Name one person, only one, who got rich by "working hard". In the past 30 or so years, preferably.
There are only a few ways left to get rich. All of them involve a ridiculous amount of luck. This is, by the way, also the reason the US is in the shape it is in now: People noticed it.
If taxes are high, usually it means that the poor have relatively high spending power. Because, well, ya know, the finance ministry doesn't eat that money. They use it to spend it on various things. On of those things being social services that ensure the poor have purchasing power. And being poor and wanting to live, they have to spend it. Unlike people who earn enough to save some.
Savings are worthless for the economy. Dead money that doesn't drive any economy, except the financial one. But even they don't benefit because with little money being spent, little revenue is gained which translates into fewer businesses being viable and in turn fewer people having a job. Interest plummets in an attempt to make saving unattractive and investing attractive. Unfortunately people aren't dumb and the strategy hence doesn't work, but I digress.
In the end, and even though it at first looks counter intuitive, high tax means more consumption, and more people being able to buy your crap. So I think you should buy your taxes where you sell your goods, because the reason you could sell your junk in the first place was that these taxes exist.
I know this is alien to someone from the US, but corporations are not above the law in Europe, and neither do they make them.
Different way of doing politics, and I can understand why you're flabbergasted that politicians and corporations are not sitting down together, making laws to fleece the population, but, well, there's different cultures who consider different things valuable. With you it's money, with us it's not being under the thumb of big business.
Next time learn the lesson, grab the iPod as compensation for the dent his corpse left on your car and move on.
Never swerve. Brake if you must, but never swerve. You might hit an oncoming car and then it's your fault. If you roll over the dummy it's his own fault (at least in sane countries) and you can even get compensation for your car damage.
Physical money will never disappear. Even if you outlaw it. Actually, if you do, you're going to have a HUGE problem at your hands that dwarfs everything you have today. Because the mob will take that part over and become more powerful than even Capone dreamed it would be.
So the oppressive part about a guy is everything but his dick? Who'd have thought, especially considering that this is the part they need most for rape culture to even be possible...
To sell, you need a buyer. If the stock is usually rolling around the 10 dollars mark, you will not find any idiot buying at 123,47. Likewise if it's at around 500 bucks you won't find anyone selling.
So unless a stock was close to this price, I doubt that any buy/sell orders could be filled.
Not on someone physically pressing you to do it. You're not forced to cheer on li'l Kim in North Korea. You can always opt for the lengthy stay in one of the reeducation camps where you get taught why you want to cheer on him. You're not forced to take a job in a country where welfare doesn't exist, you can always freely opt to starve to death.
Whether you are forced to do (or not do) something is not dependent on someone pointing a gun at your head but on the alternatives you have. And internet access has become pretty much a necessity these days, certain services are either hard to get or entirely unavailable to you if you do not have internet access.
A century ago, you would have argued that access to power or telephone was, if not a luxury, then at the very least far from something that was to be expected. Try, just TRY, to apply for a job today and not offer a phone number where the prospective employer can reach you. You wouldn't even be considered for a burger flipper job if I can't get a hold of you NOW, not in the 3-4 work days it takes for a letter to reach you and your reply to reach me.
And no later than any office job, you better have some way to get email from your prospective employer. I cannot think of any job I had in the past 2 decades that didn't require me to have an email address and a way to check it frequently.
Careful there. If you admit that the climate is change, the next thing you hear is that the change isn't good for us and that we have to work against it.
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Peanuts. He'll make Europe build the network and pay for it too!
Name one person, only one, who got rich by "working hard". In the past 30 or so years, preferably.
There are only a few ways left to get rich. All of them involve a ridiculous amount of luck. This is, by the way, also the reason the US is in the shape it is in now: People noticed it.
If taxes are high, usually it means that the poor have relatively high spending power. Because, well, ya know, the finance ministry doesn't eat that money. They use it to spend it on various things. On of those things being social services that ensure the poor have purchasing power. And being poor and wanting to live, they have to spend it. Unlike people who earn enough to save some.
