I really don't get why they went so hard on the everything is fine with the economy story. If you looked even a little deeper than the first number, it was pretty obvious that any wage growth was dominated by gains for high earners and those switching jobs.
The podcast host famous for letting guests say what they want with no criticism isn't even on the same planet as Fox News. People are way to eager to brand everything right of Marx as far right.
Rough math wise and ATM can easily hold $40k. That's 8.6 inches of $20 bills, it might be a mostly full ATM, but a believable amount.
As for how easy it is to break into an ATM, it's not easy, but it's not impossible. They are designed to be serviceable by a single person, so the doors and locks while strong, aren't going to hold up to the force of a vehicle or explosives from someone that knows what they are doing. The hard part is removing the cash box, which depending on the machine it can be easier to take the whole machine. Once you get the machine/box to a second location the security is irrelevant.
This post is not equating immigration and slavery. It is using this thing called a metaphor. It highlights an issue or argument using a comparison that shares relevant characteristics.
We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning.
Volume and weight are different, a tablespoon of salt, oil, and vanilla extract are all going to weigh differently.
The US is absolutely importing cheap labor. It's not even controversial that the H1-B program has been abused to do just that. The AFL-CIO admits immigrants are needed for labor, but they play more coy about the cheap part.
I sure the occasional person was unlucky and got a bowl that wasn't cooked enough. There's also a big difference between adding more to an 80% full pot vs a 20% full one for ingredient turnover.
You should be mad that the government has done fuck all to stop or hold telecommunications companies responsible for a call from outside the country appearing as the FBI to scam old people.
Building equity through improvements has pretty much always been a lie, the win was enjoying that improvement. The vast majority of improvements don't actually net a higher sell value than their cost.