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  • about living outside of the system you are complaining about.

    about not resigning yourself to being a squealing, melodramatic pauper.

    I'm not telling you what your opinion is, I'm telling you that you are wrong by complaining that there's no way to not contribute to these billionaires.

    you are factually incorrect. as I said multiple times, yhere are simple solutions to that problem.

    that worries you because your coping mechanism apparently is to complain that nothing can be done until you perish, beckoning for others to join you in vain.

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  • great, i hope you understand that your list contributed to my point, rather than being an independent thought of your own.

    Your list is inadequate and unhelpful with regards to the real world, so i offered practical ways one can thrive while not contributing to the system you're complaining about.

    we're working together.

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  • governments, peripherally, but the system in talking about doesn't contribute to billionaires anywhere near the way you're contributing to them right now.

    this is what you sound like to someone who actually understands how the system works:

    you are stranded in Antarctica.

    you loudly complain about how Antarctica is destroying your life, how the cold is invading your bones, how you can't grow any food and you have no opportunities.

    a rescue boat shows up, and says they'll take you wherever you want.

    you claim that because extreme weather exists at all, there's no point in going anywhere.

    you scream your anxieties at the rescue boat until they leave you behind, per your wishes.

    that is how you are living, and how you want others to live.

    I'm on the other side, supported by facts, knowledge and experience.

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  • "There is only a few countries you can move to that allows you to not contribute to those billionaires."

    ask questions instead of making things up.

    you are incorrect. there are dozens of countries you can teach in, contribute to education, help small business owners and keep all of your income.

    "I'm not saying that fleeing the US isn't a good idea."

    don't flee the us, leave it behind where it belongs.

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  • ""They" is billionaires in general, not the Trump administration"

    one or all, I'd suggest getting out of billionaire clutches.

    "Living in a foreign country isn't the loophole you think it is."

    yeah it is, specifically for this situation that you're complaining about.

    you want things to be futile and hopeless, but unfortunately for your ennui, there are simple solutions.

    stop working for those billionaires, and stop paying money into their system.

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  • "Not to say that dodging federal taxes isn't either good or neutral, but the problem isn't specific to this administration."

    phew, good thing nobody said it was.

    "Where are you living that the wealth you create doesn't end up..."

    doesn't matter where you are as long as you are outside of the US for 330 days of a tax year, not a calendar year.

    if you are outside of the US for 330 days or more per tax year, you are not required to pay about $125,000 in earned income tax per year (the amount goes up each year).

    if you have a remote job, all you have to do is travel to countries with better services and a cheaper cost of living(most countries).

    if you don't have a remote job all you have to do find a remote job you like or if that is too difficult, travel to countries that hire English teachers(dozens of countries with thousands of current postings).

  • the municipality asks civil engineers, who ask their computer, then forward the results back to the municipality.

    usually the public has a window where they can offer input.

    if nobody checks or notices anything weird, they start allocating funding and you have your bus stops whenever they have time and funds to build them.

    i like civil engineers, and a lot of them seem to care about their jobs, but their jobs have a lot of restrictions and regulations, so not everybody will be happy with the results.

  • "am I just imagining some idealistic version of the past that never existed"

    yup.

    Americans have always been this stupid, but stupid people aren't the problem.

    everyone is stupid, greedy, or otherwise morally corrupt at some point or another or in some situation or another, that's why legal rights and protections were so important, to keep the playing field level and the trains running on time when the assholes wanted to run riot.

    the successful conservative suppression of civil rights and removal of restrictions on corporate and wealthy political stuff civil activity, particularly the allowance by the Supreme Court of money to dictate political action, has removed the guardrails that used to protect the stupid and keep corrupt people in line.