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I am assuming you're changing your vote next time for the Green/Constitution/Libertarian party as well? Since I assume you'll treat the congressmen and their po

I am assuming you're changing your vote next time for the Green/Constitution/Libertarian party as well? Since I assume you'll treat the congressmen and their political parties who take the lobbying money the same way you treat the corporation that is giving the bribe.

eloff 13y ago
I don't live in the US. I turned down a job at Google not because of anything to do with Google, but because it means living and paying taxes in the US. I work remotely from a tax haven, have no debt, and I'm on track to retire with a million in savings by my mid thirties. You'd have to make a quarter million a year to pull that off in the US. In Panama I can do it on a lower salary than what Google pays. I have freedom and you have big brother and big banker. You can't pay me to accept a green card to the land of "freedom and opportunity."
- ChrisLTD 13y ago
  Some people maximize their lives for money, other people for their surroundings.
  - eloff 13y ago
    Sounds like a classic cop out. I'd wager that my surroundings aren't terribly much worse than yours, but the difference is you'll have to work for 30 years more than me (if you're average), while I will be free to change my surroundings as often as I feel like. If you optimize for money and focus on long-term goals you can end up with a much higher quality of life overall.
    - ars_technician 13y ago
      >while I will be free to change my surroundings as often as I feel like. Except you can't afford to live in high-cost cities if your savings is only 1 mil and you want to retire on that in your thirties.
      - eloff 13y ago
        Yes, I'd have to work longer if I wanted to do that. I don't see any reason to though, I don't much care for large, expensive cities.
- anoncowherd 13y ago
  How's Panama, by the way?
  - eloff 13y ago
    It's nice. There's a number of rough edges but not hugely more than in the developed world. Learning Spanish was the biggest problem for me, because I've never committed the time to it. I met a great girl (model) here that I intend to marry (I think I would have had great difficulty meeting a loyal old-fashioned girl in my home country, nevermind that girls as pretty as her never used to give me the time of day.) I can't complain.
    - vacri 13y ago
      You speak of this person like she's an ornament to be hoarded.
      - ars_technician 13y ago
        That's to be expected from a person that moved to panama solely to maximize his salary/col ratio.
      - eloff 13y ago
        You can share your girlfriends if you like, but I prefer to hoard mine ;) Don't read things into my text that aren't there.
    - anoncowherd 13y ago
      Cool. I'll have to visit Panama some day.
- kshatrea 13y ago
  Ha, I don't live in the US, I live in a some times worse nation - India. We don't pay as many taxes though. I made my comment as an assertion of the fact that people blaming corporations must also blame the participating government as well. Good to know you're a dollar vigilante! I always wanted that lifestyle; can't get it, not yet anyway.

eloff 13y ago

I don't live in the US. I turned down a job at Google not because of anything to do with Google, but because it means living and paying taxes in the US. I work remotely from a tax haven, have no debt, and I'm on track to retire with a million in savings by my mid thirties. You'd have to make a quarter million a year to pull that off in the US. In Panama I can do it on a lower salary than what Google pays. I have freedom and you have big brother and big banker. You can't pay me to accept a green card to the land of "freedom and opportunity."

ChrisLTD 13y ago
Some people maximize their lives for money, other people for their surroundings.
- eloff 13y ago
  Sounds like a classic cop out. I'd wager that my surroundings aren't terribly much worse than yours, but the difference is you'll have to work for 30 years more than me (if you're average), while I will be free to change my surroundings as often as I feel like. If you optimize for money and focus on long-term goals you can end up with a much higher quality of life overall.
  - ars_technician 13y ago
    >while I will be free to change my surroundings as often as I feel like. Except you can't afford to live in high-cost cities if your savings is only 1 mil and you want to retire on that in your thirties.
    - eloff 13y ago
      Yes, I'd have to work longer if I wanted to do that. I don't see any reason to though, I don't much care for large, expensive cities.
anoncowherd 13y ago
How's Panama, by the way?
- eloff 13y ago
  It's nice. There's a number of rough edges but not hugely more than in the developed world. Learning Spanish was the biggest problem for me, because I've never committed the time to it. I met a great girl (model) here that I intend to marry (I think I would have had great difficulty meeting a loyal old-fashioned girl in my home country, nevermind that girls as pretty as her never used to give me the time of day.) I can't complain.
  - vacri 13y ago
    You speak of this person like she's an ornament to be hoarded.
    - ars_technician 13y ago
      That's to be expected from a person that moved to panama solely to maximize his salary/col ratio.
    - eloff 13y ago
      You can share your girlfriends if you like, but I prefer to hoard mine ;) Don't read things into my text that aren't there.
  - anoncowherd 13y ago
    Cool. I'll have to visit Panama some day.
kshatrea 13y ago
Ha, I don't live in the US, I live in a some times worse nation - India. We don't pay as many taxes though. I made my comment as an assertion of the fact that people blaming corporations must also blame the participating government as well. Good to know you're a dollar vigilante! I always wanted that lifestyle; can't get it, not yet anyway.