as a general rule, for any game, I highly recommend playing it as intended for a bit before doing substantial tinkering. To do otherwise is a lot of hubris.
I’m just going to move on
That's my point. They're doing a self-sabotage. Some of them will then complain that they're not getting good matches and messages, but a big factor is they're not giving potential good matches anything to work with.
I don't really have a lot of empathy for people who don't want to learn a new rule system.
First off, most of those people barely know 5e to begin with. You could swap them into another system and they'd probably perform about as well.
Aside from that, maybe they don't mean to sound anti-intellectual, but they kind of do. It's okay to read and learn new things. I've had potential players put up more of a fight than it would've taken to just read the thing.
Related, I think there's like a literacy crisis. Many people don't seem to read or think great.
So many people see the prompt "what I'm looking for" and write "my keys".
A. That's not a terribly funny joke. It's fine, but not great.
B. It's not original.
C. You are wasting valuable space. Now the other person has a little less information to make a good opening message. Do you really want that many people messaging you about your keys? Really? Why are you setting yourself up for unhappy outcomes?
Most people don't think very hard about this, and hope it'll just work out.
One problem is users are selfish idiots. They won't go somewhere that doesn't already have a lot of users. They don't care that going there now moves it closer to having a lot of users, so in a few months it'll be good and vibrant. Most people can't even think an hour ahead.
Another problem is that there are many scammers and bad actors. You need to deal with them, and convince your real users that the scammers are dealt with.
Lastly, in this capitalist hellscape everything is expensive. How are you going to run a big service that's got low latency and high quality?
So much so we fight tooth and nail to keep the cars, but once the street is transformed to something like above we absolutely love it and can’t see life any other way.
Things like this support my argument that conservatives are in a very fundamental way stupid. They don't have good reasons. They just don't want change for childish emotional reasons.
I feel sorry for you and hope you cna find more fulfilling work that will let you grow, but I dont’t know what the job market is like right now
Where I work, there's really no emphasis on code quality or testing. There's also like no mentorship or senior developers leading the way.
They hired a guy with 1-2 years of experience and I feel really bad for him. Not only is he learning very little, he's learning actively bad patterns. No one is teaching him about automated testing. Code reviews are just "you skim it. Don't spend more than 30 minutes".
Management of course loves LLMs and wants more usage.
It's really hard to get people to suffer mild inconvenience when they don't emotionally connect with the benefits.
Most of facebook's evils are remote and impersonal. Seeing your cousin's baby photos is real and at hand.