HobbitFoot

It doesn't have to be mineral wealth. It could be biological in nature, like cash crop farming.

Resource extraction includes farming.

Take a step back and explain context. I've found, when working as a subject matter expert, people focus on the wrong parts of the problem when asking the question and will try to optimize their question for the wrong thing.

Explaining how the problem came about adds context and helps you ask the questions you don't know to ask.

Or they would manage us to their own desires. I wouldn't say imperialism of conquered peoples went well for people on Earth.

Hell, there are several noted cases of deindustrialization, like the British Raj in India, where the imperial power pushed a civilization back into resource extraction. Why would an alien civilization colonize us for anything other than natural resources?

And there are several examples where humans weren't treated well in a resource extraction economy. Sugarcane plantations in the Caribbean were where slaves went to die.

There has been a migration from the Upper Midwest and the Northeast since World War II decades of federal money developed other parts of the country to a point where they could sustain private economic development. Since then, there has been a migration to the areas with cheaper cost of living, nearly mirroring white flight from cities to the suburbs.

Recently, California run into issues with development where it to it switched from immigration to emigration.

Your representative likely knows about this.

AI can probably help with formatting issues, but what are you intending to use AI for?

Most of the companies that have used AI successfully have been ones with targeted goals for their AI. That your company has siloed information buckets means that each division seems to generally be operating by themselves. What is going to happen when a computer output says you need to tweak how the company is running?

I wouldn't be surprised if Israeli assets were dedicated to keeping American political opinion on their side. It is an integral part of their foreign policy to rely on American support.

Natural reaction, but also it is good that you weren't trying to be a creep in that situation.

Does it play the Intel tones or something else?

For a lot of online transactions, this is usually the only way people can get access.

There are a lot of people out there who don't have credit cards or bank accounts, so they can't buy anything online. A gift card to an online store may be the cheapest or only way they can pay.

Why don't you just grab his dick and show him how to aim?

I mean, a year long cruise sounds like hell, so I can see it being a breeding ground for conflict.