But it's only possible for them to lead good lives when their parents basically dedicate the rest of their own lives to caring for them, I think?

Individuals have very different abilities and needs. Some are able to drive and work independently while others require ongoing support.

The rook doesnt attack the king because N6 is in the way.

So black is not in check and has no legal moves, so stalemate.

Isnt that a forced move to K8? The king is forced to take N6 or move to K8, either of which results in a capture.

Isn't this the definition of checkmate, not stalemate?

The relevant rule from standard chess:

> Leaving one’s own king under attack, exposing one’s own king to attack and also ’capturing’ the opponent’s king are not allowed.

N6 and K8 both expose the black king to attack, so black is not allowed to make those moves. And with no other options, black has no legal move.

And since black isn't in check where they are right now – that's a stalemate.

King isn't allowed to move to a square that would put him in check, so there are no legal moves available. Chess rules.

In general I think the sea warms slower than land, so you'd expect land everywhere to warm faster than the global average.

But don't they have both the encrypted data and the decryption keys? I don't remember giving them my keys to use, and I can look at my stuff from multiple devices so the keys aren't stored on my device.

So they must have the ability to look at all that encrypted data anyway?

Did you not notice that you have to type in a password?

your password is your key, you can check networking to see if it is being sent in raw text or not.

Kyiv is pretty close to the Russian border to its north, even Moscow itself is less than 1000km away.

I think the furthest hits Ukraine has been able to achieve with drones were on a refinery about 1300km from Ukraine controlled land.

We know that chess can be solved, in theory. It absolutely isn't and probably will never be in practice. The necessary time and storage space doesn't exist.

Is that so different from brains?

Even if it is, this sounds like "this submarine doesn't actually swim" reasoning.

It's not hard. Tax the amount the stocks are valued at at january 1.

Make exceptions for investments in illiquid things.

Ok, and on the 2nd the price crashes, company goes bankrupt, stock is worth zero. You were taxes on theoretical value that you can't sell at to pay that tax.

What then?

For me, a lot of these issues become immaterial if the threshold is high enough. If the threshold for a particular tax is assets over $100 million, or a billion, then the answer can just be "you are totally screwed" and I'm basically fine with that. If you don't want that risk, just don't get that rich.

This would destroy every retirement investment vehicle for the middle class more than it would affect the 1%

That can be mitigated by setting high thresholds on the whole process (e.g., the tax doesn't apply if your total net worth is under $10 million).

Now no one has a billion dollars but they have 100 companies they control each worth 10 million.

These lawsuits have to be designed with the idea that the people with the most resources will try to exploit them, and the people with the least resources will be unable to.

I said tax it on the total net worth. Splitting your wealth among different companies shouldn't affect anything.

> These lawsuits have to be designed with the idea that the people with the most resources will try to exploit them, and the people with the least resources will be unable to.

Agreed! That is why the goal needs to be to just directly and explicitly reduce the wealth of those with the most.

That doesn't sound like it could be gamed, at all.

Right now blue collar work can pay much better than white collar work (in the Netherlands).

Not all of course, but construction work and electrician type work, certainly.

The labour shortages in construction and the energy transformation are huge. And it can't be solved with immigration because there is no housing.

In Germany I'd say you still make more with white collar, if you have a job. The problem for Gen Z though, is that they aren't hiring for junior positions.

Still if you go blue collar you have to build your own business.

> there is no housing

This could be said of literally anywhere except a ghost town, and it's only true in a very narrow sense. The problem is not housing supply. It's zoning, which is a political decision.