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Because it’s their money……

So? There's lots of restrictions on what you can do with your money. Most people agree this is a good thing.

It has also already been taxed.

Kind of the same answer. Governments can legislate whatever they want, including tax number n+1 in addition to the n you paid while alive.

Are you against having a government at all? Do you believe in a certain natural right that would restrict inheritance tax specifically? You came in here with a bombshell take and it feels incomplete without some context, haha.

I was literally in the ER on Tuesday.

You must be in one of the provinces that are on the privatisation slippery slope. Alberta isn't really yet.

It's pretty impossible not to be tangentially connected with someone bad somewhere. Unless I have reasonable grounds to think the production of something was directly unethical I can't and don't worry about it.

For example, if you buy a thing from a poor country, there's a chance a slave made it, but a greater chance it was part of somebody's ticket out of rural poverty, and there's no way to tell. On the other hand, meat is always meat (unless it's lab-grown I guess, but that technology doesn't work very well to date).

Would a casually non-Japanese character even fly over there? My sense is that they still exoticise everyone else.

None. Prescriptivism isn't how the world actually works.

I do wonder what the second "is" in "the thing is, is that" means. Presumably, there's a logical answer for the speakers.

I mean, both are opposites in their own way.

We know what authoritarianism is.

Do we? A lot of people think it's when one guy controls everything. In reality, autocracies have hella internal dynamics and quite often exercise less control than a democracy would over a given thing as a result. There's also people that think having to take simple measures to avoid spreading plagues is authoritarian, and people who think entirely removing due process isn't.

To actually answer: It depends on context, because it's not really an ideology in itself. It can mean opposing existing autocracies, or it can mean opposing more mechanisms of control, perhaps in the fear it will eventually lead to an autocracy. Sometimes it just means that the person wants to not have to do anything.

These are all Eastern European software developers, per the article.

With prostitution, you don't even need the initial 20, but that's basically a kind of work so I don't think it's in the spirit.

Probably ditto for finding someone dumb enough to buy your overpriced single gram. If you can actually build a client base and find regular suppliers that changes, although then you have to deal with the risks of being a drug dealer.

100% return in one month? Just using the internet? Impossible.

That's one of those things that would be immediately, completely used up the moment it exists. A free lunch, basically.

In theory, you could get a few percent annualised return for nothing the conventional investment way, but I don't know how easy that would be especially with a small amount, and anti-laundering laws exist to (try to) stop you from doing it anonymously like that.

It feels like you might be hoping for a hustle, but you either need to deliver something of value right at the time of the transaction, or promise to deliver value and have an verifiable identity where they can come and find you if you don't. Because the other people with the money you want aren't stupid.

Yeah, it's a bit complicated. They retain some level of sovereignty within the UAE as I understand it, unlike Califonia, which since the civil war has basically been just a subnational division.

There's a set of "official" countries that legally recognise each other, but in practice any group that has a local monopoly on the use of violence (so, trapping people in jails without going to jail for it, basically) can be equivalent. In fact, some of these have partial recognition, like Taiwan, Kosovo, or the non-official half of Libya.

Israel, Latvia, Belgium and Dubai

That's such a mixed bag.

Dubai is part of some kind of confederation (the UAE), and doesn't even claim to be a full country. Israel exists, but there's a lot of controversy about how it's managed that. Belgium exists, but doesn't have a unified cultural identity the same way as most European countries. Finally, Latvia exists but Russia doesn't want it to, although I might be missing something about how distinct it is from Lithuania.

In theory, the banks and funds in question should themselves be owned by ordinary people. As it stands, ordinary-ish people own most things anyway; even as grotesquely rich as billionares are, there's only ~2000 of them known.

I do kind of wonder if you could have a group of companies that buy back all the shares external entities own in them. I can't say if it's ever happened, though.

Why?

The "make every company a cooperative" concept has been proposed before. For certain companies it could make sense, but it gets a little tricky when it's anything that needs significant funds to get off the ground.

Corporations were invented for a reason: it creates a mechanism whereby investors can put money in up front in exchange for a share of possible profits once the venture gets going. For example, that makes it possible to build a billion dollar nuclear reactor with 100 staff people who couldn't each pay 10 million dollars.

The mechanism that creates billionaires is only sort of related. Elon Musk, for example, built up his wealth through tangential involvement with a series of really successful companies.

Like going to a post office.

You walk in, show your health ID, get treated, then leave.

Edit: Assuming you're going to a hospital. Family doctor care is similar, although in my province they're contractors, and it can be hard to find one with an opening for new patients right now.

Oh, I just noticed it wait time was requested. It varies for family doctors; the local one that sucks can pretty much always get you in immediately. I'm with one that needs a couple days notice now, haha.

If you get referred to a specialist it's a long wait, like many months, and when you do go it's a human production line coordinated down to the second.

Hmm. I'd guess that filtering all frequencies outside the data transmission window could help there, but I don't really know.

These are supposed to be disposable, and are hastily being put together in wartime conditions by largely non-Western countries. Exotic solutions are highly disfavored.

Also, you have to consider that a single fiber has pretty high surface-volume ratio.

Assuming they intend to use their power for good in some way, then maybe?

Many do, and I don't really have a moral obligation to oppose them personally then. The main obstacle would be my fear of dying in a nasty way when it all falls apart (which is probably made more likely by being nice).

Even before I saw that guy preach, I thought he was the creepiest-looking person ever. His sermons and lifestyle don't help.