YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind (Official Audio)

How many times can a man turn his head
& pretend that he just doesn't see?

How many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind

Bob Dylan 1962

#MusicSky

youtu.be/MMFj8uDubsE?...

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

C.S. Lewis

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https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1Nsjm

Q1 2005

Q2 2025

Value Added by Industry

(Growing services, health, education, insurance.
Shrinking old-fashioned labor jobs)

This represents sum of costs-incurred & incomes-earned in production = employee compensation, tax on production & imports, less subsidies & gross operating surplus.

#Econsky

YouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO The Beatles - Don't Let Me Down

Don’t Let Me Down

The Beatles

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youtu.be/NCtzkaL2t_Y?...

This place is generally bad for mental health.

It is not a round table of brainstorming, but a condensed, (highly) anonymous, hypercritical, hyper-biased fish bowl.

I enjoy sharing ideas.

But human nature makes it a rubbernecking of car wrecks instead of a place to contemplate car safety.

"The expert at anything was once a beginner."

Helen Hayes

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"It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up."

Vince Lombardi

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"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything."

John Wooden

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"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Theodore Roosevelt

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"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will"

Suzy Kassem

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you"

Walt Whitman

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Original Title: Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer Date: 1818; Germany Style: Romanticism Genre: allegorical painting Media: oil, canvas Location: Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Dimensions: 94.8 x 74.8 cm https://www.wikiart.org/en/caspar-david-friedrich/the-wanderer-above-the-sea-of-fog

The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

Caspar David Friedrich

#Art
#Romanticism
#OilOnCanvas

Rückenfigur (German: Rear-facing figure)

#Mountainouslandforms
#Sky
#Mountain
#Atmosphericphenomenon
#Standing
#Ridge
#Summit
#Cloud

I just found Wikiart.org
Thank you BlueSky!

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spending-healthcare-changed-time

On a per capita basis, U.S. health spending (*in constant 2023 dollars*) has increased in the last five decades from

$2,151 per year per American in 1970 to

$14,570 per year per American in 2023.

#Inequality
#M4A
#Econsky

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/where-americans-cant-afford-healthcare-ranked-by-state/

Where Americans Can’t Afford Healthcare, by State

Southern states post higher shares of surveyed adults who skipped visiting doctor due to costs in 2023.

Texas, highest at 18% unable to afford healthcare, has some of the strictest Medicaid eligibility requirements.

#Inequality
#M4A
#Econsky

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/minimum-wages-in-50-u-s-states-35-countries-adjusted-for-living-costs

Minimum Wages in 50 U.S. States & 35 Countries, Adjusted for Living Costs, before tax

Germany, Australia, & France are higher than all 50 states.

Fed min wage clusters at the bottom end of this ranking, closer to upper-middle-income economies like Colombia & Peru.

#Inequality
#LivingWage
#Econsky

“World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.”
~ Dalai Lama XIV

Have a beautiful day ❤️

#AGoodPlace

Exactly!

What is Medicaid and How Many Americans Use It? Ep 2 of Just the Facts: Do you Qualify?

7 mins

#Poverty
#Inequality
#Medicaid
#EconSky

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"Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain."

-Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

Are Black Holes Creating Dark Energy? A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery

"We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

I get teary-eyed.

Jane Goodall was one of those top people making a better world.

She sits alongside:

David Attenborough, Dalai Lama, Gandhi, Mandela, et al.

Dr. Jane always said that each animal matters – not only for the role they play to support life, but for their intrinsic value.

"The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves," she said.

Photos: Kristin Mosher / Rob Sassor / Stacey Lorraine / Susana Name / Sylvie Le

Orphaned Baby Gorilla and Chimpanzee Form an Adorable Friendship "In the wild, chimpanzees and gorillas do not get along...Growing up together in an orphanage breaks down that trained barrier."

Serious dose of cuteness:

Wildlife photographer Michael Poliza visited the Evaro Gorilla Orphanage in Gabon in 2007 & captured amazing photos of these orphaned chimp & gorilla babies bonding & sharing with each other.

'We have a genetic kinship with all life on earth, an atomic kinship to all matter in the cosmos, So when I look at the universe, I feel large, because I remind myself that not only are we living in this universe, the universe is living within us.'
- NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

This was an incredibly good interview!

To the last answer, in my estimation, high housing costs is #1 issue to help the most Americans.

Fairness & care means opposite things based on personal politics.

(Party) loyalty matters the most.

Many for authority.