You know, there was a time where piano manufacturing used to employee thousand times more people it does today. That was until the invention of the Phonograph which led to the decline of every house having a piano to entertain with music and you could play music on records. Now piano manufacturing is a niche market.Sustained low oil is destabilizing. It hurts Russia. It hurts Saudi Arabia. It hurts the rest of OPEC countries, some to the point of catastrophe like Venezuela. It hurts US oil drillers, which has a domino effect. Countless people out of work. Investors fukked. Bank balance sheets imploding.
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This idea that an industry needs to always employee people or be the buttress of economies, just because, is non-sense. Oklahoma and to a lesser degree, Texas, are currently suffering due to lower gas prices. Low gas prices are great for the consumer and the question needs to be asked, why do we need to make the consumer suffer because these economies failed to diversify? They better pick up them bootstraps. The funny thing is that Oil companies aren't hurting because they are investing in alternative fuels and shale oil to pick up the decrease in prices.
If they maybe invested in drawing in other businesses besides oil companies, they would be able to lessen the economic pain. Not the rest of the country problem here as it relates to Texas and Olkahoma. California and New York doesn't have that problem.
...alot of people are disputing Russian hacking anything.
this shyt is still confusing....two of the hackers named today were already on the FBI most wanted list and have been for years



