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To provide an alternative viewpoint:

https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-us-history-course-and-exam-description.pdf

The irony is that western free nations owe their safety to America’s military, and by extension this sacrifice of the American people, if you follow the post’s logic

Confirmed, I own a laptop and also use it

Would also be interesting to see this series with a “net income” type of divisor (as opposed to “revenue” for the sake of analogy) to adjust for differences in CoL

Literally just pay attention to the real wages component of the same BLS release CPI is included in

In my view yes: at the juncture of higher interest rates, still-elevated costs, and the downstream impact of tighter monetary policy on demand starting to materialize, companies are feeling elevated pressure to maintain revenues and margins. While this manifests differently across the economy — e.g. shrinkflation in consumer goods, price hikes in travel/leisure — its impact tends to be less straightforward with tech companies given their relatively more complex monetization schemes. Perhaps broad adoption of AI provides the industry the tailwind it needs over the next couple of years without having to further sacrifice user experience.