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Extremely backfired?
What is wrong with you?
The Grenada-Barbados story: I mean, by this point Barbados deserved to win. Managing to defend both goals at the same time? Wow!
I feel like if they had 7 minutes by that point it would have been smarter to wait until last minute to do that cause if they only needed 2 points and they were ahead by 1 just try to get the second goal and if it didn't work then at the last second tie it up for extra time
It must have been hilarious
I wonder how commentating this would go
Any idea if I can find that game on youtube? I wanna see that.
@@jaredcrabbwhen I heard this I was shocked because I live in Barbados
😂😂😂😂
When someone tried to get Yu-Gi-Oh banned at my school, a bunch of us decided to make our own card game that used the same rules but used "monsters" based on the school staff. They were hand-drawn and crappy because this was in the days before everyone had a PC and printer in their house.
When they tried to ban THAT, the principal refused once she learned that the card based on her was our version of Exodia's instant win combo.
I probably still have some of them in a box in the attic at my parent's house.
pleasing the right people
What I like about this channel is that the thumbnails aren’t oversexualised and are… y’know… normal
Right - the other ones I don’t want to click on in case I get put on a Weebo incel register or something.
"No overtime without approval." I worked for a program serving people with mental health and/or substance use challenges. The employees who were paid the least (which included myself) were expected to stay after hours and to call the police of folks did not leave the property while the managers went home a little before 5pm. After nearly 2 months of doing this, I decided not to clock out until I confirmed that nobody was on the property. One day, this netted me thirty minutes of overtime. The next day, I was yelled at and told very loudly, "You do NOT do overtime without approval from a manager." That means I was supposed to clock out, check the property, and go back inside (without clocking in) to call a manager, get (or not get) approval, and clock back in ONLY with said approval. This is what they told me. The next day, I clocked out promptly at 5 and went home. There were two clients on the property when I left. That night, the building was broken into and several things were stolen. I was called into my manager's office and asked if anyone was on the property when I left. I said yes. Manager asked me why on EARTH I left without clearing the property. I said, "Well, I realized that in order to check the property and call a manager for approval, I must stay past 5pm. Anything after 5pm is overtime. I would technically be staying for overtime without manager approval, since I am required by law to be paid for my time." They changed the policy the next day.
My dad and uncle had just completed their tours of duty (WWII) in the military and were adjusting to life back in the US. The only jobs available to them was peeling poplar, which involved peeling the bark off of poplar trees to be used for building, etc. At the end of the first week, the company truck dropped all the workers off downtown, and dad and uncle started walking home. My uncle spies a movie house, and a new feature in the theater was air conditioning. Cool air sounded heavenly to the guys, and even though sweaty and dirty, they decided to go on in and watch the movie in cool comfort. It would be dark in the theater so they didn’t worry about being seen in their bedraggled work clothes. The movie had already been running a good bit when two ladies came in wearing huge hats and sat in front of the guys. There were other available seats open, but they chose to sit in front of these two guys. Uncle politely asked if they would remove their hats so dad and uncle could watch the movie. The ladies refused to remove their hats or to move down a couple seats so as not to block the view of the film. The women declined. So dad and uncle remained sitting where they were and began plucking wood ticks they found on their clothing off and placing them on the ladies’ hats. They didn’t see the movie, but enjoyed watching the wood ticks crawl all over the ladies’ hats. The ladies never found any of the wood ticks while they were in the theater. Dad and uncle had a great time and enjoyed the AC.
If banning a book makes everyone want to read it, would then a public service announcement stating the official support for a book be the best way for a government to silence it?
No, but less people would read it.
Reminds me of a banned book report I did back in high school. I got Silas Marner - which I had read before, so I was very curious as to why it got banned. As it turned out, nobody in this one school district wanted to read it because they assumed it was just a dry old classic - UNTIL the school board banned it as an attempt at reverse psychology. Every student that had previously had a class assigned with that book to read got a copy to read. The English department head at the time said, “it was the only way to get students to read the damned thing…within weeks of banning it, every last one of [them] knew it by heart.”