Savings are worthless for the economy. Dead money that doesn't drive any economy, except the financial one. But even they don't benefit because with little money being spent, little revenue is gained which translates into fewer businesses being viable and in turn fewer people having a job. Interest plummets in an attempt to make saving unattractive and investing attractive. Unfortunately people aren't dumb and the strategy hence doesn't work, but I digress.
In the end, and even though it at first looks counter intuitive, high tax means more consumption, and more people being able to buy your crap. So I think you should buy your taxes where you sell your goods, because the reason you could sell your junk in the first place was that these taxes exist.
I know this is alien to someone from the US, but corporations are not above the law in Europe, and neither do they make them.
Different way of doing politics, and I can understand why you're flabbergasted that politicians and corporations are not sitting down together, making laws to fleece the population, but, well, there's different cultures who consider different things valuable. With you it's money, with us it's not being under the thumb of big business.
Next time learn the lesson, grab the iPod as compensation for the dent his corpse left on your car and move on.
Never swerve. Brake if you must, but never swerve. You might hit an oncoming car and then it's your fault. If you roll over the dummy it's his own fault (at least in sane countries) and you can even get compensation for your car damage.
It's now the twelve goose steps.
Physical money will never disappear. Even if you outlaw it. Actually, if you do, you're going to have a HUGE problem at your hands that dwarfs everything you have today. Because the mob will take that part over and become more powerful than even Capone dreamed it would be.
Huh? Which religion is against fucking children?
So the oppressive part about a guy is everything but his dick? Who'd have thought, especially considering that this is the part they need most for rape culture to even be possible...
Yeah, feminism males a LOT of sense.
Remember: If you think of the children all the time, you're likely a pedo.
You think they rape children with those robots? Now that's sick.
Wow, where do you get that from?
He'll make them serve your pictures and pay for them too!
It was fun while you lasted. Too bad you now want money, but luckily, you have inspired many copycats.
NEXT!
Where did I say you can't say something you wish to say?
Well, we've gone through 3 of the 4 boxes of liberty by now.
Ok, let them wage a conventional war and keep the NBC weapons out of reach of the kids.
So a few HFTs get hosed?
I fail to see the problem. Maybe that way they get to feel what they usually do with the rest of the world.
His parents.
To sell, you need a buyer. If the stock is usually rolling around the 10 dollars mark, you will not find any idiot buying at 123,47. Likewise if it's at around 500 bucks you won't find anyone selling.
So unless a stock was close to this price, I doubt that any buy/sell orders could be filled.
Time For Guillotines.
I can't really tell whether he's joking, but the people in the comments kinda seem to mean it...
Not on someone physically pressing you to do it. You're not forced to cheer on li'l Kim in North Korea. You can always opt for the lengthy stay in one of the reeducation camps where you get taught why you want to cheer on him. You're not forced to take a job in a country where welfare doesn't exist, you can always freely opt to starve to death.
Whether you are forced to do (or not do) something is not dependent on someone pointing a gun at your head but on the alternatives you have. And internet access has become pretty much a necessity these days, certain services are either hard to get or entirely unavailable to you if you do not have internet access.
A century ago, you would have argued that access to power or telephone was, if not a luxury, then at the very least far from something that was to be expected. Try, just TRY, to apply for a job today and not offer a phone number where the prospective employer can reach you. You wouldn't even be considered for a burger flipper job if I can't get a hold of you NOW, not in the 3-4 work days it takes for a letter to reach you and your reply to reach me.
And no later than any office job, you better have some way to get email from your prospective employer. I cannot think of any job I had in the past 2 decades that didn't require me to have an email address and a way to check it frequently.
How would you test that? At the end of it all, you need to grade the students and decide whether they pass. How?
So... if the public wants to teach Sharia law is the way to go, that's fine?
Then why the fuck did we go to war with the towelheads?
Careful there. If you admit that the climate is change, the next thing you hear is that the change isn't good for us and that we have to work against it.