Questions: Society & Politics

It's getting to be more common. In parts of Tbilisi Georgia, Naples Italy and Shandong Province China, residents in high-rise buildings now must pay to use the elevator (lift). The payment is nominal. The picture shows one in Italy that requires a 10 Euro cent payment to operate.

Property owners justify it by saying that people who use it more should pay more, and the money helps pay for maintaining the elevator (lift), including keeping it clean.

What do you think?

Would you pay to use your elevator (lift)?

Please vote in the poll.

1, Despite trump is busy with the "new" war in iran. Not really new just new response. He also was busy -busy -busy inside.

2, People complained about medicine prices. Trump increased competition: by website trump rx and expanded it with more options and medications, plus executive action on prices, all acheiving the goal: prescription drug prices ACTUALLY fell. In fact in just one month the steepest monthly drop in 60 years.

3, Also the index of consumer price CPI, that was so high in democrat time! Biden lowered to 4% only for election year! If he could control -should have lowered earlier too! in 2022 6-7% wanted to hurt y'all.

But trump policy caused consistent low cpi -falling from 4% to 3% and- excluding "energy" the exception due to iran illegally blocking international shipping lanes - something that does not happen in other wars- just iran scares CIVILIAN shipping and actually Fired at Civilian ships... still the cpi' continued its slope down from 3% in 2025, to fall to 2.5% as of August 9. The cpi is an indicator of inflation.

Inflation rate slowed AGAIN this year. Besides January, now declined again, slightly from 3.5% in June to 3.4% rate of inflation. If i cherry pick food necesities the rate was even less for critical necesities: just 2% for poultry and even "reverse inflation" like a gain, as prices fell for food necesities in category dairy also a food necesity.

4, also moving ENFORCEMENT issues from dept. education =DOE to DOJ that is equipped and experienced in enforcement for efficiency.

Picture, and moving special ed, for problem students to health. Further accomplishing the shrinking of DOE.

Also moving authority to states and schools. In netherlands: schools each make 90% of major decisions insted* of from government but trump is shrinking federal authority on skools*. Tnx?

Part of why I think about this comes from my own experience of being falsely accused years ago and feeling overwhelmingly powerless while institutions treated the accusation seriously before I had much opportunity to defend myself. When I later expressed anger and frustration about what happened, I was often dismissed as misogynistic, an “incel,” or someone with a victim mentality rather than having the underlying issue addressed.

That experience is only one example, though, and I’m interested in the broader question: has modern feminism actually produced equality between men and women, or has it created areas where women now have an unfair amount of social, institutional, or legal power over men?