That's actually really funny. Kudos to the school board!
Yeah, Florida isn't doing themselves any favor banning books. Not only can they now be very unfavorably compared to a certain regime that outlawed books in order to control the population BUT in this country it has never worked out the way the banning body wanted it to. Well except in very well thought out instances like your school board!
Meanwhile: good luck, FL. 😂
@@theeverydaybombshell
Florida is not banning books!
I’m halfway through, but my favourite example of this is the cause of a dynasty-toppling rebellion in Chinese history.
“What is the penalty for rebellion?”
“Death.”
“And what is the penalty for lateness?”
“Death.”
“Gentlemen. We are late."
EDIT: IIRC, the lateness was to a battle against an already-ongoing peasant revolt.
Kinda seems like a good plan for your reinforcement forces to suddenly turn into rebels.
There was a story like that where a general kept threatening his captains with death if they ever disobeyed or poorly executed his orders.
Due to the chaotic nature of battle, and the general overall inability to coordinate his forces properly, the captains understood that even if they won, they would die.
Therefore, they figured "Fuck it." and went for the general instead. And then, said general's own troops just switched side.
Good times
It wasn't even their fault they were late, there was a bad storm and they couldn't March during it.
this always makes me think of a story i read about in two sources: "the Bug Black Market".
a company decided to give programmers bonuses for every "bug" they found.
so, OF COURSE, the programmers started deliberately putting IN lots of bugs.
that ended after only THREE days.
Lol, that's why you have separate parties for development and bugfixing now. Bug bounty programs are one of the only ways corporate systems can achieve the same level of speedy security fixes as large scale community oriented projects.
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@@mathgeniuszach reminds me of a story on "the daily WTF" called "the record breaking score".
there's a test to see if a company is good or bad, based on 12 questions, and this company scored "negative 2"!
they did NOT use "source control" to keep track of bugfixes, so they frequently undid each others' work, AND they had NO testing department, they got all their bug report from USERS!
they also had inadequate heating, so the programmers had to WEAR GLOVES WHILE TYPING, and lots of other craziness!
The 'Harry Potter' ban is much like I imagine. When I read about a head-teacher banning the books, I wondered if she was as stupid as some people suggested. I imagined groups of kids gathering in the bike shed for illicit readings - rather than smoking.
Story #8: Domino’s must have had an EXTRA THICK skull when they though of this plan.
Even worse, even though they quickly stopped running the promotion, a lot of people still think they (or other pizza delivery places) still run it. So a bad idea in the short AND long term.
Oh my God, that soccer story was insane and explained absolutely perfectly. Even if I knew the story, I wouldn't have been able to explain that nearly as well.
shows you how old the actual post is that they say tumblr would only have 1 blog on it after banning the 'adult content' as tumblr while it suffered a large shrink in the wake of the ban, is still going pretty strong and there are even a number of 'tumblr funny men' on youtube still that have plenty of new content to go around.
Tbh that non-alcohol wedding story one is extremely disrespectful if this wasn't in the bride or groom's plans. If the people hosting the wedding wanted a sober wedding then they're entitled to it since they paid for it.
I worked in HVAC. We serviced a chain of stores where the temperature was controlled by the corporate office several states away. The stores would always call us to complain that the store was too hot or too cold. We’d go out, determine that the equipment was working fine, and explain the problem was where corporate had set the heat or AC. The managers would demand we call corporate to change the temperature. We would, and corporate would always refuse. After a few years, corporate finally gave the individual stores some limited control over the thermostats. They also added a feature where the temperature would go into an “unoccupied” setting and the lights would go off one hour after the store closed. As a result, store personnel had to hustle to get out quickly after closing or work in the dark. I left the company I was working for shortly after, so I don’t know how the “lights out” policy worked long term.
