I'm curious, why would Bitcoin mining need high end graphics cards? Don't you just need regular old fast processors? Is there much graphics involved?

Edit: Also in the news today our local Electricity supplier Ameren has been running a Bitcoing mining operation. They have gotten $40K so far on a $1 Million investment.

We only do gifts for our parents and our siblings kids. We figure once you have kids the gifts go to them. Our parents still get us stuff plus the kids. I imagine once I have grandkids I'll still be spreading it all around.

For my parents we long ago switched to consumables. My loves it when I bring in a huge load from Trader Joe's becuase they don't have one.

For our adult friends, we do a white elephant/steal your neighbor every year. I mostly regift crap my mom and aunt give me the year before.

I just want my damn, new sectional couch. Yeah, it sucks it takes 6 months now, but we still have a couch to sit on in the mean time.

I can't deny though since mid 2019 we have been on a buying spree. I bought my a pin with having none in several years, we went on vacation for the first time in a very long time, bought a new house, and have paid contractors to do a lot of unecessary upgrades to the new house. The problem is everyone else seems to be doing the same. My patio that I commissioned in April is just now getting done. Labor is really bad. My new post man probably really hates us because we get 1 to 3 Amazon packages a day. Just normal stuff, but with free returns we'll ship in 5 pairs of shoes and pick one. You get the idea.

The government supplied a lot of the money for this and we were never out of work. Plus, not paying summer vacation for four kids in 2020 opened up a lot of spending. I swear, I'm getting $1K check ever month for my kids from the IRS. I know I need to save about half of that though because of my tax liablilites. How many people don't think ahead like that and will be cought with their pants down on April 15, 2022?

Now it appears to be a shipping and labor problem. Why aren't people working? The jobs are fucking there for the taking.

Yeah, scratchers, gas gift cards, and boozes, you can't go wrong.

Edit: Sorry for the serial posting above.

Well, we can't hire much of anything for maintenance workers at my place right now. We used to have 30 applicants for an entry position, now maybe 5, but only 2 show up. Then they have to pass the drug test. This is with a salary increase, plus extra for snow plowing.

Edit: We could hire 50 people right now.

Sounds like my kids. Where did I go wrong?

Don't say it is true!

That does makes sense. Maybe min. wage should be tied to a Big Mac value meal. My first job I had to work one hour to pay for my lunch. That's why I didn't eat out.

^^^^^^

What does that have to do with anything? Maybe he employees people and $15/hr will cause the need to fire someone to bring everyone else up.

Nobody said 3.50/hr should be the norm.

Well you wrote it.

At least he didn't say dick pics.

Sorry to hear about your bad schools. I graduated in the late 90's and they had classes like network administration and lasers. The laser one was a joke, but hte network admin class lead to certification and possible real jobs.

Edit: this was public school in Missouri

I would have figured it was Odin. Rest in Piece his Pinside soul.

I don't know if it has been mentioned, but to actually answer the question the thread title poses is, I believe one reason is right now it is easier than ever to be a flipper. There are so many more outlets for a private individual to resell their stuff than 10 years ago or more. About anything I post on FB Marketplace, if priced right, sells almost instantly. I've even sold collectibles on FB MP and was willing to sit on the price until I found the right buyer. I have purchased items from Mercari and browsed other selling aps when searching for an item that I want.