I guarantee that if you're here, you're very likely to be extremely tech knowledgeable (compared to the large populace)

Society might not be meritocratic, but at the end of the day life is... You're just bitter you don't deserve better.

a phone needs to be able to make calls and send or receive sms....

Eh, there's always something people with a lot of tech knowledge think are obvious to people without a lot of tech knowledge. Just look at the mess that Linux can be.

If I understand correctly, this thing turns your phone into a computer. But I need a phone...

To add to that, Maperitive is a fantastic piece of software (Windows only) to create your own custom maps for hiking or cycling with osm. A bit tough to wrap your head around unfortunately, but actually pretty powerful. Hmu if you need quick instructions

Eh I think you missed my point entirely. And, by the way, being a doctor is simply put very hard, that's why they're paid more than people who flip burgers who just flip burgers, and doctors are also rarer and I believe you want to have a good doctor don't you? Because he's simply going to get up and leave to another place where he is paid properly if you don't pay him a good wage. Also, you don't make any actual good points in your long answer.

Pleaso go study economics. Thank you.

I agree that people sbould be able to live comfortably with their job, even a low skill one. But the idea that raising wages will mean increase prices does check out though. That, or people with higher skill jobs will be paid less and then they will be the ones to suffer the most.

Imo, we should aim to make things more efficient, thus cheaper because they actually became cheaper. E.g. solving the housing crisis => cheaper rent. Public healthcare => cheaper healthcare. Better schools => better citizens that leave less trash around => less expensive trash management. More public transport, less need to buy or do maintenance to a car etc. And so on and so forth.

Minimum wages can't fix this problem (they can fix others), they're just a bandaid on a severed limb.

I don't think it was a sony exclusive, it was simply released on ps4 and pc only

Source for the HB thing?

Are they shootimg themselves in the foot if they're making record profits?

there could be a way maybe, by freezing water while keeping it extremely pressurized (extremely), you can make "efficient ice" that occupies less space, called ice VII, I'm not kidding. It would cost literally billions of dollars so not yet feasible, but it keeps my sci-fi loving mind at ease.