Damn what kind of company was that? SOS corporate, we're freezing
Corp: nope you can't be ... the polar bears aren't complaining over here
My last job was a combination of 10 & 13. The infraction system is one of those 'looks good on paper but cannot function in practice' kinds of things; only a quarter of the staff was even hired as full time so the company didn't have to pay much for insurance, the rest who were forcibly relegated to part time regularly exploited the inept timetable system. Then they deliberately shut down the 3rd shift before badgering everyone to pick up extra hours to make up for the loss in productivity, so they could get extra work out of the part time staff without needing to pay overtime; it's no surprise they had a higher turnover rate than the local fast food joints. And for those thinking this was just some small time establishment, that's not remotely the case, they've been backed and funded by Sodexo for decades.
17:24 my school didn’t ban Harry Potter, despite Parents arguing, and explained the underlying Christian narrative and basically said “Harry Potter is Jesus & Voldemort is the devil, because he’s a snake”
The points system is from Walmart. It is exactly like that. There's a nine minute grace period, so if you clock in at 10 after, it's half a point. Doesn't matter if you work an extra 10 minutes at the end of the shift - the computer only sees that you clocked in late, and staying late doesn't cover it.
So if you are going to be more than 9 minutes late, might as well just wait and go in at the 4 hour mark. The only catch is, you have to call in that you are going to be late. But since that is also computer automated now, you never have to talk to a human. They even tell you to use the auto system to call out, as they get notifications on their work devices of who called in.
And yes each point or half point stays on your record for about 6 months before they 'drop off'.
I was an early teen in the late 70s. Other than some talk here and there about who had access to alcohol, primarily beer, alcohol was barely mentioned in school or teen social circles. Then the US Tyranny implemented the 21 drinking age tyranny.
Things changed overnight. Alcohol became an obsession for teens, young adults, and college kids. Binge drinking skyrocketed. And, as under Prohibition, the focus shifted from beer to the hard stuff. Having access to and drinking the hard stuff became a social status thing.
Within a year or so, my social circle was impacted by no less than two near death alcohol poisonings--one where my actions saved a girl with only 15 minutes to spare.
The change was OVERNIGHT. Like a switch was thrown. It was and remains insane.
A company where I work installed a new computer program for keeping track of our work times. Where I live there is a law that say you have do have at least a 30 minutes break when working more than 6 hours. That program enforced that law by automatically adding 30 minutes of break time if your break was less than 30 minutes long, even if it was something like 29 minutes long. So people were gathering around the door looking at the clock of the devise waiting for the exact right time book themselves back in to have excactly 30 minutes of lunch break. After if getting so bad that those were blocking the entrance and exit while grouping up and waiting, HR decided that we would be allowed to not use the device to book ourselves back in, but would be allowed to just add the return time in the software. After that everybody had exactly 30 minutes breaks every day. That again prompted HR to snitch on us trying to catch us falsly entering too short breaks just to find out that most of us were actually just having 15 minute lunch breaks before working again and only entered 30 minutes so we would comply with the law. After that they basically gave up and changed the software to just book a 30 minute break every day and we didn't need to book breaktime.
UK ministry of defence also had a no shorts rule during a heatwave a few years ago, a bunch of us wore skirts, been wearing shorts even in the winter for 3 years now :)
Prohibition, ignoring the whole orginozed crime part, alcohol consumption almost doubled
A few years ago, there was an English school, where some boys were sent home for wearing shorts. They returned to school wearing skirts saying that banning them from doing so, was discrimination - as girls could either wear them or trousers. The rules were changed. and short or long trousers were allowed.
I love wearing shorts at winter time but my mom made me wear long pants
9:12 I had this friend who loved to ashop at macys and when no one was around she would get behind the counter and ring herself up. they told her to spot or they would ban her from the store, so who would get on the intercoms and call for someone to come to the cash registers. Worked like a charm until she got in trouble. So she wrote to corporate, EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. She was unbanned and theyalways have someone at the registers.
