A 3D-printed Analytical Engine! That’s much cooler than a teapot or a tugboat.

Hey, male-shirtless cis-het sexuality is a valid lifestyle choice too.

Deified?

He can be the God of Incontinence.

Dump his corpse somewhere where pigs will eat it. Giving back to the community.

Just tell me where they’re burying him and I’ll be there for a massive shit, a racehorse-like piss and a loogie to top it all off.

Also potentially prosecuted.

Nixon was given the choice of resigning or being prosecuted. Decency didn’t enter into it, only his rat-like self-preservation instinct.

Make the anus be the mouth, it’ll be a perfect likeness.

Hookers and blowholes. Autographed recordings of Maggot Brain.

With a clumsy Sharpie edit changing I to E. Or the logo will have Trump’s picture and the name will be American Revenue Service -External.

And just to be clear, using IAM roles doesn’t require much effort either, even when you need to sync with an external auth provider such as AD (I know, ewww, but you have to live in the world as it is rather than the one you’d like it to be).

Force them to pay a mandatory insurance premium, and use the proceeds to find hit squads to find and liquidate the ransom gangs.

That link you provided is excellent.

And that takes only a simple majority in Congress to change.

Some of the measures you cite are irrelevant to quality of life. For example, there’s only a weak correlation between rates of home ownership and overall quality-of-life metrics. For example, Switzerland scores high on quality of life measures but has quite a low home-ownership rate. The converse also applies. And savings rate can be driven by fear of post-requirement income insecurity, and average credit card debt matters less than the cost of borrowing (if your card providers only charge 2% a year, that’s a different picture than if they charge 25%).

Though your general observation still holds: the media (and politicians) focus on a small number of metrics that aren’t relevant to most people’s lives. You just have to be selective about what additional metrics you want to add to the mix.

GINI, GDP and PPP combined can get you at least a rough estimate.

There are a number of general-welfare measures. Median inflation-adjusted income is a good one, then you can break that into deciles if you want more detail. The GINI coefficient gives a measure of income and/or wealth inequality within a society. Or if you want more effects-based metrics, there are all kinds of quality-of-life and satisfaction indices, with different relative weights for different contributing factors.

Thanks, Joe. More for Trump to loot. Too bad so little of that growth got to median-level people.

In my religion (work in progress, soon to be revealed to humankind, these things take time, stone tablets are back-ordered), one of the commandments is “don’t be a rube.” Another is “don’t be a soft target.” Clearly, exceptions apply for mental defectives and those who are unable to learn to defend themselves. But most people can and should take steps. These commandments are based on the historical observation that societies with high barriers to exploitation are more just.

Instead of viewing it as victim-blaming, consider it a useful form of self-help. And, like vaccination, the wider the adoption, the greater the “herd immunity” against lying fascists.

It’s fun putting the boot into sick people, they don’t fight back much.