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  • Let’s denote the prices of the components as follows:

    Egg: ( E )

    Bacon: ( B )

    Sausage: ( S )

    Spam: ( P )

    We are given the following equations based on the prices of the combinations:

    ( E + B = 1.10 )

    ( E + S + B = 1.49 )

    ( E + P = 1.50 )

    ( E + P + B = 2.10 )

    ( E + P + S + B = 2.49 )

    First, subtract Equation 1 from Equation 2:

    [ (E + S + B) - (E + B) = 1.49 - 1.10 ]

    [ S = 0.39 ]

    Next, subtract Equation 1 from Equation 4:

    [ (E + P + B) - (E + B) = 2.10 - 1.10 ]

    [ P = 1.00 ]

    Next, subtract Equation 3 from Equation 5:

    [ (E + P + S + B) - (E + P) = 2.49 - 1.50 ]

    [ S + B = 0.99 ]

    We already know from a previous calculation that ( S = 0.39 ), so substitute ( S ) in:

    [ 0.39 + B = 0.99 ]

    [ B = 0.60 ]

    Now we know ( B ) and can find ( E ) from Equation 1:

    [ E + 0.60 = 1.10 ]

    [ E = 0.50 ]

    We have found the prices:

    Egg (( E )) = 0.50

    Bacon (( B )) = 0.60

    Sausage (( S )) = 0.39

    Spam (( P )) = 1.00



  • we should have the journalists harvest every single tuna in the ocean and sell it at a high cost to consumers. the money generated from this will go directly to the news industry. this way, we can enjoy delicious tuna while we read the news without any concern about tunas in the ocean anymore. the only catch (no pun intended) is the news related might be a little biased and some people might not like tuna. both don’t sound like a huge concern when you get high quality journalism.













  • I’ve worked extensively in SK marketing and analytics before, and for whatever reason Koreans by and large have accepted chaebols. most do not want them gone.

    we used to have a saying at work that SK took all the worst parts of American capitalism and ran with it. the society is heavily encouraged to look up to chaebols as examples of success. Korea’s marketing heavily emphasizes materialism in an on the nose way. societal elitism in Korea is part of their culture and they make it known they’re better than you if they’re in a higher social position than you.

    you can see the chaebol dream if you’ve ever consumed any Korean media before. the trope of meeting a random person who ends up being a down to earth chaebol is one of the most typical, overplayed story lines in kdramas ever. and even before that, the trope of running into a random person who ends up being some down to earth prince trying to escape royalty was super common. more people fantasize about that kind of stuff there than despise it.

    all this to say the chaebols almost aren’t the problem. they’re practically a symptoms of a society who glamorizes them. it feels like how the US felt about the rich in the early 2000s.


  • there’s a bit more minutiae to it. doctors across the board there are concerned that they’re increasing intern Dr headcounts while having no solid plan to support that financially. while at the same time, care to patients in Korea (a place known for having advanced healthcare from elite doctors) is already declining due lack of funding. intern doctors across the world are already underpaid as a unit as a whole, so intern doctors would probably just rather see their pays increase than have headcount increases. and senior doctors would rather just see their interns have better lives. so I wouldn’t say the doctors are the bad guys necessarily either. they have legitimate concerns and government has been wagging them for years now too.

    the Korean media has largely portrayed this as greed or that the medical students being salty they studied their asses off to get into med school, but that’s not the largest issue for the medical workers in korea (although it is also a part of it too). the general public would just love available, cheaper healthcare and increasing headcount sounds like the easiest way to do that (which it is), so the tune the media is putting out sounds pretty nice.

    this system happens here in the US too. the US medical system does not churn out enough people for required positions, and interns here are getting destroyed as a result of policy. I’m almost positive if the US did something similar, US doctors would react the same way.