For a very short while during basic training (USAR) we trainees were told that if we we not smoking to "simulate" that ended quickly.
I worked security at a gas station in Detroit. The gas station had a no overtime policy for its employees (I was an outside contractor). Once on a busy night, the night shift person was going to be an hour late. The gas station had to close for an hour at 9 pm on Friday night in Downtown Detroit. People were constantly trying to come in to buy gas, food, soda, cigarettes, etc. For that hour. I don't know how many hundreds of dollars worth of sales that gas station lost to avoid paying $20 overtime.
The People who THINK they're in charge:"I'm/We're making this rule and there's nothing you can do about it except obey!"
The People who KNOW they're in charge:"If you continue with this,you'll only have yourself to blame..."
I worked evenings at Domino's as a second job in the early 2000s. We had customers who were pissed when they'd call at 6:30 on a Saturday night to find out there was at least a 45-minute wait and that their pizza would NOT be free. Most people had no idea Domino's had canceled that policy decades earlier.
I will always remember the Thailand “Do not touch the queen rule.” When a guard did just that, he failed to save the queen from a sinking boat and got killed for that. Well, if he grabbed the queen, therefore touching her, he’d be sentenced to death anyway.
Liverpool Australia is next to a big Army base.
McDonalds ready in 30 seconds or it's free, promo back in the 1980's.
Local News Paper Headlines "McDonalds tries to have soldiers arested"
Story:
2 Slodiers walked in the McDonalds with a order for 300 Big Mac's, with the money needed. The order was not ready in 30 seconds, one of the soldiers pointed out it should be free because it took over 30 seconds and would not pay, McDonalds called the Police. The Police made McDonalds comply with the promo for free food.
Thats hilarious.
smurfway surfers in the background tho'💀💀😭😭😭
My old workplace banned music websites, eventually they banned Google because everyone was putting in a while working and making the network slow, so everyone turned out to their phones, they changed the WiFi access so everyone one switched to 4g making it slow, some people realized that in the contract said that you must be provided with a corporate plan, so they had to comply, also one time my boss was asking me why I didn't do something and I explained that I didn't know how to do it and as didn't got access to youtube to watch some tutorial I was doing it trial and error, they eventually permitted TH-cam but try to put a block to the speed, I'm also pretty sure they got a better plan. So they spend more on cellphones and plans, they spend more on a new plan and they lost productivity and motivation from people so they didn't took extra hours
That “point” system! 🙄 I worked at a big box store that did that- it was 1 point for clocking in late, and 2 points for calling off. So I guess if you’re going to be late, you might as well call off. It’s not much difference 😂
Oh yeah, I remember "The Purge of '18" on Tumblr, my blog survived but it was a massive shitshow. The only good thing that came out of it was that the Toxic users moved to other places, namely Twitter, so it was mostly chill. Not only that but the NSFW content manage to slip through the cracks despite the ban via loopholes, new tags, no tags, and bot accounts.
TH-cam bans adblockers. Many people who never knew such a thing existed are now using them everywhere. This is a problem, considering Google's main source of revenue is online ads.
Thoroughly enjoyed your content today!
Just over here cracking up over Caribbean ingenuity 😂
Time sheets. Maintenance were told to fill out a timesheet each week. Buddy was struggling so I wrote it for him; wrote "filling out timesheet" for two hours on friday afternoon.
He laughed... and the week after every maintenance guy put that it 😁
12:44 What??? Lol that's illegal for us to do in my part of the world. We can't even legally call the kid's parents.
I had a manager who asked me to be the "official trainer" for the new people on my shift. It was a voluntary position that didn't add anything to my pay, wasn't just for my job/department, and would only add responsibility to my shoulders (so the Manglement could place blame on the official trainer because that was actually part of their jobs). I turned it down.
