I think you’re confusing a wealth tax with an income tax. They’re different. As for how these wealthy people pay, it’s not up to the government to figure out how someone pays their taxes. The onus is on the taxpayer.

And narcissistic.

Yep. We have a black and white Brother laser printer, and it’s lasted* for at least five years now. Toner is so much cheaper than those stupid, tiny cartridges with not-enough-cyan.

It just occurred to me that this ability to communicate with a search engine, that everyone used to call Google-fu, was exactly this! It didn’t already know (or think it knew) what you were getting at, and it’s took some practice to figure out how to finesse the results.

And this post, being on Lemmy, will be indexable by search engines!

I think you have to do what’s best for your people. You have a very particular set of goals with Beehaw, and if the fediverse isn’t the right place for that then it’s fine to move on. I’ll be curious to see what you all decide to do, and, if you do leave, what you end up creating!

JFC… 😔

I’m on a Mastodon that’s defederated and a Lemmy that’s federated. Let the games begin!

That means that you’re the product

Even after reading your comment, it took me three more tries to see it! Wild.

I just switched to Antennapod, so I don’t have data from this year yet. I would guess my top three were:

• Kill James Bond
• 538
• possibly This Day in Esoteric Political History, but those shows are really short.

Vancouver, BC in Canada did the same, though they actually fully banned foreign property purchasing. I’m guessing it’s low hanging fruit that won’t get much pushback within the country. Hopefully these are just first steps, in both cases.

Really wish fucking anything were being done in the US.

Vancouver: https://vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/experts-say-foreign-buyer-ban-wont-bite-b-c-real-estate-prices

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The bourgeoisie have always been this way. It is not a new phenomenon.

See, e.g., logo-centric Louis Vuitton purses in the suburbs.

To put a finer point on it: The average car buyer who has $0 down is not buying a $43,000+ car.

Buying old will always be cheaper, I’m not trying to argue against that. But the numbers you listed are going to depend on where you live. Registration will happen every year, whether you buy new or old, but buying an older car will save some money on those registrations. I’m really just trying to say that the same point can be made, but with reasonable and accurate numbers that the average consumer can relate to.

Why is no one calling bullshit on these numbers? 10%/mo of 100k/yr = $833 a month. That is a HUGE monthly loan repayment. That’s a $43,000 vehicle with nothing as a down payment. You can get a new car for less than half that. (And then on the next round you can trade in or sell your old one for more down payment.) Even if you figure that’s 100k pre-tax, you should still be left with roughly 70-80% of that, which is more than plenty for a basic new car.

I’m not arguing that inflation has been ridiculous, because it absolutely has. The bottom 90% of folks are getting fucked. But let’s use real numbers.

I tried looking for any studies on this, and all I can find is info on kids. Nothing in adults, except one study that found cognitive benefits to older adults who used social media.

My lungs hurt from laughing. This is amazing!

I mean, I feel like I’ve been seen, but also called out. 😂 Thank you for all of this info!