The bus drivers wearing skirts part is crazy 😂
19:38 I dunno why this made me laugh, but it did. Don’t threaten kids’ games, they will do kid stuff. Teach em balance, yes, like balancing work and play, but don’t just take away play, cause it won’t incentivize them to work.
The daycare in Freakanomics was on the right track, they just didn't go far enough. In the daycare I ran, 3 late fees $10 for every half hour) in a week and you lost your spot. Being an hour late was considered 2 late fees. I always had a wait list, so it wasn't going to affect me the way it would affect the parent. NO ONE ever got more than 2. There are always situations you understand (hospitalized parent, verifiable emergency at the work place) but for those who wanted shopping time after a long day at work...they stopped taking advantage as soon as there were long term repercussions. No one wants to lose good daycare.
Story 29 also happened in Paris. So it makes me wonder, is learning from people's mistakes only a thing people from the population do and is totaly forgotten by the people who hold the power ?
when "law" tries to fight against trolls ..
Story 7 didn’t backfire, it was AWESOME
13:05 is the exact reason you can’t be punished if you call a ambulance for it where I live
Went to an alcohol free wedding once. No one did drugs but it was the most boring wedding I've ever been to
I feel like the gameplay of the Smurfs video game in the background caused me to zone out of many stories. To mitigate this, maybe story visualizations could work instead.
there seems to be a lot of games with the same basic gameplay but different themes .
@@juliusfrauenglass2411 Yes, there is; in fact, even Gummibär, a German virtual music artist, has a game like that.
About Harry Potter book case. The bishop, obwiously, either doesn't know or ignores, what exorcists learned and told about this many times.
The cobra story also happened in Okinawa, but with habu danger noodles.
Some of these rules really highlight just how stupid the people in authority actually are.
If a tree overhangs into a neighbouring garden, the neighbours are allowed to trim anything overhanging their property. By law it is not their tree though, so the law says they must throw the trimmings back into the neighbour's land. I don't know of anyone who does it in practice though, or anyone who would want 'their' branches, etc returned! (I live in the UK.)
That dominos policy wasn't a short-lived venture. I was a kid when that policy was around, and it was around for years, at least, and Dominos wasn't the only place doing it.
Can confirm the Swedish bus drivers wearing skirts. I had a coworker who had at the time worked as a bus driver during that time. Him and some other men working together happily put on skirts. I even saw pictures for proof of it all.
The elementary school and the junior high I went to also bann nd all trading cards and even had multiple announcements saying you're not allowed to play with them or trade them at recess or lunch. Kids still played all the time, but the rule was really only there to say that if someone stole one of your cards, then it's your fault for bringing something that's not allowed at school.
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I once touched two slices of pizza in first grade, best slices of pizza in my life
Used to volunteer on a youth center candy store. My first summer we pretty much let them buy anything they wanted initially (if we had it and they had change.) But in an attempt to keep the line moving and insuring that the ones that came with more money than other kids weren't spent up when they went home... They tried a £0.50 per transaction limit (unless it costed more.)
All the "no you can't buy that many," "one or the other" and/or "you have been served now come back later for more" conversations that made things worse. And it didn't improve things the way they hoped when the line rarely shrunk cause they went back to the back of the line cause they knew by the time they were back enough time had passed.
Yeah they went back to school and they never brought that rule back. After a while they introduced a three per item limit, which worked out better cause most rarely tried to buy more than that anyway.
"If they took adult content off tumblr-" What do you mean "if"??? They did! And everyone hates it!
Proud Barbadian here 😂 I just wanna know how you came across that little gem
I would've loved to have been in Australia to see that last one!
Appearantly, having men wear skirts and dresses isn't much of a barrier as people think. Even in the 1950's.
Even pinterest has spicy stuff just more low key and fan art. Lol
I have to admit the wales one was something. I wanted to know but was too afraid to ask
I love the swedish skirt one.
For malicious compliance including the school uniform, the wording is irrelevant. You can always pretend you don't understand it means the letter is a part of the shirt. What actually matters is how it is adjudicated. This is also why there are tons of "vague" laws in the West that are executed to the bureaucracy's full satisfaction while suddenly when there is a law they don't want to follow, it's super vague. What are we going to do ban dictionaries? Uh, no, you just don't want to get rid of the books the law is intended to ban despite offering no open justification for them. You notice certain people love to play he hatchling and pretend to not know what words mean rather than fighting in the open and making their case honestly
Story 10: He works at Walmart. That is their point policy.
Smurf way surfers💀💀💀💀
Lol I live in Athens, and never knew about this. Gotta ask my parents.
I am almost 100% positive the person in story 10 works at Walmart because I used to and this is the exact policy at Walmart
Nobody's gonna talk about the Smurf Subway Surfers rip-off in the background?
Ah yes, "Clearly if we get rid of the only way to do X while being safe and clean, everything will just continue being safe and clean"
Oh, and the adult content tumblr ban was even worse than you think. Not only was it wildly inconsistent, it also consistently *MISSED* the stuff that tumblr users and staff were actually worried about: bots that were spamming the same shitty porn over and over to advertise scams, and CSAM. The automated systems for detecting adult content were also terrible at identifying anything that wasn't two regular humans having vanilla sex...but on the other hand, it was ALSO terrible at identifying humans having vanilla sex, and regularly mistook things like sand dunes for nudity. That's not even getting into the mess caused by "female-presenting nipples".
The cobra hunting policy of India. Started paying laymen to behead cobras and bring in their heads to get paid for each. Cool, nice..... They started breeding them to get more cash
Bro after pokemon cards got banned there was literally a riot
Looking for work in the UK in the early 2010s and on the once nortrious "Work Programme." And was told to attend regular sessions with a recruitment agency to gain unemployment. Now that wasnt so much the rule introduced, that was always the deal anyway. But that agency after a while was a waste of time, and seemed to be more interested in filling seats on workshops and seminars rhan actually helping me. Hell they even stopped looking into what I did to look for work and I was supposed to keep paper and online records for it.
Oh and I went to the unemployment office more than I saw that agency and had no idea how useless they were becoming... To the point they even wanted said agency to be the only ones looking to see if I was actively looking for work.
No just come in, sign here and come back in two weeks. i see you more than I see or speak to them.
Don't know if that backfired but a month or two later they came to their senses as to why that was a bad idea.
15:!5 that is also just a ''fuck everyone that has to work'' rule
Story 29: so if I had an odd numbered car I couldn't go to work on even numbered days? Is that what I'm understanding here? Sorry boss I can't come in, it's the 24th I'm legally not allowed to drive today. And story 37, if the teachers confiscated cards but don't keep track of whos is whos, then the first come first served at the end of the year can just claim the rare and powerful ones for themselves
Ok, the sick day thing in story 10 has to he illegal
Why not instead of scrapping the bounty system for cobras why didn’t they just start using harsh penalties for anyone caught breeding? Ya know like a fine for each live cobra produced + a with a whip per snake and all previous rewards being confiscated. That’d probably reduce the breeding.
That's an awful idea. Do you honestly think it being illegal will stop the breeding?
@@petelee2477not right away but as more and more people are getting caught and getting fined and penalized to the point where they’re far worse off then when they started more and more people might decide not to take the chance, and yes there will always be some that will continue to do it but fortunately enough will be caught or deterred that cobra populations will continue to go down instead of up.
Plus the people the breeders make money turning the snakes into and the people that are looking for the breeders to arrest them are the same people so it would be a huge hit to their bottom line and it would be pretty easy to find breeders when you compare cobra sightings to cobra captures in specific areas.
Story #29... law is still in effect... (law doesn't exist only in Athens but also in other countries)
what's wrong with my caribbean people, That's hilarious😂😂😂
Does anyone know who's reading these stories now?
Who ever wrote about the Welsh sheep shaggy fact thanks iv always wanted to know why they where known as sheep shaggers
This is cool
I love backfires.
The story about Swedish busdrivers wearing skirts are true. I was one of them.
Prohibition
What is this goofy ahh game? 💀💀
why is etymology nerd on the thumbnail
Cool
Sorry l call bs on the 1950's surfing rule about surfing in a dress. Not popular until the 1960's surfing never affected people working. On the other hand males dressing in a dress for any reason was strictly prohibited till the 1960's and the Lè Girls shows...
This game is such a blatant rip off...
😂😂😂
I miss the non British guy
It used to be legal for some apartments to be "Adults only, no kids, no pets" I worked shift work, and found the apartments very nice, well maintained, lower price, and quiet for those who sleep in the daytime.
The law was changed as this discriminated against families. When the first few couples with kids moved in, due to liability and increased maintenance costs, the swimming pool was removed. The flower beds were destroyed, the rent was raised, and horror of horrors a family move in and discovered they lived next door to registered sex offenders, who lived there because there were away from children.
The families tried to get the sex offenders evicted, but they told the judge, there is no place to move to without kids anymore as the law changed. The move to evict them failed.
Love the laws of unintended consequences.
No, I was one of the sex offenders. I didn't know they were even there until the campaign started to evict them.
Shortly afterward due to the noise and increased cost for poorer conditions, I got married and moved into a house. Have never rented an apartment since. There are none that are quiet in the daytime, and sometimes at night.
The tenant protection laws, made it hard on landlords to evict those that don't pay rent, squat, etc, so many landlords have given up renting. This resulted in fewer rental units available and much higher rent rates. Investors stopped buying rental property as an investment. What was intended to make it better for renters, made affordable housing scarce. Many rentals became Air B & B's for short term rental instead of leased housing with a risk of non paying tenants. Same issue with tenants not paying utilities. Can't shut off the utilities for non paying tenants. Rentals of rooms with utilities included have become scarce. Included in this is Section 8 Housing. Governments would call landlords asking about rentals for section 8 to find no vacancies,m only to call back and ask about vacancies, then the city would fine landlords for not accepting section 8 housing. This resulted in shutting down the rentals entirely resulting in loss of rental property. I raised foster kids, and now as an empty nester, could rent out rooms, or move to a smaller house and rent out this one, but not going to risk getting bad renters as laws prevent discrimination against bad people and impossibility to evict them to get good renters. As an investor, it;'s not worth the risk to become a landlord.
As an investor, I have moved to the stock market. Stocks can be sold on stop loss sale orders for under performing stock. Stock bought at low prices can return high yields on cost. For example, oil stock bought during the oil price crash during the pandemic is now paying 41.5% in forward dividends on my cost. I can't get that type of returns on rental property. Yes there is a risk of a market crash, but then stock sells on stop loss orders, and you can buy back at much lower prices. There is income taxes on stock capital gains, but there is no risk of paying taxes on vacant property in property taxes, or paying the utilities on squatters for no income and only expenses as in being a landlord. There are no effective landlord protection laws, so fewer opt to provide rental housing.
Equal Oppertunity was supposed to improve race relations by discriminating against a particular race and gender. Having the inability to get extra points on entrance exams for schools and some employment, my career path changed. Now the employer has less qualified employees instead of the best qualified, and the best qualified, have moved on, but now have a grudge against the race with the extra score points based on the color of their skin. Yes it is time to end government discrimination based on the color of one's skin instead of their qualifications. Affirmative Action was designed to last 30 years to even the paying field. 50 years later it is being called out for the discrimination by the government and colleges. Check the statistics of college degrees. the discriminated against race now has the lowest college graduation rate of all races. There are more women and other races in college not. as a result, it is harder to hire engineers as fewer are qualified.
Economics and the laws of unintended consequences by government meddling in the free market are too numerous to count.
I invest as nobody asks my race or gender to buy and sell stock. It is equal opportunity.
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Please bring back the other two narrators